Dick Cavett
At the risk of offending, well, you, for example, I worry about just what it is her hollering fans see in her that makes her the ideal choice to deal with the world’s problems: collapsed economies, global warming, hostile enemies and our current and far-flung twin battlefronts, either of which may prove to be the world’s second “30 Years’ War.”…
I’d love to hear what you think has caused such an alarming number of our fellow Americans to fall into the Sarah Swoon.
Could the willingness to crown one who seems to have no first language have anything to do with the oft-lamented fact that we seem to be alone among nations in having made the word “intellectual” an insult?
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thanks for probing my point DICK. She doesn’t sound like me, thus she’s stupid. http://tinyurl.com/5nnvwy
jacrews on November 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Uh, “probing” is the olde english version of “proving”. I was, uh, showing how smart I is. I mean was, am, whatever.
jacrews on November 15, 2008 at 12:37 PM
Does the left have any new material yet?
lodge on November 15, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Wow. What a prick.
Didn’t he die ten years ago or something?
wccawa on November 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM
I’d love to hear what you think has caused such an alarming number of our fellow Americans to fall into the Obama Swoon.
artist on November 15, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Another elitist snob opens his mouth. Sarah is certainly lacking in experience, but as we have seen from most of her interviews lately, she is much more well spoken than how she has been portrayed. She just needs some coaching on her presentation and she’ll do fine.
These turds equate public speaking with intelligence. Good. All the more easier to humiliate them later on.
csdeven on November 15, 2008 at 12:40 PM
um, I ah, well ,uh now, who who is uh the new um president, dicky boy……..
winemkr on November 15, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Hello everyone. I haven’t had a show in about thirty years, but I’ve managed to pop up as a barely recognizable personality from time to time with a bit part in a television show or a book went from the bargain bin at Waldenbooks to the free box at the public library.
I thought you’d like to hear my opinion on why Sarah Palin is a loser because she talks funny.
MadisonConservative on November 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM
The commenters are just as bad … each one thinking they’re soooo above the average American, each one thinking they’re soooo intelligent, yet in all their adoration for themselves they miss the true attraction of Palin. She’s real.
All these people who think of themselves as enlightened were punked by a communist trained, mob connected, radical anti-American socialist.
darwin on November 15, 2008 at 12:44 PM
/yawn
Lehosh on November 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM
It’s nice to see the left continue to elevate patronizing to new new levels. All that was missing from his editorial was a verbal pat on the head and a “there, there now, deary”.
It’s no wonder his first name is dick. His parents probably understood his personality from birth.
AW1 Tim on November 15, 2008 at 12:47 PM
These idiots don’t know a thing about Palin. He can go stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Palinpuma on November 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM
“Comments are no longer being accepted.”
How truly brave.
It's Vintage, Duh on November 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM
“Comments are no longer being accepted.”
Typical.
wccawa on November 15, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Thank God the country elected those two brilliant public speakers and mental giants, Osama Obama and Joey Biden, eh, Dick?
MrScribbler on November 15, 2008 at 12:51 PM
I’m astonished how blind people are. Her speech patterns are more developed then Biden, and Obama is not eloquent at all of the ‘prompter, no matter how many times they claim it.
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM
Mr. Cavett it appears,
Is frightened (by smart girls),
To whom poetic cadence,
Is a natural state,
Thus preferred
To been there,
Done that,
Prose.
Scribbler on November 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM
‘of’ should be ‘off’; apologies
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 12:53 PM
I’m shocked … elitists think Republicans are dumb?
wow … that is original material right there
joey24007 on November 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Leftists never learn.
baldilocks on November 15, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Cavett could fill 200 columns with Barack Obama’s “uh”s.
I’m guessing he won’t.
Ronnie on November 15, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Useless people.
frankj on November 15, 2008 at 1:03 PM
I worked with a physicist once who was seriously brilliant. He developed some crucial technologies for the DoD that literally changed the world. But he needed a staff of people (including me) to translate his scribblings into English. The man seriously could not construct meaningful sentences…he rarely spelled a word the same way twice, had no concept of usage or sentence structure…basically, he was literarily retarded. But his IQ was well over 180.
So I guess if he stated he was a Republican, then he was just stupid.
stonemeister on November 15, 2008 at 1:06 PM
His career is dead. He might as well be.
J.J. Sefton on November 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM
As opposed to the Wild Wordsmith of Wilmette?
