simpleton

• “And it means you engage in simpleton, “just world” thinking.”

  Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’

• “But now when an Egyptian simpleton is tortured by the hands of a Libyan officer - a government representative - in an official police station for a prolonged period of time with the intention of torture and homicide, and when the guy is shipped back in a pile to spend the rest of his life incapacitated - when all of that happens, will we see thousands of Islamists demonstrating in his defense?”

  Global Voices in English » Egypt: What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander

• “A certain simpleton was once walking along, haling his ass after him by the halter, when a pair of sharpers saw him and one said to his fellow, “I will take that ass from yonder wight.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Because, as Mr. DeVito makes abundantly clear, there are and always have been two Yogi Berras: 1) the public celebrity — a goofy, good-natured, strange-looking (sportswriters at the time used far-worse adjectives), malaprop-spewing simpleton from the Italian slums of St. Louis and 2) the real person behind the public persona, a far more complex and intelligent character.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Man Behind the Malaprop

• “In D. C.'s power corridors, he's known as a simpleton, but in reality he's much more dangerous.”

  The Huffington Post: David Bourgeois: GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Pure Plastic

• “No, you arrogant simpleton, that isn't just the way it is.”

  08/21/2006

• “But it seems fitting that one of the most ardent supporters of a simpleton is a simpleton.”

  Think Progress » BREAKING: McCain Reaches Agreement With Bush On Military Tribunals

• “One is called a simpleton when one demands that oaths be held sacred; our crimes are nameless.”

  PRIMITIVISM

• “It was not the first time that she had been called a simpleton, or some kindred name, by the out-spoken Miss”

  Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner

• “Do you think, because I am called a simpleton, that I have no eyes, nor ears, nor sense?”

  A Simpleton

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