[Enchante]

"Remember what we learned about Leonard Bernstein from Tom Wolfe’s book ‘Radical Chic’."

OK, what did 'we' learn? :^)

Sorry to say I never read that book, so I have only a vague idea about it..... I suppose Bernstein came across as a trendy pseudo-leftist hypocrite?? I really don't know anything about his politics except that he leaned left....

[supremedoctrine]

IT’S ALL IN THE TITLE-—The 60s saw an explosion among people you’d think would know better of giving in to the irresistible urge of proving their hipness by doing things like hosting cocktail parties with people like the Black Panthers as honored guests, which is what Bernstein did. More recently Bill Clinton invited the Crips and the Bloods to the WHouse during his first term. VERY hip bid to gain ‘street cred.’ But by now this whole thing is so well integrated into the way the Media/Political/Celebrity culture do business that we find ourselves having to listen to the criminal Al Sharpton expound on his “community” as if he’s some kind of ‘leader’ rather than scam artist/hustler/