Slippery Slope
Banned
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2008
- Messages
- 2,801
- Reaction score
- 330
- Location
- in a neocon's craw
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Slightly Liberal
No, let's see, joe made up a scenario and presented it as truth in order to erroneously attack the tax policy, that he didn't understand in the first place, of a political candidate he opposed. I wonder how our view of the same scenario could be so radically different? Maybe you're not being truthful with the facts surrounding the event... :roll:Oh because I called him joe-the-not-so-much-a-plumber? That's not partisan that's truth.So I call you a partisan and you attack Joe the Plumber using partisan talking points? Thanks for proving my point.
LOL, being a DJ or reading the news report on the radio is a far cry from journalism. :doh But if it makes you feel better...Yeah, uh, my hourly job is at a news radio station, so yeah, I am in journalism, I majored in Broadcasting, it had heavy jounalistic elements, many of the people I work with do NOT have a journalism degree. So what was your criteria for judging journalism credentials again?
Yes, I could figure out the timing on a ford fairlane or completely rebuild a pipe system for a house, along with a lot of other things that I have no training in. You know why? Because I have the mental capacity and the ability to learn. I didn't know how to build a gardening shed but I got on the internet and read. Then I draw a schematic and went to Lowes. Then I had to figure out how to get electricity down to it so again, I learned that I needed to run 50amp aluminum cable from my main breaker to the breakout box and install a GFI... I never knew how to grow vegetables other than corn and soy (my family are corn and soy farmers in IL.) but I wanted to have fresh veggies so again... I learned.I never said you were elite, I said you were practicing elitISM, that is a nice way of saying snobbery. Frankly I am sick of people thinking they are better than others because they went to college, or calling blue collar workers stupid because they don't have a four year degree, can you figure out the timing on a Ford Fairlane, or completely rebuild a pipe system for a house, etc. No? then you are no better than those who can, and again, Journalism can be learned in the field, it's not something that requires a degree from Cornell.
Besides it's not snobbery, as I said before, you shouldn't praise stupidity or ignorance. Just because someone didn't go to college doesn't mean they aren't smart but proving and displaying that you are dumb pretty much seals the deal.
He's what they call a "useful idiot". The company that hired him only did so to take advantage of him. I'll wager that after a short stint as a "war correspondent" he'll wind up back on his couch in Ohio looking for another plumbing job. Or, maybe he'll make enough to buy that plumbing business and find out that he was all wrong about Obama's tax policies. :2razz:First of all, Joe the Plumber can't be all that stupid if he landed that correspondents job, and, his question was intelligent enough to make Obama stammer, so I don't see where you get off calling him dumb.
I was merely pointing out the fallacy of your statement. The rest of your comment was addressed above.So now you use the "different kinds of intelligence" argument since it helps you out. I already know there are different kinds of intelligence since I had to take multiple behavioral science classes in college, it is YOU claiming people are stupid because they don't have book knowledge. And many plumbers, carpenters, and oil men in my area have shown a better working knowledge of this country and business than the average four year MBA graduate.
[quote[Let's see, Joe asked Obama a question about taxes and got a template answer, who looked smarter?