A couple of implications here are worth noting. The first is that a deep, recurring pattern of American life has asserted itself yet again: the cluelessness of the elite.
Buckley, Gergen and Brooks all attended expensive private universities, then spent their careers moving among the wealthy and powerful who inhabit the seaboard corridor running from Washington to Boston. If any of the three strolled uninvited into a cocktail party in Georgetown, Cambridge or New Haven, the hostess would emit yelps of delight. Yet all three originally got Obama wrong.
Contrast Buckley, Gergen and Brooks with, let us say, Rush Limbaugh, whose appearance at any chic cocktail party would cause the hostess to faint dead away, or with Thomas Sowell, who occupies probably the most unfashionable position in the country, that of a black conservative.
Limbaugh and Sowell both got Obama right from the very get-go. “Just what evidence do you have,” Sowell replied when I asked, shortly before the election, whether he considered Obama a centrist, “that he’s anything but a hard-left ideologue?”
The elite journalists, I repeat, got Obama wrong. The troglodytes got him right. As our national drama continues to unfold, bear that in mind.
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I’m glad to see this but disturbed it took them this long when a non-pundit like me figured it out immediately. I know this sounds insane, but I did read an actual recent study regarding how Obama hypnotizes his audiences. It seems to be the only explanation I’ve ever read that makes sense in the light of how many perfectly sane people blindly follow this man based on his rhetoric alone. These are thinking, respectable citizens,not welfare recipients I’m speaking of. The important thing right now to consider is whether the masses will wake up in time to elect a more conservative congress.
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“The elite journalists, I repeat, got Obama wrong.”
The problems with elitists is that they’ve never had dirt under their fingernails. They’re convinced they’ve a divine right to pontificate from their perches in media or academia. Take a look at the most recent RINO cast of characters attacking Rush & other conservatives and ask yourself, are they offering you anything of value? Any tangible solutions (economic or otherwise) that square with reality? Because they’re void of solid convictions,the answer is NO. What’s worse, they’ve no working knowledge of the world as it really is. No dirty hands.
It’s all about image and never about substance, though they wield the language admirably to make you think otherwise: you have to give them that. Perhaps that’s why they find a kindred spirit in Obama when they hear his rhetoric and get swept by it. Just my thot.
Elitists create a veritable verbal jungle that will entangle you and throw you in the river if you’re not careful. But read their stuff very carefully, or listen to them, and you will find an arrogant and insecure bunch who are either very confused, or very afraid to admit that some things are REALLY true and others false. Like the 3 stooges in the Senate who supported the pork bill, it’s more important to cave in to pressure and retain acceptance than to stick to what you claim to believe. It’s called cowardice.
Elitists are wimps and nothing more. They’re hypocrites. They’re sell-outs. They can’t win debates on the merits of their beliefs, if they have any. Elitists just want adulation, they’re not interested in the truth. They show contempt for you and me if we disagree with them. It’s time to take them on, whether they claim to be conservative or not, and expose them and purge them out. There’s damn too much at stake.
Well said Gigi. You’re last line is the best, “There’s damn too much at stake”, absolutely.
Thanks, Gigi. I agree completely. And I am going on the offensive. I will not allow anyone on our side to equivocate about Rush. Rush and Sowell were right and Rush has been nothing short of brilliant lately.