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The hipster war on you: How liberals use cool as a weapon
New York Post ^ | March 22, 2014 | Kyle Smith

Posted on 03/22/2014 3:45:43 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist

Why are good things seen as bad, and why are bad things seen as good? Greg Gutfeld poses the question and supplies an answer in “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War On You” (Crown Forum).

Gutfeld paints a picture of a coolocracy in which the world is run by star-bellied Sneetches who tell us what’s hip and we obediently keep running in and out of the belly-star-making gizmo.

Icons of cool like Robert Redford, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse James and Yoko Ono get shredded in the book, which is as breezy, enlightening and funny as Gutfeld’s two TV shows, “The Five” and “Red Eye.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; greggutfeld; gutfeld; hipster; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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Gutfeld is insightful. Obama's success somewhat explained.
1 posted on 03/22/2014 3:45:43 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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To: BlueStateRightist

Gutfeld is funny.


2 posted on 03/22/2014 4:02:25 PM PDT by EEGator
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He’s got some good analysis here. And even if you think back to high school, the cool people weren’t necessarily the smart people. In fact, there’s more often than not an inverse correlation. And anyone can tell most of these cool pop culture icons are dumb as fenceposts.


3 posted on 03/22/2014 4:04:08 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bigbob

Another variation on “the radical chic”.


4 posted on 03/22/2014 4:08:38 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: BlueStateRightist

Hipsters are not “cool”. Pathetic is the word he should have used.


5 posted on 03/22/2014 4:09:40 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: BlueStateRightist

We are drowning ourselves with liberal pop culture, now put on steroids with the advent of the internet. It’s slow poison driving this country to the grave as we suck up this crap and let it anesthetize us into complete social and moral anarchy.


6 posted on 03/22/2014 4:09:58 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Personalization is a weapon. It’s easy to defeat if you understand it.


7 posted on 03/22/2014 4:10:38 PM PDT by Vision (Living in beauty)
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Rebelliousness is often seen as cool; stupidity, ignorance and incompetence not so much.
8 posted on 03/22/2014 4:12:26 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks BlueStateRightist.

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9 posted on 03/22/2014 4:21:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The only reason that liberals get away with using “cool” as a weapon is the following imo. As a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, patriots don’t know how to argue specific constitutional clauses when corrupt federal politicians make promises based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers.


10 posted on 03/22/2014 4:26:02 PM PDT by Amendment10
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That’s why as crude as it is, I love South Park and Team America...it totally shreds the notions that liberals are “cool.”


11 posted on 03/22/2014 4:28:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Robert Redford was once cool, maybe Jesse James, too. But neither has been cool in a long time. Zuckerberg was never cool, and Yoko Ono is the anti-cool. She is so un-cool she destroyed John Lennon’s coolness.


12 posted on 03/22/2014 4:32:49 PM PDT by GrootheWanderer
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Absolutely right. Who else is willing to show how ridiculous people who happen to have the talent to act in movies are when they try to act like they’re experts in field they can scarcely pronounce the names of?


13 posted on 03/22/2014 4:33:39 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: GrootheWanderer

Chapman’s only mistake was not shooting Yoko when he had the chance.


14 posted on 03/22/2014 4:35:27 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BlueStateRightist

There is nothing “cool” about Yoko Ono..


15 posted on 03/22/2014 4:54:10 PM PDT by cardinal4
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To: BlueStateRightist

16 posted on 03/22/2014 5:04:50 PM PDT by Gamecock
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There is nothing to add.

That summerizes it completely.

17 posted on 03/22/2014 7:49:52 PM PDT by sjmjax (Politicans are much like bananas. They start off green, turn yellow then rot.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

You’re right - he’s insightful...


18 posted on 03/22/2014 7:57:00 PM PDT by GOPJ (NASA: N othing A bout S pace A nymore - - FreperClearCase_guy)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

The Devil was rebellious and look where him and his followers are right now. Lucifer was looked at as cool.


19 posted on 03/22/2014 8:50:17 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: EEGator

Evolution of Hipsters
http://tinyurl.com/qh5vtfd

Hipster looks
http://headsink.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/hipster.jpg
http://thoughtsgalore7.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hipster-2.jpg

Future politicians
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/005/565/hipster.jpg


20 posted on 03/22/2014 9:03:44 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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