Anybody have the youtube clip or a complete transcript of Emanuel’s appearance on Face the Nation? The reports on it I’ve found have cleaned up his bungling quite a bit. It’s important to hear the whole think unedited to appreciate it.
Blake on November 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM
In a perfect world, Dick Cavett would be air dropped in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness in mid February…. Sarah and Todd would have to retrieve his sorry ass by snowmachine sometime in late May. Probably the only thing left will indeed be….ass.
katy on November 15, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Hey, when I was a freshman I had a part time filing job in a physics lab funded by the DoD with all post docs and professors and it was the same problem.
Blake on November 15, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Yet another acolyte of the well-formed if meaningless sentence who fears that her rise means his decline.
The harshest attacks on the right as well as the left have come from former speechwriters (Frum, Noonan), supposed wordsmiths (Will, Brooks), and lit-crit post grads (Parker, MacDonald) who feel devalued: If she matters, then maybe they don’t. They’re not very different from the left feminists who lash out at her as though her very existence is a threat to theirs. In a way both groups are right, but only because the bases of their self-worth, of their very identities, seem to require rigid adherence to categories of thought that are as arbitrary as they are absolute.
As for Palin herself, her fearlessness and her lack of pettiness prevent her from staying mum, and her intelligence and dedication require her to assert her thoughts even if she is not (yet) fully capable of expressing them “properly.” Give her a few months or years with a conservative brief, and she’ll more than meet these critics halfway – not because she cares very much for their opinions, but because she’ll see it serves her larger purposes.
And the dead-enders still recalling and poring over her 2008 interviews four or eight or forty-eight years from now: They will be as gnats on the windshield of an interstate express.
CK MacLeod on November 15, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Conservatives and palin old real people are optimists, hard-working and love life. The liberal/socialist mindset, as well as today’s Eurpoeans and the hippie generation are bitter (hah!), hate their world, their country and anyone who is happy and content. They seek that which they can never attain – some sort of perfection. They resent their own moral failings, blame their parents, Judeo-Christian morals and ethics for their own ennui.
I am so damned tired of these people. I mean, my g-d, you won the presidency, have a more or less majority in congress, control the media and cultural dialogue and have the chance to finally create “heaven on earth” by destroying the last best hope for humanity. WHAT THE HELL MORE DO YOU WANT???!!!!!
J.J. Sefton on November 15, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Plain old, not palin old… ouch!
J.J. Sefton on November 15, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Why is this posted on Hotair? Please give me a reason why you so frequently post writing from unintelligent people saying stupid things about conservatives?
georgealbert on November 15, 2008 at 1:19 PM
No first language? I hope I don’t get banned for saying this but Dick Cavett is an intellectual and a top-notched snobby one at that.
Oh and for seven odd years, Bush did a pretty good job of keeping us safe, keeping the economy humming in spite of a possible collapse and ignoring the global warming hoax, and Palin could communicate rings around around him and possibly govern better, too. (BTW, Eisenhower was terrible at speaking, too. That didn’t prevent him having a reasonably good administration.)
Now compare that to the erudite Cavett who said well here, everything, and nothing. Like I said, an intellectual.
Dusty on November 15, 2008 at 1:20 PM
If he had had any interest in politics, then he probably was a conservative. The dirty little secret that liberals never like to talk about is that most of their “intellectuals” are really just pseudo-intellectuals who populate the soft and non-sciences (sociology, education, african studies, literature, journalism …). The harder the science, the more conservative the opinions. Liberals have tons of PhD’s backing them, but they are mostly junk PhD’s in joke fields.
I constantly get a kick out of the fact that those who espouse political philosophies based more on emotion and childish, wishful thinking than reason seem to think that they represent the intellectual high ground. Of course, the irony is lost on the liberals, who are generally too dumb and too emotional to get it.
progressoverpeace on November 15, 2008 at 1:25 PM
[georgealbert on November 15, 2008 at 1:19 PM]
So you can know your opponents and practice shooting your rhetorical arrows.
Dusty on November 15, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Fodder makes for good feeding. We get tossed a nice piece of juicy red filet and gobble it up.
katy on November 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM
My sentiments exactly. I don’t come here to catch every single THING that some brainwashed libtard idiot says about Palin.
