Michael Goldfarb: Closeted Nerd

And not to be riding the coat-tails of TAPPED this morning, but Adam is dead on when he says of Goldfarb that, "for all his criticisms of the "Dailykos" crowd, if "Dungeons and Dragons" becomes a part of our political lexicon, we'll know who to thank." Part of this is this idea to just make Obama whatever seems foreign. But the continued slams on D&D are too specific and takes us back to Ta-Nehisi's rule of Ghetto-Snobbery--we often are what we hate. Goldfarb remark smacks of a geek trying to get down by slamming other geeks.

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