“The Democratic Party convention is the meanest kind of bawling and lowing office holders, office seekers, pimps, malignants, conspirators, murderers, fancy-men, custom beer clerks, contractors, kept editors, spaniels well-trained to carry and fetch, jobbers, infidels . . . crawling, serpentine men, the lousy combining of these traits, and born freedom-sellers of the earth.”

a) Rush Limbaugh, in 2000

b) Dave Barry, in 1992

c) H. L. Mencken, in 1924

d) Walt Whitman, in 1850

Answer: d