The written quote fails to capture the smugness and scorn O’Donnell had in her voice, a sort of high school sarcasm that conveyed the following: “Oh, you actually think that’s in the First Amendment? You don’t know anything. Boy are you stupid.”
And that’s it, in a perfect little nutshell: these tea partiers are so sure of themselves that they’re immune to new information. They already know everything anyone needs to know, and anyone bringing new information to the debate is just soooooo stupid.
It’d be funny if they weren’t about three weeks away from running the country.
The written quote fails to capture the smugness and scorn O’Donnell had in her voice, a sort of high school sarcasm that conveyed the following: “Oh, you actually think that’s in the First Amendment? You don’t know anything. Boy are you stupid.”
And that’s it, in a perfect little nutshell: these tea partiers are so sure of themselves that they’re immune to new information. They already know everything anyone needs to know, and anyone bringing new information to the debate is just soooooo stupid.
It’d be funny if they weren’t about three weeks away from running the country.