I just spent the evening with one of the smartest, and most thoughtful, men I have ever had the privelege of knowing. He has several PhDs from places like Columbia (I know for sure) and the other one is from either Harvard or Yale. He helped develop some of todays cutting edge medical technology …. In his spare time (did you know diabetics will soon be able to inhale insulin … cool, right). He works primarly as a psychiatrist (his name is “Rock,” and anyone in the upper echelons of the NYC/CT medical establishment will know who I’m referring to).
Basically this guy is a fucking legend (he once quoted me several paragraphs of the constitution to make some other point … I can’t remember what his point was because I was so impressed that he could quote the fucking constitution) and I know for a fact that he watches FOX News.
Granted, he told me he likes Britt Hume, and I doubt he watches Glenn Beck, but I have a feeling that occasionally he watches Sean Hannitty, with a little smirk on his face, just as I watch Keith Olbermann with a smirk on my face. Actually, I watch both Keith and Sean when I get the chance, and I smirk the whole time … but never smile … because both of them are guilty of about the same amount of general bias, and fact manipulation. I watch them because they entertain me. They both have personas I find somewhat likable, in about the same way you might find a 13 year bully somewhat likable for a few minutes before he becomes irritating.
The comment “If you watch Fox News and believe the crazies you are old, stupid or ignorant. There is no smart people watching that channel period.” Is itself, a profoundly stupid comment for three reasons:
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nbsp; If you watch anyone on television and “believe” what they say you are pretty fucking stupid. In a thoughtful mind, everything is taken for what it is and processed for what it is before the thoughtful mind moves on to the next opinion or piece of information. There has never been an objective source or news or even fact in the history of mankind, and unless God comes down to earth, reveals his divinity, and starts telling us how it really is, there never will be.
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nbsp; I watch Fox News. I also watch other news stations, but I think if you’ve bothered to read this far it should be obvious that I am neither ignorant or stupid. I’m also not old. I’m 29. If you consider that old than go fuck yourself, you little child.
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nbsp; The attitude, and basic ignorance you express with that point of view …. Dear lord, I don’t have time to go into all of this …. Maybe I’ll write another blog on this tomorrow. I’ll just say this: patriotism, if you live in the USA, is a virtue not a vice. And most professors at most colleges, especially little liberal arts colleges that are really hard to get into (I went to Swarthmore, so I know of what I speak) truly are people that couldn’t make in the real world. Their salaries are paid by the donations of people who go out in the big bad world and have real successes that bring them real money. And they take this money and make careers fomenting exactly the attitude that is expressed in the idiotic sentiment I am spending my valuable time responding to, God knows why. And many of the people who prefer FOX News, prefer precisely because they are so disgusted by that, reflexively liberal, “I know better because I took a class” attitude that is expressed here.
For bonus points, here is point 4 …
4) “There is no smart people watching that channel period,” Is a grammatically incorrect sentence. Which makes you look, well, really stupid.
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gregoryknelson on
04/15/2009 01:21:35 AM EST
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