Posted on 06/17/2009 10:25:36 PM PDT by pissant
Let’s put aside the fact that David Letterman’s jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughters were sexist, as NOW and other feminist groups have acknowledged. We should also ask why he thought it was a cutting insult to compare Palin to a flight attendant—and other normal Americans that upper-crust liberals would never associate with.
The obvious answer: they’re snobs.
It’s why they laughed along with another Letterman monologue likening Palin to members of the lowly working class. “She looks like the waitress at the coffee shop who draws a little smiley face on your check,” he said. “She looks like the dip sample lady at Safeway. She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes.” This was funny to people who look down upon nurses and grocery store workers.
It’s why the status-obsessed Keith Olbermann brags about his “Ivy League” credentials when he actually went to a state school affiliated with Cornell—as if there were something shameful about a public education.
It’s why Michael Moore writes book after book haranguing Americans for being racist, lamenting in Stupid White Men, “[I’m] trying to clock how long it is before I spot a black man or woman who isn’t wearing a uniform or sitting at a receptionist’s desk.” But as of 2005, Moore was spending two-thirds of his time in Central Lake, Michigan—a town that doesn’t have a single black resident.
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They are total snobs. My liberal brother, who is all for “taking care of the poor” doesn’t actually associate with people who fit that criteria. All of his friends are college educated (many to private colleges), upper middle class snobs. Me, the mean old conservative, can kick back and have a beer with Teamsters and others of the working class.
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Snobs and mean as cat dirt.
"can i borrow a towel... my car just hit a water buffalo"
She is a smart and well-written young woman.
I’ve noticed the same throughout life. The typical (white) Democrat is a snob. This article is so true.
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“Pretentious Liberal Snobs”
A pretentious liberal snob is akin to your white trash with money, next door neighbor, looking down their noses at you...ain’t it. You know what I mean.
“A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.” — Spiro Agnew, 1969.
The Spiro of ‘76, as we called him in the good old days.
Excellent quote Lucius. I agree with Spiro.
Anyone who allows the word intellectual to precede them...
probably can’t even spell the word intellectual.
Thank God for spell check.
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She's also NOT GUILTY.
The will laugh at a hard working redneck or hillbilly, but never at a piece of ghetto trash on welfare. They know where the votes are coming from.
She put it right to Michael Moore exposing that he lives in Central Lake, Michigan, a city without a single black resident. Good on Ashley for exposing his hypocrisy.
Case in point.
Boston Globe.
There something like 13 different unions at the Globe.
All the unions that represent the truck drivers, the printers, the laborers all settled with management and took pay cuts, and changes in labor practices to keep guys working.
All except the snob writers, reporters, editors that constantly for decades yelled about greedy Republicans and how only they, the elite, the voice of the voiceless care about the poor and the working stiffs.
No pay cut for them. No solidarity with the workers for them.
The lefty writers let the working stiffs take the hit. But, for them? Not one less Starbucks double latte less, Comrade!
I find the libs and Dems tendency to think they’re smarter than they actually are a lot more risable than their snobbishness. Most libs have little or no common sense. They are innately attracted to glitter, pomposity, and glib talk posing as true beauty, tradition, and wisdom. Many libs are funny in a smart-a.. sort of way, but underneath it all is real ignorance about the way things really are.
After the failure of yet another five year plan, he is supposed to have said,"What we really need to do around here is to shoot a few more intellectuals,"
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