"Smarter Than Thou" National Review

[Rajoo]

From the LA Times article, this is absolutely mind boggling.

"Consider this: In 1995, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment — a nonpartisan panel of scientists and researchers assembled to offer objective technical guidance to Congress on scientifically complex issues — was stripped of all funding, effectively shutting it down. (Officially, it still exists on paper.) It has remained unfunded ever since. (Thanks, Newt Gingrich.) An attempt in May to provide a paltry $2.5 million to the office was stymied by House Republicans.

In a world where advanced technology has infiltrated nearly every corner of our lives — raising a litany of technical, ethical and legal challenges — our government is willfully scientifically illiterate."

Creationism anyone? Global warming, what is that?

[icenine]

Originally Posted by BeamOn

From the LA Times article, this is absolutely mind boggling.

"Consider this: In 1995, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment — a nonpartisan panel of scientists and researchers assembled to offer objective technical guidance to Congress on scientifically complex issues — was stripped of all funding, effectively shutting it down. (Officially, it still exists on paper.) It has remained unfunded ever since. (Thanks, Newt Gingrich.) An attempt in May to provide a paltry $2.5 million to the office was stymied by House Republicans.

In a world where advanced technology has infiltrated nearly every corner of our lives — raising a litany of technical, ethical and legal challenges — our government is willfully scientifically illiterate."

Creationism anyone? Global warming, what is that?

It is all part and parcel of the GOP dumbing themselves down so as to appeal to their base of older white Americans who did not go to college. You have to appear to be against all the sorts of things just to fit in with this group. Some of the Teaparty guys are doctors and lawyers but purposely make themselves look like bubba so they can fit in better with the 700 Club crowd.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

There no doubt that the cover, with it's smug caricature black man and the big type "SMARTER THAN THOU," is consciously punching a big button for that portion of their readership that has 'superior to blacks' as a tenet of their identity. They are working racial resentment as well as anti-intellectual resentment here.

Exactly.

What I did in my post was to articulate in plain language what that cover is intended to say in code and innuendo.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Many American conservatives are rolling over in their graves ...

I hope there are still some live ones who are aghast at what the once-respectable National Review has become.

[noonereal]

they call him a smug, intellectual bully because their base is stupid

[piece-itpete]

They seem a little miffed at him.

That said, just because he's smart doesn't mean he's right. And some of the comments show some people are smug. Just because 'ivory tower' gets played up doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Many progressives believe they know better than the people they'd like to control, of course.

Fact is, neither party wants their base too educated. Or perhaps it's correct-er-er to say, they want them educated with what they want them to be

Pete

[nailer]

You're subversive.

[piece-itpete]

LOL thanks Let's start our own party.

Pete

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by noonereal

they call him a smug, intellectual bully because their base is stupid

And the Excrement in Fraudcasting guy is, what, a smug toxic ignoramus?

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[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

They seem a little miffed at him.

That said, just because he's smart doesn't mean he's right. And some of the comments show some people are smug. Just because 'ivory tower' gets played up doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Many progressives believe they know better than the people they'd like to control, of course.

Fact is, neither party wants their base too educated. Or perhaps it's correct-er-er to say, they want them educated with what they want them to be

Pete

All well and good right up to the point where somebody wants to teach Genesis (or some other bible stuff) to a public school classroom full of kids in place of some of the time the kids could be receiveing information developed from actual scientific method as opposed to a fable. Smug or not. Right or not. Progressive or not. Backward or not. One belongs in church, the other belongs in science class.

Excuse me Dr. Tyson...which day was it that God created the heavens?