Have you ever experienced the phenomenon when you think of your favorite song, you can replicate it perfectly in you head but when you try to vocalize the tune it doesn’t come out quite right – or at all? I am beginning to think that is the same phenomenon going on in S.E. Cupp’s writing. She thinks of a topic and it sounds good in her head, but when it gets on paper, it is just terrible.
Take her latest column, A Reading Lesson from Glenn Beck. Had S.E. looked waaaaay back to July 16, she would have realized equating Glenn Beck with teaching is exactly what alleged shooter Byron Williams did.
Here are a few sentences that made me laugh out loud:
“If we're to believe the Democrats and the liberal media, the reason is because you're too stupid to know any better.”
Is she talking about the liberal media that is publishing her?
“…more than half the American population cannot be trusted at the ballot box? People who've somehow managed to start their own businesses, graduate [“matriculate” was used in the print edition] from top colleges, raise successful families in trying times, balance their own household budgets and master the maddening mental mousetrap that is the NASCAR point system are simply too dumb to understand today's political talking points?”
Only conservatives start their own businesses, graduate/matriculate from top colleges, raise successful families, etc... Liberals, on the other hand, only protest war and blog from their parent’s basement.
“[Beck]'s a hit because he plays on our insatiable desire to know stuff. Some call it ‘intellectual curiosity,’ but I don't want to scare you with big words.
I’m beginning to think that S.E. Cupp is a parody.
Cupp proves her point by listing three legitimately-informative books out of 20 on Beck’s 9/12 Project website.
“The truth is that the left is skeptical of intellectual curiosity…”
This has got to be a parody.
Shorter S.E. Cupp:
Liberals think Conservatives are stupid and, if you read my columns, you could understand why.
What such criticisms miss is that moment when Beck brings out a musty old book by an author you've never heard of - and says that it's so obscure he had to borrow it from a library in Kansas. Just then you feel as though you're getting some secret knowledge, as though you're learning something that maybe your neighbor, your husband, your boss and even your smart-ass kid doesn't know. You're Harry Potter at Hogwarts, and Dumbledore is teaching you magic.
ReplyDeleteMagic not being real is central to her point.
Of course, Cleon Skousen taught black magic- the remarkable sorcery that teaches us that African-Americans weren't instrumental in building the 'Merkin economy while being denied its benefits.