Look who's talking

Are we all idiots? Someone called Kayt (sic) Turner writes in Scotland on Sunday:

WE ARE a stupid nation. We are raising a generation of idiots - and what's worse, we see nothing wrong with it. In fact, we celebrate stupidity to such an extent that Homer Simpson is venerated as a cultural icon and included in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Not that most of Homer's acolytes will have any idea what that is.
One of the dumbest oxygen thieves ever is about to win Big Brother (itself a glorious celebration of the thick in our society). Don't get me wrong, Brian is obviously a sweet, genuine and innocent boy, all qualities that should rightly be celebrated. But he's as thick as pig shit. The twins, Sam and Amanda (dumb and dumber) are equally lovely - and equally stupid. We may laugh ourselves silly at the fact that they think an egg is a vegetable, but that's all they know. And they are completely unencumbered by shame at their lack of knowledge. Of course, the idiots will, more than likely, do very, very well when they leave the house. Jade Goody - surely the biggest eejit of all time - earned millions.
Look around you - nothing but idiots.

Er, speak for yourself. But someone who has obviously taken the trouble to become conversant with the goings-on in Big Brother may not be the most appropriate person to complain about the general standard of intelligence.

Especially when that someone cannot even spell their own first name ...