"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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He has a propensity for shooting from the hip when questioned by
reporters and can quite often stick his perferbial foot in his mouth.
To this day, Yeager still doesn't know how to handle the press. He is
the ultimate mixture of extreme talent, tremendous ability, and
intellectual stupidity.

I wouldn't call it stuoidity, but the fact he comes from a place where
plain talk and a lack of unmitigated bull**** is commonplace.

Understandable considering beginnigs and his "ride" to the top, wouldn't
you say?

Actually no, at least not in my opinion anyway.
Even when considering Yeager's back country beginnings, anyone who has
been exposed to him through his career (and I know a bunch :-) will tell
you in a nano second that his intelligence goes way beyond whatever
boundaries this factor might define in his life equation.

I was refering to his personality; I'd second your assessment of his
intelligence.

His backcountry beginnings made him rather incapable of sucking up to
people.

Perhaps intellillectual stupidity is the wrong phrase to use to describe
Yeager. Closer would be his inability to keep his mouth shut after his
point has been made. He has always had an unbridled propensity to take it
out there "one bridge too far".

From what I've read (I'm sure you actually KNOW him) was not that he went to
far and too long, but he's a man of very few words and those can be brutally
frank and honest.