Posted on 08/24/2015 9:03:12 AM PDT by jstaff
"Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people." - Anonymous caller on Rush Limbaugh. Talk about getting right down to the nut, right quick...
“Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.”
Riiiight.
Now thats funny (and true as well)
That can be read more than one way.
Do they mean, “Stupid people think liberalism is smart,” or “Stupid people look at smart and call it liberalism”?
Brilliant!
Yup.
Context! We need context! Who actually heard this?
I did. It was a great call. From Maya, a black conservative.
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RUSH: Here’s Maya, Kansas City, Missouri. It’s great to have you. Hi.
CALLER: Hi. You know, I just wanted to tell you, first of all, that you are majorly responsible for my conservative attitudes today. I talked to you the first time in 1994. I had called you on this show because I had gotten on the computer, which was then called the (unintelligible), and started carrying this conversation on about blacks being independent and not being victims. I got into a major argument with five or six other people, all of them as college educated as I am. They proceeded to call me a racist and hateful person. And they became doubly angry when they found out that I was black.
RUSH: Oh.
CALLER: This was 1994. So I had called you and told you about this, and you went on to explain how confused and bottom line utterly stupid liberals can be about these type of things, and it actually wound up in the paper. After a while it became —
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, which paper?
CALLER: Oh, it wound up in the LA Times. I was in California at the time and I was also attending Cal State Fullerton.
RUSH: No kidding. LA Times wrote about this? Cool.
CALLER: Absolutely. Yeah. It was only about a paragraph long because everybody found out who I was —
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: — and the school was interested, and so they wanted to know what was going on with this black person who was writing op-ed pieces in Cal State Fullerton telling people to do things like pull their pants up and, you know —
RUSH: (laughing).
CALLER: (laughing) You remember the Million Man March and the whole bit, and I was writing and saying maybe you guys ought to march your way back to your neighborhoods, get a job and take care of your children.
RUSH: I remember. (laughing) No wonder you were a target.
CALLER: Oh, yeah. It was quite enjoyable and a high point of my school career.
RUSH: By the way, we now know that Obama was there, Obama was at the Million Man March or he was part of it, organizer somehow, he was part of the thing. I know I remember from something I saw during show prep.
CALLER: I have a feeling that in time we’re going to see his face popping up in all events, in a lot of events kind of like Observers in that TV sci-fi show Fringe or whatever it is.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
CALLER: But Obama was around quite a bit back then as well.
RUSH: The choom gang. He was part of the choom gang back then. That didn’t stay in Hawaii, you know. That traveled with him.
CALLER: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
RUSH: The stoners.
CALLER: They all know about this. And that’s part of my confusion here, is because everything that we’re talking about now I know for a fact that each man standing on that podium, Republican, had to know who Obama was from the beginning, but their fear was that to out him would destroy their political career.
RUSH: Okay. Hold it right there. Now, Maya, you’ve gotten to the point here, and I want to explore this. Let’s throw some names out to make this more easily understood by people. Let’s go back to shortly after Obama was elected. There’s a dinner party at George Will’s house and it was at that dinner party, or maybe it was beforehand, David Brooks said (paraphrasing), “You know what, this man’s crease in his slacks tells me that his fastidiousness eminently qualifies him to be president.” And other conservatives started raving about his intellect and all this. Your theory is that because he was one of them, from the tribe of over-intellectualized, over-educated Ivy Leaguers, that they couldn’t condemn him without condemning themselves, right?
CALLER: Exactly. I mean, I’ve gone through this. I went through school sitting around liberals, not trying to be one, and getting in trouble for not trying to be one. As a matter of fact, my husband used to say, “She’s not really a liberal. She’s conservative. It’s just that she’s being taught in liberal schools.” And that’s when it occurred to me that for the last 10, 15, 20 years, we’ve been watching Republican candidates, politicians embracing all of the theories, catchphrases, the sound bites that have caught liberals’ eyes. They’re trying to play according to their rules and they have no clue that what’s really happening is they’ve already been conditioned and indoctrinalized into —
RUSH: Well, there are some exceptions. Now, there’s one glaring exception, that would be Ted Cruz.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Ted Cruz is Harvard, he’s Ivy League to a T, but he came out unaffected.