We get the point. Any hope of there being legitimate, fair criticism (some of it deserved) of her has been flushed down the MSM Crapper. I refuse to remain in a state of perpetual rage over the injustice of all of it, so please, find something else to link to, such as live webcams of growing grass. Or something.
bcm4134 on November 15, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I thought Dick Cavett was dead, and not just intellectually and career-wise, but physically as a doornail. Dammit, another disappointment.
drunyan8315 on November 15, 2008 at 1:30 PM
I thought Dick Cavett was dead. Apparently, he’d be just as relevant if he were…
D2Boston on November 15, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Is Cavett suggesting that McCain lost because of Governor Palin? What a moron. He must have zero analytical skills. It seems most metrosexuals have too much estrogen flowing through their veins to make rational observations.
Geochelone on November 15, 2008 at 1:31 PM
I was just wondering the other day if this guy was dead.
jones on November 15, 2008 at 1:37 PM
“He must have zero analytical skills.”
[Geochelone on November 15, 2008 at 1:31 PM]
Did Cavett’s being one of Hollywood’s celebrity interview talk show pioneers give you a clue?
Dusty on November 15, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Quoting Cavett’s favorite:
yo on November 15, 2008 at 1:46 PM
You better find another ‘movement’ to belong to then. Perpetual (out)rage is the right’s stock in trade. The next four years are going to make the Vince Foster days seem quaint.
Grow Fins on November 15, 2008 at 1:47 PM
When I think of Dick Cavett, I think of drunk and/or drugged out celebrities sitting on a couch nodding out.
Blake on November 15, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Well Dick what we see in her is … Results. Unlike the tin foil empty suit Messiah The One Lord Obama The ‘Cuda gets SHIT DONE. She has a record. Blah with these idiots.
Dritanian on November 15, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Come on! Someone has to have a clip or transcript of Emmanuel putting his foot in his mouth repeatedly. Is it because it doesn’t put Palin in a bad light? Is that the problem?
Blake on November 15, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Cavetts’ just bitter because Kramer has his set.
Been in a coma the that eight years, Pot?
exlibris on November 15, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Correction: that = last
exlibris on November 15, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Well … his apology the other day for what his dad said, claiming, “That was not the way I was raised” was a pretty good one. BHO couldn’t have said it better, himself – though I have come to prefer the, now classic, “That’s not the dad I knew” line.
progressoverpeace on November 15, 2008 at 2:13 PM
I’m surprised this arse could take the wanker out of his mouth long enough to scribble that insightful article.
What’s wrong DICK, can’t you write paragraphs longer than 2 sentences??
Effin’ has-been loser.
Go play in traffic.
omnipotent on November 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I like Sarah because she has accomplished things.
I don’t like Obama to lead because he hasn’t.
V15J on November 15, 2008 at 2:18 PM
To georgealbert-
We need to read these things because it is important to know what the enemy says and thinks about us.
Diminutive Dick Cavett has always been a smug elitist who goes hunting with his best, and probably only, weapon, the English language.
Speaking of hunting, his comment deriding those who hunt with high-powered weapons shows his ignorance. Does he think one can stop a 900 pound moose with a 22?
If he thinks using high-powered weapons isn’t sporting, how sporting is it to merely wound an animal and let it go off to suffer? Methinks he’s put off at the thought of killing an animal. Let him visit a slaughterhouse or stop eating meat.
Personally, I will never read another word he writes.
Sloan Morganstern on November 15, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Dick Cavett is STILL ALIVE ?
Maybe he can give Mo Dowd the high hard one she desperately needs.
Or the other way around.
Mincing effimate east coast elitist does not “get” Sarah ?
Let’s hope it stays that way.
DeweyWins on November 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM
hmmm…Why is it that when anyone dares criticize Sarah Palin, the comments here tear apart whomever is lobbing the criticism…but none of these same commenters would get even slightly miffed over criticism of John McCain (Remember him? The actual POTUS nominee?) and probably criticized him themselves?
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM
victory in 2012 will be that much sweeter.
rob verdi on November 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM
For one thing, a lack of regard for the opinions of people like Dick Cavett.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Hey Dick,
Um, at least, uh, she is uh, trying, um, to manage, uh, a, um, uh, sentence, um, without a, uh, plethora of “um’s” and “uh’s.”
Troy Rasmussen on November 15, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Submission.
Traffic.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Facts.
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM
1) Because those lobbing these ‘criticisms’ happen to be self-important idiots who couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag.
