“Who said my kids are brilliant? Did you talk to them? If you talk to them, tell them to call their father.” [h/t WaPo]

— Benjamin Emanuel, father of Rahm (the congressman, right), Ari (the Hollywood agent) and Zeke (an oncologist-bioethicist), in Portfolio magazine’s “Brilliant” issue, in which he and wife Marsha are lauded as “brilliant parents.” The mag’s list of brilliant people includes such usual suspects as Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, the Google guys, Tina Fey and D.C. lawyer-agent Bob Barnett.