Peter Beinart: NPR Will Save America From Its Stupidity...

....or something to that effect. Jeez, I realize I'm not as smart as your average liberal, but I still don't see how calling everyone who doesn't agree with you "stupid" will endear them to your cause (or make them watch you on TV).

Still, maybe I'm wrong, as these guys seem so supremely self-confident about their superior intelligence. Oh, well. November 2nd is just a week from today, and we'll see if denigrating those who disagree with you translates into electoral success for the Democrats...

So here's Beinart, making his case for why Juan Williams deserved to be fired, and why NPR must survive. Apparently, it's to save us from ourselves:

...since America is increasingly buffeted by decisions made in other countries, our national ignorance is becoming a threat to our national security...folks like Palin want America to grow more and more economically integrated with other countries and they want America to keep invading them. That being the case, shouldn't we keep funding NPR, so someone can tell Americans where those countries actually are?

Hmmm...if Beinart really believes Americans are too stupid to find most nations on a map, maybe he ought to put his increasingly shrill voice towards the establishment of more charter schools, since his precious public schools apparently aren't up to the task.

One would expect, though, that Beinart's definition of idiocy isn't just localized to those who can't find "country x" on a map, however few that might be. Don't be surprised if - even were you able to point out one of Beinart's mystery nations - the tag "stupid" was still applied to you, should you see the same set of facts and dare to come to a different interpretation than that of the liberal intelligentsia...