Word: idiot
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...British politics - Thatcher placed market values, not abstract ones of duty and honor, at the heart of a social definition of success. In the 1980s, if you didn't make money (loadsamoney ... ), if you didn't cash in on your talents or luck, then you were worse than an idiot - you were somehow letting the side down...
Plus, as Brody points out, his nerdiness didn't hold him back because even nerdiness isn't so nerdy anymore. "Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. The nerd now is the Bush Administration--supporting, anti-intellectual dumb ass." Whether that's true or not, it's clear the once desirable macho-jock type hasn't got such pull. There's a reason the Rock and Vin Diesel haven't filled the gap left by Schwarzenegger and Stallone: nobody minds the gap. And in a world without heroes...
...rude and shrill - but made him a hero to his YouTube audience. Imus, a 30-plus-year veteran of radio shock, seemed to underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed to relax about "some idiot comment meant to be amusing." Shockingly, they did not, and by the next day, Imus had tapped an inner wellspring of deepest regret...
...misleading question. There are as many lines as there are people. We draw and redraw them by constantly arguing them. This is how we avoid throwing out the brilliance of a Sacha Baron Cohen - who offends us to point out absurdities in our society, not just to make "idiot comments meant to be amusing" - with a shock jock's dirty bathwater. It's a draining, polarizing but necessary process...
Franken has been building out his repertoire for years. In 1996 he expanded the Al Franken brand with his book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, which became a No. 1 New York Times best seller. Four other best sellers followed...