Saturday, October 16, 2004

The taint of the Harding administration



Recent scholarship has attempted to vindicate the much-maligned Warren Harding. Nevertheless, Stephen Colbert chooses to side with the more traditional view in The Daily Show's latest book:

"Warren G. Harding was a worthless piece of shit. Fuck him. His presidency was a taint, not just in the sense of a 'stain on the office,' but literally a taint -- the anatomical area between the anus and the testicles."