Jonathan Krohn: Atlanta's biggest disappointment

Some weeks ago, I wrote about a little chap named Tarak McClain, who was featured on NPR's "This I Believe" for a little ditty he wrote regurgitating various liberal cliches that he had heard from his Northern Californian parents. My point was not that young McClain was not quite clever in his own right, but simply that, children will often repeat the political views their parents espouse, in their most basic forms, and those who share those political views will see the whole exercise as some inspirational insight into the truth of these views. If a kid says it, so the logic goes, there must be some very pure truth to it.

Anyway, the political right is equally guilty of this. I present to you this shining example of kids-say-the-darndest thing politics. And, yeah, this one is for more nauseating than the NPR kid. If only because he so well imitates the speak of his talk radio idols. And, of course, everyone cheers at the sound of hearing their views repeated back to them, from the mouth of babes.