Cops Who Booed Hillary Are Uneducated Who Hate The Smart (My title)

World New York ^ | Tuesday, October 23, 2001

[occam's chainsaw]

Tidbits

• 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.

[occam's chainsaw]

My title - definately NOT my opinion!

[bond7]

This should have been posted with a giant Barf Alert. It's been a long time since I have read a crock like this.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Hillary Booing Video
Click the link above OR cut and paste the url in Windows Media Player

http://win.playstream.com/jcmonogram/GOPportal/hillaryboo_wmv_56k.wmv

On this clip you can see some of the faces in the crowd at the end,
the faces the TV news media "forgot" to show you.

[reflecting]

in other words "my side is smart...your side is dumb"....very junior high....

[Double Tap]

Good thing you put that disclaimer under the article.

[FreeYourMind]

Is there anyone else who is tired of every other article on this board being about Hillary and/or Bill Clinton? Honestly, there is more coverage of those two here than anywhere else on the internet, I think.

[Ed_in_LA]

Which candidate did most of the police and firefighters unions endorse last year -- Clinton or Lazio, Bush or Gore?

[spectre]

There was one thing I have to agree with the author on.."The Clinton's are BIG, FAT, targets"..

Yes, they are.

sw

[packrat35]

Where is the BARF alert? Good God, I thought I had seen everything. The Clintons and their cohorts are stupid enough to attack the fireman and police at this time.

[backhoe]

Boo Hillary! The Video***

[moodymare]

I read this article earlier. A link was posted on another thread. I could NOT believe my eyes. Leave it to the liberals to smear NY's finest & bravest.

[steenkeenbadges]

I thought they didn't approve of "hate speech". This is one long diatribe of hate. Badly worded, peurile and gaseous, but hateful for sure.

[billhilly]

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......Wow! How about the two parasites with the last name of Clinton who have supped at the public trough all of their adult lives? Are those two possibly "rejects who clutter up what are otherwise decent professions?"

[Diogenesis]

[backhoe]

Lest America ever forget why The Nameless One, W(B)-97, and all their enablers should be hectored, hounded, and harried into silence, until "clintonese is only spoken in Hell," look here:

-"until clintonese is spoken only in Hell!"--

[McGavin999]

Pretty stupid article to be writing while we're in the middle of the first war on our homeland. If this idiot thinks the WTC is the only terrorist activity they're going to see, they're very much mistaken. The vast majority of people are smart enough to understand that, and are smart enough to know that their very life depends on these "Uneducated Turds Who Hate The Smart".

I guess being smart depends.........

[wildwood]

tired? i'm offended by the title, even if it's meant to be satirical. it's not funny or entertaining.

[hole_n_one]

This reeks of watsonfellow

[RightOnline]

ROFL........................shoulda posted this under "Political Humor".

Damn..................my sides just hurt..............stop it...........yer killin' me here................:)