Politico Editor John Harris: I "Encouraged" That Voters-Are-Stupid Story; I Wanted a Headline That Flat-Out Called Voters Stupid, But I Was Overruled; But I Claim Victory For Getting The Picture of Mentally Retarded Forrest Gump In There

Gatekeepin'.

Newsbusters points out that this was the dick that Newt Gingrich tangled with at a debate. Gingrich thought this guy was actually sort of liberally biased.

Voters are "stupid" and "uninformed" when they don't agree with liberal opinions. Liberals love ObamaCare, so voters are "stupid" to oppose it. Even though, just as voters suspected, it will cost at least twice as much as advertised, and, as we're currently seeing with respect to the abortion mandate, it is one of the most intrusive, liberty-destroying laws ever passed.

Liberals have a funny meaning for the word "stupid." What they mean is not that you have your facts wrong (though they do claim that) but that you shouldn't care about the facts that you're talking about.

Rather than make that case, though, they claim you don't have the facts.

They're the stupid ones. They constantly resort to stupid debate tactics like deliberately playing dumb and changing the topic.

On ObamaCare, liberals were wrong, and we were right.

For that we're called stupid. And they, who were wrong, are "smart."

posted by Ace at 12:30 PM

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