Peter Berger: Our national virtue

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Peter Berger, an English teacher at Weathersfield School who writes “Poor Elijah’s Almanack.” The column appears in several publications including the Times Argus, the Rutland Herald and the Stowe Reporter.
I’m one of those people who watched the White House correspondents’ dinner. I found the hired entertainer occasionally funny and at other intervals gratuitously vulgar.
It’s not that I’m utterly opposed to pr