John 'Forrest' Kerry

The same guy who in the previous presidential election declared Bush jr. to be less smart than Gore now states that Bush has got more brains than Kerry. Money quote:

'Linda Gottfredson, an I.Q. expert at the University of Delaware, called it a creditable analysis said she was not surprised at the results or that so many people had assumed that Mr. Kerry was smarter. "People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can't understand," Professor Gottfredson said.'

The research was done by Steve Sailer, who compared standardised military intelligence tests. This in itself isn't definite proof, but it becomes a whole lot more likely that Sailer is correct when you consider that Kerry never released his SAT scores. (Bush did: he got a respectable 1206 points.) I wonder why.

As for possible journalism bias: the source of this article is the New York Times, which has endorsed Kerry for president.

Run, Kerry, run!

(Via INDC Journal.)

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The Guardian - no murderer can do without it

When I was in London last week to interview journalists about investigative reporting, several of them referred to the Guardian as 'the thinking man's newspaper'. Right. That's why this (ahem) 'quality broadsheet' prints job ads for political assassins:

Quite frankly, the man's either wired or mad. If it's the former, he should be flung out of office: tarred, feathered and kicked in the nuts. (...) He flashes us a dumb little smile, like a toddler proudly showing off its first bowel movement. (...) On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?

Funny how liberal journalists define a 'thinking man'.

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