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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I think Charlie Daniels said it well:
What this world needs is a few more rednecks
Some people ain’t afraid to take a stand
What this world needs is a little more respect
For the Lord and the law and the workin’ man
We could use a little peace and satisfaction
Some good people up front to take the lead
A little less talk and a little more action
And a few more rednecks is what we need
What most people call a redneck
Ain’t nothin’ but a workin’ man
And he makes his livin’
By the sweat of his brow
And the calluses on his hands
Now you intellectuals may not like it
But there ain’t nothin’ that you can do
Cause there’s a whole lot more of us common-folks
Then there ever will be of you
Not only are they snobs, they are also hypocrites
e·lit·ism or é·lit·ism (-ltzm, -l-)
n.
1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources.
2.
a. The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class.
b. Control, rule, or domination by such a group or class.
They are elitist. And it REALLY ticks ‘em off when one of the “peasants” rises above his station.
They are intent on imposing a feudal system, in which the nobility, them, own everything, and everyone else must bow and scrape and subsist while they ride by in their carriages.
“Intellectuals aren’t the revolution’s brains, they’re it’s s**t.” ~ Lenin
“The intelligent are to the intelligentsia, as a gentleman is to a gent.” ~ Stanley Baldwin
So why do the "Teamsters and others of the working class" so overwhelmingly vote for the same "total snobs" your brother votes for?
My opinion is that the Left has completely taken over the "entertainment" industry, the "news" media, and all public schools, colleges, and universities, with the few exceptions being a handful of Christian schools.
Wherever the "Teamsters and others of the working class" turn, they are inundated with Leftist propaganda to the point where they mostly believe it, and vote accordingly.
If I may add my own perceived adjectives to the list.
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