[MrB]

You have to wonder at the term “anti-intellectual” as well.

The left wants it to mean “opposed to smart/thinking people”, carrying on the meme that liberals are just by definition smarter than anyone of conservative ideology.

Sowell’s definition of “intellectual” is a person whose only product of effort is in the realm of ideas and is someone who never has to face judgement based on the consequences of those ideas; an elitist.

Yes, in Sowell’s definition of “intellectual”, most of us ARE “anti-intellectual” because WE are the ones to bear the brunt of their bad ideas. Their ideas, for the most part, are self-stroking, so they get to feel good about them and we get to pay for them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Remember Brian Williams (or was it the other guy?) at the Ronald Reagan Library Debate: Where do you get your information about climate change Gov. Perry? Please, what have you read -- who informs you?

The Left hates it that Perry tells them this is bogus. And just today:

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming

[danielmryan]

You have to wonder at the term “anti-intellectual” as well.

It works well as a trick. Legion are the libs who say 'anti-intellectuals' should be careful lest they wind up with a heart surgeon or a structural engineer with an instant degree from a diploma mill.

The funny thing is, they're rarely called on it. What their "highly educated" trope ignores is the fact that mainstream political opinions in the liberal-arts faculty would likely be laughed out of the engineering faculty.