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To: epicure who wrote (95256)	11/11/2008 10:42:15 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 541911

How you got to "believing people" just because they are intellectuals is beyond me. What I said was I did not think or suggest that you said that. It was just a restatement of the point that intellectuals can be mistaken. I think "the first 100 people in the phone book" is clearly a Paean to the uneducated. He didn't mean that literally, although there are clearly problems with the alternative. It was just a flip slap at Harvard. Buckley was an urbane intellectual. He also said "I spent my whole life trying to separate the right from the crazies." Being an intellectual certainly doesn't mean you have the right answers, but being ignorant means you are almost sure not to have them. Indeed.

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