The Huffington Post => New “View†Co-Host Sherri Shepherd Doesn’t Know If World Is Flat
After declaring she didn’t “believe in evolution, period,†new “View†co-host Sherri Shepherd was asked if she thought the world was flat. Her response to moderator Whoopi Goldberg is in the clip…
Wonderful, this moron has a TV show.
Taking a position that putting food in her child’s mouth is more important than knowing if the Earth is round is a facile attempt at redirection. Surely it would be important to know if her child, in his quest for food, was going to fall off the edge of the Earth and be swallowed by the sea monsters that live at the bottom of the waterfall.
(p.s. Way to go Whoopi! Excellent job cutting right to the crap(head).)
No way. That’s got to be a spoof of some kind.
Creationists are in denial. But no one is that ignorant.
No way. That’s got to be a spoof of some kind.
Creationists are in denial. But no one is that ignorant.
I’m afraid that it isn’t.
I’ll defend the US a bit here in that, I don’t believe that the country is solely populated be even a simple majority of people of people who espouse such blatant ignorance of science. Most are religious, yes, and that presents a different topic of discussion, but not so much so that they throw out the hard-won understanding of the world we’ve achieved in the last 200 years (in particular.)
However, having said that, there is a sizable and vocal collection of people here who espouse either through ignorance or ulterior motive a whole series of crackpot ideas. And we have a culture, for want of a better word, that doesn’t just laugh them off the public stage, and that lends them credibility.
Luckily (or not) I found the rest of the segment – she’s serious, deadly, earnestly and completely beyond moronically serious:
I’m afraid that it isn’t.
I’ll defend the US a bit here in that, I don’t believe that the country is solely populated be even a simple majority of people of people who espouse such blatant ignorance of science. Most are religious, yes, and that presents a different topic of discussion, but not so much so that they throw out the hard-won understanding of the world we’ve achieved in the last 200 years (in particular.)
However, having said that, there is a sizable and vocal collection of people here who espouse either through ignorance or ulterior motive a whole series of crackpot ideas. And we have a culture, for want of a better word, that doesn’t just laugh them off the public stage, and that lends them credibility.
Luckily (or not) I found the rest of the segment – she’s serious, deadly, earnestly and completely beyond moronically serious:
Okay, it’s not a spoof.
But did she really mean that? “I haven’t thought about it?” “We’d have to take a trip down the library?” She can read, but she’s never looked at an atlas, read about Aristotle or Ptolemy or even Jules Verne?
Perhaps it’s not ignorance but a determination not to be tripped up; to cling to the one fundamental belief and not to even give consideration to anything that might not “fit”.
Okay, it’s not a spoof.
But did she really mean that? “I haven’t thought about it?” “We’d have to take a trip down the library?” She can read, but she’s never looked at an atlas, read about Aristotle or Ptolemy or even Jules Verne?
Perhaps it’s not ignorance but a determination not to be tripped up; to cling to the one fundamental belief and not to even give consideration to anything that might not “fit”.
It does boggle the mind that she could have been so completely educated from such a simple basic fact about the world around us.
My guess is: Willful ignorance. (If I were writing 10 commandments, “Thou shalt not be willfully ignorant” would be near #1.)
It’s been my misfortune to meet people who study at school (particularly science subjects) and pass their tests but, because their parents have already “prepared them”, they don’t really believe what they’re being taught. They’ve been warned it’s all godless lies and they just pay it lip service to get through school, but totally reject it out-of-hand.
That’s why home schooling is so popular with the nut-cases who are building up arsenals to use against the dark forces of the UN World Government (AKA the Bloodlines, The Illuminati, The Reptilians, etc.) when they come to implant RFID chips in their butts with the mark of the beast on them.
It does boggle the mind that she could have been so completely educated from such a simple basic fact about the world around us.
My guess is: Willful ignorance. (If I were writing 10 commandments, “Thou shalt not be willfully ignorant” would be near #1.)
It’s been my misfortune to meet people who study at school (particularly science subjects) and pass their tests but, because their parents have already “prepared them”, they don’t really believe what they’re being taught. They’ve been warned it’s all godless lies and they just pay it lip service to get through school, but totally reject it out-of-hand.
That’s why home schooling is so popular with the nut-cases who are building up arsenals to use against the dark forces of the UN World Government (AKA the Bloodlines, The Illuminati, The Reptilians, etc.) when they come to implant RFID chips in their butts with the mark of the beast on them.