Posted on 09/22/2022 10:46:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEO AT LINK...................
Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley grilled Colleen Shogan, President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Archives and Records Administration, noting that she had written a paper he said disparaged every two-term Republican president since World War II.
Hawley’s questions came during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday.
“You have talked in today’s hearings so far and in your pre-hearing Q&A about how much it’s important to be a non-partisan leader, correct?” Hawley began. “And so if you’re confirmed, you will attempt to stay politically neutral in your decision making, is that fair to say?”
Shogan assented.
Hawley then brought up an article Shogan had written titled, “Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: Republican Populism.” In the 2007 article, published by the American Political Science Association, Shogan wrote of Republican presidents Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, saying that their “leadership posturing place them on the explicitly anti-intellectual side of the spectrum.”
“Do you consider this piece to be non-partisan?” Hawley asked.
“I consider it to be an academic article publication 16, 17 years ago, a scholarly piece,” she answered.
Hawley noted that Shogan had said modern GOP presidents had adopted an anti-intellectual posture and asked her how to define such a phrase.
“The ability so speak in very plain, common-sense terms to Americans,” Shogan replied.
In the article, she wrote, “Republicans tend to exhibit anti-intellectual qualities. Democrats coalesce on the intellectual tail of the continuum.”
In relation to this, Hawley asked, “So is your point that Republicans are stupid and Democrats are intellectual?”
Shogan argued she did not mean that, but then followed by saying that the three GOP presidents had a “rhetorical connection with the American people.”
“A rhetorical connection that you say is anti-intellectual and you feature every two term Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower,” Hawley noted. “It’s a piece on rhetoric, but you attribute part of the ‘anti-intellectualism’ of the Republican party, to in your words, to the rise of the religious Right. Because those voters are stupid?”
She disagreed with that characterization.
“You wrote an article saying basically that Republican voters are stupid, that Republican presidents deliberately appeal to anti-intellectualism,” Hawley pointed out with anger. “You roll it all up in this thing called Republican populism, yet you’re trying to present yourself here as a non-partisan. In fact, you’re an extreme partisan. … You’re someone who has denigrated Republican presidents; every two-term Republican president … since the Second World War and their voters.”
Hawley explained the importance of Shogan’s apparent partisan bias, obliquely referring to the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home.
“This is not just a theoretical set of questions, because as you know, we have seen what happens when you have political activists in a position that you are up for confirmation for. And we are living through that as a nation right now,” he said.
“We are living through the weaponization, the political weaponization of the National Archives; the political weaponization of the Department of Justice; the political weaponization of the FBI, such that half of the people of this country cannot trust those institutions,” he continued. “We’re living with a president who calls half the voters of this county semi-fascists, who has said they are a threat to democracy.”
“How can you assure them that you will be truly non-partisan given what you have said?” Hawley concluded.
I have worked with people who "knew it all," but had virtually no social skills.
Not pleasant to have around the office. Everyone was glad to see them go.
“I only took the ACT, that’s all that I was required to take.”
Got a National Merit Scholarship based on my SAT scores. Free tuition through college. One day on Parris Island, my Senior Drill Instructor told my platoon that I had the highest GT score on the Island, with the possible exception of the Regimental Commander.
I bet my scores beat hers.
Whenever a Communist regime takes power, by whatever means, the “intellectuals” are the FIRST TO GO..........................
I suspect she uses “anti-intellectual” the same way as a some use the term “populist.” And yes, speaking to the American people in plain common sense terms is a plus, not a negative. “Intellectual” is not a compliment in many circles, btw. Remember what George Orwell said, “some ideas are so absurd it takes a real intellectual to believe them.”
Liberals have often argued that they are the smartest and their constituents are the smarter members of society.
But, at every turn, on every issue, on every policy and decision they’ve ever made, the country took a turn for the worse. How smart are they, really?
It takes a republican congress and republican presidents to bring the country back from the brink. That’s where the intellectuals reside, in republican circles. Smart decision-makers are not part of the democratic party. And this Shogun lady proves how dumb they are.
As smart as I.
This woman is a weasel.
“I’ve got SAT, ACT, and ASVAB scores that indicate she’s probably not as smart as me.”
I have on multiple occasions scoered in the top 10% on intelligence scores. I doubt the Biden nominee comes even close to that.
But I know where her “anti-intellectual” myth comes from.
1. Some group of “intellectuals” (or “scientists”) present some jointly held point of view theirs, a point of view the Biden nominee would readily agree with, and some GOP leader/politician disagrees with. Instead of admitting there is nothing called consensus among intellectuals or scientists as a whole, the stupid Biden nominee irrationally takes one intellectual or scientific point of view as the only possible “right” one. Her very way of thinking about “intellectuals” or science is demonstrably driven by her own bias.
2. Over the past four decades, the class of folks you could call “intellectuals” as well as the work product of many “sicentists” has become extremely politicized and greatly diminished in intellectual integrity. It is the classes of “intellectuals” and scientists that have diminished much public respect for their opinions, by the increasingly more frequent shoddiness and political bias in what they produce. The GOP rejection is not a rejection of “intellectuals” or scientists, it is a rejection of what political bias has produced in both classses of people.
“The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than “newness”) and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).”
― William F. Buckley
Hawley is pretty darn sharp, (and relentless).
I’d hate to be a leftist liar being questioned by him.
No it is me not I.
Looks like Chelsea.
You sou nd PSTUPID.
Every Democrat politician and voter is a mealy mouthed punk who needs a crowd of like minded punks around them to make a point.
Her testimony was written and rehearsed to make her legal writings sound innocent. Afterward I imagine she told her friends "I couldn't say in public what I think about those @#$%& Republicans!"
So basically, the Senate will confirm her 99-1
“As smart as I.”
No, it’s “Smart as me.”
I did get a 750/800 on my SAT Verbals.
Still is called horse face and now a mule’s behind also. Coming or going she is ugly. As Orson Wells said on Johnny Carson one night when another guest called him fat he replied, Madam I will wake up tomorrow and still be fat and you will still be ugly.
Was she trying to explain Murkowsky, Romney, and Collins?
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