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To: koan who wrote (290511)	11/10/2010 12:07:35 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

This is an actual quote from mental midget koan: LOL "On MSNBC Rachel Maddow has a PHD from Oxford I think and all the rest are highly educated and their guests are highly educated. Best thinkers in the nation usually like Ezra Kine and Eugene robinson. dignified and very sophisticated thinkers."

To: koan who wrote (290511)	11/11/2010 8:17:14 AM
From: Reilly Diefenbach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Koan, First, you seem to be saying that to be a "best, sophisticated thinker", one must be educated. This simply isn't true. I have two bachelor's degrees myself, am married to a Ph.D. (in Biology) and I have a number of friends with graduate degrees. I understand and appreciate the value and benefits of an education. But just because one is an academic and intellectual doesn't mean that they have any common sense whatsoever. This goes for politicians, pundits and reporters. Didn't you ever read The Best and the Brightest? Today's crop of Ivy League-trained intellectuals seems to have a particular closed-minded insularity and arrogance. See Misters Bernanke, Geithner, and Summers as examples. Second, you mention Rachel Maddow but no one else from MSNBC. Do you ever watch Chris Matthews? Do you ever watch Keith Olbermann? Have you ever seen Olbermann award a "Worst person in the World"? He's a raving lunatic, angry and hysterical and much in need of a straight jacket and some Thorazine alongside of Mr. Beck. He is NOT a "best" thinker or in any way a "sophisticated" thinker although he did used to be mildly entertaining back in the day on Sportscenter. Third, you mention Jefferson and Madison as liberals. They certainly were liberals, although in the classical sense. Your modern liberalism and its underlying, implicit statism bears little resemblance to classical liberalism. I am certain that if they were to see our government now, Jefferson and Madison would be disgusted by its infringements on personal liberty and other excesses. Reilly