I'm trying to take a short blogging break -- new job, new kid, etc. -- but I can't let Jay Nordlinger get away with this comparison to the Sarah Palin candidacy:
Years ago, the University of Michigan basketball team was the “Fab Five.” The starting lineup consisted of five freshmen. And they made the NCAA tournament (comfortably). CBS had a preview show, in which the host — it might have been Brent Musburger — asked Bill Walton to predict who would win the tournament. He said Michigan. Musburger (or whoever it was) said, “But they’re starting five freshmen! They have no experience!” To which Walton replied, “I’ll take talent over experience any day.”
Uh, Jay: The "Fab Five" rather famously lost two consecutive national championship games. The second time, they lost on one of the most boneheaded plays in NCAA history. And the record of those two seasons has been wiped from the official books because it turns out the Michigan athletic program was massively corrupt.
I mean, I think this might actually be a good analogy to the Palin pick. But I don't think this is what Nordlinger meant.
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