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But we can, and should, go back even further, to the fons et origo of this sort of thing: the coterie of literary wingnuts who have insisted that Shakespeare was simply too oafish, ill-educated and country-bred to write the plays attributed to him.
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Assailed 24/7 by an odious trash celebrity culture which glorifies dross like John Terry and countless other ill-educated, violent, adulterous football millionaires?
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It has been shown in Republican Political Theatre time and again JUST HOW Effective FEAR, LYING, Swiftboating, Outright election fraud, appointing (Bush) Activist Supreme Court Judges, corrupt marriages to Corporations, manipulative Framing of the equally manipulated (think revised Texas textbooks) ignorant ill-educated American citizenry!
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This guy is not only a fake, he's an ill-educated screwball as well!
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The brainwashed, ill-educated, Beta minus drones who inhabit Middle England and read papers such as the Mail not to feel superior, but to actually get news.
Patrick Hayes: IstyOsty: The Website That Allows the Twitterati to Have a Guilt-Free Two Minute Hate
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“When I originally thought of New Orleans, I was conditioned by the press to think of it as an extremely ill-governed city, full of ill-educated people, with a great deal of crime, a great deal of dirt, a great deal of poverty,” said Duany, who grew up in Cuba.
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Churchill et al could not tolerate the idea of "a government of inexperienced and ill-educated upstarts led by a small communist-trained core", as the resident MI5 expert put it.
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According to the government, these "ill-educated" nomads, who regard cattle rustling as a sign of wealth and bravery, are primitive, aid-dependent and must be "sedentarised" – made to settle down and farm in a "modern way".
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Hence the coach, a boorish, ill-educated stage-Irish blowhard who proudly displays pictures of Teddy Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Fightin' Joe McCarthy on his mantelpiece and salts his small talk with good old-fashioned ethnic slurs of the highest possible voltage, thereby alerting the audience to his lack of enlightenment.
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"If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?"
Why Can’t They Remember? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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