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smooth · 11-05-2008, 06:23 PM

This is not about rational things your boss says that you're trying to clarify. If your boss starts talking about bread under his armpits I don't know what you would do, to be honest. Personally, I would smile and nod and get the fuck out of his office. If he was speaking with a foreign accent on a transnational phone line, I'd be more likely to think I misheard him...and I certainly wouldn't stop and say, "did you just say bread and armpits". I would just hear something entirely different and more sane (which is what the brain does when sent bizarre information) or move along to the next topic.

Anyway, whatever, this conversation has taken a bizarre cartwheel because I've not got any interest in defending Palin.
I was just surprised that someone who works in the media would feel confident assessing someone's mental abilities from media presentations; and even more complicated by the fact that the current Republican party seems to believe it's base appreciates close-mindedness and eschews complexities.

It's obvious to me that she was ignorant of foreign affairs, but I don't know how you then move toward an assessment of one's intellectual abilities based off lack of information. She is a high level politician, she has to deal with cutthroat corporations, and she has demonstrated social intelligence to me.

I am disgusted by many of her policies, I'm disgusted by this appeal to ignorance as qualification, but I'm equally disgusted by otherwise intelligent people who seem to confuse the real with the portrayed and then move from there into posts like yours over a crank call.

Smart people get taken by crank calls all the time...or they wouldn't work and they wouldn't be funny.
If you really think she's just dumb, then this crank call isn't funny at all it's just mean.

11-05-2008, 06:23 PM	#17 (permalink)
smooth Junkie Location: Right here	This is not about rational things your boss says that you're trying to clarify. If your boss starts talking about bread under his armpits I don't know what you would do, to be honest. Personally, I would smile and nod and get the fuck out of his office. If he was speaking with a foreign accent on a transnational phone line, I'd be more likely to think I misheard him...and I certainly wouldn't stop and say, "did you just say bread and armpits". I would just hear something entirely different and more sane (which is what the brain does when sent bizarre information) or move along to the next topic. Anyway, whatever, this conversation has taken a bizarre cartwheel because I've not got any interest in defending Palin. I was just surprised that someone who works in the media would feel confident assessing someone's mental abilities from media presentations; and even more complicated by the fact that the current Republican party seems to believe it's base appreciates close-mindedness and eschews complexities. It's obvious to me that she was ignorant of foreign affairs, but I don't know how you then move toward an assessment of one's intellectual abilities based off lack of information. She is a high level politician, she has to deal with cutthroat corporations, and she has demonstrated social intelligence to me. I am disgusted by many of her policies, I'm disgusted by this appeal to ignorance as qualification, but I'm equally disgusted by otherwise intelligent people who seem to confuse the real with the portrayed and then move from there into posts like yours over a crank call. Smart people get taken by crank calls all the time...or they wouldn't work and they wouldn't be funny. If you really think she's just dumb, then this crank call isn't funny at all it's just mean. __________________ "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman