As a relatively junior member of our fair nation’s punditocracy, I face these little dilemmas in life. Jacob Weisberg is the editor of Slate. I see myself as the kind of guy who might write for Slate. Do I point out that he’s being ridiculous here? I think that I do, but how’s that going to work out for me in the long-run?
Let me also note that the basic premise of all these politicians’ iPod articles is pretty odd. There are 5,171 songs on my iPod at the moment — I couldn’t possibly name them all in an interview, nor could anyone else using their device properly. For the record, though, I have Rolling Stones songs and Beatles songs, which Weisberg appears to believe could not possibly represent anyone’s authentic tastes. Intriguingly, Tim Lee points out that according to the RIAA President Bush, Senator Clinton, and everyone else who’s ripped a Beatles CD and put it on their iPod is a criminal.