CALLER: He came out unaffected, but I’m afraid for him because of the fact with that Ted Cruz, anyone who is as important as he is, is going to automatically isolate himself. It’s almost like piranhas. We’re disgusted when we see the piranhas in the fish tank eating at each other, but when we kind of look on it closely, we recognize that it’s not always the weakest person that’s going to lose. Sometimes it’s going to be the most principled, and that’s why we need to be careful about Ted Cruz, because these other guys, they will pull every trick out of the liberal suitcase in order to bring him down to a level where they can control him. And that’s my concern.
RUSH: Well, he’s resisted it so far, and he’s resisted it powerfully and admirably. But I don’t want to lose site of your primary point here. Folks, what she’s saying is the reason why there are fewer and fewer differences inside the Beltway, Inside Washington, political establishment between Republicans and Democrats is they’re all practically identically educated. They come out of the Ivy League, they’re taught to speak the same way, the language of politics, they’re taught to think the same way.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: And they can’t criticize others from the class without criticizing themselves, and so they don’t.
CALLER: Thomas Sowell said that himself. That’s what his book, Vision of the Anointed, was basically all about.
RUSH: That’s right. That’s right.
CALLER: He referred to the liberals as, you know, basically people with a vision, and he always referred to the conservatives who had been taught by these same professors as the benighted, the tragic, okay, the tragic hero. It’s The Vision of the Anointed.
RUSH: They become overeducated or over-intellectualized, but they learn the impractical.
CALLER: And they learn how to speak impractical. They learn to do the doublespeak.
RUSH: They might be able to speak in ways that convey intelligence, in their actually real-world street smart dumb it, or ignorant. Let me use ignorant. That’s why I think another way of saying this is you joked they need a visa to go to Iowa ‘cause they really don’t know what goes on there. It’s like a foreign country.
CALLER: Yeah. I have a T-shirt that I made that I’ve been giving out to some friends of mine and basically what it says is that “Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.”
RUSH: (laughing) “Liberalism is what smart looks like in stupid people”? Is that it?
CALLER: “Looks like to stupid people.”
RUSH: Oh, “looks like to stupid people.”
CALLER: Yeah. It’s going over big, trust me. And it’s very true. This whole thing of these guys sitting in the same classroom, when I saw Obama first come out, I was paranoid, I said, “This doesn’t look right.” Remember that this man was taught in the same colleges and universities as the Kennedys, the same places —
RUSH: I know.
CALLER: — that McCain hung out.
RUSH: You don’t have to convince me, Maya. I’ve long been on this kick or this notion that the education system has become an indoctrination program rather than education. There isn’t any critical thinking taught. I have a story I didn’t get to, maybe I still have it in yesterday’s Stack. It’s about how four-year graduates, four-year college graduates are no better equipped to read, to write, to communicate, to critically think, than they were before they went into college. Maya, I have to go because of the time constraints here, but I really am glad to hear from you again. It’s Maya, Kansas City, Missouri.
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I heard the caller late last week. A black female caller, maybe in her late 20’s or early 30’s who years ago escaped the liberal democrat plantation.
One of the smartest and all-round best callers I have heard in a long time.
OK. “Stupid people see liberalism and think that’s what smart is, but it ain’t.” Carry on!
I heard that last week. ;-)
Smart people see liberalism and think that’s what stupid is.
Go figure!
How do we understand others thinking? It is impossible, truly.
Many factors involved.
Truth ,... what is truth? Facts, plus opinions, results, circumstances, experiences and most of all proven HISTORY! ...
Awhile ago, I was speaking with my wife's boss - a narcissistic liberal idiot hippie-type. She waxed poetically on "having the privilege to meet AlGore" and on "What a Brilliant Man he is".
I held my tongue, mostly. Didn't want her to take any animus for me out on Mrs WBill. But, a truer example of what you stated could never be found!
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