As demonstrated by that crescent segment and dozens of others since Mr. Obama took office, he may well be television's pre-eminent fact-checker of Fox News, the nation's highest-rated cable news channel.
The fascinating thing about the Really Terrible Orchestra, though, is that its appalling players are in fact eminent in other walks of life.
Posterity has accepted her view of herself as an artist and is grateful for the pictures she took of her contemporaries, among them Tennyson, Darwin, Thackeray and Lewis Carroll.The exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (until May 4th) includes none of these eminent men, in fact no portraits of men at all.
"I must say with the independent commissioners, I've been very moved at times at what people have reported back to me, maybe not all, but what people have reported back to me about how caring, you know in the face of having to establish facts, eminent lawyers can be," he said.
But the fact that eminent domain may sometimes be needed for public projects in no justifies its use for private ones, including Trump's own effort to use it to take the home of an elderly widow so that he could use it to build a limousine parking lot for one of his casinos.
In 2005, the US supreme court ruled in Kelo v City of New London that governments can, in fact, use eminent domain to take land from citizens and give it to private developers if there is a benefit to the community.
No matter how much you might hate yourself for wanting to read the British journalist's account of her wonder years at the helm of the US's pre-eminent glossy, the troubling fact is that it is addictive.
In fact, as the eminent early American historian James Axtell showed almost 30 years ago, Indians — not Europeans — invented scalping.
His grandfather, in fact, was an eminent psychoanalyst, Rudolf von Urban, whose chief recommendations included avoiding orgasm and attaining "sex perfection".
First, let's not forget the fact that some eminent people on the Conservatives' own side are very dubious about their plans for schools.
When I mention this fact to the eminent literary critic Frank Kermode, who is a Phillips enthusiast, he is somewhat taken aback.
