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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: July 24, 2013, 06:37:07 PM »
« edited: July 24, 2013, 06:40:06 PM by Progressive Realist »
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http://www.mediaite.com/tv/maher-trashes-gop-smartstupid-people-scholarly-outside-around-creamy-layer-of-bachmann/

News at 11: Having an advanced degree doesn't mean one is "intelligent" (however important that in and of itself is), to say nothing of things like empathy/having a legitimate social consciousness/being a good person, or being logically consistent in one's opinions.

Alternately, not having a degree certainly does not automatically make one an ignoramus.

NOTE: Really not a fan of Maher myself, just using his words as a prompt for this topic. Tongue 
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2013, 06:40:03 PM »
yes, that's an accurate label for Bill Maher. 
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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2013, 06:42:01 PM »
Quote from: shua on July 24, 2013, 06:40:03 PM
yes, that's an accurate label for Bill Maher. 
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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2013, 07:05:33 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2013, 07:19:51 PM »
This is a bit rich coming from someone who thinks Jenny McCarthy has brilliant insights about vaccines.
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2013, 07:44:44 PM »
Maher is right as (almost) always.
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2013, 07:56:35 PM »
Quote from: Carlos Danger on July 24, 2013, 07:19:51 PM
This is a bit rich coming from someone who thinks Jenny McCarthy has brilliant insights about vaccines.
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2013, 08:00:29 PM »
Quote from: HockeyDude on July 24, 2013, 07:44:44 PM
Maher is right as (almost) always.
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« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2013, 08:17:08 PM »
Quote from: Carlos Danger on July 24, 2013, 07:19:51 PM
This is a bit rich coming from someone who thinks Jenny McCarthy has brilliant insights about vaccines.
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« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2013, 06:52:57 AM »
I'm a big fan of Bill Maher and watch his show religiously (ironically enough), but I don't ever recall him being in the Jenny McCarthy camp when it comes to vaccines.
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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2013, 07:56:37 AM »
Argumentum ad hominem aside (I haven't watched Maher enough to have a real opinion of him) this is a good point.
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« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2013, 09:15:22 AM »
Quote from: politicallefty on July 26, 2013, 06:52:57 AM
I'm a big fan of Bill Maher and watch his show religiously (ironically enough), but I don't ever recall him being in the Jenny McCarthy camp when it comes to vaccines.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/vaccination-a-conversatio_b_358578.html
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« Reply #12 on: July 28, 2013, 10:19:12 PM »
Did anyone else notice there's a rich seam of anti-intellectualism in that very statement by Maher?
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« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2013, 12:24:23 AM »
George W Bush has an MBA from Harvard. That reflects rather poorly on Harvard.
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« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2013, 03:48:12 AM »
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« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2013, 05:39:31 AM »
Republicans hate, or at least don't care about, those who don't vote for them, so it's no surprise they hate educated people.
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« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2013, 06:22:44 AM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on July 29, 2013, 12:24:23 AM
George W Bush has an MBA from Harvard. That reflects rather poorly on Harvard.

Not at all.  Harvard's raison d'etre is as a cog in the class-domination machine, not about 'academics'.  Giving MBAs to the empty-headed lazy scions of the ruling class is precisely the definition of success for 'educational institutions' in the capitalist system.
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