Tell me: is the faux-amazed “wow” response a new left-wing talking point? **** update: related. The WaPo has updated its story to reflect O’Donnell’s actual answer, though without acknowledging that its earlier report was intentionally misleading. Transparency. Truth. Journalism!

Harsanyi: Many of my more enlightened friends like to ask me: How could someone as intellectually gifted, delightfully urbane, profoundly moral and breathlessly handsome not want to spit at these stupid Tea Party candidates with their stupid positions and their stupid stupidity? […] Do I wish there were more articulate and intellectual free-market candidates? Sure, I do. But, alas, Americans are in no mood for know-it-alls who think sailing is