Asking random political figures random basketball questions isn’t completely unheard of, but when Charles Barkley is injected into a discussion about tax policy, you have to wonder if there isn’t something else a little more newsworthy going on somewhere. After all, they only need to fill a 24 hour news cycle…

After the Verdell Jones fiasco, I learned something valuable: who needs sources? The internet was built on rampant unfounded spectulation! (So was the print media.)