Anyone listening to the caller on Randi Rhodes right now?

[SeattleGirl]

He's trying to make the argument that college curriculums are left wing, and "they" leave so many things out that should be taught.

Randi keeps asking him what specific things the colleges leave out, but he can't come up with a cogent answer.

[rateyes]

1. Probably a high school drop out.

Not that there aren't some very fine people who didn't graduate high school. I'm just saying that a lot of criticism of higher education comes from those who never participated in higher education.

It's like criticizing a book you've never read.

[SeattleGirl]

6. Exactly.

It's just amazing to me that people feel so threatened by "book learnin'".

[EST]

24. Uhhh...

That's "book larnin" I'll have you know!:hi: :kick:

[SeattleGirl]

25. Oh, my bad!

:rofl:


If you look below, though, you will see that I DID spell BRANE correctly!
:P

[saracat]

2. Why is she talking to him? She usually hangs up on people.

[Breeze54]

5. She'd have to talk to people if she can hang up on them.

She hangs up on morons that try to talk over her and not have a conversation.

[saracat]

14. Actually that is not always true.I have heard her hang up on some obvious progressives who have

agreed with her. She can be really rude.As her tolerance is low for idiots, I wondered why she was still talking to this guy. He seems a perfect "hang up" candidate.

[Breeze54]

20. Maybe she has "idiot fatigue"?

:rofl:

You know, like a customer service person hears all day long?

After awhile, you've heard it all before and can see where it's

going and you only have so much time you can be on the phone, so?

You find ways to end the conversation. Sometimes the release button

is the only way!

[SeattleGirl]

21. "Idiot fatigue"

:rofl:

[Breeze54]

36. I think I suffer from it

from my last job in CS!! :rofl:

CLICK!! :P

[SeattleGirl]

7. She was trying to get him to see that thinking that college classes

leave a lot of things out (as he said) is a fallacy.

She was pretty patient with him, I have to say.

[Breeze54]

3. I am now but this guy is explaining about drip dry and spinning

in the cycle. Is this the same guy?

The previous caller wanted to eliminate Science???

[SeattleGirl]

8. No, that was a different guy. He was talking about what the

guy I was referring to was doing.

[tridim]

4. As the current caller is saying, It's paranoia...

They're imagining threats that just aren't there.

That's becoming more and more obvious as the 25% STILL support the massive failure known as BushCo.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Right. And what bugs me so much is that that 25% seem to get

75% of the attention in this country by most of the media.

They truly ARE the Daddy Party, aren't they? Running around like a bunch of scared little kids, crying out in the dark for someone to save them.

[MNDemNY]

10. Well, in a way I agree... The truth is left wing.

[SeattleGirl]

12. The truth is the truth. It's just been labeled as left wing by the righties

who are scared of the truth.

[immoderate]

11. I heard him.

He can't articulate what he believes. He's upset that the classroom is not like real life. Well it's not. Just like a race track is not like the public roads.

What he doesn't realize is that education itself is liberal. Sure there are conservative colleges, but they don't educate; they indoctrinate.

--IMM

[SeattleGirl]

15. Exactly right, IMM.

A liberal education teaches people to think for themselves; a conservative one teaches people WHAT to think.

I'm so glad I have a liberal education.

[tridim]

17. Now, if we could only get you to enjoy the smell of pot.

Sorry, I'll stop now. Last post on the subject, I promise. :)

[SeattleGirl]

22. Bwahahahaha!!!

I'm hopeless, I tell ya! Hopeless!



:rofl:

[Breeze54]

18. Well said!!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

"Sure there are conservative colleges, but they don't educate; they indoctrinate."
~~ IMModerate ~~

[immoderate]

28. Thanks.

:) For once, Randi did something I'd like her to do more often -- let the guy hang himself.

--IMM

[libnnc]

29. "Education itself is liberal...conservative colleges don't educate; they indoctrinate."

So EXACTLY correct.

:thumbsup:

[0007]

13. I get weary of listening to all those stupid advertisements. So I pass

these days on most talking head on line.

[SeattleGirl]

16. I hit the mute button when the ads come on. I can't stand them.

:eyes:

[LSparkle]

19. What a douche ...

"Get a brain, MORAN!"

[SeattleGirl]

23. Um, don't you mean BRANE?

:rofl:

[tech3149]

26. I'm always amazed that these people can't manage to string a single

sentence together to represent their thoughts. I've grown too accustomed to their lack of substantive facts to justify their conclusions.

[SeattleGirl]

27. They can get away with it when talking to right-wing hosts, because

those hosts don't question them. But the lefties do, and suddenly, they are standing their without their pants (sorry, bad image), totally at a loss for words, because they HAVE nothing to support their positions.

[tandot]

30. Truthiness:

"Truthiness is what you want the facts to be, as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support." ~ Stephen Colbert

I guess this asshole wants more "truthiness" be taught in school. As it turns out, facts are inherently liberal. Life just sucks if you are a brainless right-winger.

[SeattleGirl]

32. It's gotta be really frustrating for the righties, when those of us on

the left refuse to buckle down and march in lockstep.

[Cleita]

31. That was painful and it's truly frightening.

It felt the same way that I feel when Jay Leno does jaywalking on his show and asks people on the street questions that they should know the answer to.

[SeattleGirl]

33. Apparently, there are a lot of people in this country who are NOT

smarter than a 5th grader. :eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

34. Like what? Ayn Randian Economics?

Newt Gingrich Poli Sci courses? Pat Robertson Divinity Studies?

The caller should face it, there are no towering schools of pure conservative study.

Just take a class in Social, Cultural and Economic Darwinism.

[SeattleGirl]

35. He couldn't even articulate that much.

He just wanted to toss out general statements, not based in fact, and have Randi accept them.

He wasn't one of those really annoying bombastic blowhards. In fact, I felt sorry for him in a way. It was like he was scared to even THINK about THINKING, if you know what I mean.

[Canuckistanian]

38. I'll hear it later

I podcast her shows. He's probably on a David Horowitz newsletter or something.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. Oh my... got it now on the KLSD

and my god... he is FUNNY

Tragic, but funny