[Louis Foxwell]

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[GeronL]

The left has been wrong about everything but they keep moving on.

[Kickass Conservative]

Allow me to quote my Late Mother on this particular subject, “Some People are so Smart, they’re Stupid”.

I didn’t quite get the rationale when she first told me that, I really get it now.

[dead]

Liberalism isn't really about making the world a better place. It's about reassuring the elites that they are good people for wanting to rule over it.

Bang.

[Cyber Liberty]

Kewl article from Daniel! Glad I stumbled across it!

:^)

[Revolting cat!]

Ouch!

[Organic Panic]

I liste to NPR 24 hours a day. I’m the smartest guy I know.

[Mr. Blond]

Great article. I’ve long thought liberals consider themselves smart because they subscribe to approved orthodoxies. Likewise, they subscribe to the approved orthodoxies in order to be perceived as smart.

[x]

Good article. I’m not so sure that Obama actually had to “manufacture” intelligence, though. Or at least he didn’t have to try very hard. His followers wanted to believe, so they did. It’s also not always easy to tell real from fake intelligence, especially when the fakers have money and large staffs.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"WE'RE SMART AND WE'RE RIGHT. WE'RE RIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE SMART. WE'RE SMART BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT."

That is liberalism.

What it is, quite literally, is sophistry.

sophist

1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.

philosopher

O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."

"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]

Anyone who argues from the assumption of his own superiority is a Sophist.

Including journalists who argue from the assumption of their own objectivity/