Smart gadflies attract
Kristof states "based on their scores on military intelligence tests," as reported by John Tierney, President Bush is smarter than Senator Kerry, "Yet most liberals have not revised their view that Mr. Bush is a nitwit."
Recently, NY Times' Tierney "reported" on Bush's and Kerry's IQ scores. Tierney tells us, based on SAT score, President Bush (1206) probably has a higher IQ than Senator Kerry, which was extrapolated from Kerry's Navy Officer Qualification Test. For some inexplicable reason, Tierney fails to mention Kerry's SAT score (1190).
Tierney quotes Linda Gottfredson, an I.Q. expert at the University of Delaware, "People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can't understand."
The funny thing was: President Clinton's meagre SAT score (1032) compared to Al Gore (1355). (Wasn't Clinton suppose to have been the Big Brain president? So much for conventional media wisdom.)
Yesterday, I wrote that Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, although they are voting for different presidents, they share one belief. They believe they are smarter than President Bush. Thus, by extension from Tierney's "news" report, they believe they are smarter than Senator Kerry, as well. And their intellectual disdain for Kerry is imprinted in their commentary announcing their choice.
Kristof tells us he wants a "clear-eyed thinker" as president. Nah, that's not what he wants. Plato taught us "likes attract likes," Kristof wants someone like himself as president. (Fortunately, Kerry is as conflicted on Iraq as Kristof is.)
Kristof's confliction, regarding genocide in Darfur and Iraq, proves he is delusionally "clear-eyed." Kristof advocates unilateral American "gumption" to end the genocide in Darfur, yet he has ignored the genocidal mass graves in Iraq in his quest for Euro-style Internationalism.
Kristof suffers from the same, self-inflated, intellectual hubris that plagues Sullivan and Hitchens. In the 24 centuries of Western civilization, we have gone from the gadfly Socrates, who told us he knew nothing, to those that believe they know it all.
Recently, NY Times' Tierney "reported" on Bush's and Kerry's IQ scores. Tierney tells us, based on SAT score, President Bush (1206) probably has a higher IQ than Senator Kerry, which was extrapolated from Kerry's Navy Officer Qualification Test. For some inexplicable reason, Tierney fails to mention Kerry's SAT score (1190).
Tierney quotes Linda Gottfredson, an I.Q. expert at the University of Delaware, "People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can't understand."
The funny thing was: President Clinton's meagre SAT score (1032) compared to Al Gore (1355). (Wasn't Clinton suppose to have been the Big Brain president? So much for conventional media wisdom.)
Yesterday, I wrote that Andrew Sullivan and Christopher Hitchens, although they are voting for different presidents, they share one belief. They believe they are smarter than President Bush. Thus, by extension from Tierney's "news" report, they believe they are smarter than Senator Kerry, as well. And their intellectual disdain for Kerry is imprinted in their commentary announcing their choice.
Kristof tells us he wants a "clear-eyed thinker" as president. Nah, that's not what he wants. Plato taught us "likes attract likes," Kristof wants someone like himself as president. (Fortunately, Kerry is as conflicted on Iraq as Kristof is.)
Kristof's confliction, regarding genocide in Darfur and Iraq, proves he is delusionally "clear-eyed." Kristof advocates unilateral American "gumption" to end the genocide in Darfur, yet he has ignored the genocidal mass graves in Iraq in his quest for Euro-style Internationalism.
Kristof suffers from the same, self-inflated, intellectual hubris that plagues Sullivan and Hitchens. In the 24 centuries of Western civilization, we have gone from the gadfly Socrates, who told us he knew nothing, to those that believe they know it all.
posted by Tony Harrison at 4:34 AM
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