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Breslin to Host: You're Not Smart Enough to Debate Bush Bigot Charge
NewsMax ^ | 10/25/02 | Limbacher

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.


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1 posted on 10/25/2002 8:56:08 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Reading this just fills my heart with gladness since I left New York for good about 5 months ago.

Breslin is typical of the New York liberal mindset--utterly incapable of intellectual honesty and shocked that anyone would challenge them on it.

2 posted on 10/25/2002 8:59:06 AM PDT by cicero's_son
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This dip sh*t better get a CAT scan...Quick!

He's definitely in the advanced stages.

3 posted on 10/25/2002 8:59:17 AM PDT by evad
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
BRESLIN: You're not intellectually suited to have a conversation with me

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.

4 posted on 10/25/2002 9:00:01 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Breslin's right - the host isn't intellectually suited to have a conversation with him. For that the host would need a lobotomy and a fifth of Old Overcoat.
5 posted on 10/25/2002 9:00:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
BRESLIN: You're not intellectually suited to have a conversation with me. I'm sorry. Goodbye.

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.

6 posted on 10/25/2002 9:02:45 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Just another Democrat who almost had his foundational assumptions challenged. He didn't want the cobwebs in his head disturbed and flipped out. A dime a dozen.
7 posted on 10/25/2002 9:03:07 AM PDT by MitchellC
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
You're not intellectually suited to have a conversation with me.

The "Bon Mot" of the Left.

8 posted on 10/25/2002 9:03:55 AM PDT by elbucko
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
During the 1991 Crown Heights pogrom, when DEMOCRATIC Mayor David Dinkins told his cops to stand by, and DEMOCRATIC Governor Mario Cuomo not only refused to send out the Guard, but was caught on tape telling a Newsday reporter of Dinkins' deliberate aloof attitude, Breslin was himself yanked out of a Brooklyn cab and attacked by a gang of CoreDemocrats(tm) because he is white. Or so he said at the time.
9 posted on 10/25/2002 9:04:37 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Actually - I heard that radio show yesterday in the car, while waiting for my son to finish up with his music lesson.

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!!

10 posted on 10/25/2002 9:04:59 AM PDT by MasonGal
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Typical liberal. He can't argue the facts so he takes his "superiority" somewhere else because its clear that he is intellectually lazy and can't stand to have his idiotic ideas challenged. This kind of mindset is rampant through college campuses and liberal circles.
11 posted on 10/25/2002 9:06:51 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: NativeNewYorker
More likely he tripped on his way out of the bar. When people tried to help him up, he thought he was being mugged.
12 posted on 10/25/2002 9:07:44 AM PDT by CaptainK
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"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.

13 posted on 10/25/2002 9:10:41 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Breslin is a drunken fool who often writes fiction as fact.

Now he's apparently a senile drunken fool.

14 posted on 10/25/2002 9:10:51 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Shut up, he explained.
15 posted on 10/25/2002 9:14:56 AM PDT by coramdeo
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To: CaptainK
Breslin thinks it's 1962 and he's still waiting for JFK to get on a white horse and ride down Boradway.
16 posted on 10/25/2002 9:19:28 AM PDT by breakem
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To: MitchellC
Just another Democrat who almost had his foundational assumptions challenged.

I call it "cognitosclerosis," hardening of the thought processes. They get certain ideas into their heads and quite literally can't re-examine them.

17 posted on 10/25/2002 9:20:05 AM PDT by Doug Loss
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Uh-Oh! Breslin is back on the sauce again. BTW, wasn't there some scandal a few years back about Breslin cheating in the NY Marathon? If so, please refresh me on that.
19 posted on 10/25/2002 9:30:15 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: Hobey Baker
Perhaps Mr Breslin would like to hear comments from Freepers about his latest trash column. I have already sent a few choice words. Send to: Jimmy.Breslin@newsday.com
20 posted on 10/25/2002 9:32:23 AM PDT by Mercurial Mike
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