The GENIUSES hired by 'The Weekly Standard'

It's not just Freddy Barnes and Freddy Kagan helping Bill Kristol pretend to be all smart what with the consonants and the vowels and shit...

No, I give you self-proclaimed scholar Andrew Ferguson:

You can't really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, "The Assault on Reason." It's a sprawling, untidy blast of indignation, and annotating it with footnotes would be like trying to slip rubber bands around a puddle of quicksilver. Still, I'd love to know where he found the scary quote from Abraham Lincoln that he uses on page 88.

You might check the "ENDNOTES" dumbass.

I see the Daily Howler found this first.