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Cops Who Booed Hillary Are Uneducated Who Hate The Smart (My title)
World New York ^ | Tuesday, October 23, 2001

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.


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KEYWORDS: 2001; booed; hillary; leo
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To: KLT; occam's chainsaw
GIANT BARF ALERT.

You see, we Freepers have very delicate constitutions and we require notification something like this:

We also like to maintain relatively clean keyboards.....

161 posted on 10/24/2001 10:11:18 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: b4its2late
We also like to maintain relatively clean keyboards.....

Oh yes, don't want a sticky keyboard, do we? ROLOL

163 posted on 10/24/2001 10:22:56 AM PDT by KLT
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To: b4its2late
My apologies to ALL!

I may never live this down...(sigh)

164 posted on 10/24/2001 10:27:58 AM PDT by occam's chainsaw
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To: Crusty_Pant_Suit
Found that on FR. Great isn't it!
166 posted on 10/24/2001 10:42:07 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: occam's chainsaw
I may never live this down...(sigh)

This too shall pass..... I get over it quick.

167 posted on 10/24/2001 10:44:27 AM PDT by b4its2late
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To: occam's chainsaw
The term "uneducated" has lost all meaning in contemporary, postmodern American culture. When people who vote for the likes of Slick Willie and Hillary are considered "educated," judge the source. Very few people receive anything close to a coherent education in the classical sense anymore. Hillary's flirtations with totalitarian ideology ought to raise red flags bright enough for intelligent people to see. She is an emotionally dysfunctional vulgarian on a power trip wrestling with a lot of issues as Jean Houston and, ahem, Eleanor Roosevelt both know. The cops and firemen in NYC are not the only people who find her charlatanism odious.

It is wildly absurd in the extreme when glib, smarmy Leftists who annoint themselves as the elite of civilization start drawing class barriers. As a self-satirizing neo-puritan on a quest for levelling Western culture, Hillary is hardly in a position to look down her nose at anyone. Name one American "liberal" [read:socialist] who is "educated" and a casual safari tour between their ears will point out enough howlers, absurd mistakes, radical detours from common sense, factual nullifications, historical travesties, metaphysical fantasies, ontological bifurcations, fuzzy-wuzzy psychobabble-isms, reductionist social-science lunacies, sophomoric sophistries, mock theoretical pantomimes, conceptual snipe hunts, and outright falsehoods in their twisted muddy minds to fill a set of musty, aging Britannicas in Woody Allen's attic.

168 posted on 10/24/2001 11:25:15 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: sport
Some people just don't get it.

Fine. Hillary is a stupid, nazi, criminal, satanic, evil, greedy, self-righteous, hideous, fat, ugly, lesbian, ignorant, elitist, crazed, flatulent, money-grubbing whore.

That being said, can you guys maybe stop obsessing about the Clintons long enough so that we can actually discuss issues that are interesting?
169 posted on 10/24/2001 11:28:59 AM PDT by FreeYourMind
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
(sarcasm)So, what you're saying then, is that liberals aren't very smart, right?(/sarcasm off)

Very well put! Thanks for the post.

170 posted on 10/24/2001 11:42:15 AM PDT by occam's chainsaw
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To: occam's chainsaw
"They" (and, keep in mind, they are actually not very "liberal" in the classical sense at all) make a lot of very silly mistakes. They are also contradictory at times. You will notice that self-styled progressive liberals seem at times to believe that everything is always progressing, always getting better as science, technology, social engineering and propaganda help to move us away from religion and traditional morality. On the other hand, at times they also pay lip service to gloom-&-doom paradigms. Environmentalist eschatology, for instance, which blends with Malthusian pessimism of the most extreme kind. They can't make up their minds which way the arc of history and civilization is going.

And let's be frank here, they're making it up as they go along. They're making up the jargon, the conceptual categories, and the paradigmatic posturings as necessity (in their quest for power) dictates. These are by no means the brightest people on the planet. A facility with manipulating linguistic and quantitative variables and symbols does not necessarily mean the manipulator is in touch with reality. Or truth.

Another example. Religion and moralizing are supposed to be bad in liberal mythology, except when Richard Gere happens to be the preacher on love and compassion. Think about it. Playing the "class" card on the working-class cops and firemen of NYC is hardly enlightened, liberal, tolerant, or any of the other fine transcendental qualities which form the text of routine "liberal" incantations.

