For some, it did, but I have the suspicion that many people who criticized the book never actually read it.
kimberly on April 28, 2008 at 9:52 AM

Bill Clinton was asked his opinion on the book The Bell Curve. His response? He said that he could not allow himself to read something that controversial.

When you think about it, isn’t that an incredibly bizarre thing for the leader of the free world to say about ANY book?

Me, I’ll cling to other things.

This honestly has to be one of the dumbest single sentences I have ever read on Hotair.

That’s Morrissey for you! The intellectual equivalent of a Lima bean.

but I am more conservative than G.Gordan Liddy and Ted Nugent combined.

Maybe so; for all I know you could be the most conservative atheist on the planet. But Allahpundit, from everything I’ve seen, is no conservative. And Neither is Morrissey for that matter.

I think VDH is right. Obama (and Wright) will set race relations back 50 years.

I don’t think that’s true at all, but I sure as heck wish it was.

“Murray had no experience as a psychometrist, but instead received his PhD in political science.”

This honestly has to be one of the dumbest single sentences I have ever read on Hotair.

Yes, Murray is not a psychometrist, but he CO-WROTE the book with Richard J. Herrnstein, one of the FOUNDERS of modern psychometrics. It sort of tales care of the problem, doesn’t it?

Regardless of what you think about the speculation (not claim) about racial differences in IQ in the book, why is this idiotic “argument” worth repeating on a serious conservative site?

the atheist Allahpundit to run her “conservative” blog.

2Brave2Bscared on April 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM

Hey I resemble that! I may not believe in your god/gods/totems/candles etc. but I am more conservative than G.Gordan Liddy and Ted Nugent combined.

There is less correlation between conservatives and the religious than you know.

I don’t have many problems with the religious right but the religious left scares the crap out of me and brother, there are a lot of them too. I.E. Reverends Wright, Jackson and Sharpton.

Well said.

I have respect for Michelle Malkin, but I have to question her judgment in hiring liberals like Morrissey and the atheist Allahpundit to run her “conservative” blog.

2Brave2Bscared on April 28, 2008 at 2:18 PM

I’m grateful for the praise of my own comment, but I disagree with the remainder of the comment I’ve quoted. For one thing, it’s too little understood that among the American conservatives are many true liberals similar to John Locke and the American Founders; these attempt to protect men’s natural liberty from tyrannies either left or right. For another, it’s too little appreciated that the believers and the “atheists” need each other to disturb their settled dogmas. If one studies the believers and the atheists carefully, one may learn much about the divine.

I think VDH is right. Obama (and Wright) will set race relations back 50 years.

The Trojan Horse

Last year, I found the idea of an African American running for the presidency a positive sign for our nation. Although I could not support Obama due to his political views, my decision did not prevent me from approving of a black man competing for our most important office. It created visions of a huge wall falling down. At the time, the entire nation appeared to be experienced a sense of self-congratulation over the situation.

Yet, this reaction was muted by my surprise that the Democratic Party would allow a complete novice* to run for office. I admit that initially I thought Democrats were promoting an early Obama campaign in order to give their party a great public relations push among minority voters. Perhaps that was the intention among one part of their membership.

However, considering the daily revelations concerning Maoist radicals who orchestrated Obama’s magical rise through Chicago and national politics; now I suspect a Trojan horse has been rolling through the gates.

Instead of visions of a new racial harmony, I see Jeremiah Wright screaming that Americans would be racists to reject this gift of Obama; while Bill Ayers and his Maoist clique hide inside the wooden horse, ready to light the flames of revolution from beneath. “Swimming along with the fishes” as Mao once advised his followers; Hide your true intentions.

It appears too late for the black community to understand how the rest of the nation will eventually view this candidacy. They don’t appear to understand “it’s the politics” not the racial identity. Do they understand the level of fallout when Americans consider the Obama campaign as a deliberate attempt to deceive the public? Watching this growing anger between our communities feels as though I am attending the funeral of hope.

Perhaps the saddest result will be the impact on future black candidates. Obama is leaving an avalanche of debris behind the path he trods. Could many non-black voters believe another black candidate preaching unity to them? Obama’s deception has sown permanent seeds of suspicion among the public.

Successive black candidates will be faced with navigating a passage through the destructive trail of Obama. Their struggle to win the confidence of a nation will be far, far more difficult, if not impossible for decades. For that sad result, he should be ashamed. —-rags

* While some Republicans might accept a centralist Democrat minority candidate the reverse would not be true. Condi Rice or Colin Powell may have the resumes, but whether they could win widespread support is dubious. Neither one would be accepted by the Democratic Party with their credentials as conservative/ moderate minority candidates.

Martin and O’Brien parrot Wright’s claim that his comments have been taken out of context — in “sound bites” — and that his overall message is not offensive. But to tell people that they are only offended because they are ignorant of the “Africa…

The reason Joe was not hired to be the new manager is because he has an African brain, and we felt the job required a European brain for the additional logic. Joe will be considered for future openings which require an appropriate combination of tonal rhythms.

I’ve actually read The Bell Curve; the Moon didn’t fall, and the Sun didn’t go dark. Really, Ed Morrissey, you could read it, too, and reply to it thoughtfully, rather than merely recycle the opinions of others.

Well said.

I have respect for Michelle Malkin, but I have to question her judgment in hiring liberals like Morrissey and the atheist Allahpundit to run her “conservative” blog.

What about mixed race people like Wright (and Obama). Do they not think with either side of their brains, and is that why Wright keeps saying such stupid things, and why Obama can only say Hope and Change….

Strange bedfellows. Actually, not so strange, on second thought. All racists must, at some point, argue for the exceptionalism of the race they deem exceptional. And of course they then have to get around to mentioning that Jews are vile……

Hollywood icon Harrison Ford is currently appearing in an Internet video having his chest waxed. Ford, the star of such blockbuster franchises as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, decided to undergo the painful procedure as a way of demonstrating the pa…

If So, He Has A VERY Funny Way Of Showing It
WOW — Señor “Panama John” McCain’s and Sir Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton’s campaign staffs must be popping the champaign corks as I write this. Jeremiah Wright has gone on a rampag…

But now what for Jeremiah Wright?

He becomes the new Goracle seeing as the whole “glowball warming” thing is fizzling out as a way of forcing the US into adopting a Marxist government.

He will get his Oscar, his Emmy and his Nobel prize within 3 years, too.

But now what for Jeremiah Wright? petefrt on April 28, 2008 at 11:18 AM

Nobel Prize for Biological Science bay-bee!

It’s true that as a general rule, Asians do better in school than whites who in turn do better than blacks. But it’s a bell curve, there are always individuals that outshine the group. But if people would stop freaking out about racism, the general findings could be used to bring about change in how things are taught.

Liberals always shut down the discussion with cries of racism! Whether it is the Bell Curve or immigration…if ya don’t tow the liberal line, you are a racist! Evil, evil, evil racist! Moohhhahahahahah(sinister, evil racist laugh)…

:)