Contest: Like asking for safety tips from Johnny Knoxville

by Ivan Osorio on January 11, 2008 · 11 comments

Early this morning, I became aware of something called “The Lou Dobbs Financial Report,” which is syndicated on radio across the nation. My immediate reaction was to think to myself, “Asking for financial advice from Lou Dobbs is like asking…” I thought for a minute, and then it hit me: “for safety tips from Johnny Knoxville!” Then other comparisons came to mind, “like asking for etiquette lessons from Don Rickles” or “public speaking advice from Sylvester Stallone.” Yet there have got to be even better analogies — so I’m running a contest.

The submitter of the best entry in the comments section below (to be judged by a panel of CEI arbiters) wins a signed copy of Tim Carney’s The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, which provides a good antidote to Dobbs’s rampant economic illiteracy (which apparently was too great to be contained to one medium). So let’s get started: “Asking for financial advice from Lou Dobbs is like…”

{ 10 comments }

Cord Blomquist January 11, 2008 at 9:32 am

asking for parenting advice from Britney Spears.

Coach Bob January 11, 2008 at 10:14 am

Um, I believe you mean Lynne Spears, who really is behind the whole friggin' mess.

Tim Carney January 11, 2008 at 10:26 am

…asking the EU how to reduce CO2 emissions."

Christopher Yablonsk January 11, 2008 at 10:29 am

asking for fact-checking advice from the editors of The New Republic.

margaret January 11, 2008 at 11:50 am

…asking Hugo Chavez why dont he just shut up.

Andrew Walker January 11, 2008 at 11:50 am

Asking for pet care advice from Michael Vick.

Ray Ray January 11, 2008 at 12:16 pm

… asking Pat Tillman for career advice.

Baylen January 12, 2008 at 4:46 am

…asking Phillip Agee to come to the U.S. to comment on how great Cuba's state-run healthcare system works.

Forbes January 12, 2008 at 3:49 pm

…asking Bill Clinton for tips to marital fidelity.

…asking Al Gore to practice the green measures he preaches.

…admiring Paris Hilton for her modesty and chastity.

…asking Martha Stewart for tips to successful investing.

…expecting The New York Times not to publish national security secrets.

John West January 12, 2008 at 5:50 pm

asking Dubyah to help you pronunce nuclear.

Comments on this entry are closed.

{ 1 trackback }

Previous post:

Next post: