The candidates have picked up on a strand of know-nothingism also at work in the states. ❋ Eric L. Lewis (2011)
You may despair that the rationality required to face up to reality will never overcome the fundamentalism, know-nothingism and magic thinking that has a hammerlock on our national psyche. ❋ Marty Kaplan (2011)
I'm aware that the history of American politics teems with deceit, vulgarity, spectacle, corruption and know-nothingism. ❋ Marty Kaplan (2011)
The issue for them isn't Perry's good 'ol boy know-nothingism on a host of issues -- that's a plus in this Tea Party Invasion-of-the-Republican-body-snatchers season. ❋ Michael Sigman (2011)
Republicans have a romance with knowing nothing as long as one seriously believes in their know-nothingism. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This is the kind of know-nothingism that undermines public support for vaccination altogether and leads to such public health milestones as California reporting in 2010 the highest number of whooping cough cases in 55 years. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I've said before I wouldn't bother responding to your brand of leftwing know-nothingism, so I've already wasted more time dealing with you than you're worth. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This is the kind of know-nothingism that responsible conservatives -- or, for that matter, anyone who believes that the Internet should be a self-regulating forum in which bad ideas get weeded out -- should be denouncing. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Whether by design or not, Sammon's directive implies a strategy to sneak some of the most improbable climate know-nothingism into supposedly objective newscasts. ❋ Stephen Stromberg (2010)
My guess is, the only way to confront this incipient, embarrassing know-nothingism is to do exactly what Cole has done here ... and to make the name as familiar, and unthreatening, to Americans as Michael Jordan's is. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I think that the GOP turned off _everybody_ with its know-nothingism, disproportionately minorities. ❋ Unknown (2008)
What an intense relief after the past 8 years of know-nothingism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
One can only assume that he's about to be denounced by the usual suspects for his failure to properly adhere to Christianist know-nothingism. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a long-time admirer of conservative Republicanism from afar, I think this is exactly the right time to double down on know-nothingism as personified by Sarah Palin and religious fundamentalism as personified by Dr. Dobson. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This requires a reorientation toward truth and away from lowest-common-denominator journalism: fear-mongering, celebrity fawning and other forms of know-nothingism that have only gotten worse in recent years, as the reeling media empires grow ever more desperate for quick, cheap profits. ❋ Unknown (2009)
