You mean this guy?
Posted on 08/23/2006 4:46:58 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
I don't think that anyone who went to Yale for his undergraduate work and then did an MBA at Harvard's B-school is stupid. But as the article observes, Molly Ivins is, for once, correct.
My brother is like this. Very bright man, went to engineering school but is also quite cultured, well-travelled, and well-read, knowledgeable about art, classical music, architecture, and history. Quite an astute person. But he trips over his own tongue and people don't initially realize how very intelligent he is.
It's like the commercial says: "People judge you by the words you use." They also judge you by your accent. And in much of the US, particularly in the Northeast, if you have a Southern or Texas accent and speak a little slower than people do in New York, there is a belief that slower speech = slower thinking. So when the president speaks with a Texas accent and stumbles over the Washingtonese language provided by his speechwriters, the intelligentsia takes him for a fool and then writes articles about how stupid he is. Then the rest of America interprets his malapropisms as evidence of stupidity.
Scarborough is an idiot!! He is Un-WATCHABLE.
My wife, who formerly worked for Dale Carnegie Training is the same way - despite 12 years of training. In front of a group, she is "almost horrible" - and scared to death. Now, put her one-on-one or in a small group and she is incredible.
I, on the other hand, am the opposite. Put me on a podium in front of a large group and I am funny, informative, and totally comfortable. Make me meet somebody and talk to them one-on-one....I seize up. Hate it.
It's just personality.
Saw about 30 seconds of the re run last night and there he was making that dreadful comment.
There is nothing on MSNBC that even comes close to be worthy of my time.
You mean this guy?
Two of the smartest guys I ever knew spoke like that. SSG Lynch sounded like Goober, Gomer's relative, and was the slickest wheeler dealer I ever saw. He made Phil Silvers Sgt Bilbo character look like an amateur.
He'd leave in the morning with a jeep full of trash, like half empty paint cans and ratty moth-eaten blankets and come back with all kinds of goodies for the platoon. Even got us a TOW missile at Graf one year so the platoon could qualify.
Other fellow was a Texan with one of those high nasal voices. When he was working in a market in Boston while doing to an electronics course the locals would, he said, automatically deduct 30 points from his IQ when he opened his mouth.
Yeah, but the lefties continually say that Bush only graduated because of his famous family. Oddly enough, that issue never comes up when its a Kennedy kid in question.
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