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 averagejust smarter than 51 percent of the populationthat 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.
Thanks for your comments. We are always interested in other points of view.
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Grant Barrett
gbarrett@worldnewyork.org
Editor, World New York
http://www.worldnewyork.org/
New York Loves You Back
It is sort of disappointing that he didn't actually respond in a substantive manner -- but it's important to know that our messages do get read. And that's something, really.
Grant Barrett is, by the way, a French & Romance Philology major at Columbia University. A school for the smart.
Yet another strike against the Ivy League and its common fruits....alas.
??? Who is Professor Watsonfellow ???
I don't agree with any of this crap.
I didn't write this crap!! I was just trying to expose this idiot!
This article pissed me off when I read it! I didn't post it because I agree with any of it, I wanted to expose this person because I know many of you are much better at responding to a$$holes like this than I am! I was hoping everyone here would flood this rag with the appropriate and deserving emails, letters, and phone calls. If you question my true political colors, I suggest you go search my past posts.
Would that be the people who believed it was a The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that made up all the Monica stuff and Bubba never got a BJ in the Oval Office?
As to the cops and firemen looking for "easy" government jobs, I wonder how much smoke this lefty punk has ever eaten, has he ever chopped a hole in an ice covered roof, or crawled on his belly through a dark, burning building looking for kids. Did he ever have to wrestle a 250 pound drunk with an attitude or pull over a car with tinted glass at 3 am.
Some Freeper predicted it the other day. The loony left will trash anyone --- I mean anyone --- who says anything against their idols, the Clintons. They are a sick bunch.
Evidently doing everything humanly possible to undermine your name?
How can you choose a title and not believe it?
You enjoy baiting people? Being cute? Acting like a jerk?
Lots of luck.
My god, but there are a lot of ANGRY Freepers around here. This article made me angry, too, but don't shoot the messenger. I DIDN'T WRITE THIS ARTICLE!
Isn't there enough in the world to get angry about without fighting amongst ourselves?
The author of this birdcage liener is complaining about anti-intellectualism, and spells " PASSTIME " , as " past-time "..."
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Uh oh.....sorry, I can't help myself here...(grin) You've misspelled your correction of the misspelling ( ha...!!!)....It's pastime. And you've misspelled liner.
Gad...I hope I've spelled everything correctly here...me being Kollege edukated 2.....
Best FReegards
Hmmmm....isn't that what every person looks for? I don't know about the author, but I would hate having to interrupt my life and change jobs every few years or so. I don't get the point the person is making with that statement.
It already is #1....I got mine from Amazon yesterday.
Thank God for the Heroes of NY!!
SMOKE DETECTOR -Why they booed Hillary
Source: NY Post;Published: 10-24-2001
perhaps so many people remember her actions on September 20, 2001
Schumer and Schemer ...
...aka Putz and Putz II
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