Posted on 10/23/2001 4:40:35 PM PDT by occam's chainsaw
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• Drudge reports Senator Clinton was booed at the 'Heroes for New York' concert. Our response: "Heroes" did not boo Senator Clinton. This may sound like sacrilege, but most of the cops and firemen in this town are not heroes. They are working stiffs looking for a secure job from which they can retire in 20 years.
The "heroes" mumbo-jumbo should have stopped before now, but lionizing such people seems to have gone beyond the super men who raced up the stairs in those buildings as everyone else ran down. The lauding has gone so far that it now encompasses the schmucks, turds and rejects who clutter up what are otherwise decent professions, until those who are undeserving start to believe they are somehow worthy of the glory, the praise, the attention. (It's also gone so far that a disproportionate amount of the money raised is earmarked for the families of the few hundred emergency personnel, to the disregard of the thousands of other victims and their families.)
Why would these people "boo" Senator Clinton? Not all did, by any report, but those who did are probably a part of the large number of the cops and firemen in this town are politically conservative, from undiverse neighborhoods, not educated much above high school, and as small-town as you can get and still be from New York City. They are, then, the very types who resent efforts made by forward-thinking, worldly politicians, which how Senator Clinton could be described.
People distrust her, and her husband; or rather, the Clintons tend to bring out anti-intellectualism. It's an ugly American past-time, hating the smart. It's everywhere, pervasive in all media, in the schools, in the workplaces, in the newspapers. The Clintons are big, fat targets, too good to resist by people who feel their anti-intellectual tendencies are supported and approved of by others. They feel authorized to criticize the wonks, the policy geeks, the professional bookworms. Unless you sound unassumingly dull, or like country hick, Americans tend to dislike you. If you know what you're talking about, and you're confident, people think you're lying. Hell, even if you're slightly above average—just smarter than 51 percent of the population—that 51 percent tends to distrust you. In much the same way, it's always the idiots and morons who are the biggest conspiracy freaks: they're so dumb they think smart people are just making everything up, too, and so they'll pay heed to the first intelligible lie that comes along.
This is a planted article, no doubt. Remember when Hillary said you could "tell the class of people by looking at their teeth?"
But if disliking the Clintons is a sign of anti-intellectualism, I'm glad we're dumb.
But I'm smart enough to see a fraud when I see/hear one.
Professor Putz Watsonfellow strikes again.
What a loser he and his fellow Girly-Boys are!
Always good for laugh before bedtime!
Love reading all the flames....
Let them read for themselves how the Liberal Elite Socialist think about Real Americans!
No, people think you're lying if you say things that are demonstrably untrue.
In a word, yes. So does she. Remember when Bill Clinton told some poor chump that the reason HE wouldn't give anybody a tax rebate was because "you might not spend it the right way?"
Remember when Bill Clinton told the poor secretary of the draft board in Arkansas that HE was too SPECIAL to be drafted and that HE personally would have her job?
NO, the clintons tend to bring out the gut-animal-survival instinct. There has never been a need to intellectualize any part of the clinton reign of terror. They lost the right to be analyzed on a normal, rational level. Because of their continued mistreatment of the 'common man' and their elitist dismissal of the values that shaped and guided this country, they became the poster couple for everything that is WRONG with our society. That does not take higher institutions of learning to realize. That takes common sense to understand. Words need not be wasted when common sense leads. I say that BOOOOOOO says volumes more than Doris Kearns Goodman has ever postulized.
I'm very amused by it all. These people coming here, not realizing that we have tons of the one thing that they NEVER have to back us up: INFORMATION AND ACTUAL FACTS.
It's sort of like bringing a knife to a gun fight.
We have to help make "Final Days" #1 !
CC
Ahem......... ALL your COPS, FIREMEN AND MILITARY ARE BELONG TO US.
This is the type of sociopathic mind that gives birth to fascism. He's just furious that he can't find any useless eaters to provide the muscle he needs to ram his utopia down our throats.
Thank God for the 2nd amendment.
Right on target, with Hitlery as the target.
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