When Gov. Ned Lamont suggested changing the state hero from Nathan Hale to Noah Webster, little did he know that he would spark a revolution in Hale's hometown.
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Lamont said Hale was a "nice enough guy who was captured after a week at the inn. If he had two lives to give for his country, he would have been a spy for us for two weeks."
In his endorsement of Webster, Lamont noted that he helped to create the American language that distinguished the United States from Great Britain.
Lamont is a moron, and there is no other way to put it. The classic definition of a hero is someone who risks their life and limbs, someone who performs an act of bravery. Noah Webster was a great guy in compiling his dictionary, but that wasn't exactly an act of bravery.
As a governor, Lamont is pretty much an empty suit. His administration has been specializing in increasing the opacity of state government. If it wasn't for a columnist and then the Feds investigating things, Lamont would have swept the corruption and nepotism at the new State Pier in New London under the rug. He is either venal enough or inattentive enough to be electable in Florida.
But this is what happens when rich people win elective office. They hold themselves accountable to nobody.
" Noah Webster was a great guy in compiling his dictionary, but that wasn't exactly an act of bravery. "
ReplyDeleteGood luck to anyone doing that today -- it might well *be* an act of bravery, depending on which state it was done in.