You (and Bush) are likely too dumb for this
By Howard Mortman
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/990758.asp

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 - If you're an American, chances are there's a
celebrity who thinks you're dumb. Maybe even stupid. Or an idiot. Or
something worse, which we can't print here.

YES, SHOW A celebrity an American, and that celebrity will show you an
ignoramus.

Too sweeping a statement? Perhaps. But what about this Michael Moore
screed about Americans in the London Mirror earlier this month? "They
are possibly the dumbest people on the planet. ...We Americans suffer
from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's
happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing."

Until Michael Moore pointed it out, you probably didn't know how
embarrassingly stupid you are. In fact, you probably have so little
intelligence you didn't know that Moore isn't the only celebrity who
thinks you're dumb. Indeed, Moore has colleagues in the celebrity
kingdom who think the same thing.

So put on your well-worn dunce cap and check out what other celebrities
say about your intelligence. And if the celebrities are correct in
their analysis, you're moving your lips as you read this.

Johnny Depp said a few months back, "America is dumb, is something like
a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you." (Depp
later claimed he was quoted out of context and offered: "I am an
American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this
reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it." But
still, we're like dumb puppies?)

Ted Turner once said this about television-watchers: "The United States
has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know
that; we know that."

JANE SOUNDS OFF, TOO

Speaking of Ted Turner, Jane Fonda was in Canada this past April and
said: "I don't know if a country where the people are so ignorant of
reality and of history, if you can call that a free world."

Also in Canada, Martin Sheen said recently: "Every time I cross this
border, I feel like I've left the land of lunatics. You are not armed
and dangerous. You do not shoot each other. I always feel a bit more
human when I come here."

Lunatics, ignorant people, dummies - even dumb puppies. Yes, we got 'em
all here.

Where does this superior celebrity intellect come from? It's actually
part of a larger phenomenon, one involving the president. Celebrities
sneer at President Bush's intelligence. And then they think we're all
the same, just dumb Bush-boosters.

For evidence of how much smarter celebrities think they are than the
president, we start again with super-smart guy Michael Moore. A year
ago, he told the London Mirror (he loves those British papers), "I
really do believe Bush is dumber than s@?*. What's odd about all this
is that Blair is a smart guy. What's he doing hanging out with a dumb
guy? Back at school if you were smart, you hung out with the other kids
that were smart."

Sticking with the European press, earlier this year Larry Hagman told a
German newspaper that Bush was a "sad figu not too well-educated,
who doesn't get out of America much." And Sheen told the BBC after Bush
became president: "George W. Bush is like a bad comic working the
crowd. A moron, if you'll pardon the expression."

I'm not sure which expression we should be pardoning there, mind you.
Maybe it's because I'm a moron-American (we're such a hyphenated nation
these days).

But the hits continue. In April, Edward Norton said of Bush: "As an
actor, I know in my mind, watching him, what a low-quality mind he
has." And during the 2000 campaign, Cher said, "I don't like Bush. I
don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."

SNAP OUT OF IT!

Yikes! Stupid and lazy? C'mon, Cher! Snap out of it!

Also during the 2000 campaign, Rob Reiner said, "We have the single
most unqualified man running for president in our lifetime. I'm not
making this up! I'm not making this up! The man has no experience, and
worse than that, he has no intellectual curiosity." Gee, he makes Bush
sound like a, well, like a meathead.

No celebrity said it smarter than Sandra Bernhard. She asserted her
intelligence and belittled Bush at the same time to the Washington Post
in March 2002: "I'm an intelligent person from America. I was born in
Michigan and raised in Arizona, and while I do reside in New York, I
travel the country extensively. Any thinking person who lives in the
world would be disturbed at what's going on right now. I think Bush is
amateurish and self-serving, and, frankly, it's disgusting."

I would offer a retort to Bernhard, but I can't think of anything smart
to say. I've never been to Michigan.
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You (and Bush) are likely too dumb for this
By Howard Mortman
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/news/990758.asp