Aaron Brown Takes the Jarvis Pledge

Matt Welch | November 2, 2004

Holy cow. Aaron Brown just stared into the camera with cow-like eyes, and recited the Jeff Jarvis pledge to reconcile with the rest of the country no matter who wins. "Wow," one of our crowd said. "He just hit a 9.5 on the Earnest Scale."

I like Jeff, and I appreciate the sentiment, but I really wish Brown had recited the Steve Martin pledge:

Repeat after me: I promise to be DIFFERENT! I promise to be UNIQUE! I promise NOT to repeat things other people tell me to repeat!"