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.
Seasonal Barf Alert!
(sorry, couldnt resist)
Regards.
No comment made about Americans who are smarter than
the Arkansas hillbillies who hate them.
2. I dare this guy to read his column out loud from the 80th floor of a burning building from which he expects to be rescued by Hilary Clinton.
3. I dare this guy to read his column out loud as he sails 80 storeys through the air to escape the burning building he just jumped out of.
4. I'll forgive him if he lands on The Pantsuit.
I've Master's degree, and I'd boooooooo both Clintons , given the chance.
That, plus the before line - "mostly uneducated, undiverse, yada, yada, yada"
Can one sense the pious mock empathy of the writer? Reaching out to the unwashed masses. Of course they would boo Hillary the Queen because they are so ignorant, steeped in their own biases. They just don't know any better, the poor dears.
Of course, underlaying this false empathy is the vicious hatred harbored by the writer. He tries to use cynicism, sarcasm and labors hard to appear wry. Instead, he is a vicious fascist underneath who truly despises the working class that he is supposed to champion.
Notice how he says, "the forward thinkers", because, to him, all communists/socialists are "forward thinkers". This, of course, is why they define themselves as "progressives".
Yet, they truly aren't. Since they deem themselves so much smarter and worldlier than the rest of us, and since they deem us incapable of living our own lives productively, we should just give up and let the more intelligent, the more progressive rule.
It's fascism, covered up.
Yep I are dum an I dunt like them smartGuys nun
I apologize to all of you for not flagging it with a "barf Alert". If you are looking for something funny or entertaining, try the Political Cartoons/Humor threads.
Well that's strange most of the studies show that conservatives are more educated and wealthier than liberals. That's of course excluding the liberal academia, who would be more educated but unable to acquire wealth.
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.
The author has got to be one of the biggest conspiracy freaks I've read in a long time. Is he talking about the majority of the people who believed The Toon's and Hitlery's lies that came along daily for eight years?
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