Posted by
John Ostrowski on Monday, September 25, 2006 11:16:05 PM
Witness Alec Baldwin's latest post on The Huffington Post:
I can't remember which upset me more....the stolen election in 2000 or
the war in Iraq. Or was it when they outed Valerie Plame, a woman
working in the service of her country's intelligence apparatus who had
the "misfortune" of being married to a government official who dared to
contradict this White House's right-wing-nut-bag agenda in Baghdad?
Is this guy serious? Is this guy really still harping about the 2000 election. You know, the one which know one has been able to show was stolen. Seriously, six years. It took Nixon a day to realize that crying about voter irregularities in Texas and Illinois in 1960 wouldn't do anything. So why are liberals still crying about a vote that had no voter irregularities? Because they have nothing better to do.
And did anyone give Baldwin the memo about Plame and the source that outed Wilson? Does he know it was Richard Armitage, hardly a fan of Bush's Iraq policy? Or is he willfully ignorant because it allows him to hold on to a deeply head conspiratorial belief? (Almost certainly the latter.)
I encourage you to go and read the rest of Baldwin's rant. He goes on to complain about a multitude of other Republican sins that he perceives. It's funny because it shows that he is not capable of taking an issue, analyzing it in depth, drawing conclusions, and suggesting solutions. He simple can't do it. It seems he has a multitude of incredibly simplistic thoughts swimming in his head (Stolen election...Iraq war bad...Rove outed Plame...Bush evil...Cheney evil...Rumsfeld evil...Republicans bad) that he is unable to sort through in order to produce a coherent column. He comes across as a rambling idiot. Why is this?
Alec Baldwin is a classic Hollywood psuedo-intellectual. What do I mean by this? Well, he's a Hollywood liberal, and he makes all kinds of strong assertions while mistakenly operating under the belief that he is intelligent. It's almost sad, really.
This example might be a little removed, but it makes sense to me because I'm in college. Think about your time in school, especially years spent in higher education. Class discussions could always be broken down more or less into four groups: the just-plain-dumb kids, the middle-of-the-road kids, the smart kids, and the psuedo intellectuals. Of all the groups, only one was consistently annoying: psuedo intellectuals. The other groups could be annoying depending on an individual's character traits (arrogant smart kids were annoying, and unfunny dumb kids were annoying). Psuedo intellectuals were the ones consistently contributing to class discussions; they acted as if they knew everything, but you felt like smacking your forehead everytime they opened their mouth. Alec Baldwin is a psuedo intellectual.