I think it was Mark Twain who said nobody ever went broke overestimating the idiocy of the American television punditocracy. |
To colonists, idiocy was a pitiable and vulnerable condition, one more manifestation of God's diverse creations. |
Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense. |
Because of him, we read everything more closely, with a jaundiced eye, searching for hidden idiocies, subtle contradictions. |
Surely we have to crack down on corruption and abuse, and eliminate idiocies like the direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers. |
With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery. |