Are They Stupid Or Do They Just Think That We Are?

Townhall.com ^ | May 12, 2020 | Derek Hunter

[joma89]

Both. They are stupid but they think they are so very smart compared to us. It is called the Dunning-Kruger effect and it is a fact that the dumbest among us think they are the smartest.

This is why the character Fredo in the Godfather is the perfect caricature of these people.

JoMa

[Chainmail]

The media has always been partisan - and at least since Hoover has been overwhelmingly Leftist. Anyone here old enough to remember the coverage during Nixon's presidency? Wall to wall attacks, distortions, smears.

The only thing that dilutes the media's power now are sites like the Freerepublic.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Todd and Stelter are furnishing their audience confirmation bias.

[nuconvert]

Stelter is a nitwit

[Texas Fossil]

Very interesting language structure and full of feeling. Contempt and hate? But it show how the smug talking heads think they are empowered to act toward their paid-for agenda. Expose em All. Expose all of the Coup Plotters and their complicit media. It is TIME.

That attitude was on full display over the weekend on Meet the Press and the ironically named “Reliable Sources,” when the personalities that host those shows committed arrogant and hypocritical frauds on their audiences that can only happen when you’re marinated in the ignorance of your own body odor.

[eartick]

Can sum it up like this.

No most people are not stupid, they are just sheep.

[FreedBird]

Don’t think most of these liberal journalists could write fairly for a Junior High School News Paper.

[rlmorel]

"...It's so disappointing to look at what we're seeing from right-wing media these days, where there's such an obsession with the deep state and these revelations about the Russia probe and the decision about Michael Flynn..."

Wow. He REALLY said that? Really? After nearly four years of non-stop, hyperventilating narrative by him and his peers to promote outright fabrications and lies on the same subjects?

I have to admit, I am a bit floored by that.

[rlmorel]

I listen to Dan Bongino regularly, and his viewpoints on the media exactly mirror my own, but his personal experience gives his added weight.

He has spent a lot of time around them due to his time in the Secret Service, and he maintains that they are the dumbest, least reality based people around.

[ShadowAce]

No most people are not stupid, they are just sheep.

Half the people out there are dumber than the average person.

[Saltmeat]

Yes, they really think that we are stupid. When they look at us they somehow see the word STUPID tattooed on our foreheads. Someone needs to do a study of the average ACT/SAT scores in the schools of journalism at our universities compared to the averages for the other disciplines. I bet that the journalism schools enjoy some of the lowest on our campuses.

[Albion Wilde]

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[SMARTY]

There's a tradition in that crowd of scribblers that goes way back.

Somehow they always think of themselves as possessing a superior judgment and that their perspective is absolute.

But, with every word, they demonstrate that they are not. It's become more obvious in direct proportion to the lack of bias they achieve.

For a very long time now, they have been writing and speaking only to one another.

Every day I wonder if it's possible for them as individuals and as a profession to BE any more irrelevant. It always reminds me of the quote:

“Liberalism is the ideological disguise of the will-to- power of some people, who could not themselves BE less liberal.”

[Hardastarboard]

I believe that study has been done, and, IIRC, shows that journalists and teachers have among the lowest college entrance scores. IIRC

[Elsie]

I see what you did here!

[CodeToad]

So, Trump says opening is up to the governors but he has the authority and Fauci the Fraud claims he makes the policy for the governors.

Anyone feeling stupid yet?

[al_c]

Yes. Next question ...

[skimbell]

I did a quick search and found all sorts of comparisons of gpa among the professions. Interestingly Journalism isn't listed in any of them. No idea why but that's what I found.

As to your education being the lowest, what I found was exactly the opposite. I looked at about six graphs and Education was the highest on all of the charts.

Now, I have a couple of advanced degrees in educational areas and I am not even a little impressed with those graphs.

I remember from my undergraduate time that most education classes were notoriosly easy and consequently those students majoring in Education were often considered slakers.

I was a prelaw student and didn't pay much attention to other fields.

I found that law school wasn't what I was looking for and wound up back in school doing teacher certification requirements.

I just kept going and finished a MS before I went to work and I believe the work I did was substantially less demanding than was the material I dealt with in pre law.

The masters degree particularly seemed to fit the often heard description of the work- pay the fee and get your B

[reformedliberal]

No most people are not stupid, they are just sheep.
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Sheep are stupid.

When compared to most progs, however, the sheep look pretty darned bright. Confronted by a predator, sheep will panic and run away, while progs, in the same situation, will run toward the predator bleating and defecating along the way.

Sheep will respond positively to their guard dogs. Progs will trample them to death.