Mortimer Zuckerman Bugs Me Sometimes

I really admire Mort Zuckerman, who's the publisher of U.S. News and World Report. Sometimes his editorial commentaries at the magazine are among the most compelling around. But today he's a Democrat in the news for admitting he helped President Obama write a speech. And that, my friends, bugs the heck out of me:

And Darleen Click points us to Gawker, which demonstrates once again the left's infallibility complex (which dismisses conservatives as bumpkins):

Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman was on Fox pundit Neil Cavuto's show on Monday, talking trash about President Obama, when he made a very interesting claim: That he "helped write" one of Obama's speeches. Well, did he? No. ....

So, before this becomes a "thing" that your uncle brings up every time you see him, let's just get it out of the way: Mort Zuckerman did not "help write" any of Barack Obama's speeches (Marc Ambinder writes that the Obama campaign doesn't remember "consulting with Zuckerman.") There are a lot of reasons why this is the case—for example Mort Zuckerman and Barack Obama do not hold, in particular, many political positions in common—but the chief reason you can tell that Mort Zuckerman has not helped write any of the President's speeches is that the President's speeches are really well-written, and Mort Zuckerman is not that smart.

Darleen adds in response to Gawker:

Anyone who actually takes the time to read the text of Obama’s speeches is left with the same sense of nourishment as eating a whole jar of marshmellow fluff. Add to that the usual Leftist dismissal of political opponents and apostates as “stupid”. Cuz, ya know, Zuckerman just lucked his way into being a successful publisher and, even by Obamabot standards of “intelligence” [ie framed sheepskins] … Zuckerman has only both an MBA plus a Harvard LL.M.

Priceless.

See also, Ed Morrissey, "Did Zuckerman write one of Obama’s campaign speeches?"

RELATED: Zuckerman explains: "Mort Zuckerman Clarifies Obama Speechwriting Comment."