Julia Roberts
I was surfing the Internet today and came across Julia Roberts’ inane quote from 2000.
“Republican comes in the dictionary just after 'reptile' and just above 'repugnant'...I looked up Democrat. It's of the people, by the people, for the people.”
No, no Julia! The way a dictionary works is you read the definition for the actual word. You don’t infer the meaning from adjacent words!
This is a great example of a popular tactic of the uninformed: Guilt by association.
(I suppose I should be encouraged that Julia even owns a dictionary - or maybe she borrowed it from her cameraman husband. After all, he has a psychology degree from the University of Colorado while she only has a high school diploma.)
posted by The Phantom Republican @ 9:44 AM
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3 Comments:
This brings up the point of why any celebrity is given any merit for their opinion. On a whole they are uneducated.
"Guilt by association."
like when the republicans labeled anyone who spoke out against wire-tapping as "anti-american"?
Get a sense of humor. She said this at a DNC fundraiser, didn't she? Considering the venue, the first part was actually kind of clever. If you are taking that to mean she literally was a democrat at that time because she chose between her (bad) understanding of the two words in the dictionary, then you just look silly.
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