Fwd: McWhorter interview

[Jonathan Lighter]

Gentlemen:

I knew Charles Krauthammer works for Fox, but I didn't know he spelled his
surname with scare quotes. And as for the Adolf Hitler business, I'd need
better evidence.

Also, though a chump with a PhD is certainly still a chump, I'm not sure who
was being referred to.

JL

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> >>  I have tried to post this several times, but it doesn't seem to go
> >>through. Is anyone else having trouble with this? Sometimes my
> >>,messages are posted, sometimes they just seem to disappear.
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> Yes, that's happened to me on a number of occasions, including one a
> few days ago.  Sometimes I can "fix" it by reposting after deleting
> some of the incorporated exchange.
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