America is dominated by morons?

[sailaway21]

I'm going to let this Newsweek piece speak for itself. I would only draw attention to the part of the piece where the author blithely dismisses Sen. Obama's assosciation with a racist minister and an unrepentant terrorist. He does so so casually that one might be caught thing, gee why didn't I think of that?
Southernism Triumphs in the National Dialogue | Newsweek Voices - Michael Hirsh | Newsweek.com

This is another piece in an on-going series dedicated to sharing equal time with the looney-left on the off-topic forum.

[KODAD]

If not dominated, America is rapidly being overrun with morons. They seem to breed like rabbits.

[Johnrb]

America is dominated by morons?

You ain't seen nothin' - come to Canada or more specifically Toronto.

[nolatom]

I'd have thought Mr. Hirsh was spoofing, but after reading the article through, I have to conclude he's actually serious.

I've lived half my life in liberal elite eastern Massachusetts, the second half in Louisiana. I came to the realization early on, even while a young Eastern semi-liberal that the liberals were more narrow-minded and parochial than the conservative "rabble" from the south they think have coarsened the national dialogue and values. This guy proves it--he's so far out there he's almost a parody.

He might try actually living in the South, but that would make it too hard for him to stereotype southerners, so scratch that...

Nuff said, this is my first "off-topic" (meaning political) post, I suspect I should't make a habit of it

[sailaway21]

Tom,
It's pretty tough to be that condescending, to what may well be a majority of his readers, as Mr. Hirsch comes across. You'd think to find such an article in the pages of The New Yorker on a bad day perhaps but, Newsweek? I was disappointed that he failed to delve more into the enduring artistic merits of Jesus Christ, Superstar but then one cannot have everything, can one?

[Sailormann]

America is dominated by morons?

Yes. For quite a while now Just kidding - they don't really dominate - I think that a couple of particularly evil and reclusive Republicans are actually running things, but the morons certainly seem ubiquitous don't they ???

[sailaway21]

Well, Newsweek seems to be well stocked anyway.

[SEMIJim]

Good grief, what utter crap.

But our national common denominator of taste is so altered today that the blasphemous dimension of "Jesus Christ Superstar" now trumps the artistic part. And somehow, no one is surprised. Our reaction is more like, "Why would she risk singing a song like that?"

The author would've been well-serverd by actually reviewing the American Idol episode in question. While the contestant eliminated was actually one of the more talented ones, over-all, her performance was certainly one of the weakest that evening, IMO. (And I like "Jesus Christ, Superstar.)

Barack Obama seems to be so leery of being identified as an urban Northern liberal...

Yeah, well, perhaps that's because, despite the fact America is weary of George Bush's mis-handling of international affairs, kow-towing to rampaging capitalists to the detriment of the middle class, and a speaking manner so irritating it makes you wish you were deaf, it hasn't entirely forgotten what the "liberal" left is all about. America doesn't want to jump out of one fire, back into another. The only way an ultra-liberal like Obama can sell himself to American is by pretending not to be what he is, and he knows it. He doesn't represent "change," other than a change back to the same old left-"liberal" politics we kicked out of Washington a couple decades ago.

On foreign policy, the realism and internationalism of the Eastern elitist tradition...

"Elitism?" This left-loon thinks America wants elitists running the country? The same elitists that think Americans "cling to their guns and their religion out of bitterness?" (Paraphased) What planet is this guy from?

Hirsh suggests "Maybe it's time for the North to secede from the Union." I have a better idea: Why not let NYC, Philadelphia, Chicago, and all of MA, NJ and California, and perhaps CT, secede from the U.S., form their own little left-"liberal" socialist heaven, and let America get back to being America? Oh, y'all can have Washington, D.C., as well. It's nothing but a swamp, anyway. We'd like to keep the Washington Monument, tho.

Jim

[Giulietta]

I don't know what to say, but last night on TV I saw President Bush directing and orchestra...and very bad at it too...hope he doesn't run the country like he did the band...the musiscians wer great...and seemed to pay no attention to him....(is this a rethoric thing??)

I swear it was him...unless it was a double actor..but looked like him...I bet you don't believe me...I swear I saw...

[sailaway21]

Giu,
That was the annual White House Correspondent's Dinner where the president and the press tend to make fun of each other and themselves. We're discussing here the Newsweek article above that is bemoaning the fact that a good portion of the country doesn't have the sense to listen to it's betters from the Northeast and whatever other remaining enclaves of culture, sophistication, and left-liberal thought remain in this poor benighted country.