Politico asks Fred some unusual questions.
For example:
What do you know now that you wish someone had told you ten years ago?
That you should take every opportunity to go out dancing ? your knees won?t last forever.When’s the last time you used profanity?
Profanity? Like Tabasco sauce, it?s useful to spice one?s rhetoric but ruinous if used promiscuously, dammit.On what type of products do you never go cheap on, for the sake of quality?
Opera. If one is to see one of mankind?s greatest artistic concepts,
then one should ensure that neither one?s seeing or hearing is in any
way impaired. As others have said, there are no pockets in shrouds.
If you are not familiar with Fred or CEI, here is Politico’s introduction:
CEI, which bills itself as ?a free market public policy group,? has
helped establish itself as one of most notable global warming skeptics
and has remained a constant thorn in the side of former Vice President
Al Gore. (The Institute said ?he distorts the evidence he cites? and
has been trying to schedule a debate with Gore for years.) Such CEI
projects as EnjoyBottledWater.org not only earn the organization press,
but also the ire of progressives.
Many conservatives, including Ron Paul and Steve Forbes, like Smith and
the work done by his group. (Smith founded CEI in 1984 after stints at
the Council for a Competitive Economy, the Association of American
Railroads and the Environmental Protection Agency.) And, well, Smith
likes himself, too. Why? The answer lies below, in POLITICO?s latest
?Answer This? interview.
