The MSM is the viciousness of junior high cliques amplified and concentrated a thousandfold but operating by the same rules. They dislike anyone who dares to be brighter, better informed, or even more attractive. It’s pack behavior.
Dean Swift indentified this tendency long ago in ‘Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting”:
“When a true genius appears in the world, you may know by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Not that I believe Obama meets the standard of genius mind you.
BIDEN: I don’t believe he has the capacity to change, because, in fairness to him, he’s had a fundamental view, George. He concluded our meeting by saying, ‘I believe in freedom and liberty, universal principles everyone agrees are the same principles.’ My comment was, Sistani’s view of liberty is different than our view of liberty.
He has this wholesome but naive view that Western notions of liberty are easily transposed to that area of the world. As long as he thinks the Iraqis are about ready to jump up and embrace our notion of liberty, democracy might come into the present (inaudible). But Mr. President, democracy is more than an election. It involves fundamental compromise. And if you believe you are compromising your liberty if you conclude that you should move in one direction, then your notion of liberty is different than my notion of liberty.
Look, George, as I said to the president when he asked me a while ago, if every jihadi, every terrorist in all of Iraq was eliminated, the Lord came down and sat in the middle of this table and said, ‘They’re all gone,’ we still have a major war in Iraq that has nothing to do with terror.
::Tullycast:: 