"Over-Educated"?!
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filkertomSo Sam Stein has an article about Obama's polling, which is also at Yahoo News so a good hunk of internet can see it. And the headline is:
But let's start: Fuck you.
The implication, of course, is that you can Know Too Much (and not in the spy-movie sense), that you can be too smart, that you somehow lose the Common Touch if you're too dang edjamacated, sniffin' lattes up in your ivory tower and lookin' down upon the poor common workin' man.
Fuck you fuck you.
It's all the same old song: the incessant propaganda, the new conventional wisdom, the dumbing down of America and the demonization of the elite. The notion that Them Educated Folks don't really know what to do.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you.
You know somethin'? That's correct, to an extent. Heck, I can point to a number of educated folks in the Obama Administration who can't find their own constituency with both hands and a flashlight. And it's so easy to bring up (in the retching, vomiting sense) most of the SCOTUS, John Woo, and the damn cadre of talking heads on Sunday talk shows.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you.
"Over-educated"? I wish to FSM that some of these bozos were "over-compassionate" or "overly-dedicated-to-serving-the-public" or even "over-truthful".
(David Broder had a beaut the other day: In a puff piece about how gosh-darn wonderful John "Box Turtle Love" Cornyn is, the Dean wrote:
No, on Broder World the Dems have been striding the earth and swatting down plaintive cries for sanity from the caring, concerned Republican minority.
Fuck. You.)
The phrase "over-educated" shouldn't even exist. The fact that someone writing for an organization devoted to informing people came up with it is embarrassing. And it's all another reason why you should find out as much as you can, educate yourself as much as you can, or they'll try to make bullshit like that the Conventional Wisdom.
Any particular offenses the Corpulent Vichy Media have annoyed you with lately?
Obama Still Loved By The Over-EducatedI guess I'm not over-educated, because I don't have enough Fuck Yous to lay on this twit.
But let's start: Fuck you.
The implication, of course, is that you can Know Too Much (and not in the spy-movie sense), that you can be too smart, that you somehow lose the Common Touch if you're too dang edjamacated, sniffin' lattes up in your ivory tower and lookin' down upon the poor common workin' man.
Fuck you fuck you.
It's all the same old song: the incessant propaganda, the new conventional wisdom, the dumbing down of America and the demonization of the elite. The notion that Them Educated Folks don't really know what to do.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you.
You know somethin'? That's correct, to an extent. Heck, I can point to a number of educated folks in the Obama Administration who can't find their own constituency with both hands and a flashlight. And it's so easy to bring up (in the retching, vomiting sense) most of the SCOTUS, John Woo, and the damn cadre of talking heads on Sunday talk shows.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you.
"Over-educated"? I wish to FSM that some of these bozos were "over-compassionate" or "overly-dedicated-to-serving-the-public" or even "over-truthful".
(David Broder had a beaut the other day: In a puff piece about how gosh-darn wonderful John "Box Turtle Love" Cornyn is, the Dean wrote:
Until Tuesday, he was the spokesman for an embattled minority, staring up at a 60-vote behemoth of 58 Democrats and two independents fond of flexing its supermajority muscles and driving the opposition into the ground.I would like to know what the fuck planet Broder is on, where the Dems and their supermajority didn't fold every time the Repubs (or one of the Blue Dog Dems) said anything. On that planet, we've already got universal health care, the financial institutions have been nationalized and are lending again, the health insurance industry has been gutted and put in its place, DADT and DOMA are swiftly-fading memories, and we're working on infrastructure and creating jobs again.
No, on Broder World the Dems have been striding the earth and swatting down plaintive cries for sanity from the caring, concerned Republican minority.
Fuck. You.)
The phrase "over-educated" shouldn't even exist. The fact that someone writing for an organization devoted to informing people came up with it is embarrassing. And it's all another reason why you should find out as much as you can, educate yourself as much as you can, or they'll try to make bullshit like that the Conventional Wisdom.
Any particular offenses the Corpulent Vichy Media have annoyed you with lately?
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Date: 2010-01-29 08:06 pm (UTC)There certainly are plenty of kids in bad situations with regard to their schools (and libraries, and other facilities that would help them learn).
Most of those, though, aren't the ones who get into positions to use "over-educated" in widely read (or viewed, or heard) media. Jerks like the ones who use that word on CNN, or national radio, or in The Washington Post, are generally the ones who had plenty of opportunity to learn, in their expensive colleges and universities.