Posted on 01/01/2011 8:01:28 PM PST by unseen1
When I was growing up, my parents taught me that if you want people to think you’re smart, just shut up. They didn’t encourage me to shut up completely – maybe they should have – but the lesson was: never talk about things you know nothing about and people might think you’re smart.....
.....For several years now, the elites have been trying to fool us in believing that two people, one on the left and one on the right, are very smart people. On the left, we have the President and on the right, we have Charles Krauthammer. We are being led to believe how smart they are but if we’ve learned anything in the past year, it is that both of them may be a lot of things but smart isn’t one of them. Both appear not to have learned this lesson: if you want people to think you’re smart just shut up.
In July 2009, in trying to defend Henry Louis Gates, President Obama started out by saying that he didn’t know the situation and that he hasn’t seen all the facts and yet in the same breath, he went on to accuse the Cambridge police of being stupid. If the President was really as smart as we are led to believe, he would have just done what smart people do: shut up!
This brings me to Mr. Smarty Pants Charles Krauthammer. Yes I call him Mr. Smarty Pants because that’s all Mr. Krauthammer is. Anyone that can go on a marathon degrading someone he knows nothing about is anything but smart.
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I’d say he’s qualified. I hope he’s wrong.
CK unlike Reagan never renounced his democratic past.
So your post is moot.
Until reading his bio at the Washington Speakers’ Bureau, I didn't realize that he still wrote for The New Republic. Whether you like and respect Krathammer or not, one thing is clear: he is not a conservative.
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Oh yeah, well nanner nanner nanner!
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well if you would bother to click the link you would see this as the real rebuttal:
In August 2009 Mr. Krauthammer wrote a column where he started off by asking Governor Palin to leave the room. Then he spent the rest of the article writing exactly what Governor Palin wrote just days before.
On the night of President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union speech, Governor Palin was on Fox News reacting to the speech. The next night, Mr. Krauthammer was on Special Report essentially repeating Governor Palin word by word.
Either Mr. Krauthammer never reads Governor Palin’s columns, in which case by his standards he is as stupid as she is, or he just plagiarizes her every word.
If Mr. Krauthammer had actually read anything by Governor Palin, he would know that Governor Palin has covered every single topic and issue facing the country.
Does Charles ask the same questions about Governor Palin’s potential 2012 rivals? You know the ones he so admires and believes are more qualified to take on President Obama? Have any of those weighed in on as many issues as Governor Palin? If so, can he point them to me? Maybe I missed them. That may actually explain why Mr. Krauthammer prefers them to Governor Palin. It’s much easier just to read one or two op-eds a year by someone than to read the writings of someone every day.
Ever since President Clinton noted how “smart” Mr. Krauthammer is, Charles has been bending over backwards to appease the left. Lately he’s been going as far as praising President Obamas’ intelligence. Of course he would praise his peer on the left, sort of an “I’ll scratch your back, you scratch my back” deal.
There are a lot of things Charles Krauthammer is more qualified to talk about than I am and for those things I don’t understand, I do the smart thing and do not involve myself in them. When it comes to Governor Palin, I would take on Mr. Krauthammer every day of the week. Until he studies up on Governor Palin’s writings and positions, Mr. Krauthammer should just shut up and maybe once again people will be fooled to believe that he’s as smart as we are led to believe. In the meantime, when it comes to Governor Palin, Charles Krauthammer should do the smart thing: leave the room or just shut up. Otherwise he is either just stupid or simply a plagiarizer.
Why won't you address my point if you're so correct?
Why do you accept the talking points of someone who was a liberal speech writer?
*Awaiting answer*
Wrong. Try again.
Obama’s Second Act: If he wins another term, he'll only get worse.
Wrong. Try again.
Obama’s Second Act: If he wins another term, he'll only get worse.
This thread is an embarrassment. And note that commentary "against Krauthammer" is not a valid argument against what he has written. It's nothing more than ad hominem silliness.
Perhaps Mr. Krauthammer does not live in the past but in the present.
While ones past is part of history and cannot be changed or altered (unless you are a revisionist liberal), it should not be used as a tattoo to forever label someone either.
People change over time.
Most people as they age turn conservative or lean toward more conservative values and principles.
Why is that?
It is because having lived so long, the people come to realize the truth and facts and have lived them and lived through them and realize what is important in their lives and what is not.
Again CK has not renounced his liberal past.
But these comments do nothing for conservatism, because all conservatives agree with them already. You see what I mean?
He doesn’t move the ball forward, and very often he throws it to the other team.
I could forgive Krauthammer if he would just apologize to Sarah Palin. It would be harder to forgive him for the smear job he used on Christine O’Donnell.
lol I don’t answer “when did you stop beating your wife” questions. Nor would i consider anything you say to me more than pure silliness. So there’s that
I am sure the fact that “death panels” made headlines across the country and nearly scuttled ObamaCare while his columns had little impact doesn't make him like her either.
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