2) Because I like Palin and I detest McShame. If McCain had had any sense of decency he would have dropped out of the primaries when his shamnesty got destroyed and it was clear that most of the base despised him and his intentions. There were many warnings that his nomination would destroy the GOP. Look what happened.
progressoverpeace on November 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM
I agree with Jim. The “intellectual” in this country is generally a snobish boor with no understanding of the common folks.
Troy Rasmussen on November 15, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Over my dead body. Which is the way they are heading. Amazing how the peaceniks seem as violent and strident as the jihadis. Liberal hypocrisy, but that is a redundancy.
J.J. Sefton on November 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM
And there is the reason we lost the election.
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 3:47 PM
And it sure wasn’t Palin.
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 3:51 PM
“Richard” really has two possible nick-names: “Dick” and “Rich.” I wonder what the choice between these says about a person.
Count to 10 on November 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM
If you haven’t seen this column by Cavett from last April, you should read it, but not if you have untreated high blood pressure:
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/memo-to-petraeus-crocker-more-laughs-please/
He made fun of the way David Petraeus talked in the congressional hearings, and belittled him for wearing the ribbons he’s required to wear. I used to enjoy Cavetts’ shows sometimes when I was a kid, but he is dead to me. He is truly an awful person, and certainly an unbearable snob. The image of the effete Manhattanite talk show host heckling from the sidelines just fills my heart with murderous rage. Unlike Cavett, Petraeus has lived his life in the arena.
juliesa on November 15, 2008 at 3:53 PM
I wish. Oh, how I wish. Conservatives are few and far between in the field of physics, and Republicans even rarer. But, perhaps it is better in fields more closely connected with society.
Count to 10 on November 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM
“We” doesn’t work anymore, astroturfer.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 4:02 PM
Dick,
warbaby on November 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM
that’s funny, I thought that Dick Cavett liked, you know, dicks..
DaveC on November 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM
That’s right JetBoy. No one but true fan’s cared much for McCain. His name is on a host of federal legislation that’s not liked by true conservatives. The fact is, McCain was Bob Dole in ‘96 without the charisma, and a load of baggage. Some times he could play a crowd well, but conservatives were fighting for Palin in this last game, and you can’t win if the top of the ticket doesn’t excite the base. Thank you McCain for trying, but you left us with Obama in the White House, and for that you should be ashamed.
p.s. weren’t you a die hard supporter from the beginning JetBoy?
Troy Rasmussen on November 15, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Does that include Cheney too? Just sayin’…
Palin herself isn’t the reason, but the GOP base was far more concerned with her, even talking of 2012, then they were with McCain. And without that support for the top of the ticket, McCain was destined to lose.
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 4:14 PM
After 8 years of someone who sounds like the guy in Slingblade, America needs better. Caribou Barbie, the “First Dude” and the rest of the Jerry Springer bunch are not better.
Vernon Hardapple on November 15, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Enjoy paying your taxes, genius.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Oh and people from Chicago do not have an accent.
Get real there Buffalo Bill…. BTW are you a size 14?
upinak on November 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Bob Dole without the charisma? heh…that’s not easy to do. McCain had (has) 10 times Dole’s charisma.
But I do disagree…McCain didn’t abandon conservatives, conservatives abandoned McCain. I like, respect, and admire Sarah Palin, but she wasn’t the right choice for veep. McCain made the mistake of believing that the “base” would rally behind him if he caved and chose Palin (or Jindal)…the “base” didn’t show up for him, but for her.
Actually I was probably HotAir’s original FredHead…I think I was the first, back in the day, to suggest Thompson’s name be added to the first polls on “who do you want to see in the primaries?”
But the day after teh Fred dropped out, I did go with McCain…while most others went with Romney.
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I will grant you that a lack of enthusiasm for the top of the GOP ticket was the cause of the loss, but at some point in time, the top of the GOP ticket (and the team who determined the strategy of that ticket) has to take responsibility.
Palin was a silver lining in a gloomy election season.
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 4:25 PM
The base rallied twice. Saddleback and Palin. When he suspended his campaign to support the bailout, those of the base on the fence of whether vote or not opted out.
Unless McCain’s general election numbers were lower then his primary election numbers (there aren’t), this is factually impossible.
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM
I did not support Gov. Palin for her speaking style. I supported her because of her “doing style” and her character.
