[MD] Problems with Intellectual control of Society

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[WillBlake]
If this article is supposed to give students an accurate description of what
anti-intellectualism is, don't you think that this is a bit much?

[Arlo]
Seems pretty accurate. 

(1) Gore (and Kerry) were portrayed by right-wing media outlets as boring,
intellectual, out-of-touch elitists. 

(2) A common lament I hear from right-wing media outlets is criticism that
Bush/Reagan/Palin are portrayed by left-wing media outlets as yokels or
incompetent dolts. In Reagan's case it was also senility. But in all cases
"dumb" sums up the left-wing portrayal. 

(3) O'Reily regularly bashes "intellectual pinheads" and uses the phrase
"Ivy-league elites" in contrast to "the folk". You can these terms most every
time he speaks.

(4) Talk-radio as a whole abhors complex arguments. The format is not designed
for such. In fact, when you say "Who says that the media has intellectual
snobbery?" I'd wager you've not listened to Limbaugh or Hannity or O'Reily or
Levin or Savage or Coulter or Ingram or any number of "conservative" hosts in
quite some time. This is a charge they level like a drumbeat, through the use
of funny wealthy-Brit accents when they mention "The New York Times" or any
"pinhead" scientists/professor/academic who expresses a view contrary to
"conservatism".

So I really see nothing here that is not accurate. Yes, I suppose you could
argue whether or not these portrayals cost Gore the election. The "left" had
launched its own caricatures of Bush and yet he was awarded the election. 

[WillBlake]
Anyway, beware of the internet when looking for truth (whatever that is).

[Arlo]
And beware talk-radio as well.