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Posted on 05/11/2005 3:55:44 AM PDT by The Great Yazoo
I can never figure out if Walter E. Williams is the smartest man in the world or if it's Thomas Sowell, but I'm pretty convinced it's one of the two. I particularly enjoy Williams' columns, and he is my favorite of Rush fill-ins.
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Bump for a good read.
He's the only EIB guest host that I can listen to AT ALL.
One attraction of his Rush fill-ins is that Thomas Sowell often appears.
Thomas Sowell is America's greatest living intellectual, but Walter Williams is a more accessible journalist.
If you're making a list, it better include those two gentlemen.
Good read.
It is sure that they are smart, educated folk, but to say they may be the smartest is probably just racial pandering.
They are consistently willing to state the obvious, and that is why most of us love them. That they are black, is why they are celebrated, by us conservatives, in the light of JJ, Rev Al, etal...
I have my own pick for smartest, but he probably isn't... he just acts like it!
I can truly say that I love to hear and read comments made by Walter E. Williams. His common sense and logic hits the nail right on the head every time and does so with so very few words.
Sure is a marked contrast to Michael Eric Dyson (who has a new book out trashing Cosby's comments).
Dyson is slated to do a book interview on C-SPAM2 Sunday at 9 pm.
I see. Noted.
Explain to me how this is racial pandering. It might be exaggeration for effect - maybe - but their race has nothing to do with it. My opinion is that as economists writing about public policy they have no peers - particularly Sowell in the arena of education. You're certainly free to disagree with me, but that's just an absurd accusation.
If we're using "smartest" as a shorthand term to praise a person's intellectual output, Thomas Sowell would have to be included irrespective of his race. I don't find Mr. Williams' work to be comparably original and deep, although he is certainly a solid economist and a clever writer and speaker.
Milton Friedman is often compared to Thomas Sowell, which makes sense, since he is Dr. Sowell's intellectual mentor. Judge Robert Bork is also a great and productive mind. Others could be named (but I need more coffee).
You're predicament is not half as bad as Hillary's when she discovered that not only is she not the smartest woman in the world... but that the smartest woman in the world is closer to the WhiteHouse and to being president than Hillary is.
My wife isn't running for president.
LOL! It's amazing, really, how many people who consider themselves intelligent, and who have (if nothing else) many years of higher education, are still unable to assimilate the dazzlingly obvious facts presented in Mr. Williams' column.
Black by popular demand ping.
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