Sometimes I get the impression that liberals assume that one’s level of intelligence is directly proportional to one’s level of corruption.
SheofTwoMinds on November 15, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Are you out of your mind? Do you have any idea how nice and supportive conservatives were of McCain? We all kept our mouths shut every time he stood up and crowed about how he was going to legalize all the illegals the minute he got into office, and when he babbled on about the idiotic idea of global warming and his moronic cap-and-trade, and when he called us names for trying to take the fight to the opposition, and when he spazzed out and started offering free checks to foreclosing homeowners the nation over … Through all of this crap, which made my blood boil everytime I was subjected to it, conservatives held their tongues. If you don’t appreciate the huge effort that was put in by conservaitves for this pathetic candidate (the first time I gave money to a Pres campaign was the day Palin was selected) then you understand why we all, the US and our progeny, lost. And that’s why McCain should have pulled himself out when he was forewarned about this. But he liked his mom’s idea that we’d have to just hold our nose and vote for him. We did more than hold our noses, and he sh#t all over us. Unable to defeat a marxist raised in Indonesia … please.
progressoverpeace on November 15, 2008 at 4:29 PM
“(there aren’t)” ha, sorry – “they’re not” or “they aren’t”; you pick.
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Or, one’s intelligence varies inversely with one’s moral convictions.
SheofTwoMinds on November 15, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Correlates, please. You have to leave room for scatter.
Count to 10 on November 15, 2008 at 4:35 PM
I don’t know about the rest of you but I like Gov. Palin because she cut gov spending in the middle of a rev boom. she took it to the corrupt gov of both parties, she got a better deal for the people of Alsaka irt their oil resources. she seems to be one of the only politicians that actually fired a gun, hunted and killed/ate her own food. Until you hunt for your food you don’t know jack. In the coming times we are going to need a person that gets it done not an ivy league idiot that could find his way from washington dc to cleveland on foot if you gave him a map and a compass.
unseen on November 15, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Lets see, amnesty to tick off the national security types, submition to global warming to tick off the fiscal types, and a history of insulting church leaders to tick off the religious types.
Yep, something for everyone to hate.
Count to 10 on November 15, 2008 at 4:39 PM
If Palin truly was the “silver lining”, she’d be Vice-President elect right now. Consider how McCain won the nomination…and then consider the switch post-Palin…
You must be out of your mind if you really believe that conservatives kept their mouths shut about all that. That’s all I heard ad nauseum all through the primaries, and even after McCain became the presumptive nominee.
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Jet chill.
Palin isn’t the VP due to lack of people participation or the fact that most people were pissed and sat on their ass rather then go vote. That is the deal.
Anyone who complains about B.O. and then come to find out they didn’t vote is going to wish the hell they never talked to me and told me they didn’t vote.
Stupid people don’t impress me. People who are made for dumb items are just as stupid.
Get the picture?
upinak on November 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM
^^To add^^
How could the undecideds and independents vote McCain when they saw that McCain’s own party base was bashing him incessantly?
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM
I think my expression was more or less a rhetorical expression of anger at these people. I realize all to well what they want – POWER by any means necessary. That’s why with the election over, they and the media are still attacking Palin, conservatives and anyone else in opposition. And by the way, despite electing a black president, America is still racist. Business for Jesse, Al and Louis is too good to give that gold mine up.
J.J. Sefton on November 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM
And voting for Obama because his Grandma died?
Yeah whatever.
upinak on November 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Open you eyes. McCain lost because conservatives stayed home and those that were suppose to vote for him voted for the true democrate with the pretty shiny gifts. If not for Palin McCain would have lost 49 states. Maybe all 50.
unseen on November 15, 2008 at 4:45 PM
Count — you’re “out-statisticking” me. Heh, heh.
My point was how liberals assess intelligence, so I did mean to say that in their view, intelligence is inversely proportional to moral conviction. Maybe I should have called it an “inverse correlation”?
SheofTwoMinds on November 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Well … if you heard it, then McCain should have heard it and dropped out.
You heard very, very, very few complaints about all this during the general. Evidently you have no idea how many complaints people really had.
progressoverpeace on November 15, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Let’s face facts, people. There are highly intelligent people on the left, highly educated and very well spoken.
We should be able to admit that and then move on to differentiating between intelligence, smarts, and wisdom, three separate and not necessarily intertwined attributes.
