Geniuses
Question: what do the two geniuses quoted below have in common? (1) a great strategist of our age:
“Let me make this clear…There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”…”By refusing to end the war in Iraq, President Bush is giving the terrorists what they really want”...
This man must be a great mind indeed to propose this Pakistan strike strategy; would he propose it for Canada too, or Mexico? How about France or the UK? (2) here’s the second brainiac, one of the great artists of our time, a man who wants to “shut down” the internet:
“The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff…I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span…There’s too much technology available…I don’t have a mobile phone or an iPod or anything.”
What do these two geniuses have in common? Answer: one has been a guest at the White House, the other wants to live there.
UPDATE
A twofer, via AP:
“Welcome to Venezuela, Mr. Penn. What drives him is consciousness, the search for new paths,” Chavez said Wednesday in a televised speech. “He’s one of the greatest opponents of the Iraq invasion.” Chavez read aloud from a recent open letter by Penn to President Bush in which the actor condemned the Iraq war and called for Bush to be impeached, saying the president along with Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are “villainously and criminally obscene people.”
The socialist president…said he and Penn talked by phone — “with my bad English but we understood each other more or less.”…He called the actor “well-informed about what is happening in the United States and the world, in spite of being in Hollywood.” What’s more, Chavez said, “he’s made great films.” The Venezuelan leader said he recently watched Penn’s Oscar-winning performance in the film “Mystic River.”
Great minds, and so forth.
UPDATE II
Gwen Stefani has been nominated for an honorable mention.