On 6/21/2014 2:33 PM, jps wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:22:11 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 6/20/14, 9:17 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/20/2014 8:58 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:

My anti-higher-education "tirades"? I feel nothing of the sort.

My objections are with people who feel they are somehow superior,
smarter or "better" simply because they have advanced or more than one
degree.

You often happen to be a perfect example.



The subject here was Rachel Maddow, who is as smart as a person gets,
and who also has advanced degrees. One of the resident morons here
claimed she was "stupid." That was stupid.



Whatever. She's not stupid IMO. She's making a decent paycheck
cackling away on MSNBC. I used to listen to her but found I can't
handle her constant whining and complaining of anything not progressive
or liberal.


I'm sure Rachel will be pleased that you don't believe she is stupid.

Some folks with advanced degrees still lack common sense but they have
certainly gone through the mill and had the opportunity to develop
critical thinking skills.

Ms Maddow doesn't demonstrate a lack of common sense nor does she lack
analytical skill but she is sometimes exhaustive in her analysis.

I will fast forward both her and Lawrence O'Donnell when they get
pedantic, which they often do. Not that I don't appreciate the work,
I just don't need to hear it from several different angles to get it.

I expect some of that is to fill time, like an attorney billing by the
hour.



You have hit exactly my feelings about Maddow and O'Donnell. I have
watched and listened to both over the years, interested in their take on
current events and I don't always disagree with them. It's the daily,
weekly and sometimes longer repetitious discussion about a singular
issue that gets to me after a while. Of the two, I'd rather watch
Rachael however. O'Donnell is worse and his style of delivery is like
that of a grandfatherly figure slowly enunciating every word as if to
let them "sink in" in his commentary. Five minutes of that is about all
I can handle anymore.

MSNBC was somewhat refreshing to me during his absence and convalescence
following his car accident. I'll have to keep the remote within arm's
reach again now.