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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.
and their constant posturing in front of any and all available cameras only reinforces that impression! For those of us outside New York, can any current resident give us a comparison of the appearance counts of Hillary and Chuck (Schumer)? From out here in the hinterlands / flyover country, she has had more appearances by far and that is my basis for considering her to be a camera hog.
Worldly and intelligent my butt!
If anti-Clinton threads so upsets you; do NOT read the threads about the Clintons. Now, isn't that easy ?
It's worse than that.
"My side is superior, your side is inferior"....very dangerous.
I'm sure they'd like nothing more than to see us all be marched off to a "holding facility" for "inferior people".
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.
I knew there must be a real reason why the cops and firemen didnt like Hillary..it is because they are politically conservative, from undiverse neighborhoods, not educated much above high school, and anti-intellectual
.Here I thought it was because she and Bill are self centered ,self absorbed,arrogent crooks..but then I speak only for my self
In a nutshell, pretty much -- think about how they criticized Reagan, Quayle, and Bush for allegedly being stupid. They've recycled the same stupid comments over and over.
Hmmmmm...I'm getting an idea....
That's only because, for some reason, people mistake the Clintons for intellectuals. If the Clintons were publicly known as philatelists, they would tend to bring out anti-philatelism.
How interesting. Bill Clinton said: "I didn't inhale," and "it depends on what 'is', is". I think almost every person could see the obvious con job. The mainstream media supports those and similar con jobs. It is dumb to elevate a repeat liar to "nobility", but that's what the lamestream media does. It's clear that the population at large is smarter than the status-quo-con-job parasites -- politicians, bureaucrats, lamestream news reporters and journalists. I repeat the marvelous piece/quote of intellect that Hillary gave us: "fu*king Jew bast*rd".
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