If you're going to ask people to defend someone else's proposition, you might want to include the particular proposition. "Thomas is as shallow and stupid as purported by the Left" is incredibly vague, since many lefties don't consider him particularly stupid at all. Is there a particular claim about Thomas's intelligence that catches your attention?
Besides the fact that almost everything I've heard from the left about Thomas is a lie?
The Left has always hated Thomas because he's an uppity ****** who won't stay on the liberal plantation.