Oh, that Walt Whitman

Keith Olbermann takes a look at the email his Sponge Bob defense generated, including this one:

— With similar obliviousness, Frank from Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been good enough to reproach my “inappropriate toleration of pro-gay groups” by quoting one of America’s great writers:

“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers (media) or inventors, but always most in the common people. Walt Whitman 1819-1892, American Poet.”

Um, Frank – I have a historical tidbit about Walt Whitman’s dating habits I think might interest you.