2010: The Year Our Heroes Came Down a Notch (or 10)

What is it about 2010? The year, let alone the baseball season, is not even half over and already there have been three perfect games. And in the past few weeks, three of the country’s most respected individuals – Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett and Helen Thomas – have all, by their own statements and/or deeds, been knocked off their pedestals.

First came Jobs with what – even at Glenn Beck levels of paranoia – seems to be a disproportionate response to the capture of the new iPhone several weeks before its official release by a blogger at Gizmodo.

Then came Warren Buffett and his Sergeant Schultz defense – I know nothing. I see nothing. NOTHING! – after being asked forced to testify about Moody’s, the rating’s agency for which he is the largest shareholder. Only a month earlier, Buffett had lent his support to the much-beleaguered and publicly maligned top brass at Goldman Sachs.

And then there is Helen Thomas, the doyenne of American journalism. If ever there was a more ignominious ending to a great career, then we would love to know on which Wikipedia page it can be found.