CONFESSIONS OF A CULTURAL ELITIST (Ted Rall Ralph alert)

Yahoo! ^ | 11-9-04 | Ted Rall

[bikepacker67]

Is the mask finally stripped away?

Are you listening Middle America? These folks LOATHE you.

[sarasotarepublican]

While channel surfing CNN, MSNBC, Fox have conservative democrat tokens out in full force doing interviews. Guess what they're talking about? Yep, family values, and you guessed it, faith and religion.

[sinkspur]

Where did this come from? You need to post sources, along with links and the author's name.

[Moconservative]

We've seen so many of these posts they are getting tiring but they are informative.

Whenever I read something like this I remember this quote,"Pride comes before the fall." People like this writer should be careful because when they fall from their pedstal it's a long way down.

[frog_jerk_2004]

So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2.

Waaaaa. They are so much cooler than us! I'm going to cry...

[TADSLOS]

But don't demand our respect.

We never expected it Teddy boy, least of all from the likes of you. Oh, by the way, how's your back watching going? ...not that it will help. 2nd Batt will have their way with you at a time and place of their choosing.

[Seeckt]

Hmmmm... southwest Ohio.... the Air Force a major employer... Is he talking about Dayton? That's actually quite a nice town.

New definition of a liberal: someone who hates Dayton.

What an idiot.

[Txsleuth]

I think this guy has found a "bit" and is playing it to the hilt. There is nothing genuine in that article. He is play-acting just to get attention. Maybe he is a Michael Moore wanna-be.

[The Drowning Witch]

I wonder if this hack would be so arrogant if all those red state "dumbass" farmers decided to stop selling food to all the blue state elitists????

Food for thought indeed......

[Paradox]

You are 25 percent more likely to hold a college degree if you live in the Democratic northeast than in the red state south. Blue state voters are 25 percent more likely, therefore, to understand the historical and cultural ramifications of Bush's brand of bull-in-a-china-shop foreign policy.

Please, let me dispense with this garbage right now. Forget "blue staters" and "red staters", how about actual VOTERS? I'll trade him one "dumb redneck" for each "stupid urban-person", and he'll have plenty of urban-persons left over.

[Cutterjohnmhb]

Keep talking , You couldn't ask for a better spokesman for the Elites. In my years of reading Ted Rall, I have yet to see one article that wasn't laced with hate and loathing.

[bikepacker67]

Sorry.. I meant to post it!

Source

[Lorianne]

Would you post a link please?
Thanks

[frog_jerk_2004]

These people just show they are not grown-up enough to run the country. I mean, this is like Junior High School crybaby stuff. It really is sickening that so-called "adults" would actually use the argument that they are "better" than the rest of us. "My Daddy has more money than yours! NA NA". Excuse me while I vomit...

[sporkgoddess]

Hey, what about WI and MI? We're the same as middle America, but we voted Kerry (unfortunately)!

[Vigilantcitizen]

Inland Americans face a bigger challenge than coastal "cultural elitists" when it comes to finding high-quality news coverage. The best newspapers, which routinely win prizes for their in-depth local and national reporting and staffers overseas, line the coasts.

Ummm...there's this cool new thing called the internet.

[mylife]

Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world.

What a self centered egotist Rall is. L0L

[backinthefold]

As someone who grew up in New Jersey, and spent a lot of time in NYC, all I can say to this asshat is STFU

I moved to GA, and am glad I did. Yeah, the pizza is better in NJ and being in NYC is like no other place in the world. But after 13 years here, I visit the old homestead, and am damn glad I left.

No open spaces, all now have condos. How about the 7 mile stretch of traffic on the GSP at the toll booths? How about the property taxes on a postage stamp, and the mortgages that for the one month you pay, I have 4 months of payments on 4 acres. How about smaller classes for my kids, and a place where everyone know everyone else.

Yeah, you putz, you remind me of that old joke. Men balding in the back are great thinkers, men balding in the front are great lovers, men balding in the front and back THINK they are great lovers.

You, master rall, are a pompous windbag, and I would guess you soul smells of brimstone

[bikepacker67]

My email to Teddy:

If those of you on the left are so intellectually superior to us redneck rubes and Jesus freaks, may I make a suggestion?

How about we institute a brief 20 question aptitude test before citizens are allowed to vote?

Somehow I think your inner-city constituents would fail miserably...

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[mhking]

Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2.

I don't have to demand it.

I already command it.

And that you have to keep reassuring yourself that you want respect shows that you don't have it. I don't need that reassurance. I already know that I have it.

Just damn.

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