Ethics

Bush's Misology

By Ed Brayton

I somehow missed this story the other day, which illustrates perfectly the misology so common among pedestrian conservatives and, especially, our almost defiantly ignorant president:

After some more give and ake, Sen. Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, presents a five-page list of 192 economists and business school professors who oppose the plan. Bush isn't impressed. "I don't care what somebody on some college campus says," Bush says.

He might as well have said, "I ain't never had no need for book learnin'."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).