Last Sunday, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on CNN to discuss the debt ceiling, but made other headlines when he mistakenly referred to the “three branches of government” as the House, the Senate and the President, but left out the Judicial branch of government. Today on Fox News, Megyn Kelly explored why if Sarah Palin or Congresswoman Michele Bachmann made the same gaffe, it would have been headline news everywhere as opposed to the scant coverage Schumer received.
Democratic strategist Dan Gerstein’s rationale for the different treatment was that “people think Chuck Schumer is very smart, and they think that for a reason, because he is really smart, so he will get some latitude.” In other words, it seems in Gerstein’s view, that since the jury is out on Palin’s and Bachmann’s intelligence, then jumping on every verbal mistake they make is fair game? Kelly accurately summed up the concern with some fun word choice, wondering “could there be some sexism in saying those two, the pretty ones on the right, they’re the dum-dums, but this guy over here, he’s a smarty-pants?”
Conservative commentator Mike Gallagher attempted to back her up, arguing conservative women are unfairly targeted and claimed that since Schumer is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and still forgot the Judicial branch, then clearly he’s not that smart. Yet Kelly threw some cold water on his argument by bringing up a quote Gallagher himself said about liberal Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi: “I simply said if you threw a bucket of water on her it would be interesting to see what happens.”
Read More: By Matt Schneider, Mediaite
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When I was a child, and studied the various forms of government in grade school, I arrived at two specific conclusions 1) that Communiism was the most "humane" form of government and 2) that a dictatorship was the most efficient form of government. (Little did I know then, that Communism was simply the propaganda espoused by one type of dictator.) As I grew wiser, I realized that both of my conclusions were dead wrong and resulted from a child's inability to understand "human motivation" – an inability to comprehend how the human race functions in reality.
Anyone who, as an adult, espouses Communism (what our Democrats call Progressivism) is without a doubt afflicted with what can ONLY be described as an "arrested mental development". What they perceive as rightousness and superiority is in reality a combination of stupidity and arrogance.
Dan Gerstein and his hero Chuck are two excellent examples of this. They are gangsters. They exist to browbeat their opponents with ignorance. Michele Backmann has nothing to retract, she has only spoken the truth. But of course this is a concept unknown to Progressives