Comments on: About those Hollywood smarties

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:44:22 +0000

Please, oh please, God, don’t let “Who is Maureen Dowd?” crowd out the ever-so-much-better “Who is John Galt?”

Please.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:42:49 +0000

Btw, I tend to think actors and actresses are notoriously susceptible to propaganda because their entire lives have been trained to take directions from the Puppetmaster, aka Director, while ignoring their own feelings and thoughts.

Excuse me, but that’s the recipe for creating a useful idiot or a puppet for propagandists.

I know, I’ve studied the matter carefully here. Not acting, but propaganda and manipulation. You really don’t want people who are genuine. They don’t make good propaganda targets. You want people with high empathy values, who are nonetheless not very clear in their self-identity. You want people able to take instruction from a higher power, aka the Director and script writer, who won’t suddenly ad lib their own version of things.

Once a person gets through this training session, combined with the guilt absolute wealth brings, and guess how many viable candidates you get in Hollywood for the propaganda mill.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:39:27 +0000

I can’t really agree with you, Book, here. I really don’t believe the Hollywood actors are smarter than me.

I do have some respect for Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, Gary Sinise, and some other minor actors and singers that I can’t recall at this moment.

By the way, who is Maureen Dowd?

Palin’s evil mirror image.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:36:55 +0000

And one of the early comments from that American Thinker article, summing it all up nicely!

I am sitting on my boat in beautiful Friday Harbor. All afternoon and evening I have run into fellow boaters who stare at my t-shirt. “Pro gun, Pro God, Pro Life” it says beneath “Palin2012″. I actually hope some will be liberals just so I can get the vicarious pleasure of seeing their face crinkle up, with that look of utter disgust. But alas, weekend after weekend of boating here, and not a SINGLE liberal look. In fact, people actually grin from ear-to-ear, often giving me the thumbs up, or stopping to chat, pointing out the obvious: Sarah Palin is the quintessential American woman. Elegant, but not snooty, articulate but not pretentious in her words and manner. Devoted Mom, Wife, and Alaskan. Christian, and proud of it. Oh how I could go on and on . . . She reminds me of life 50 years ago, when the accepted version of the ideal woman was exactly like Gov. Palin.

How things have changed.

By the way, who is Maureen Dowd?

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:32:31 +0000

Speaking of smarties, as they go after Sarah Palin, her defenders keep on attacking right back. Another pure delight, this time all against MZZZZZZZZ Maureen Dowd!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/maureen_dowd_sarah_palin_scare.html

By: Charlie (Colorado)

Charlie (Colorado) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:39:26 +0000

Well, they did manage to find the only bad picture Famke Janssen ever took.

By: BrianE

BrianE — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:04:49 +0000

With a few exceptions such as Ben Stein, Economics, Claire Danes, Psychology, Rashida Jones, Religion and Philosophy, and Asiha Tyler, Environmental Policy, their degrees were in English, Literature (mostly English Literature) or History with a couple of Fine Arts degrees thrown in (what’s the opposite, Course Arts?).
Now, I have no intention of knocking those who took the easy path through school since I have a minor in English, but how hard is it to make up stuff about other stuff? It’s like, there is no wrong answer.
Years ago I was on the school board of our Christian School. We struggled to find qualified Science and Math teachers, so I proposed we pay qualified teachers in those disciplines more to compete with schools in more urban areas. Needless to say, all the English majors objected.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:43:45 +0000

Oh Book, now you have done it.

The University of Florida, (which would have been my alma mater if I hadn’t dropped out to go into flight training back when the Navy didn’t think you needed a college degree to fly an airplane from an aircraft carrier) has damn good academic credentials–now.

By the way my wife did graduate summa cum laude. I know she is smart, because she calls me the smartest guy she ever met; and yet she is able to micro-manage me.

One daughter went to the U. of Virginia, which is recognized for its academics; the other went to the U. of Florida which doesn’t seem to be. Don’t ask me which is the smartest, because I don’t know. BTW their SAT scores were identical.

By: Bill C

Bill C — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:17:05 +0000

My Dad was his High School valedictorian and later was graduated from the University of Iowa as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. My mother’s cousin, who was quite left including a friendship tour to the U.S.S.R., and my father did not get along and he would use his Princeton degree as a cudgel. My father called him “the cousin who went to Princeton and never got over it.”

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:07:47 +0000

Don’t be silly, David Foster. Your link is about corporate executives. Those aren’t smart people. They just run large organizations of people, making goods and services that create jobs that employ thousands upon thousands of people while managing their financial performance to ensure that they create profits (value) for the owners of their organization.

Book is referring to really, really smart people. You know…the people that pretend to be other people for a living.