Now it’s back. ....
Kevin Horrigan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
a liberal intellectual media elite.
Talk about storing your head where the sun don't shine! They really need to get out more.
Education obviously does not guarantee possessing knowledge or leaving you with the ability to THINK critically.
Liar. Americans simply want a world class liar to occupy their White House.
There is no hostility towards smart, educated people.
The hostility is towards those self defined “intellectuals” who are elitists and think they are entitled to make our decisions for everyone else.
Those are the bastards we despise.
INTELLECT
1a : the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge
Elite EDUCATION:
Remove God and insert socialism
John Stuart Mill? Even better, Plato.
Education obviously does not guarantee possessing knowledge or leaving you with the ability to THINK critically.
Exactly, and having an above average intellect doesn’t mean you have any worthwhile ideas to share.
perhaps if such a large percentage of the intellectual community were not made up of pundits and professors who were total d-——bags...
Since academia was taken over by leftist radicals, the western canon was replaced by multicultural gobbledygook, the English language was replaced by Newspeak, free thinking was replaced by political correctness, and education was replaced with indoctrination.
I read that during the 1956 presidential campaign Adlai Stevenson’s Harvard transcripts were kept in a locked drawer in the office of the President of Harvard. And in the 1950’s it was probably easier to get into Harvard, if you had the money, and definitely easier to graduate from Harvard than West Point.
Perhaps the biggest reason behind Newt's popularity is that despite his flaws, he's recognized as being extremely bright, and excels in the world of ideas. And it is conservatives who are valuing that. So how can so many conservatiuves like a guy who is clearly an intellectual if they hate intellectuals?
The answer is that what conservatives dislike and mistrust are those left-wing intellectuals who believe they are smart enough to tell other people how to live their lives. Someone who considers themselves your intellectual equal or lesser isn't going to tell you that they could live your life better than you could. But intellectuals who think regular people aren't competent enough to win their own lives? Oh yeah, we conservatives despise them.
Oh look! It’s a sweater vest!
Hillary doesn’t wear mini-skirts, either. I like Gingrich in a suit and I love the mans mind. I would feel very proud to have intellectual Newt representing us!
Go Gingrich!
Well, actually Kevin, education became a bad thing when it gradually changed from teaching people things—science, history, literature, religion, excellence all around—to brainwashing them to be good little lying, liberal elite scum like you.
They are only bad when they belong to those people we don’t like...but since we don’t like those people, they can’t really have those qualities anyway. They are some sort of INO.
You don't need a better proof of anti-intellectualism than the successes of the two mediocrities Saintorum and Mittie. And it's not just anti-intellectualism, it's primarily, me thinks, mediocrity. An educated, articulate dude like Newt makes us dumbies feel oh so inferior, off with his head! (See under: Nixon, Richard.) We love mediocrity in this country: mediocre films, mediocre bestselling books and records, Americans Idle on TV - the very celebration badness. (I'd rather watch Lucha Libre!) Don't we all hatge PBS and it's high polluting programs? Liberals and conservatives are united in this preference.
For someone who classifies themselves as “a card-carrying member of the media elite” I have a hard time believing that they would be either Intellectual or Educated. They obviously think of themselves as “elite” which shows a mental condition.
The only party that has had an attack and hate for Education or Intellect is the Democratic party, especially the liberal part of it. With their infiltration of education at all levels K - College, they have brought the grade points of entire generations down to those of 3rd world countries. Where America once stood for the best and brightest, we now rank low in the world on education.
Now they are doing to our manufacturing what they did to education. They have taken a country that was known for making the best products and quality items and now make us a country that hardly manufactures anything anymore.
The lack of education mixed with the loss of manufacturing equals loss of jobs and outsourcing to countries that are not friends or allies.
This is, IMHO, their plan all along. They hate America for it’s strength and would rather we grovel at the feet of those European nations that the liberals would love to emulate.
Liberalism is a mental disease and it’s one of self destruction.
Interesting snark by a guy who looks remarably like Gingrich!
Intellect and education are “bad” only to urban Amish yutes and when wielded by white, male, conservatives.
Seriously, dude, a long, long time ago.
I guess not everybody got the memo.
Great post, thanks - and lots of great comments!
They are still spoiled brats. In most cases.
Take Dr. Thomas Sowell's description of how intelligence is often recognized early, the child is treated special, given breaks, great education, inside track to great opportunities -- the works. Spoiled brats. (My words)
Take former Secret Service agent Dan Emmett's book “Within Arms’s Length.” He writes of during the course of his duties to protect the Clintons and staff "patient attempts to reason were met with childlike emotion born of a past where no one in authority--probably beginning with her parents--had ever said no to [the staffer] about anything.”
Pretty intelligent, recognized early, good schools, the left ideology, spoiled brat.
See: Secret Service agent: Clinton’s staff rude, Hillary aloof
And how about the book "Unlimited Access : An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House" by Gary Aldrich. I will always remember how potential Clinton staffers responded to loyalty clearance questions: "I am totally loyal to the Clintons!" The spoiled brats just don't get it.
"... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn't just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!"