02-11-2017, 06:30 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:How can anyone that smart act that dumb.
You might be right.
Penn Jones made a similar observation about the
media, wondering how so many smart people
could be so dumb. He was of course being deeply
sarcastic and cutting about their disingenuousness
and corruption. The question about Rachel Maddow
left unanswered here is whether she is actually
that dumb or just pretending to be so. She went
to Stanford, which doesn't necessarily prove anything one
way or another (even JFK went there briefly, but
that was a long time ago, and it's a rather conservative, business-oriented place
nowadays; Tom Wolfe's sharp college satire I AM CHARLOTTE
SIMMONS is based on Stanford and Duke, Nixon's alma mater). Maddow could read books other than
the ones she apparently reads for (dis)information.
She might start with Sylvia Meagher's ACCESSORIES
AFTER THE FACT. I defy anyone who reads that
book with an open mind to come away supporting
the Warren Report and not realizing there is "something
wrong in the land," as Penn out it.