Posted on 08/06/2009 11:19:55 AM PDT by Wardenclyffe
A noted psychiatrist was a guest speaker at an academic function where Nancy Pelosi happened to appear. Ms Pelosi took the opportunity to schmooze the good doctor a bit and asked him a question with which he was most at ease.
'Would you mind telling me, Doctor,' she asked, 'how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?'
'Nothing is easier,' he replied. 'You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble. If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track.'
'What sort of question?' asked Pelosi.
Well, you might ask, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?''
Pelosi thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, 'You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history.'
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If you watch/listen to her press conference about the CIA "lying" to her, she gets tripped up by a reporter's question and has to refer to her notes. She reads her notes out of sequence and has to strain to come up with a coherent response.
Getting elected as an ultra liberal from San Francisco doesn't require an above average intelligence. It requires moonbattery and rote memorization of talking points.
If she is smart how stupid must Steny Hoyer be?
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