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I think that last sentence is a needless insult to innocent microcephalic people everywhere. (I am being only slightly sarcastic…)
There is a big difference between someone born with diminished mental capacity and someone who does “bad reporting” because he is either (a) an idealogue, (b)does not care to “sweat the details,” (c) has inflated or falsified his credentials, or (d) was hired for some reason other than his competence (e.g., to get good ratings; to fill an affirmative action quota.)
My experience with mentally disabled people is that very few of them have the kind of evil intentions we find so often in media people and politicians.
NOT that I am advocating a Forrest Gump, or a character like Jerzy Kozinski’s Chance (“Being There”) for high office…
But I do think everyone in the political discourse has become too glib about throwing around characterizations such as idiot, moron, pinhead, retard. The problem being that kind of name-calling lets a person off the hook morally for being a fraud, or for having evil intentions.