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Peter Schweizer: The arrogance of uneducated liberals
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/08/01/peter-schweizer-the-arrogance-of-uneducated-liberals.aspx

Bush the smarter candidate?

How exactly did the media know that Gore was so smart and Bush so dumb? In fact, the record did not indicate any of this was true. It was often alleged, probably with reason, that Bush only got into Yale because his father had gone there and his grandfather had been a Connecticut senator. Yet Gore, with high school Bs and Cs (his only As were in art), got into Harvard in part because (like other politicians� sons, including a raft of Kennedys) his father was a famous senator. At Harvard, Gore�s grades did not improve. In his sophomore year he earned a D, a C-minus, two Cs, two C-pluses and one B-minus. He was in the bottom fifth of his class his first two years in school. Later he flunked out of divinity school (failing five of his eight classes) and dropped out of Vanderbilt University Law School. Gore was once asked (after having served in the U.S. Senate for several years) to name his favourite president. �President Knox,� he replied.
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As it happened, George W. Bush had taken the same test just a few years later. Columnist Steve Sailer determined that Bush�s score put him in the 95th percentile, giving him an IQ in the 120s. Kerry�s score was slightly lower, putting him in the 91st percentile.
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After Bush won re-election, it became clear why Kerry hadn�t wanted to release his college records. The Boston Globe discovered that Bush actually had higher grades at Yale and also had higher SAT scores. (Bush�s scores were also higher than those of Senator Bill Bradley, another liberal often described as learned and brilliant.)
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Professor Bruce Fleming, a self-professed liberal, explains this liberal attitude perfectly. �All of us are ignorant of many things. It�s just that the liberal here thinks he knows what the conservative is ignorant of.�

This sublime confidence in their own superiority leads to a closed-minded insistence that liberals know what is right. Scholars at Stanford, the University of Illinois and Williams conducted four studies on the subject of �asymmetric insight.� Basically, this is the notion that some people claim to know more than others. Surveys were conducted with hundreds of students. Among their findings: Liberals are much more likely to believe that their knowledge of conservatives and their arguments surpasses that of conservatives themselves. The results were similar when it came to the abortion issue. Abortion rights advocates claimed to have greater knowledge and insight than those who are pro-life.

[mithridates]

What a terrible time to pick to publish that book.

I'm also glad that classic book titles aren't that long. Frankenstein: The Doctor That Got Too Obsessed With His Own Project, Made A Monster, Found It To Be Too Ugly, Abandoned It To Grow Up On Its Own, A Monster Surprisingly Good At The French Language By The Way, Who Eventually Proved That The Real Monster Lay Within The Soul Of His Creator.

[Ya-ta Boy]

He may talk dumb and he may make stupid choices but at least he got better grades than the other guys. So there! <<insert icon with fingers in ears and tongue sticking out>>

Welcome to the 2nd Grade.

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[agentX]

Book publishers will publish any piece of crap that fits their political agenda. Just look at whomever publishes Michael Savage's political books.

But let's look at the substance, or lack thereof, of this author's statement.
If Bush has an IQ in the 120s, then why does he make so many verbal gaffs and idiotic mistakes? If Gore were president, Sept 11th probably wouldn't have happened and the War on Iraq would never have happened.

If you're talking about grades, then consider this: Louis Pasteur got mediocre grades in Chemistry. And look what became of him.

Since we're on the subject of IQ, let's look at the source of Bush's IQ score, Steve Sailer. I guess the writer's not familiar with some of Sailer's work.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/93252/cnn_uses_racial_extremist_as_source_for_its_%27black_in_america%27_series/

[BreakfastInBed]

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[Bigfeet]

This tells you something about ivy league schools. Getting in is more about money and connections than it is about academics. I think that they give scholarships to smart poor kids to boost the collective IQ of the schools.

[bacasper]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Sept. 11th would have happened, but it is not at all certain what would have happened in response. I for one do not think we'd be a couple of trillion more dollars in debt. There is no reason to believe that Gore would have chosen a war of choice. If Henry Ford hadn't come up with the assembly line when he did, it is 99% certain someone else would have very soon. That is not the same as going to war when you are not attacked. Voting does matter and the winner is important.

[contrarian]

I think Bush should have stuck to his guns and gone on a genuine crusade after 9/11.

[Nowhere Man]

[Cheonmunka]

I've never heard detractors to the Bush admin turn around and say, "Gore was smarter." I've never heard that one. Sounds like a crock of bull. Something like that Kyrsowsky fella who wrote that book on property investment, who the gullible believed so took out 100% mortgages to buy in Ca and Az.

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[Cheonmunka]