Consider smarts; America is populated with undereducated millionaire business owners who couldn’t quote one poet or philosopher, yet know how to get things done and make money in the process.
They may or may not be intelligent and wise, but surely are smart.
Consider wisdom, which is tougher, but we know it when we see it. Having little of it myself, I can only surmise that it involves having a set of princliples which, with knowledge, guide one’s thoughts and actions.
Clearly, many of today’s intellectual elite’s, including most on the left, can be said to be well read and well spoken, yet possess precious little wisdom.
And what of all the vitriol heaped upon Sarah Palin by those in the media and the intellectual left, Cavett being the latest? It does seem quite a bit of over-reaction, this continual pounding, this incessant criticism of everything Palin, from her speech to her wardrobe, to her family and beliefs……..aaahh.
Sarah Palins’ core beliefs and principles, and her willingness to act on them and live by them, scare the beejesus out of these elites, precisely because they resonate with those masses who know wisdom when they see it, regardless of how inarticulately it is expressed. They also know that her knowledge base can be expanded and her ability to express herself improved rather easily.
If she does these things without sacrificing her beliefs and principles, she will only become more popular and powerful.
All the more reason why this will not end.
OneEyedJack on November 15, 2008 at 4:58 PM
I see what all the comments are about, this guy is an ass.
.
He needs to go on an elderly Eskimo ice float.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 15, 2008 at 4:59 PM
I’m thankful that you posted his written words rather than video. It’s very painful to hear this ridiculous little poseur speak.
Thanks for the link to the scut’s critique of Petraeus, Baldilocks.
I hope Sarah 2.0 (circa 2010 or 2012) has a more polished style of speaking. (How do you get to Carnegie Hall?) I must admit her syntax drives me crazy sometimes. She lapses into strings of gerunds without subjects. Improvement is needed.
chris999 on November 15, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Eskimo Ice Float, omg shut up … you are an idiot. research before you saying stomething that stupid again.
And your syntax could probably annoy the hell out of everyone as well. Seriously, are you an adult or a freaking child? Do you like the way people pick on your concerning your voice, size, hair, eyes, etc?
Ugh …. not everyone is perfect nor can 100% stay on traget 100% of the time. Get a grip.
upinak on November 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Cavett always has been, and will always be, an ignorant, liberal, very unfunny a$$wipe. He has the intellect of a snap bean (with my apologies in advance to snap beans worldwide). Why doesn’t he and Johnny Carson swap places? That guy I really miss!
Scott on November 15, 2008 at 5:07 PM
You forgot the dark cloud, Brainiac.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM
The switch?
Spirit of 1776 on November 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM
If you are an Eskimo and I’ve offended you with my attempt at a joke, I appologies.
If you are not then what are you talking about? You attack me personally because you do not like my humor. You call ME an idiot? You obviously know what I’m referencing, weather it’s true or not.
Get off your stump.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM
appologies = apologies
abinitioadinfinitum on November 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM
It’s “ice floe,” but I agree that you didn’t deserve that.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Maybe you should do some research.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM
sounds like a founding member of the He-Man-Woman-Haters Club…
Kaptain Amerika on November 15, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Kaptain Amerika on November 15, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Dick: obvious redundancy.
Cavett: the obscure noun version of cavil, which means to raise trivial objections, or to whine long-windedly.
Ergo, a Whining Prick.
profitsbeard on November 15, 2008 at 5:55 PM
No, I mentioned the self-described “Base” of the party…
And see, this is what I’m talking about…Dare to speak anything other than unbridled praise for Palin and you’re some kind of “brainiac” amongst other things.
The Obamites were always kinda creepy in the way they act almost cult-like over their “messiah”, but the members of the “church of Palin” aren’t seeming too much different.
JetBoy on November 15, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Hey upinak, calm down. Her speaking style has nothing to do with hair, voice, or any other physical characteristic. If you want to win you have to be a good communicator. Do you like George W. Bush’s skills in that area?
chris999 on November 15, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Palin was the gold plating on the McCain campaign turd.
Don’t. Nominate. Senators.
Republican governors make presidents. Republican senators make Viagra commercials.
sulla on November 15, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Hmmm. Perhaps I’m getting spammed for product references.
Short take: I’d lost respect for Cavett years ago. This article does nothing to change that.
Palin helped me vote FOR the ticket. Before that, it was just a vote against Obama. After the choice, I canvassed for McCain.
