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.
I had my IQ tested as a teen... it measured just under 180. I don't prejudge anybody I don't know. I hate the xlintons because of what they are and what they have done. I think the two of them have commited more felonies than John Dillenger & John Gotti combined. I think x42 comitted treasonous acts while president. The idiot that wrote this article is a typical elitist, arrogant yuppie snob who doesn't care what the unwashed masses (working people) think about anything.
I'm 38 yrs old. I am hoping that I will outlive x42 because, if I do, I plan on traveling to wherever they plant that sorry piece of $hit and pissing on his grave. Anybody want to join me? Say 1 yr to the day after he becomes fertilizer we meet and salute him in the way that he deserves.
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-000081859oct14.story
"We are ... because of this, cycling through the process of grief much faster,' e-mailed Grant Barrett, creator of http://worldnewyork.org and a student at Columbia University. On a few blogs, readers rant and joke and opine every day as a 'form of keeping your own record. I find my memory of the 1993 [World Trade Center] tower bombing is clouded by the endless news coverage that came after... I hope that it won't be so with these events. I want to remember for myself, and I think that's what others are trying to do. They are resisting handing off the control of the record keeping—the photos, the stories, even of conventional wisdom and the undercurrent of opinion—to others."
Email always welcome,
Grant Barrett
mail@worldnewyork.org
Editor
World New York
Hmmmm. Boy, that's a rather odd disclosure.How does "booing" Hillary lead to "conspiracy freaks"? Freudian slip here, perhaps? Listen, Julius Caesar, King Louis XVI, and Tsar Nicholas are on the twilight hotline. Apparently they want the genius-level socialists and totalitarian liberals to know that they killed themselves! No conspiracies after all. What moron wrote that piece? Hillary Clinton HERSELF presented the VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY theory on American television!!!
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Another good point. Some of you will remember a rambunctious character by the name of Gary Hart. Sen. Hart was always babbling and moaning with wild-eyed gaze about "new ideas" as if their very newness was what made them true. If you had asked any conventional U.S. Democrat at that time (the 1980s)what they were struggling forwards to, I doubt anyone would have spelled out the scenario of the actual 8 years of the Clinton reign. Had Gary Hart won the presidency presumably his ideas would now be old and, therefore, false and would need to be changed. This is a well-known fallacy and is very common in the thinking and discourse of so-called liberals. The deeper you probe, the fuzzier it gets.
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