Actual Mencken quote:
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records
for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by
underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
He went on to say:
“The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain
people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read
and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an
appetite for more. This assumption is a folly.”
Sept. 19, 1926, Chicago Tribune, in a column on the new trend in newspapers
toward the tabloid size rather than the standard broadsheet.
By the way, just FYI, Mencken was as purebred an arrogant asshole as ever
walked the streets of America. But he had a way with language, he did, and
that has saved him. For the time being. And I have to confess, I would love
to see what Mencken would make of Fox News. Hehehe
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 9/29/2015 5:19 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Go figure. In spite of Moose's dislike of my hyper-editing, I've sold
>> two prints of this shot already today. People just have no taste, I
>> guess. :)
>>
>
> I'm happy for you.
>
> I did previously resist the temptation to quote H. L. Menken:
>
> "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
>
> What about my AG version of the shoes?
>
> Soled Moose
>
> --
> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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