I hope we’ll learn our lesson next time: DON’T NOMINATE SENATORS. Our senators make lousy nominees. Our governors win.
sulla on November 15, 2008 at 6:24 PM
I had hoped they wouldn’t ruin Palin’s future prospects. They savaged her, from all sides, and certainly she lacked the polish of, say, a George W. Bush…but so far she’s held tough.
Palin is authentic, she’s smart (if not eloquent), and she’s one to watch – I’d guess 2016 or 2020, with high visibility and increasing savvy between now and then. Reagan ran and lost in 1968 and barely lost in 1976 before winning in 1980. She’ll still be young in 2020.
sulla on November 15, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Dick must prefer the intelligence of Obama’s “uh” laced speeches about pigs with lipstick
or Biden and his comments on Indians who all own convenience stores or 3 letter words that per Biden are four letter words.
Yep those two guys are obvious braniacs.
Jamson64 on November 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Like W, stupid people love Palin because they can relate to her on a close personal level.
benny shakar on November 15, 2008 at 6:49 PM
I thought this guy was dead. Seriously. Long ago.
james23 on November 15, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Can you say pompous or is that pompass?
Jamson64 on November 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Until this post I had forgotten all about the pseudo interviewer. Isn’t he from Canadia or summin?
ronsfi on November 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Who is Dick Cavett and why should I care what he thinks?
Log on November 15, 2008 at 7:06 PM
Poor you.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Whereas people like you love Obama because he tells you you’re smart, even though you obviously aren’t.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 7:11 PM
And geniuses love Obama because his godlike intellect reminds them of their own. I know.
My college-professor brother certainly feels that way. His own knowledge of the details of this last campaign were pathetic, crumbling even under basic questioning. For him, it came down to: Obama Smart, McCain old, Palin Dumb – an analysis so simplistic a caveman could have drawn it. (Sorry, Geico.)
Palin’s no friend to Strunk & White, and I wish she’d rely more on concrete responses (”I don’t know,” or the diplo-speak version of “GFY” to questions like “do you read books without pictures”), but she’s no dummy.
If you think she is, you’re dumber than John Kerry looks.
sulla on November 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM
Brevity is the soul of wit. You has it.
Me, I’m a verbose hack.
My jealousy knows no bounds.
sulla on November 15, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Freudian, Dick Cavett, Freudian.
From one cipher to the others…thanks, JT; you are a treasure.
Schadenfreude on November 15, 2008 at 7:21 PM
s/b ‘intellectual’, in single quotes. Fify, TR, gratis.
Like the great profitsbeard said yesterday “civilization is between the ears, not in the rocks we discover”, or something similar.
Schadenfreude on November 15, 2008 at 7:30 PM
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Dood. It’s Pompussasssss~! Sides, hesmarternus. yuk yuk.
ronsfi on November 15, 2008 at 7:42 PM
Dude! That’s fu2king BS. I have met so many Red Neck sombiches that are just as, or more so “Snobish”, yet know unbelievably less about incomprehensibly more than the even the a55 hole lib professional students that I have tangled with. At least they are ignorant about things they have studied…heh.
ronsfi on November 15, 2008 at 7:48 PM
How much research do I HAVE TO DO?
I have lived in Alaska since I was a child. I know the history and the ice flow aka eskimo ice float is actually a myth. Wikipedia on this is not accurate. I learned more about “Eskimo’s” (but we don’t call them that up here.. it is Native) then I learned about American History.
Might wanna check out the Forbe and Fortune 500 on Alaska businesses… and then why don’t you say that to a Eskimo. I have a feeling that Native would smack you upside the head.
upinak on November 15, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Or floe.
Jim Treacher on November 15, 2008 at 8:51 PM
Judging by the mangled syntax, there’s a pretty good chance upinak is sarah palin herself!
benny shakar on November 15, 2008 at 9:06 PM
Welcome to Hot Air, Mr. Olberman.
sulla on November 15, 2008 at 9:30 PM
I never said that other people couldn’t be snobbish. I only said that many “intellectuals” I know seem pretty uppity.
Troy Rasmussen on November 15, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Oh, look, it’s Dick Cavett. I don’t know about the rest of you HotAir commenters, but I’ve been breathlessly waiting to hear what Mr. Cavett thinks of Sarah Palin. Seriously. Because if there’s one thing America needs, it’s another dickless snob from the East Coast.
OregonMuse on November 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM