The American Spectator

home
ADVERTISEMENT
Print Email
Text Size

TAS Live

Looking Stupid

Our hot monthly columnist wants to know: Are you cool, or not?

(Page 3 of 3)

And that makes them all cowards. Because, in order to prevent evil, you have to take a risk-not of death, but of embarrassment.

The bravest response for all of us? To have the balls to appear stupid — at any and all times. We need to stand up and demand to see what’s in a fidgety man’s back pack, even if it turns out its nothing more than back issues of the Utne Reader and a “neck massager.”

We need to be willing to face the mobs in the street and the mobs online. We need to punch a coward in the face when it’s called for, and do so in front of his friends. We need to be the scary ones, for once.

Myself? I’m ready to play the fool. I’ve had lots of practice over the years — just ask my friends. The U.S., in fact, as a nation, needs to start acting like fools. We need to be ridiculous. We need to be scary. We need to keep our enemies up at night and make them squirm for a change. When we hear those two competing voices in our heads, we need to listen to the one that dares us to look stupid. Because it’s better than looking dead.

Page:   1 23

topics:
Economics

About the Author

Greg Gutfeld, former editor of Maxim (UK), Men”s Health, and Stuff, runs Dailygut.com and is host of the new Fox News Channel show, Red Eye.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (6) |

Thomas L. Yach| 5.5.09 @ 6:38AM

Hi Gregg, I'm 66 ( not a totally inexperienced nut case)! Can I have an email address that I can send my 60 second jingle ( me singing & plunkin guitar ) to? Without a ton of explanatory words here, it could be big! Just do it!!! Thanks! Thomas L. Yach, 3132 Warrior rd., Lenoir, NC 28645 Phone/fax 828-754-9756

vouchercodes | 12.13.10 @ 12:14AM

Haha , I want to meet such a guy.

Related Articles

More Articles by Greg Gutfeld

More Articles From TAS Live

http://spectator.org/archives/2007/03/06/looking-stupid

ADVERTISEMENT

SPONSORED LINKS

FLASHBACK TO: 1995

Clip of the Day

Most Popular Articles

Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?

Jeffrey Lord | 5.20.13

Time to Go for the Kill

Peter Ferrara | 5.22.13

From the Obama Ministry of Truth

Ben Stein | 5.21.13

IRS Union Chief Stonewalls

Jeffrey Lord | 5.21.13

Wimps Versus Barbarians

Thomas Sowell | 5.21.13

Damage Control for Dummies

Matt Purple | 5.22.13

Anyone Still Believe Me?

Aaron Goldstein | 5.21.13

ADVERTISEMENT