marty kaplan Archives – Page 8 of 9

Marty Kaplan: Mitt Romney’s “South Park” primary

Marty Kaplan February 8, 2011

Egypt makes Mitt Romney look good – at least compared to other Republican presidential hopefuls.

Marty Kaplan: My favorite blowhard

Marty Kaplan January 26, 2011

I owe Keith Olbermann for enabling me to identify with Bill O’Reilly’s fans.

Marty Kaplan: The vitriol vitriol

Marty Kaplan January 9, 2011

“Clarabelle Dopenik.” That’s what one wit on the popular conservative Web site freerepublic.com called Clarence Dupnik, the Pima County, Arizona sheriff who turns 75 this week. Elected continuously since 1980, he is the public face of the investigation into the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others. He is also, according to bloggers on that site, “an incompetent unhinged sonofabitch” and “a jerk” “using this tragedy for baseless, cheap political shots.”

Marty Kaplan: The senators who dissed baby Jesus

Marty Kaplan December 20, 2010

What’s the right word for what Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) was doing when he attacked Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) for “disrespecting one of the two holiest holidays for Christians” by keeping Congress in session in the week before Christmas? What do you call it when Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) target=\”_hplink\”>blasted Democrats as “sacrilegious” for wanting the Senate to take up an arms control treaty and a spending bill “right before… the most sacred holiday for Christians”?

Marty Kaplan: My declaration of independents

Marty Kaplan December 6, 2010

I think I’ve figured out how to get the White House to pay attention.

MARTY KAPLAN: How dumb do they think (know) we are

Marty Kaplan March 26, 2010

I know some scary smart people who never graduated from high school, and I know some real doofuses with graduate degrees, so I understand that the number of years of formal education that someone has racked up is no guarantee of intelligence. But every once in a while, I see some poll numbers that pretty convincingly correlate believing idiotic things with having less education, and not believing idiotic things with having more education.