[hershey]

Great post! Here! Here!

[ca centered]

There is still some free speech in the United States. Even the left and anti war protesters have their right to complain. Not sure what the point of this article was.

[Popocatapetl]

I would disagree only by noting that the “intellectuals” of the 1960s were often called “pseudo-intellectuals” because they were just as ignorant, knee-jerk, arrogant, and impervious to reason as the bunch walking around today.

In many cases, the “pseudo-intellectuals” were self-appointed, self-educated (though often attending Ivy League schools), but most often self-proclaimed. This masked their collectivist neurosis and strong feelings of insecurity and inferiority.

Spoiled and raised with the expectation of elitism, their upbringing was a guaranteed disaster—it was impossible for them to ever reach the heights they were continually told was their destiny. And so, terribly disappointed, their personal failures, as could be expected, turned to burning hatred of anyone and everyone they *knew* had conspired to keep them down.

On the plus side, at least today they bathe frequently. Back then, personal filth and stench were an article of faith, and bathing was seen as a failure of character.

[MNJohnnie]

MM is obvious an idiot. His responses are all trite slogans manufactured by the DNC Noise machine without even the slightest base in fact.

Goebbels would be really proud of the modern DNC, they have perfected his tactic of simply keep screaming a lie until it becomes "truth". Of course the habit of the "Conservatives" of simply repeating the DNC propaganda statements instead of ever challenging them makes their job really easy.

[LantzALot]

... Wolf Blitzer, who in turn has been channeling Walter Cronkite.

There is a difference between Blitzer and Kronkite. I can't help but respect Kronkite for his ability to keep his politics to himself until after he retired his position of influence on public opinion.

[LantzALot]

the critics of the Vietnam War-- ... non-experts who freely bandied terms like “war criminals” and “mass murderers.”

... while “intellectuals,” united by ideology, were overwhelmingly critical of their government’s foreign policy, the common people were supportive.

This is where & when Sir LantzALot came to realize that "intellectual" had nothing to do with "intellect." Sloganism was supposed to be the milieu of stodgy old conservatives who never gave a new idea a chance. "Common people" were sheep, led around by slogans. Truth was supposed to be the pursuit of intellectuals, even if truth contradicted cherished beliefs. We used to scorn the "My country, right or wrong" idea to try to admit when our country might be wrong. But then the torch was picked up by those who morphed it into "My country, always wrong," and it became time to exit.