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Entry: The Real Rudy Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_real_rudy#10304 Post contents: If any gentle readers doubt the utter stupidity of Neocons, check out this exchange between the PC host of C-Span’s Booknotes, Brian Lamb, and big time Neocon David Brooks, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard. Here, Brooks can’t identify the region of Europe where Bohemia is located and he can’t explain the origin of the word bourgeoisie but he is pretty sure that word pre-dates Karl Marx. Now, I think Neocons are more Evil than they are Stupid, but the two are by no means mutually exclusive. http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1575 BRIAN LAMB, host: David Brooks, were do we find a bobo in paradise? Mr. DAVID BROOKS (Author, "Bobos in Paradise"): Bobos are spread across upscale America LAMB: Where's the word `Bohemia' come from? Mr. BROOKS: Well, Bohemia's a region in central Europe, and I think the Bohemians who had no ethnic relationship to real Bohemians who were from Bohemia adopted it because they thought they were Gypsies, that they ha--were free-floating individuals. LAMB: Where is it physically? Do you know? Mr. BROOKS: It's--I'm not sure exactly. It's a region--I think the--I--I sh--shouldn't guess. I'm not exactly sure. LAMB: What about the--the--the n--word `bourgeois' or `bourgeoisie'? Where does that come--who--who first started using it? Mr. BROOKS: Yeah, that's a good question. You know, I don't know. It's--it's certainly a word Marx used, but I don't--I think it predates him. Sent at: 2008 07 06