Inside Politics: Liberal hubris

The Washington Times ^ | 11/23/04 | Greg Pierce

[Pfesser]

Elistist eggheads.

[Bikers4Bush]

Actually the reason Republicans aren't teaching in academia is because they don't like to be around lazy, self actualizing hippy morons.

And because you can make a hell of a lot more money outside of academia than within it.

[weenie]

Delusional eggheads.

[Pitiricus]

Bingo!

The ugly little truth also is that most of the people in academia are morons, brilliant morons some, but still morons...

[KidGlock]

Democratic slogan for 2008:

Keep Dope Alive!

[FreePaul]

A successful career in academia, after all, requires a willingness to be critical of yourself ...

Just make sure that you don't let anyone else criticize you. "Academics" can't stand that.

[HamiltonJay]

Those that cannot DO.... Teach.

There is no tenure in the real world.. you gotta earn your keep.

[Helotes]

Those who can do. Those who can't teach...

[Time is now]

"a lack of interest in material incentives,"

Interest in or ability to acquire?

[Oh Brother]

It would be interesting to see how liberal/conservative engineering professors are. I would expect they are more conservative since they deal more with the real world.

[HamiltonJay]

I spend 8 to 12 years of my life getting a PHD... work for 30 to 40 a year and maybe work my way up to 70 or 80k a year when I get tenure... OR I can get my 4 year degree, go out in the real world and make more in under 5 years than they will be making after 20 years to 25 years in academia.......

You do the math on who's the fool.

[9999lakes]

Isn't this pretty much the same argument the KKK used to use to explain why blacks couldn't read or write?

[OldFriend]

LOLOL.....to the two brilliant professors......

WHO'S YOUR DADDY

[marty60]

No they as latent Commies, that are bemoaning the fact that we don't have a Police state that would force us STUPID people to believe like them are go to a gulag.

[kevkrom]

And the most ironic part, after saying something like this, is that they'll then turn around and immediately call conservatives/Republicans "bigots" at the slightest provocation, without even attempting to look at issues from our viewpoint.

[from occupied ga]

The ugly little truth also is that most of the people in academia are morons, brilliant morons some, but still morons...

These academics confuse knowledge of a subject area with intelligence. They really aren't brilliant at all, but some of them know a particular area well. Was it Shaw who said that the reason academic politics is so vicious is that there is so very little at stake?

[Bigun]

Actually the reason Republicans aren't teaching in academia is because they don't like to be around lazy, self actualizing hippy morons.

That and the fact that the old axiom "Those who can do... those who cannot teach" is TRUE!

[L98Fiero]

The difference between knowledge and wisdom.

[5Madman2]

Ph.D

Stands for "Personality has Departed"

[GianniV]

A liberal that is "critical of himself?" Are you friggin' kidding me? Liberals are NEVER wrong about anything. When have you ever met a college professor that was willing to admit he was wrong?

The only reason liberals flock to academia is that there is no measurable way to gauge their contribution to their jobs, thus they can't be "judged" and perhaps terminated. They basically get paid (usually from the public trough) for researching and teaching liberal thought.

Remember Ann Coulter's "10 minute rule." It's something like, "If you owned your own business, would you allow ANY liberal to run it for 10 minutes?" Yeah, and they are the 'intellectuals.' Pompous asses.