Mark Steyn Quote
Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would sniff that so-and-so was in trade, so today's rulers have an antipathy to doers in general. How could Sarah Palin's executive experience running a state, a town, and a commercial fishing operation compare to all that experience Barack Obama had in sitting around thinking great thoughts? In forming his war cabinet, Winston Churchill said that he didn't want to fill it up with mere advisors at large with nothing to do but think and talk. But Obama sent the Oval Office bust of Sir Winston back to the British, and now we have a government by men who've done nothing but think and talk. There was less private-sector business experience in Obama's cabinet than in any administration going back a century.
Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would sniff that so-and-so was in trade, so today's rulers have an antipathy to doers in general. How could Sarah Palin's executive experience running a state, a town, and a commercial fishing operation compare to all that experience Barack Obama had in sitting around thinking great thoughts? In forming his war cabinet, Winston Churchill said that he didn't want to fill it up with mere advisors at large with nothing to do but think and talk. But Obama sent the Oval Office bust of Sir Winston back to the British, and now we have a government by men who've done nothing but think and talk. There was less private-sector business experience in Obama's cabinet than in any administration going back a century.
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About Mark Steyn
In 2021, Steyn began hosting his own show on British news channel GB News. He left GB News in early February 2023, saying that the channel wanted him to pay fines issued by the UK media regulator Ofcom, which was investigating complaints of COVID-19 vaccination scepticism aired on The Mark Steyn Show. He has since moved his show to his own website.