10/29/2004 07:50:13 AM|||Toni|||Seymour Hersh the idolized teller of all evil military things (i.e. Abu Ghra - oh you know the prison) is telling Conservatives they are jaded, dumbed-down and basically too simple. See - John Kerry is just soooooo nuanced and intelligent. What I'd like to know does Kerry ever say anything that a person can understand exactly what he means! Every sentence out of this man's mouth is so convoluted and contorted a person needs a decoder ring to understand the meaning.

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today - October 28, 2004

Vain ManSeymour Hersh of The New Yorker showed up at the University of Michigan the other day and explained President Bush's popularity this way, according to the Ann Arbor News: "I think one thing you have to face up to is the fact there are roughly 70 million people in America who do not believe in evolution--and those are Bush supporters," said Hersh." Then there was this delightful exchange:
Perhaps the biggest laugh of the afternoon came when a woman asked what it would take to change the country from being "jaded, dumbed-down, with 50 percent of the people still loving George Bush, right or wrong."
"What would make the change in America that would stop all this descent into darkness?" she asked.
"The Easter Bunny!" Hersh said.
Once again, we see that the Democrats are the party of intellectual vanity. Anyone who supports Bush, Hersh is suggesting, is an idiot, especially those foolish enough to favor a religious explanation for the origins of life.
The Scotsman looks at John Kerry's rhetorical style, noting examples in which he has larded up his speeches with excess verbiage:
During one speech, Mr Kerry's script writers had crafted the concise pledge: "I will work with Republicans and Democrats on this healthcare plan, and we will pass it."
In the candidate's hands it became: "I will work with Republicans and Democrats across the aisle, openly, not with an ideological, driven, fixed, rigid concept, but much like Franklin Roosevelt said, I don't care whether a good idea is a Republican idea or a Democrat idea. I just care whether or not it's gonna' work for Americans and help make our country stronger.
"And we will pass this bill. I'll tell you a little bit about it in a minute, and I'll tell you why we'll pass it, because it's different from anything we've ever done before, despite what the Republicans want to try to tell you."
Kerry's convoluted speaking style, as we've argued before, appeals to the intellectually vain. It takes brains to follow all the twists and turns in Kerry's disordered thoughts, but that doesn't mean Kerry is a genius. Indeed, a surer sign of intelligence is the ability to take complicated ideas and make them simple.
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