Boortz and Jeferson and Mencken

[Plane]

I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society.You might think I'm off base, but every day around half the people in this country go out of their way to prove me right.
-Neil Boortz

http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
-Thomas Jefferson

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff136269.html


It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

-H.L.Mencken

http://www.io.com/gibbonsb/mencken/quotes.html

[Michael Tee]

I won't vouch for the actual numbers, but there's a lot of truth in those statements.  The problem is, they seem to be equally useful to the right AND the left.  Each side just picks its own specific examples of idiocy.

[BT]

specific examples of idiocy

Don't be so hard on Knute. Perhaps his deficiency is organic.

[Michael Tee]

I certainly wasn't referring to Knute.  Knute's cool.

[Plane]

I won't vouch for the actual numbers, but there's a lot of truth in those statements.  The problem is, they seem to be equally useful to the right AND the left.  Each side just picks its own specific examples of idiocy.

Profoundly true.


"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
-Will Rogers