If you’re about to call someone an idiot, don’t use a cliche that identifies you as one November 8, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, wingnuts.trackback
Crooks and Liars is all over the Republicans latest embarrassing defeat, this time on their much-ballyhooed voucher proposal. And talk about class!
Voucher supporter Overstock.com chief executive Patrick Byrne – who bankrolled the voucher effort – called the referendum a “statewide IQ test” that Utahns failed.
“They don’t care enough about their kids. They care an awful lot about this system, this bureaucracy, but they don’t care enough about their kids to think outside the box,” Byrne said.
Not content with the “no, YOU’RE stupid” junior-high mentality and accusing everyone who disagrees with him of hating their kids, Byrne has to go from “Bill O” crazy to “Bill O meets Lumbergh” my-words-have-no-meaning-because-I-think-in-bad-business-cliches-crazy.
The problem is the stupid, kid-hating parents can’t think outside the box, see. Nevermind that by merely employing that heinous phrase, Byrne has demonstrated the height of unoriginality it was originally meant to highlight. Nevermind that he lost because not even Utahns wants to see their tax dollars used to fund the religious indoctrination of other peoples’ kids. No, it’s all about how stupid other people are.
Mr Bryne, as you should know, it’s all about the “O”:
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