Comments on: Not anti-Semitic, but also not very bright

By: Matt Moore

Matt Moore — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:36:19 +0000

I think calling a leftie a Commie simply doesn’t have the same cache it used to, at least since the Berlin Wall fell. The right hasn’t necessarily chosen the high road, they just didn’t have a low road to take anymore.

But screaming Nazi at every opportunity will never go out of style.

By: quilly mammoth

quilly mammoth — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:19:29 +0000

I tend to lean to the “not too bright” theory explaining Cousin Oliver. For example, when Ollie attempts to refute the charge that he is an anti-Semite he then proceeds to call LGF “Nazi.

Not too bright.

His constant comparison of people he doesn’t like to Nazi, or just recently the Religious Right to the Taliban, shows a total lack of intellectual effort. Not only do such comparisons diminish the crimes of the real Nazi and Taliban, they make his argument look childish and foolish.

That he seems to get such “street credit” from the Left is instructive. There seems to be the thought that the Left can insult its way into a lead role. Not that the Right doesn’t do the same sometimes as well. But I think that one reason that the Right has gained so much strength in the last decade is the thought that if they articulate their ideas well the people will follow.

By: Bill from INDC

Bill from INDC — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:48:37 +0000

Oliver scored very low on the reading comprehension portion of his SAT’s.