A reader said that I am an egomaniac.
Let me start my reply by referring to an old joke. There was an eleven-foot-tall man at the circus. He told people that he was eleven feet tall at the circus, but when he went on vacation, he was a midget.
Do you want me to claim that I am really a midget?
A professor friend of mine recently wrote me an e-mail. He said the first time he met me was at a cocktail party at the University of Virginia. He heard that there was this South Carolina racist who was tearing everybody apart who tried to argue with him.
This really impressed him because this was one of the top graduate schools on earth. Two of my professors later won Nobel Prizes. One of my fellow students became Reagan’s OMB Director. But the buzz was that nobody could argue with Bob. He made them look like morons.
My analogy test showed I had an IQ of 160. He said he thought my real IQ was higher than that.
The whole point of WhitakerOnline is that I see things the experts and PhDs don’t. I am up for a debate with any professor on earth, and none of them will dare take me up on it.
Just how many people can say that?
So what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to say I may seem smart but I’m a moron on my days off?
I get along with working people because I respect them. What the average working man is willing to sacrifice just because he thinks it’s right is awesome.
No working man is going to tell me he is a better electrician than I am because we both know he IS a better electrician than I am.
But I despise a PhD who says he should tell working people what to do because he is a Great Intellectual. I am a better intellectual than he is.
Professors and PhDs put everything on the idea that they are very, very smart. They say they should decide what working people watch on TV, because working people will just choose what they LIKE to watch, and these Great Intellectuals should tell them what they NEED to watch.
I resent that. I don’t compete with a working man, but by God I tell those self-styled Geniuses where to go.
And the West Virginia coal miners, the Louisville electricians, the South Carolina mill workers, the Chicago steel workers and the Boston Southies have cheered me on.
They need one person like me to put those self-styled Intellectuals in their place.
With my huge ego, I tell those self-styled Intellectuals that, compared to me, they are dunces. And I back it up.
None of them would dare take me on in a debate.
So again, what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to claim I’m not all that smart?
If I’m not smarter than the average bear, why the hell should you listen to me?
#1 by Hank Parnell on 10/10/2004 - 1:44 am
Oh, don’t apologize for being brilliant, Bob! I wouldn’t have you any other way.
#2 by Don on 10/10/2004 - 12:51 pm
Here I thought you were retarded and just faking it. I have no doubt that you would make mincemeat of PhDs in a debate, but how well do you do against intelligent people. Oops, why debate if you agree to begin with!
#3 by Bedford on 10/10/2004 - 1:26 pm
Bob, I would recommend that you read a biography of N. B. Forrest. There is only one that covers his entire life and it was written by a former newspaperman for the Nasheville Tennesseean. He goes off track in the second half of the book by pretending to know what was in Forrest’s mind, but it is worthwhile and necessary to know Confederate history. It is a great adventure story and a look at the mind of a genius. Your recent book is not in the Lexington Co. library. I will request it and maybe contribute one if they don’t buy one.
#4 by Bob Whitaker on 10/10/2004 - 2:46 pm
Bedford, I was a Civil War buff when I was a boy, and I had the Life Magazine history of World War II that I read over and over.
But now I can’t stand to read anything that deals with either of those wars.
America destroyed itself in those two wars, and we slaughtered each other. I just can’t stand reading about that anymore.
#5 by Richard L. Hardison on 10/11/2004 - 8:06 pm
Bob, you need to quit being so modest. People will think you have something to hide 😉
#6 by Jay on 10/12/2004 - 2:12 am
I was a Civil War and WWII nut too until a couple years ago. Now I find anything on Robert E. Lee and such completely mind numbing. I do however, find Forrest a very amusing character. Now, I like to read about Jesse James, Bill Andersen, and Bill Quantrill. I guess these guerillas have a romanticism that I can relate to.
My new “favorite” war is the Whiskey Rebellion. Can you imagine the balls of these Pennsylvania and Carolina moonshiner hicks to call George Washington a tyrant?!?!
#7 by Jay on 10/12/2004 - 2:17 am
Bob, unfortunately, I’ve never been able to attend one, but I think you’d be a great speaker at the next American Renaissance Conference.
Also, I noticed they don’t have a link to your site. I have just sent them an email saying that they should.
#8 by Bob Whitaker on 10/12/2004 - 1:42 pm
Thanks, Jay. I would be honored.
#9 by Bob Whitaker on 10/12/2004 - 1:45 pm
Jay, the American Renaissance link if the first one under Friends of Bob on this page.
I’ll check to see if it’s on the regular WOL links page.
#10 by Jay on 10/13/2004 - 12:46 am
I think the deal with AR is that they just haven’t updated their links in a while. They prolly have a big enough job just searching for and posting articles regarding race everyday.
But I hope they’ll add you soon. As well as the new Chicagoland Friends of AR at: chicagoamren.com
#11 by Dave on 10/14/2004 - 2:04 am
Bob,
I’ve read your books and I am a person who has consumed many libraries of books. The reason I do that is that it takes a lot of looking to find anything said, actually worthwhile being said. Your light is the kind given to few in any generation. What a relief to find it!
There is a role for hatred in life and there is many a young man who shall learn hatred once they learn the meaning of being in debt to the tune of say, $60K, without any limitation on its collection unto death, without exception. I guess our Congress shall next provide for debtors prisons in the collection of student loans, that being the next logical step. All to support idiotic socialists tutoring idiotic students in the good ole USA’s DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Few say it, you say it! Good work!
#12 by Bob on 10/20/2004 - 6:43 pm
Thank you, Dave! I put a lot of work and money into Why Johnny Can’t Think, and your praise is important to me.
It’s at READBOB.COM
I take it you have been through that student loan nightmare? And the minute a young person gets through paying that back-breaking burden he has to start accumulating money to pay for his children’s college tuition, or he just decides not to have any.
College tuition is part of the genocide program.
#13 by Bob on 10/20/2004 - 6:45 pm
And as for my being an egomaniac, I’m just too darned wonderful to have a fault like that.
#14 by Scrivener on 03/04/2010 - 10:27 pm
Bob, this post has got me thinking. I love your term “ridiculously overeducated redneck,” and I might steal it for myself. I am Southern, so a LOT of what you say resonates with me.
It might amuse you to know that I’ve even been “insulted” by a pair of Northern college students who, when it came out in the course of the conversation that my family had been in the area for seven generations, turned cold toward me and said “oh… so you’re OLD South.” I just smiled and said “Yeah, what’d you all think? That we all just vanished after the War?”
Anyway, back to my first sentence… I think I’m the giant in your example. Whenever someone said that I was really smart back in college (people would volunteer that they thought I was a heck of a lot smarter than them, even people who made better grades than me), I would deflect and say “well, that’s not necessarily true. I just know a lot.” Even though I think very highly of myself, I have a reflexive humbleness in public.
But lately, I’ve been thinking that maybe I was onto something… I’m a guy who holds multiple college degrees and a professional license who can’t seem to find work even at the subsistence level. How smart can I really be?
I paid all this money for a fancy degree that was supposed to allow me to make money to pay it off. Now I find myself in a stagnant, overfilled job market and too overeducated to secure a job in another field that I’m perfectly able to do. And I still have to make my student loan payments. How smart is that, really?
And my school, who knows good and well that I don’t have a job, has the nerve to call me up each semester and ask me for money. I’m too nice to tell them what I really think of this practice. After all, the poor people who would be on the receiving end of such abuse are just clueless freshmen.
You may notice that I actually touched on a couple of your themes here. I’ve been reading a lot of your earlier stuff, but I didn’t know whether you would appreciate comments until you said so a few posts ago.