{"id":14958,"date":"2010-08-09T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14958"},"modified":"2010-08-09T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T19:39:32","slug":"video-of-the-day-malice-and-stupidity-usually-go-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/09\/video-of-the-day-malice-and-stupidity-usually-go-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of the Day\/Quote of the Day: &#8220;Malice and stupidity usually go together&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uKflKzmfRCw<\/p>\n<p>I follow Sarah Palin closely because she is a pathological <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/search\/?sort=time&amp;source=magazine&amp;q=sarah+palin+lies\" target=\"_blank\">liar<\/a> and a dangerously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XbQwAFobQxQ\" target=\"_blank\">ignorant<\/a> and self-serving <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2009\/12\/22\/palins-death-panels-charge-named-lie-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">demagogue<\/a> who also happens to be virtual leader of the Republican party.\u00a0 (Thank <em>you<\/em>, John McCain. Whatever became of that guy anyway?)\u00a0 Every once in awhile you get a glimpse of the snarky, mean-spirited bully she is; as in this video taken yesterday in Homer, Alaska (where the divine Sarah claims to be commercial fishing, but as she hasn&#8217;t been issued any of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/shannyn-moore\/sarah-palins-homer-moment_b_675198.html\" target=\"_blank\">necessary licences<\/a>, she may be lying about that too).<\/p>\n<p>In any event, this clip speaks for itself.\u00a0 Homer resident Kathleen Gustafson has put up a banner reading &#8220;Worst Governor Ever.&#8221;\u00a0 Instead of letting it slide, Palin confronts her.\u00a0 Gustafson is dignified and direct in her responses while Palin is sarcastic throughout (&#8220;Oh, you <em>want<\/em> me as your governor?\u00a0 I am <em>honored<\/em>!)&#8221;\u00a0 The two burly dudes trying to block the filming, causing the cameraman to engage in a tango of evasion between them, are husband Todd and a private bodyguard.\u00a0 Note that they are doing so on private property, and it&#8217;s not their private property they&#8217;re on.\u00a0 (Not that it makes any difference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2008\/10\/31\/palin\" target=\"_blank\">Palin thinks the First Amendment is to protect her from the press<\/a>, and not the other way around.)\u00a0 Pay special attention to the exchange at 1.10 where Palin asks Gustafson what she does.\u00a0 She replies, &#8220;I&#8217;m a teacher.&#8221;\u00a0 Palin&#8217;s mama grizzly response is caught in all its unmistakable grisliness: a knowing groan, an eye-roll, a smirk to her daughter Bristol, and &#8212; through that unrelentingly nasty grin &#8212; a dismissive grimace.<\/p>\n<p>After the filming stopped a Palin supporter pulled down the banner.\u00a0 Again, on private property.\u00a0 But when you&#8217;re messing with Palin, you forgo your rights.\u00a0 Because only those who qualify as &#8220;mavericks&#8221; or &#8220;patriots&#8221; or &#8220;real Americans&#8221; as determined by Palin and her crew are protected by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Frye on teachers in &#8220;The Beginning of the Word&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At his trial Socrates compared himself to a midwife, using what for that male-oriented society was a deliberately vulgar metaphor.\u00a0 Perhaps the teacher of literature today might be called a kind of drug pusher.\u00a0 He hovers furtively on the outskirts of social organization, dodging possessive parents, evading drill-sergeant educators and snoopy politicians, passing over the squares, disguising himself from anyone who might get at the source of his income.\u00a0 If society really understood, there would be many who would make things as uncomfortable as they could for him, though luckily malice and stupidity usually go together.\u00a0 When no one is looking, he distributes products that are guaranteed to expand the mind, and are quite capable of blowing it as well.\u00a0 But if Canada ever becomes as famous in cultural history as the Athens of Socrates, it will be largely because, in spite of indifference or philistinism or even contempt, he has persisted in the immortal task granted only to teachers, the task of corrupting its youth.\u00a0 (<em>On Education<\/em>, 20-21)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uKflKzmfRCw I follow Sarah Palin closely because she is a pathological liar and a dangerously ignorant and self-serving demagogue who also happens to be virtual leader of the Republican party.\u00a0 (Thank you, John McCain. Whatever became of that guy anyway?)\u00a0 Every once in awhile you get a glimpse of the snarky, mean-spirited bully she is; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[129,154,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote-of-the-day","category-teaching-with-frye","category-video-of-the-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video of the Day\/Quote of the Day: &quot;Malice and stupidity usually go together&quot; - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/09\/video-of-the-day-malice-and-stupidity-usually-go-together\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Video of the Day\/Quote of the Day: &quot;Malice and stupidity usually go together&quot; - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uKflKzmfRCw I follow Sarah Palin closely because she is a pathological liar and a dangerously ignorant and self-serving demagogue who also happens to be virtual leader of the Republican party.\u00a0 (Thank you, John McCain. 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