Posted by
VBushmills on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:01:55 PM
Thanks to Miss Garofalo, I've gone back to finish a piece I started before the election in 2008...about the phony intellectualism of the Hollywood/Entertainment class. Luminaries such as Bill Maher, Clooney, Matt Damon, Sean Penn, and of course, the nitwits of "The View".
They actually do make Katie Couric appear engaged.
Collectively, I began calling them "Cliffs Notes Intellectuals" about 15 years ago, when another brood claimed the spotlight.
There is a reason (pathology) as to why they are the way they are. Like most journalists, intellectual laziness is only a part of it.
Our favorite riposte: "Dixit insipiens" (L: Thus spake the fool). We like it because after listening to a CNI tell you how smart he is, you drop the DI bomb then, walking away, watch them scratch their head as to what you had just said. Works every time.
We collect one-liners, and suggest you do the same. They work much better than long, glib comments.
VB