Posted on 04/28/2010 1:51:06 PM PDT by Rufus2007
So what happens when you put the likes of David Frum, Bruce Bartlett and now apparently Jim Manzi - pseudo-conservatives with a penchant for criticizing Republicans and other conservatives all in the same place?
You have the makings of a New York Times hit piece on conservatism. In the April 27 issue of the Times, a story in its Style section of all places by Patricia Cohen, singled out and accused a number of conservatives of "closed-mindedness" or as the article claimed "epistemic closure."
"It is hard to believe that a phrase as dry as ‘epistemic closure' could get anyone excited, but the term has sparked a heated argument among conservatives in recent weeks about their movement's intellectual health," Cohen wrote. "The phrase is being used as shorthand by some prominent conservatives for a kind of closed-mindedness in the movement, a development they see as debasing modern conservatism's proud intellectual history."
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LOL! The elitist morons crack me up on their opinions.
Seriously?
As a group, I would bet that the entire editorial board of the NYT couldn’t change a flat tire.
The main problem with the Left is that it is full of nutty ideas.
So it seems if you reject nutty ideas then you are closed-minded.
And, someone out there CARES about the NYT?
Well, I sat here for 10 seconds trying to work up an ounce of concern but I just don’t care what the NYT thinks. They have proved over and over they are elitists without the qualifications to be elite.
I read FR and other conservatives sites then I read comments in the WaPo articles.
To suggest that there isn’t an enormously noticeable difference between the two camps is to deny reality. Unfortunately, the ‘intellectual sophistication’ is lacking on the LEFT side, not the right.
Vocabulary, sentence structure/complexity, spelling, etc. They are easy fodder for flame wars but the undeniable fact is that education (the real kind, not the public school flavor) is sorely lacking on the left.
I read FR and other conservatives sites then I read comments in the WaPo articles.
To suggest that there isn’t an enormously noticeable difference between the two camps is to deny reality. Unfortunately, the ‘intellectual sophistication’ is lacking on the LEFT side, not the right.
Vocabulary, sentence structure/complexity, spelling, etc. They are easy fodder for flame wars but the undeniable fact is that education (the real kind, not the public school flavor) is sorely lacking on the left.
Yeah boy dats what we needs is some of that Sintophysical Stimulation....er stuff...
He’s confusing “sophistication” with “sophistry.”
The conservative movement does lack “Intellectual Sophistication” - it has wisdom and real-world, time-honored knowledge instead.
Obama is a great example of “intellectual sophistication” and I’d rather not have anything to do with his brand of weak, Stage 1, oppressive, new-European rationalization.
Or a light bulb.
Not just nutty ideas, but nutty ideas that only really work on a grand scale...when implemented by really smart people...
Who determines what is classified as Intellectual Sophistication? Is this not the height of arrogance? I would like to know who the Liberal intellectual sophisticants are. Harry Reid? Nancy Pelosi? Barack Obama?
The Left hasn’t had any intellectual sophistication in 45 years. Lots of intellectual pretense, though.
If Obama and gang did the same thing they NYTimes would be praising it as "resolute idealism".
They are desperately trying to divide the party. They lost on the “Tea Partiers are racist” thing, they’re losing Indys left and right and now they’re going to try to peel away as many Crist style Repubs as possible. Obama is the worst investment these elitists ever made. They should tow his ass on into the garage ‘cause that engine is blown, and the frame is warped. They might as well start shopping for a new ride.
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