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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.

    Houses of the Future 2009

  • 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.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • This guy is not only a fake, he's an ill-educated screwball as well!

    WILLIAM W COMBOW 2010

  • 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 Patrick Hayes 2011

  • This guy is not only a fake, he's an ill-educated screwball as well!

    WILLIAM W COMBOW 2010

  • 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!

    RNC raises close to $8 million in August 2009

  • Assailed 24/7 by an odious trash celebrity culture which glorifies dross like John Terry and countless other ill-educated, violent, adulterous football millionaires?

    How Did It Come To This? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • “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.

    Houses of the Future 2009

  • 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 Patrick Hayes 2011

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