From: john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.fan.dan-quayle
Subject: Re: Clinton Screws Up! Press Reports It!
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:20:45 GMT
Reply-To: john@anasazi.com
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ USA

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In article <1992Sep14.172419.20624@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jks2x@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jason K. Schechner) writes:
]In article <1992Sep13.000325.3310@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com writes:
]	I said:
]>]
]>]	Yeah, but the fact of the matter is that the bulk of his
]>]listeners DON'T have that half a brain.  Almost all (of not all) of
]>]the people who have access to this network are at least reasonably
]>]well educated and can see the obvious sarcasm in Rush's statement.
]>]HOWEVER, the majority of the American people aren't quite that lucky.
]>](and by lucky I mean a)lucky enough to be intelligent and b)lucky
]>]enough to have gone to college).  
]>Hmmm... is this incredibly arrogant, or what?
] 
]	Maybe so, but it is true.  THINK about it for a second.  Most
]people will readily admit that those who've attended college are the
]more intelligent members of our society.  Therefore, by sheer
]definition the rest of the populace, IN GENERAL, is not as smart.  Of
]course there are going to be smart people who don't go to college, and
]dumb people who do, but in the general case my original statement was
]correct.

You are seriously confusing education, intelligence, and "smartness."
I would claim that, although I was plenty intelligent when I was 8
years old, I am a lot "smarter" now. I have seen no evidence to indicate
that intelligence correlates with good political judgement. In fact,
it often leads to a form of mental masturbation that leads to such
aberrations as Marxism and other Utiopian visions. We only need to
observe that extremely intelligent and well educated individuals will
take opposite sides of almost every political issue to recognize that 
intelligence does not somehow endow one with the "right" answer to
political questions.

]>Har har har. Many of the most intelligent people I know are liberal
]>fools. Intelligence doesn't seem to be that useful a predictor of
]>social intelligence. Besides, if they do let him tell them what
]>to think, it's fine with me.... I agree with him on almost
]>everything (War on Drugs TM excepted).
]>
]
]	Hold on a second.   You're saying "I agree with this guy,
]I'm OBVIUOSLY right, therefore let this guy tell people what to
]think".  And you called ME arrogant!!!  I don't care what someone
]thinks he has NO right to tell others what to think.  Even if I find
]someone with whom I agree 100% I still wouldn't want him telling
]people "Think this:...".  You seem to be advocating (look it up) a
]society where people are told what to think and when to think it.
]Always remember BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!

You would suggest that I should advocate CENSORING him? Look, anyone
trying to be persuasive is attempting to tell people what to think,
That is what persuasion is all about.... altering people's actions
by altering their thoughts.  Rush just has the honesty, and humour, to say
what he is thinking. 

Get it, yet, or are you too "intelligent" to see the humour in his
statements?

Oh, yeah, I did not say "I'm OBVIUOSLY [sic] right" anywhere in that post.