{"id":16646,"date":"2020-06-12T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2020-06-12T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:53:44","slug":"firing-line-friday-why-are-our-intellectuals-so-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/06\/12\/firing-line-friday-why-are-our-intellectuals-so-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: Why Are Our Intellectuals So Dumb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While people who have actual expertise, knowledge, and demonstrable abilities ought not to be knocked down because they are \u201ccredentialed\u201d, it is true that such belittlement can exist because self-declared intellectual elites tend to quite often demonstrate their abject stupidity. William F. Buckley asked, nearly forty years ago, the evergreen question: Why are out intellectuals so dumb?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iMv4XsL-1lU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: Why Are Our Intellectuals So Dumb?\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\" While people who have actual expertise, knowledge, and demonstrable abilities ought not to be knocked down because they are \u2018credentialed\u2019, it is true that such belittlement can exist because self-declared intellectual elites tend to quite often demonstrate their abject stupidity.  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