"Educated" does not mean smart

The ONE “conservative” at the New York Times, some pasty weak sap named David Brooks, penned this piece for the toilet “paper of record” – which means the NYT has no conservatives writing for the paper on staff. The gist of Brooks’ piece is that these Tea Party people who are more popular than either the Republican or Demo-Dope parties are ruining everything for the “educated class.” No doubt the pompous pant load considers himself among the “educated class.”

Well here’s the thing. We have all known Frasier Crane type over educated eggheads who can look at a piece of art and tell you who painted it, in what year and why the work is important. Then these same eggheads go home and have to call an electrician when the hall light burns out. As part of what Brooks might call the flathead Neanderthal class that makes up about 98% of the world’s population, unless they can DO something, “Educated class” means nothing to me.

For Brooks, apparently it is much more important where you went to school and what you might have studied than what you can actually do. More important to be a Dear Dope who attended all the right schools than to actually have a clue about governing a country.

Brooks considers Sarah Palin a “joke” because she is popular among us flatheads and attended schools west of Philadelphia. According to Brooks, she cannot possibly be up to the task if she did not attend an Ivy League school.

Every time I see Brooks on tv talking to another person who holds himself in high esteem, I’m reminded of Frasier Crane and his brother Niles sitting in the coffee shop, legs crossed like girls, lamenting the fact that neither can find a cook who makes a satisfactory arugula & Bouillabaisse. “I tell you Niles, I don’t know what this town is coming to.”

Perhaps the arrogant conceited Brooks- the Earl of Dorincourt of the “educated class” – can step down from the pedestal he places himself upon to take a minute to meet us flatheads and discover, as the Earl did, that it is he and his “educated class” who have the most to learn.