Green Beyond His Years

Ronald Bailey from the March 1998 issue

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Of course, it is certainly acceptable for a 23-year-old to express callow, outlandish opinions, to test the limits of propriety, and to elevate attitude over substance--indeed, such behavior is almost to be expected, if not encouraged. But the presumably intelligent and experienced adults who boosted him into this high-profile position ought to be ashamed of themselves. (Could California Social Services charge them with child abuse?)

Werbach recounts that he once "received a call from an irate C-SPAN fan. `You kid,' [the caller] fumed, `you're an ignorant, insolent, precocious, left-wing, pinky [sic], hippy, enviro-freak! What do you think about that?'

`Wow,' I paused a second to absorb it all, `you learned all that just from seeing me for an hour on C-SPAN? You're pretty perceptive.'"

As this book clearly documents, the viewer was, indeed, quite perceptive.

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