Former NYT White House Reporter Bruni: Surging GOP Candidates 'Are to Varying Degrees Yahoos'
After a stint as a White House reporter for the Times after George W. Bush took office in 2001, Frank Bruni wrote a fairly respectful biography of the president, Ambling Into History. But as a recently minted Times columnist, Bruni has betrayed no similar feeling for the current Republican candidates, who “are to varying degrees yahoos," according to his mocking Sunday Review column "And Now ... Professor Gingrich."
It’s Gingrich’s braininess -- or at least his preening assertion of such -- that doesn’t quite fit, breaking the Republican pattern of late. How does an ostentatious know-it-all fare so well in a party supposedly hostile to intellectuals and intellectualism?
The candidates who surged before him are to varying degrees yahoos. They proved it anew last week. Michele Bachmann seemed to be under the impression that we had an embassy in Iran, and Rick Perry was definitely under the delusion that the voting age in this country is 21 instead of 18.
Merriam-Webster defines "yahoo" as "a boorish, crass, or stupid person."
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How does an ostentatious
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 10:21am.
How does an ostentatious know-it-all fare so well in a party supposedly hostile to intellectuals and intellectualism?
The operative word there is "supposedly."
Definitions for "supposed" include "believed" "understood" and "expected" [to be]
Because Bruni and others "suppose" that the Republican party is anti-intellectual doesn't mean it is.
Bruni here sounds like just another "elite" presuming the Republican party is made up of "yahoos" and toothless inbreds.
I take it that he doesn't for
Submitted by GreenTea on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 6:43pm.
I take it that he doesn't work for yahoo.com lol
bruni
Submitted by east tennessee john on Wed, 12/07/2011 - 11:19am.
Just who in the hell is this sob? Has he ever been elected anything or has he relied on his overworn set of knee pads to progress in life? What is his educational backround(Ivy League I bet) and what makes him think, other than an inflated ego, that he knows so much more than the rest of us? Afterall, its been the inside the beltway darwinist social "progressive" that put us in the position we're in and they don't have the guts, balls or character to admit it. Screw this jerk.