Posted on 12/23/2009 9:17:17 PM PST by Brugmansian
. . . Desiccated expertise, of the kind possessed by economists, environmental scientists, and overinformed reporters from the lamestream media, clouds good judgment; Palin's life, by contrast, is presented as one of passion, sincerity, and principle. Going Rogue, in other words, is a four-hundred-page paean to virtuous ignorance . . .
Her sarcophagous appetite for flesh and slaughter goes hand in hand with her scorn for vegetarians—more, it seems, because of their presumed social class and education than because of the food on their plates . . .
Palin showed her form in her first big race, in 1996, when she challenged the three-term incumbent mayor of the town, John Stein, who seems not to have known what hit him . . . In Going Rogue, Stein is described as "relatively new to the community." "He wasn't a born-here, raised-here, gonna-be-buried-here type of hometown guy." Those darned wandering Jews . . .
Most people I know, myself included, can't readily follow the algebraic equations that explain the "Keynesian multiplier," which, in its turn, is needed to explain TARP and the stimulus package. Belonging to a tribe different from Palin's, I simply take it on trust as a matter of faith that Paul Krugman, in his columns for The New York Times, is more likely to be right about such things . . .
For Palin, it's simple. The national economy is a straightforward macrocosm of the domestic economy of the average god-fearing family of four. What's good for the family is good for the nation, and vice versa; and the idea that the family should spend its way out of recession is an affront to common sense, conservative or otherwise . . .
Awesome. I googled the quote and discovered the full version:
"A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals."
What a great quote. It's relevant not only to this thread but to today's pseudo-intellectuals in general. Timeless.
It doesn't matter where you live, journalism for the most part is officially dead. How many copies of Nancy Pelosi's book did they read?
Best Amazon.com review of Nancy Pelosi's book so far
Snip: The democrat matron of global warming hysteria is doing her part to destroy the planet by writing an unnecessary book – to be made out of paper and ultimately tossed in a landfill?
Amazon.com reviewer Chaz Smith posts a review of Nancy the Navigator Pelosi’s new book, “Know Your Power,” currently ranked #450 despite a ton of fawning press coverage
Yeah, does he look like the kind we'd be persuaded by? Ol libtard fartmaster!
Now he's just another nose-in-the-air Seattle type.
Given his record in marriages maybe he's just jealous of a woman happily married.
I think he’s envious of Sarah’s new scarf and boots.
Yeah, but are they SMARTER than a 2nd grader? ;)
HeHe, thats what happens when I type too fast LOL
and get this....the “dude” admits in his by-line that he lives with his daughter in “merry” ol’ Seattle! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
I think his fascination with Obama and his distain for Sarah is gaydar.
That is absolutely true, and one of the most insightful things I have read in quite a long while.
-ccm
And his pink hat and pink shirt at post #16.
ROFL. Well, matt1234, that *did* give me my first clue...lol.
And to think that he did it all without ever having to leave his mother’s basement!
Karma is about cause and effect. What he just described is pure superstition. Rabbit's foot and four leaf clover stuff. Raban is even an idiot when he tries to describe things in eastern poetics.
Seattle sophisticate. FAIL!
“Commonsense Conservatism hinges on the not-so-tacit assumption that the average, hardworking churchgoer, like the ladies at the booth, equipped with the fundamental, God-given ability to distinguish right from wrong, is in a better position to judge, on “principle,” the merits of an economic policy or the deployment of American troops abroad than “the ‘experts’”—a term here unfailingly placed between derisive quotation marks. Desiccated expertise, of the kind possessed by economists, environmental scientists, and overinformed reporters from the lamestream media, clouds good judgment; Palin’s life, by contrast, is presented as one of passion, sincerity, and principle. Going Rogue, in other words, is a four-hundred-page paean to virtuous ignorance.”
Well, seeing how congress has managed things so well for the past decade, maybe a little virtuous ignorance is worth a try. We couldn’t do any worse. As Bill Buckley said, he would rather be governed by the first 535 names in the Boston phone book than by congress.
Of course, the humor in the above only comes about because the elite class only fancy themselves better at fixing econmies than average people. That class shares the near religious belief that no problem is so big it cannot be solved with lots of money and if they grant lots of power to some agency or the other. The author, being a member of that class, is quite certain that anyone who does not share that belief in this regard and others is “ignorant.”
In the real world, we regard his belief system as “tried and failed, over and over.” PhD’s notwithstanding, the stuff they do doesn’t work. Look at the mess they have created for our kids and grandkids.
These same people regarded Reagan as an “amiable dunce.”
“Sarcophagus appetite? What the heck does that mean? “
It means his friends shouldn’t encourage his use of a Thesarus. If they find one in his house, they should quietly and kindly remove it.
When all else fails, call them a racist.
My goodness, that snippet you posted just drips with faggotism.
Those NY Review of Books types REALLY hate her. She is revealing them for the irrelvant, elitists that they are.
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