Are you referring to a particular Beckcident, or is this a general comment?
I look at people like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter and think, these are fairly intelligent educated people... they went to school, they could more or less function in human society and pull down paychecks before they got into politics, wha hoppen they get bit by a Dumb-Spider one night or something?
I think they've just discovered the value, entertainment and financial, of pandering. It brings them attention and money in amounts they couldn't have ever achieved otherwise, if they'd stayed wino junkie DJs and lawyers respectively. In private moments, they must look askance at what they're saying and doing and think that it's a form of harmless and lucrative clowning... unless they get sucked in by their own nonsense, or taken in by simple power-worship as they meet people much richer, more influential, and outwardly more self-assured than themselves.
Meanwhile, I think it's entirely possible that Sarah Palin, while possessed of a certain amount of low animal cunning, really IS as stupid as she looks and sounds.
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Date: 2010-06-10 10:40 pm (UTC)I look at people like Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter and think, these are fairly intelligent educated people... they went to school, they could more or less function in human society and pull down paychecks before they got into politics, wha hoppen they get bit by a Dumb-Spider one night or something?
I think they've just discovered the value, entertainment and financial, of pandering. It brings them attention and money in amounts they couldn't have ever achieved otherwise, if they'd stayed wino junkie DJs and lawyers respectively. In private moments, they must look askance at what they're saying and doing and think that it's a form of harmless and lucrative clowning... unless they get sucked in by their own nonsense, or taken in by simple power-worship as they meet people much richer, more influential, and outwardly more self-assured than themselves.
Meanwhile, I think it's entirely possible that Sarah Palin, while possessed of a certain amount of low animal cunning, really IS as stupid as she looks and sounds.