Posted on 10/25/2002 8:56:08 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Famed New York City columnist Jimmy Breslin abruptly ended a radio interview yesterday about a piece he wrote criticizing President Bush as a bigot based on his handling of the sniper crisis, telling the host, "You're not intellectually suited to have a conversation with me. I'm sorry. Goodbye."
In a column placed prominently on page 2 of Newsday's Thursday edition, the writer who rose to fame covering New York's "Son-of-Sam" serial murder case said the president wasn't paying much attention to the sniper crisis because he hates the minorities who live in places like Washington, D.C. and New York.
"He and his people hate New York," Breslin contended in the column, complaining that the administration "blew the attack" on the World Trade Center because "any threats to New York weren't of such vital interest."
"New York is filled with blacks and Jews and all kinds of Hispanics and Asians who don't vote right," he wrote. "We don't bother with them during an election, then why stop everything and concentrate on some threat to the place?"
But the writer who prides himself on his working class image cited his own intellectual superiority before hanging up on WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, after Malzberg challenged him on the Bush bigotry charge.
MALZBERG: Kindly explain to me, based on what do you call our president a bigot?
BRESLIN: Oh, about New York City. They don't like New York City.
MALZBERG: But you implied that he had knowledge of 9/11...
BRESLIN: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What - are you coming on strong in his behalf on the fact of New York City? I reject your premise from the start. I never - where did it say bigoted in the story? I said he doesn't like New York. I said I think he hates it.
MALZBERG: Why? Why? You wrote that because New York is filled with blacks and Jews and all kinds of - that would make him a bigot, wouldn't it, Jimmy?
BRESLIN: OK, you want to do me a favor? I came on. I thought we were going to talk about something. I start with a two dollar attack from you and you don't know what you're talking about.
MALZBERG: Well, then explain it to me.
BRESLIN: You're not intellectually suited to have a conversation with me. I'm sorry. Goodbye.
Breslin is typical of the New York liberal mindset--utterly incapable of intellectual honesty and shocked that anyone would challenge them on it.
He's definitely in the advanced stages.
True. It wouldn't be a fair fight. Mazlberg is smart and analytical. Breslin is a dogmatic, moronic, left-wing hack. He can only demagogue an issue; he can't explain or debate it. Typical New York leftie.
There was a column a few days ago called The Dowd Rule that explained this tactic to a T:
Dowd, Franken, and Moore, taken together, represent the evolutionary spectrum of a new species of elitists. Elitism, to be sure, is as old as human society. But never in recorded history has a less cerebrally, morally, or spiritually elite Elite looked down their noses at the majority of their countrymen. The minimum requirement for membership in the intelligentsia used to be, well, intelligence. This is no longer the case. Rather, what is now required is the mere sense of your own superiority, the smirky confidence that flows from an undergraduate grasp of history, philosophy, and literature, and which can only be sustained by a maniacal deafness to counterarguments. Listening to your political opponents is deadly under such circumstances; they must therefore be dismissed, a priori, as stupid.
The "Bon Mot" of the Left.
I couldn't believe that Breslin. The thing is - I saw him with Aaron Brown on CNN the night before (I know, I know - why on EARTH was I watching that program--beats me - just flipping through the channels, I guess) - anyway - I thought Breslin was a jerk on Aaron Brown's show, too.
Unbelievable!!
"He and his people hate New York," Breslin contended in the column, complaining that the administration "blew the attack" on the World Trade Center because "any threats to New York weren't of such vital interest."And I suppose "Bush and his people" hate Washington, D.C., too, and that they "blew the attack" on the Pentagon because "any threats to D.C. weren't of such vital interest."
Breslin is just another wet-brain has-been.
Now he's apparently a senile drunken fool.
I call it "cognitosclerosis," hardening of the thought processes. They get certain ideas into their heads and quite literally can't re-examine them.
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