Is Befitting Response to 'Deliverance' Boys Pie in the Sky?
San Gabriel Valley Tribune › February 01, 2006
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LIBERALS enjoy claiming that they are intellectuals, thrilled to engage in a battle of wits. This, they believe, distinguishes them from conservatives, who are religious fanatics who react with impotent rage to opposing ideas.
As one liberal, Jonathan Chait, put the cliche in The New Republic: Bush is an "instinctive anti-intellectual' and his administration hostile to "fact-driven debate.'See the full content of this document
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Is Befitting Response to 'Deliverance' Boys Pie in the Sky?
In a favorable contrast, Clinton is "the former Rhodes scholar who relished academic debates.'
Showing his usual reverence for fact-checking, The New York Times' Paul Krugman says the Republican Party is "dominated by people who believe truth should be determined by revelation, not research.'I'm not sur...See the full content of this document
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