First there was Republican certain-nominee Sen. John McCain’s problem with his (former but perhaps future) adviser Phil Gramm, who said the U.S. is merely in a “mental recession” and is a country populated by whiners. Now there’s THIS.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.