Tastelessness and Classlessness Are the Least of Our Concerns

Tastelessness and Classlessness Are the Least of Our Concerns

By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer. Mr. Stephens is an Opinion columnist.

Bret Stephens: Frank, we have a lot of deadly serious topics to cover, including the president’s speech Wednesday night. Let’s start with something, uh, less momentous. Do you believe, as former South Dakota first gentleman Bryon Noem apparently does, that “breast is best?”

Frank Bruni: Because I worked for years as a restaurant critic, can I pretend you’re talking about chicken, and can I expound upon the transcendent virtues of the thigh?

Bret: Our colleague Shawn McCreesh has a beautifully reported story from Mr. Noem’s hometown, Castlewood, S.D., which canvases the views of........

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