Hm, the possibility that Judas kicked back part of his thirty pieces of silver (or that he was scamming naïve High Priests) somehow never made it into the Gospels.
I think the defense will go down like it did for Tucker Carlson. “Anyone who actually believes me does so at their own risk, so I bear no responsibility for the bullshit that comes out of my face.”
It’s also a reminder of something I frequently say:
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: The fundamental belief that we’re better than every other nation, in every other way. But we’re not. We’re not, and no end of objective, quantitative information bears that out. It’s really much more about you – you whose deep-seated insecurities won’t allow you to see when there’s a better way. You revel in understanding worst practices – who does something worse than the US. And why not ? It allows you to be complacent and smug.
But you won’t ever look at best practices – who’s doing something better than we are (eg, guns), and then try to emulate those ?
[NB: it’s particularly amusing when the ‘worst practices’ they point to are utter bullshit made from whole cloth]
So was the Fox News employee saying that (that in Kenya, pregnant women can’t vote or leave the house) as a way of calling the country backwards, or as an example of something to emulate here?