Conservative Elitists (thanks to Namo)

[Auggie27]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 6:44pm

Namo's comment on the Post review of "Aunt Dan" got me going, so I moved my response, to start a new thread perhaps:

The Bill O'Reilly brand of elitism is the most odious, the least analyzed. These pundits are rich, educated, and just love to claim they represent the "real" folks in the red states. They smoke cigars in the Oak Bar, dine at "21" (Limbaugh's haunt) but pretend there's nuthin' like a messa' Buffalo wings and brews at TJIFridays, hangin' with the Indy 500 fans. In truth, they are urban, separatist idealogues, who wouldn't be caught dead slumming with the good ol boys whose "concerns" they so devoutly tout.

Anne Coulter is my current favorite, with her Upper East Side lifestyle, loathing of family vacation spots that allow rugrats under her stiletto heels -- but embrace of "traditional values." If she had to spend 48 hours around people who practice those values, she'd run screaming back through the Lincoln Tunnel and need a day at the Golden Door to get over it.

Read David Brock's book, "Blinded By The Right." He used to be her -- and other such hypocrites' -- friend. She pontificates homophobic rhetoric to sell her Joe McCarthy-endorsing books, but is a well known, uh, "hag" in many Log Cabin-y piano bar circles. (Sorry, I'm no good at writing gay politics with sensitive PC queer-speak; before my time.) It's most illuminating, Mr. Brock's tell-all, and proves this thesis better than I can with generalities. He was one of them, and knows whereover he speaks.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 8:36pm

Tucker Carlson makes me uncomfortable. He's taken it one step farther and adopted the "funky-hip" everyman persona. He's young, has long hair, and is decidedly conservative. It's disconcerting.