{"id":184158,"date":"2012-07-18T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/18\/the-stoopid-it-burns-us\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T19:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T00:43:00","slug":"the-stoopid-it-burns-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/18\/the-stoopid-it-burns-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stoopid, It Burns US!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a week for the stupid.<\/p>\n

Case in point, this exchange between award winning journalist and columnist Connie Schultz and an unnamed conservative blogger<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Email from conservative blogger, dated July 9, 2012:<\/p>\n

Dear Ms. Shultz,<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Care to comment?<\/div>\n

———————–<\/p>\n

Response, dated July 10, 2012:<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. [Name Deleted]:<\/p>\n

I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He’s really cute.<\/p>\n

He’s also my husband.<\/b>
<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

You know that, right?<\/p>\n

Connie Schultz.<\/p>\n

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July 17: Waiting, I’m waiting….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n

Great googly moogly.<\/p>\n

I guess Republicans live by the old Dave Sim adage,  “I firmly believe that if you can’t fool all of the people all of the time, you should start breeding them for stupidity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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