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 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.
unfortunately if the author of this piece were honest with himself, he could have used your horrible title as his own, probably with impunity in his own SMALL mind.
free-gards
After all, those are the author's own words.
Exactly. Then we have the aforementioned Chomsky, high-priest of the extremist left in his tower in MIT operating under the fevered delusion that the U.S. of the past 50+ years has been an extension of the Nazi regime.
Total bullsh#@. Look at the Clinton Haters, many of them were intellectual nerd types.
When people called the Clintons "trailer trash," they sure as heck weren't engaged in anti-intellectualism!
I agree. The best way to make them go away is to stop talking about them. They are a non-issue and not newsworthy.
I move for a Bill and Hillary posting moratorium. Does anyone second the motion?
I'm still waiting for someone "smart" so I can start "hating". Just because they claim to be smart doesn't make it so.
No you don't. You took the words right out of my mouth.
Maybe they just don't like elitist, arrogant bitches.
Fact is, those good men and women SEE THRU the elitism of the pathetic klintons, and know like we know, that the clintons aren't smart, aren't even decent, they are what they are, frauds and manipulators.
How the press and the elites HATE it when the populace refuses to buy into their sick hype. Hillary klinton isn't smart....she proves it nearly every day. And she sure isn't kind, she allowed people to SPIT on officers without saying anything, she trashed billy dale among others, she allowed a security guard to be HIT by a VAN in which she was riding, in a hurry to get to a fund raiser, and GET THIS:
DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO GET OUT OF HER VAN AND SEE IF THE WOUNDED SECURITY GUARD NEEDED HELP! It doesn't get any sicker than that....and these good people know it.
Real intelligence is something the klinton's will never own, because they lack the compassion which moderates and enhances root knowledge. They only know how to divide and initiate class warfare-which is what the author of this article, an author who apparently buys into the klintons 'being so smart' krappolla, is trying to immulate without even knowing it-I bet.
Not many, and I'm not among them. As a matter of fact, I think there should be a special clinton posting category to save me the trouble of hunting around for rapist/co-rapist news. I hate those filthy, traitorous liars, and can't get enough news about their continuing hypocritical endeavors. It will keep me on guard against the next clintons that come along.
Try "pastime" .
I USED TO LOVE FREEREPUBLIC
but now for some reason every other article IS A CROCK LIKE THIS hillery and x42 are old decrepit news why even bother with them
I STILL LOVE FREEREPUBLIC but LESS ... im tired of the same old liberal spew and if youve noticed its getting posted more and more
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