ANN COULTER by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

EIGHT

clever is as clever does: the liberal dilemma

In a single New York Times profile, a presidential candidate was repeatedly quoted using such expressions as “That’s no good for sure” and “Isn’t she cool?” Telling a reporter he wanted to discuss “big think” ideas, he stammered, “I can’t say this, it’s going to sound so weird.” That was intellectual colossus Al Gore. Naturally, this led the New York Times to query: “Is Gore too smart to be president?” Mr. Gore’s “challenge,” the Times explained in that very article, is “to show that he is a regular guy despite a perceived surplus of gravitas, which at least some Americans seem to find intimidating.” Or as Gore himself eruditely put it: “weird.”

This is one of the grave injustices of the world: Democrats can run ridiculous and insubstantial men for important national offices and no one will ever know because the media won’t report it. It is as unthinkable to describe a Democrat as stupid as it is to describe a Republican as smart. The adversary press will finish a Democrat’s sentences for him, defend his arguments, provide substantiation for his ludicrous claims, and refuse to report his mistakes.

Gore is only the most recent Democratic mediocrity to dazzle media shills with his genius. Whenever the public fails to be similarly dazzled, the media leaps in to explain that the Democratic mediocrity is “too smart” to connect with ordinary voters. Thus, a columnist in the Los Angeles Times ruefully explained in the media’s formulaic excuse, Gore was “too smart for [his] own good.” Sadly, the “best and brightest student”—that’s Gore here— “doesn’t always get to be class president.”1

One of the first Democrats to have his vast unpopularity with voter? attributed to his soaring intellect was Adlai Stevenson. Widely known as a lover of literature, with an erudite wit, Stevenson was supposed to be the thinking man’s president. Though it was blindingly obvious at the time that Stevenson was a boob—certainly clear to the American people who continually rejected him for president—only later was Stevenson discovered to be a lowbrow who rarely read books. When he died, only a single book was found on his nightstand: The Social Register.2

This has been a fifty-year game of the Emperor’s New Brain, in which only true intellectuals (the media) are capable of discerning a Democrat’s profound intellect. U.S. News & World Report wearily recounted the Herculean efforts the Clinton campaign was forced to undertake to conceal Clinton’s towering intellect. His campaign staff “took great pains to ‘dumb down’ Clinton.”3 The author snippily added that this “won’t be Bush’s problem.” Time magazine also addressed the question of how Clinton dealt with the problem of being so brilliant. “In politics, it’s not smart to seem too smart. Bill Clinton uses his intellect to dazzle audiences, but he does it in an inclusive way. He articulates things people know but can’t quite express.”4 The same article somberly reported that Hillary “was the Woman Who Knew Too Much.”5 She “sometimes can’t help intimidating” voters with her grasp of the issues.

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