Levin says conservatives "stand on the shoulders of the great philosophers" who progressives "reject"
June 09, 2009 10:01 pm ET
From the June 9 edition of Fox News Channel's Hannity:
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Let me guess - a supreme intellectual who can't be bothered with minor error but soars analytically high above it so as to recognize aggregious conceptual failure at super-computer dispatch.
I am duly impressed.
Let me guess -
(sorry, couldn't resist.)
(that's french for - I think - double standard)
It is used by person A after person A makes a point and then person B makes a counter-point.
The literal translation is "touched".
Did you mean to say "You're pretty funny! Wrong, but funny." in your post? I presume that there are four of you using your handle...
No wonder it took a year and a half to write the book. He can't even say real words.
Oh, did I say that the book was supposed to be about his dog?
I would have given the book to my rabbits to chew up but I don't want them to be poisoned from the rubbish printed within. Besides, it was a library book. No way would I part with good money to read it.
Levin just recently got on the radio here in SoCal, or I just hadn't been fortunate to have stumbled on his show, and he is really a ridiculous pile of nothing.
As others have mentioned, his listeners call him "Dr.", and "The Great ONe", and he constantly refers to himself as an intellectual, and a great thinker, and he seems to convince his slow-witted fans that it's true because he says it is.
I hear something different, a man with the voice and brain of an adenoidal adolescent nerd, whining & shrieking about every bit of reality that doesn't fit into his right wing dominance & submission fantasy.I'd recommend a listen to anyone srudying logical fallacies who needs some examples.
Oh my, YOU just joined the "special needs" folks with YOUR comment! LOL
The good news is that, if you muster up all of your mental horsepower, and read the items here, and try to understand, you have the power to move up to Regular Class. The day that you recognize Levin and his clones as propagandists pandering to the below-average American, you'll have accomplished something to be proud of.
And that will truly be super aswsome !
I listened to the clip purely for the reason to hear what particular "great philosophers" were these people following... I saw the quote and it drew me in:
"we... stand on the shoulders of the great philosophers and scholars and thinkers throughout human history"
Such as who?
I mean, what's the point of implying that you agree with the thinking of someone else, be they a "great philosopher" or not, but then neglecting to say whose thinking it is you agree with or otherwise follow or are taught by?
Pointless... I should have known better... I should have known no particular name would have been offered, just the empty "great philosophers" label...
I'm left to just guess who these "great philosophers" might be...
Well guess what, everybody in the world can say the same thing, can say they stand on the shoulders of "great philosophers", or kneel at their feet or whatever, in rapt attention at and absorbing of their every Golden Saying, as a disciple of their wisdom...
But so what, it's just another way of saying "I'm smart", without saying anything smart, or without saying why you're so danged smart...
Here's my proclamation of what makes me so smart:
"I and we and everybody who thinks like me, we are the disciples of true human wisdom and of all truths... we are keepers of the right way, by way of the Golden Sayings we keep... if great philosophy has any children, then we are them, and we carry great philosophy's name with us, in the name of the great philosophers, whose shoulders we stand on, so that we may see so much farther than the rest of you peons"
Except what's the point of such empty crowing, if you don't say the single name of any philosopher great or small, or even quote any Golden Saying, or say anything really wise or even truthful...
Unless it's considered the truth to say you know the truth, without bothering to say what it is you know, leaving people to guess you're smart I guess.
You have to buy the book...it's a teaser.
Thing is, I've never heard Levin say anything remotely resembling "smart".
Makes sense, when you see that Sean Insanity counts among his circle of friends the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, Ollie North, and G. Gordon Liddy.....
He also throws out the usual red meat by asserting that Democrats don't believe in or support the Declaration of Independence. You would think an assertion like that would be followed by numerous examples to prove the point but, no, Mark couldn't be bothered with any of that, it's enough to just say it because, like you know, man, it's like totally true.
The book is #2 on the NYT best-seller list which shows that Mencken was correct that no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people.
You are too kind to your fellow citizens. I highly recommend "Idiot America" by Charlie Pierce. Perhaps then you'll grasp the reality that a good 20% of the populace truly is both dumb and gullible.
There are a few more pieces in the series, but the conclusion remains the same: we need to get rid of the government and let the market determine what is right, because only the market is capable of doing so without force while maximizing freedom. Sound familiar?
"The Rind of the Ayn Mariner"
It really took four idiots to write those three words? What was the other one doing? maybe he was the one in charge of clarifying pronouns,maybe getting some more detail about who nailed what.
Four Idiots, I'm gonna suggest you beef up your staff a bit. Maybe add a couple more idiots, a utility imbecile, and a designated moron.I look forward to future posts that make more sense than this one.