Saltpork & Rind Baffles 'em with Ph.D. B.S.

Vincent J. Curtis

22 Jan 20

On Wednesday, January 22, 2020, the Saltpork & Rind treated its readership to a double dose of intellectualism - so it thought.  In fact, one of the Ph.D.'s is a product of the tragic destruction of the Humanities at schools of so-called "higher" learning.  The doctorate is in some cultural "studies" course.  The other is a out-and-out perpetrator of that destruction.  He's carried his sorry act from one school to another until he completed his carrier, not in the hated home of his birth, but, sadly, in the Great White North.  One guesses the Opinion Page Editor was dazzled by the brilliance of the credentials because the opinion pieces were dreary, predictable, tedious, and lunatic.  Truly a case of baffling with bullsh*t, as my father used to say.

On Wednesday, the Saltpork & Rind treated its readers to a double dose of faux intellectualism.  Latham Hunter, Ph.D., expatiated upon the ‘deeper social significance of Harry and Megan.’ Yeah.

Henry A. Giroux, Ph.D. in his usual bile filled way, regurgitated Democrat party talking points to blame Trump for the constitutional crisis brought on by his impeachment.  Giroux concluded with the wish for impeachment “to be a call to battle to put on trial the capitalist system” and for reforms that will “usher in a radical and socialist democracy.”

When Giroux condemns the capitalist system, one wonders if he includes the capitalism practiced by Communist China and the People’s Liberation Army.  I suspect he doesn’t think that far ahead.  It must be baffling to him for a communist country to be practicing radical capitalism and suppressing democracy,

The constitutional crisis of Trump’s impeachment is brought on, not by Trump, but by the little Robespierres of the Democrat Party: Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and the imperious Nancy Pelosi.  The articles of impeachment do not allege an actual ‘high crime or misdemeanor.’  And all the sound and fury of wrongdoing signify nothing impeachable.  Yet, Trump was nevertheless impeached - out of a need to condemn him before history as deplorable.

The SP&R failed to see the difference between credentials and quality.
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