Instant Hindsight
Marty Kaplan* was writing about the expected MSM yawn that will greet the second Downing Street Memo, when he wrote this:
I'm reminded of the moment in Tom Stoppard's play Jumpers, when a character reacts to the news that the Radical Liberal party's spokesman for agriculture, Sam Clegthorpe, an agnostic, has been named Archbishop of Canterbury: "Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight. 'Archbishop Clegthorpe? Of course! The inevitable capstone to a career in veterinary medicine.'"
It just says so many things.
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* "Archbishop Clegthorpe", The Huffington Post, 12 June 2005.