Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Re: Goremer Pyle and George W.
This past Sunday, the jackass festival popularly known as the Tennessean's "Letters to the Editor" section featured this bit o' left-wing nitwittery from a Mr. Bill Terry:
"As I watched Al Gore's speech accepting the Nobel Prize ... several things crossed my mind.
"It was immediately obvious that here was a man with a high level of intelligence, a great command of the English language, a complete grasp of the problem and the ability to answer complicated questions with knowledge and without a script. Wouldn't it be great if we had a president like that?"
First of all, Al Gore sounded "intelligent" because he was speaking to a bunch of stuffed suits in Oslo, Norway. Put Al Gore in front of a rural audience and he'll sound like he just walked off the set of Hee Haw. (Of course, you're more likely to see Haley's Comet return than you are to see Al Gore in rural America. He's too busy rubbing elbows with MoveOn.org nutbuckets, Hollywood types, and members of the global Hate America Brigade.) I've witnessed Al Gore's cornpone shtick in the flesh.
In 1990, Senator Al Gore made a campaign swing through Murfreesboro, TN. Hoping there would be plenty of people to mock (and there was), a buddy and I trekked on over to Middle Tennessee State University to see Big Al do his thang. About 20 seconds into his campaign spiel, Gore said something about drinking a "Co-Cola." Now, I'd heard my grandfather say "Co-Cola" - meaning Coca-Cola - a thousand times, and I'd never given it a second thought. When Gore said it, however, it sounded like ... well, it sounded like he'd never said "Co-Cola" in his life and was only doing so because he was standing in front of a bunch of rubes.
Gore finished his speech and got a good-sized round of applause (Murfreesboro was still a Democratic stronghold in 1990). As he left the stage, my buddy turned to me and said, "He needs to change his name to Goremer Pyle." Goremer Pyle, indeed.
That said, I wish left-wingers would make up their minds 'bout George W. Bush's intelligence, or lack thereof. In one breath, your typical liberal will tell you that Bush is a not-so-amiable dunce. In the very next breath, the same liberal will tell you how Bush has cagily schemed to steal elections, concoct false intelligence reports, manipulate the media, and subvert the constitution at every turn. Hell, some left-wingers have suggested that instead of leaving Washington when his term expires in January 2009, Bush is going to mount a coup d’état to stay in office indefinitely. You gotta admit ... man'd have to be pretty smart to do such a thing.
I say all this because Al Gore is not half as clever as a lot of liberals make him out to be; and George W. Bush is not as dumb as those same liberals make him out to be. My idea of a perfect world would be one in which we never had to hear such shipdittery ever again.
"As I watched Al Gore's speech accepting the Nobel Prize ... several things crossed my mind.
"It was immediately obvious that here was a man with a high level of intelligence, a great command of the English language, a complete grasp of the problem and the ability to answer complicated questions with knowledge and without a script. Wouldn't it be great if we had a president like that?"
First of all, Al Gore sounded "intelligent" because he was speaking to a bunch of stuffed suits in Oslo, Norway. Put Al Gore in front of a rural audience and he'll sound like he just walked off the set of Hee Haw. (Of course, you're more likely to see Haley's Comet return than you are to see Al Gore in rural America. He's too busy rubbing elbows with MoveOn.org nutbuckets, Hollywood types, and members of the global Hate America Brigade.) I've witnessed Al Gore's cornpone shtick in the flesh.
In 1990, Senator Al Gore made a campaign swing through Murfreesboro, TN. Hoping there would be plenty of people to mock (and there was), a buddy and I trekked on over to Middle Tennessee State University to see Big Al do his thang. About 20 seconds into his campaign spiel, Gore said something about drinking a "Co-Cola." Now, I'd heard my grandfather say "Co-Cola" - meaning Coca-Cola - a thousand times, and I'd never given it a second thought. When Gore said it, however, it sounded like ... well, it sounded like he'd never said "Co-Cola" in his life and was only doing so because he was standing in front of a bunch of rubes.
Gore finished his speech and got a good-sized round of applause (Murfreesboro was still a Democratic stronghold in 1990). As he left the stage, my buddy turned to me and said, "He needs to change his name to Goremer Pyle." Goremer Pyle, indeed.
That said, I wish left-wingers would make up their minds 'bout George W. Bush's intelligence, or lack thereof. In one breath, your typical liberal will tell you that Bush is a not-so-amiable dunce. In the very next breath, the same liberal will tell you how Bush has cagily schemed to steal elections, concoct false intelligence reports, manipulate the media, and subvert the constitution at every turn. Hell, some left-wingers have suggested that instead of leaving Washington when his term expires in January 2009, Bush is going to mount a coup d’état to stay in office indefinitely. You gotta admit ... man'd have to be pretty smart to do such a thing.
I say all this because Al Gore is not half as clever as a lot of liberals make him out to be; and George W. Bush is not as dumb as those same liberals make him out to be. My idea of a perfect world would be one in which we never had to hear such shipdittery ever again.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Tuesday, December 18, 2007 
