Posted on 11/04/2005 6:40:04 AM PST by rface
Throughout my time here at CSU I have always been very passive in voicing my opinion about politics. Being a senior now, I feel that it is my duty to comment on the topic that has become very sensitive to the student body. A couple of events in the past few weeks have lit a fire under me, forcing me to break my silence.
The first event occurred during a focus group I attended for a project in my marketing research class. One of the more conservative guests tried to comment that we are at war with Iraq because Iraq attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. After he made this comment I had a revelation; the less informed a person is, the more likely they are to be strictly conservative.
Despite the fact that Iraq has never attacked the United States since they won nominal independence from Great Britain in 1932, this person was unabated and continued to debate his obscured reality.
My revelation was then confirmed a few days ago when I read a column in the Collegian where the author was infuriated about an example used by a marketing professor in class and tried to accuse the teacher, as well as the entire university, of preaching liberalism. What the columnist didn't know was that I was in the exact same class and despite his false claims the example the teacher used in class was informative and furthered the point of his lecture.
When the teacher playfully pointed out that the number 98 on the overhead represented the president's I.Q., it was supposed to be a lighthearted critique of the president who has an obvious reputation of mispronouncing words and even admitted in the third Presidential Debate of 2004 that "(Laura Bush) speaks English a lot better than I do. I think people understand what she's saying" (debate.com). If this is the case, then maybe we should have elected Laura Bush. At least she can speak English.
The truth is that nobody knows George W. Bush's IQ because he hasn't made that information public. But knowing that our president has a hard time speaking English and is guilty of a laundry list of lies including stating that Iraq tried to purchase significant amounts of uranium from Africa in his State of the Union Address in January of 2003 (whitehouse.gov), it's not hard to connect the dots.
It just seems to me that the reason conservatives keep complaining that higher education is more liberal is because they want to be misinformed. They prefer their talking points from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh rather then understanding the truth. It's not a coincidence that higher education tends to be more liberal. The more you learn and the more you are informed the more liberal you tend to be.
The brilliance of the left. Remarkable.
I just read the title and I'm still laughing.
Funny.
Andy Weakling's been passive? You don't say!
Informed....brain washed....interchangable terms, right?
So this little snot-nosed liberal demonstrates how well-informed he is ... by repeating a liberal lie.
It's too bad liberals are so oblivious to their own irony. But, then again, if they were, they wouldn't be liberals...
The most liberal person I know didn't even know who Dick Cheney is.
A leftist is a person who has been taught how to question but does not yet understand.
"One of the more conservative guests tried to comment that we are at war with Iraq because Iraq attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. After he made this comment I had a revelation; the less informed a person is, the more likely they are to be strictly conservative."
He disproves his own arguement by stating he developed this observation after hearing one sentence from one person. How is that being "well informed"?
I guess Moses had a low IQ because he couldn't speak well either...
Yet the two smartest people in the world, Bill and Hillary, can't help but get into trouble over and over...
Weaking, good lord that's funny!
For a senior in college, his argumentation is remarkably sophmoric.
The Onion? Scrappleface? Mad Magazine?
A prof at CSU attempts to appear intellectually superior to a grad of Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School.
I love the contrast between his "truth" and our "talking points".
I guess blindly lapping up every cliche on the daily Dem fax makes one "informed."
When the teacher playfully pointed out that the number 98 on the overhead represented the president's I.Q., it was supposed to be a lighthearted critique of the president
So the pinhead says the person made false claims ... but in no way shows what the person said was false, and instead shows the professor DID demonstrate liberal bias.
But to the pinhead, it wasn't bias. It was truth.
"It's not a coincidence that higher education tends to be more liberal."
It is a fact that the higher the income level the higher percentage voting GOP. Income from real life work, not from in a classroom for 30 years. Also, proven positive correlation between income level and IQ.
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