The notion that Hillary, a woman who married Bill Clinton, is some sort of super-sophisticated guru of wonk enlightenment is, even by "liberal" standards, pushing the plausibility threshold just a tad.

171 posted on 10/24/2001 12:08:26 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
Amen! I absolutely agree.
172 posted on 10/24/2001 12:21:40 PM PDT by occam's chainsaw
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To: culpeper
I'd like to see Hitlery take a shot at some calculus.

You and me both! It blew my mind last year when drop-out, flunk-out *l G*r* was supposed to be the intellectual candidate. About eight years ago I started asking "Can you imagine B*ll Cl*nt*n or *l G*r* at Control Data Institute ? Ever try BS-ing a computer?"

173 posted on 10/24/2001 12:49:24 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
You are being very unkind to the 'vanguard' progressives who dwell amongst us.

I mean, they're entitled to rule, aren't they???

Otherwise, they're totally useless, n'est-ce-pas??

In socialist cannibal kingdoms, Hillary and her ilk are 'eaters'. Now that's REAL status!

174 posted on 10/24/2001 12:50:48 PM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: occam's chainsaw
I would expand with a safari field guide on lib/left contradictions, but it would take too much time.

Just contemplate, for a moment, "liberal" elitism...
Most liberals and socialists in the U.S. are supposedly dedicated to some variation of egalitarianism, equality, etc. Ahem, EQUALITY, just for the record. In fact, they cultivate the levelling principle and mass vulgarization in culture in general. But then, they turn around and claim they are on some higher cognitive pedestal. Michael Kinsley is a classic example. But let's also look at the Richard Gere, Barbara Streisand, and Steven Spielberg types. There is nothing stopping them from sharing their wealth evenly with these "uneducated" working-class types they supposedly seek to help. Socialism in the USA is a highly weird cultural phenomenon. Its proponents contradict themselves on many levels in both their propositional discourse and their actions.

But if they want to complain in shrill tones about uneducated morons, they need look no further than the chicaneries which grew out of their own ultra-Deweyite Columbia Teachers College, the Grand-Poobah of educational sophistry in 20th-century social engineering. Which eggheads have egg on their face now? Their suggestions, that we need more funding and more taxes for moronizing education, are examples of absurd discourse in contemporary American "liberalism" [read:socialism]. SARCASM, IRONY, SATIRE, RIDICULE.

For any liberal or socialist, polymorphous or not, to target working-class Americans for rhetorical abuse specifically with reference to educational deficiencies is, one would naturally gather, an exercise in self-contradiction and self-condemnation. Absurd discourse. An imputation in misadventurous circumlocution. Not sure I have actually read enough Lewis Carroll to do justice to this. He's a Dead White Western Male anyway, right?

175 posted on 10/24/2001 12:54:56 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Bump for later
176 posted on 10/24/2001 1:06:19 PM PDT by Argh
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To: occam's chainsaw
. . . the Clintons tend to bring out anti-intellectualism. It's an ugly American past-time, hating the smart. . . . to criticize the wonks, the policy geeks, the professional bookworms.

I am smart. I am an intellectual. I am a professional bookworm. I am more educated than both the Clintons put together.

And I hate the Clintons.

The same could be said of many of us FReepers: highly educated, constitutionally and socially conservative Clinton-haters.

The problem isn't the Clintons' brains. It's their lack of character.

177 posted on 10/24/2001 1:09:03 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: occam's chainsaw
Neither of the Clinton's are any smarter than Al Capone. Al was just unlucky enough to live in a time when most voters had moral values and principles.
178 posted on 10/24/2001 1:10:46 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: FreeYourMind
That being said, can you guys maybe stop obsessing about the Clintons long enough so that we can actually discuss issues that are interesting?

Some of think the Clintons need to be treated with scorn and derision as long as they live.

179 posted on 10/24/2001 1:13:35 PM PDT by saminfl
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To: occam's chainsaw
What Witch Hillary and her spin artist do not understand is these Brave guys are smart enough to know Witch Hillary is a land Scam artist and the biggest raider of tax payers money for her own benefit in the history of USA.
180 posted on 10/24/2001 1:28:09 PM PDT by Texbob
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