You (and Bush) are Likely Too Dumb for This

MSNBC ^ | November 11, 2003 | Howard Mortman

[quidnunc]

Thankfully, we have stars to tell us so

If you’re an American, chances are there’s a celebrity who thinks you’re dumb. Maybe even stupid. Or an idiot. Or something worse, which we can’t print here.

Yes, show a celebrity an American, and that celebrity will show you an ignoramus.

Too sweeping a statement? Perhaps. But what about this Michael Moore screed about Americans in the London Mirror earlier this month? “They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. ...We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don’t know about anything that’s happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.”

Until Michael Moore pointed it out, you probably didn’t know how embarrassingly stupid you are. In fact, you probably have so little intelligence you didn’t know that Moore isn’t the only celebrity who thinks you’re dumb. Indeed, Moore has colleagues in the celebrity kingdom who think the same thing.

So put on your well-worn dunce cap and check out what other celebrities say about your intelligence. And if the celebrities are correct in their analysis, you’re moving your lips as you read this.

Johnny Depp said a few months back, “America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you.” (Depp later claimed he was quoted out of context and offered: “I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it.” But still, we’re like dumb puppies?)

Ted Turner once said this about television-watchers: “The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that; we know that.”

Jane sounds off, too

Speaking of Ted Turner, Jane Fonda was in Canada this past April and said: “I don’t know if a country where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.”

Also in Canada, Martin Sheen said recently: “Every time I cross this border, I feel like I’ve left the land of lunatics. You are not armed and dangerous. You do not shoot each other. I always feel a bit more human when I come here.”

Lunatics, ignorant people, dummies — even dumb puppies. Yes, we got ’em all here.

Where does this superior celebrity intellect come from? It’s actually part of a larger phenomenon, one involving the president. Celebrities sneer at President Bush’s intelligence. And then they think we’re all the same, just dumb Bush-boosters.

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[Gothmog]

Great article bump

[nuffsenuff]

This is why, at an early age, I realized I was a conservative. I cannot understand how people can think this way. How they can be this condescending.

I hate liberals.

[ladtx]

Only half of us are stupid. The other half are conservatives.

[Madame Dufarge]

I always feel a bit more human when I come here

We always feel a bit more human when you're in Canada, too.

[Gorjus]

I always feel a bit more human when I come here.

At least it's a start.

[Coop]

We always feel a bit more human when you're in Canada, too.

Zing! :-)

[beckett]

Sheen left school in the 9th grade, and well over 75% of actors have no college diploma. 'Nuff said.

[Core_Conservative]

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm - Who is mike moore? /sarcasm

[Pikamax]

"Howard Mortman is a producer for “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” "

poor guy..

[demlosers]

Hi stupid people!

[smith288]

No celebrity said it smarter than Sandra Bernhard. She asserted her intelligence and belittled Bush at the same time to the Washington Post in March 2002: “I’m an intelligent person from America. I was born in Michigan and raised in Arizona, and while I do reside in New York, I travel the country extensively. Any thinking person who lives in the world would be disturbed at what’s going on right now. I think Bush is amateurish and self-serving, and, frankly, it’s disgusting.”

I would offer a retort to Bernhard, but I can’t think of anything smart to say. I’ve never been to Michigan.

[Ramius]

I would submit that G.W. is perfectly happy to have liberals believing that he is dumb. They continue to underestimate him, at their peril.

Dumb like a fox.

[The Scorpion King]

I'm proud to say that I'm dumber than a box of rocks!

[Madame Dufarge]

Howard Mortman is a producer for “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” "

Poor guy is right.

Wonder what Chris has to say about the great unwashed?

[metesky]

Wonder what Chris has to say about the great unwashed?

Matthews is too busy listening to the sound of his own voice to give any thought to anybody else.

[OpusatFR]

They smell?

After reading the rant by some "professor" at Wells yesterday, I think that would be the leftwing retort. The professor said that Republicans were needed lobotomies and were stupid.

Why do I think this merits the childhood phrase: Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you...

Thses people are infantile.

[CougarGA7]

And where do these mental giants get their talking points? Right here folks.

DeeDee's Stooooopid.

[wayoverontheright]

The process of becoming a liberal involves a tribalization of sorts in which, much like joining the union, you give up your right to be an individual, you then slowly, and over time embrace GROUPTHINK, whereby a tremendous "warm fuzzy" is your reward for being part of a very large group, which couldn't possibly be wrong.

'Been there, done that.

[spodefly]

I am one of the dumb ones.

I am a straight white male, born and raised in the South on a farm.

I own guns and I am an NRA member.

I believe in God.

I drive an SUV.

I eat meat, sometimes even meat that I myself have hunted and killed.

I don't have any tatoos, any pierced body parts, and I don't shave anything but my face.

I cut my own hair, and I don't use any 'beauty' products.

My clothes come mainly from Wal-Mart, Target, Burlington Coat factory, and online hunting businesses.

I am everything that Hollywood and the media elites hate ... and I love that.

By the way, I have a college education, an IQ in the 140's, I have done business in and travelled to at least 30 countries in Europe and Asia, and I am an officer/stockholder in a company that employs 30+ people.

I also voted in 2002 a straight Republican ticket for the first time in my life.

And aside from the Matrix: Reloaded DVD I just bought, I have not spent one red cent on any Hollywood "product" in the past 12 months. So, in effect, I hate them right back.