quote:Actually, the reason that republican presidents are perceived as stupid is because there is a tendency among liberals, including those in the media, to assume that people who don't share their beliefs are either evil, stupid or both.
As an Ithaca College Professor noted earlier this year about anti-war protesters:
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- they most frequently rely on what I like to call the "Dupes or Dopes" theory - that is, the conviction that everyone who disagrees with them is either a dupe (brainwashed by the Corporate Media, an evil conspiracy that includes everyone in America who goes near a word processor, microphone or television camera, with the sole exception of Amy Goodman), or a dope, which is to say, too stupid to recognize the clear and obvious truth [and that] "Bush is an idiot/Bush is evil" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
And clearly you were brainwashed into believing that...
That sounds very like the crap spouted by some of the conservatives round here that there is a huge Liberal conspiracy. Elements of both sides have their stupid generalisations about the other.
I think Clinton was a bit of prat, yet I am, certainly by America's more to the right than Britain's standards, a liberal. I though he was guilty of perjury and should have been punished accordingly.
