tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51405622011-09-15T00:03:59.170+10:00Leftists as Elitists<i><b>People with elitist attitudes tend Left and so do most of those who are actually in elite positions</b></i>
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An interesting saying:<br>
"Egotism is the brain's way of easing the pain of stupidity"<br><br>
The foundation essay for this blog is <a href="http://geocities.com/jonjayray/elitism.html">here</a>JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger3391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-48821288907824336742007-06-20T13:17:00.000+10:002007-06-20T13:36:53.755+10:00Leftist elitism againIn America, there seem to be only minor grumbles about politicians who claim to represent "the little guy" flitting about in private jets and living in huge mansions etc (The Clintons, John Edwards and Al Gore spring to mind), but egalitarianism is much more deeply embedded in the Australian psyche and the story below about Australia's Federal Leftist leader will be very JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-64869570380260871312007-05-27T12:14:00.000+10:002007-05-27T12:15:03.450+10:00Elitist Journalist disses blogsSometimes you read something by a member of the MSM that is just so elitist, someone whose arrogance is so amazing, that it is hard to believe it was written by a member of a democratic society. We MSM watchdogs love to poke our fingers in the eyes of the homogeneously leftist, elitists in the media establishment assailing them for their pervasive assumptions of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-46121461488275213902007-03-26T13:29:00.001+10:002007-03-26T18:40:57.967+10:00Hungary shows just how arrogant and elitist a Leftist can getAnd note that the Hungarian Leftists are SUPPORTING this spoilt child. They can see nothing wrong with her attitudes "Panties or thong?" is not the kind of question usually fielded by government spin-doctors. But Zsuzsa Demcsak, a former underwear model and the new spokeswoman for Hungary's Socialist-led coalition government, is JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1129960832281931752005-10-22T15:59:00.000+10:002005-10-22T16:17:32.920+10:00AN ELITIST SNEER AT ORDINARY AUSTRALIANSNoted Australian playwright David Williamson recently went for a trip out of Australia aboard a cruise liner. He despised his fellow-passengers. Just one excerpt from his tirade:"When we arrived at the huge white colossus and lined up for cabin allocation our fellow passengers gave us some misgivings. School holidays meant there were oodles of children, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1125623369852062172005-09-02T11:09:00.000+10:002005-09-02T11:09:29.863+10:00THE "ART" ESTABLISMENT SPONGES OFF TAXPAYERS WHO DON'T GIVE A FIG FOR THEMTheir work isn't popular enough to earn them a living, so our artists grasp the taxpayer teat. It's not how we should be spending our money. When the Bracks [Victorian] Government spends $96,000 to paint trees blue, you see again why politicians and bureaucrats shouldn't be handing your money to artists. This is what you JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1125398907497751492005-08-30T20:48:00.000+10:002005-08-30T20:48:27.503+10:00LIKE ORWELL'S PIGS, THE BRITISH LEFTIST ELITE THINK THEY ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERSMembers of Britain’s elite have been selected as priority cases to receive scarce pills and vaccinations at the taxpayers’ expense if the country is hit by a deadly bird flu outbreak. Workers at the BBC and prominent politicians — such as cabinet ministers — would be offered protection from the virus. Ken JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1125282485926016362005-08-29T12:27:00.000+10:002005-08-29T12:28:05.936+10:00AN ELITE LEFTIST INTELLECTUAL AT WORK:With a typical disregard for facts and accuracyNo reputation in intellectual Australia stands higher at the moment than Robert Manne's. This year he was voted the country's leading intellectual (in a survey of 100 people by The Sydney Morning Herald); he has just published a mammoth collection of essays, Left Right Left; and for 20 years he seems never to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1124589298091843522005-08-21T11:54:00.000+10:002005-08-21T11:54:58.100+10:00Chianti crusadersWhat better place to condemn Western immorality than an Italian palace? Damn the war and pass the chianti, old chap.The invitation to escape Melbourne and spend a few days at a palazzo near Florence worked its magic. Aha! The fog lifted. The mind cleared. Suddenly I began to understand the haughty group-think of our university Left. The invitation wasn't for me, of course. I JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1123405101559500792005-08-07T18:57:00.000+10:002005-08-07T18:58:21.583+10:00THE ARROGANT BUT HOLLOW ELITISM OF THE ART WORLDNot coincidentally, the Art world is heavily Leftist. Excerpts from an article by John Carey, The Sunday Times’s chief literary criticPeople in the West have been saying extravagant things about the arts for two and a half centuries. The arts, it is claimed, are “sacred”, they “unite us with the Supreme Being”, they are “the visible appearance of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1123070533242723412005-08-04T01:01:00.000+10:002005-08-03T22:02:13.246+10:00HIATUSI originally intended this blog to be one that I posted to only intermittently -- as suitable material became available. As it happened, however, lots of relevant stories became available and daily posting became possible. The stories I am finding lately, however, overlap a lot with what has already appeared so I am going to revert to my original intention of posting here from time to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122995021165321422005-08-03T01:03:00.000+10:002005-08-03T01:03:41.173+10:00SOME COMMENTS ON THE LEFTIST ELITE BY BERNARD GOLDBERG, AUTHOR OF "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" I want to make a distinction between your run-of-the-mill liberals and the cultural elite liberals, who really speak for liberalism in America today. Most liberals obviously are decent people. They go to work every day, they care about their families, maybe they give money to charity. Fine. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122941850819817492005-08-02T10:16:00.000+10:002005-08-02T10:18:39.286+10:00BRITISH ELITISM MARCHES UNDER FALSE COLOURSThe leftist mania about abolishing the "elitist" Grammar schools in the UK (which selected on academic merit) means that only rich parents (including the "do-gooding" elite Leftists) can now afford a good education for their kids -- thus increasing elitism, not diminishing itRadical slogans don't often stir the blood when delivered in a voice trained atJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122848306737587762005-08-01T08:18:00.000+10:002005-08-01T08:18:26.746+10:00ARROGANT ACADEMIC ELITISM ON DISPLAYFor certain enlightened liberals on university faculties, the lesser intellectual stature of Christians and conservatives is so much taken for granted that they do not hesitate to write about them in terms dripping with condescension and contempt. An example I encountered this week is especially odious, and I am happy to bring it to the attention of a wider, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122734973665554342005-07-31T00:49:00.000+10:002005-07-31T00:49:33.673+10:00Israel's Leftist elite now strugglingPeretz, who was one of the few political leaders from the Moroccan immigration of the 1950s to tie his destiny to the Labor Party and the peace camp long after that community had given up on a Labor Party and peace camp perceived to be elitist, is currently mounting a strong campaign for leadership of the Labor Party. Were he to win, he would be Labor's JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122653207191712472005-07-30T02:05:00.000+10:002005-07-30T02:06:47.200+10:00A FRENCH ELITISTUntil last week it seemed Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe could do no wrong. During his four years in office, he has launched a series of wildly popular projects, from Paris Plage, a faux Seine-side summer beach, to an all-night fall arts celebration and urban renovation efforts to make Paris a more attractive, fun and environmentally friendly city to live in. Cinching the 2012 JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122540620777531362005-07-29T02:49:00.000+10:002005-07-29T08:43:21.790+10:00A SAVAGE CRITIQUE OF THE HOLLYWOOD ELITEUnder the heading "Widely Red" this essay appeared in the online edition ONLY of "The New Republic". Apparently it was too "hot" for the print edition. TNR is centre-Left so I guess the article would be too Rightist for most of the magazine's readers. The article was actually written by Martin Peretz, editor of TNR so I have gained a new respect for JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122505075402626632005-07-28T08:57:00.000+10:002005-07-28T08:57:55.410+10:00CONSISTENT LIBERAL ELITISMWhen I read the first paragraph of ("A world turned upside down," Voice of the Editor, June 29) regarding the Supreme Court's decision on eminent domain, I thought he was attempting humor. After reading further, I realized he was serious. I remember being taught the same thing in public school and from the evening news - Democrats are for the people; Republicans are forJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122407621441970762005-07-27T05:53:00.000+10:002005-07-27T05:53:41.450+10:00THE ACADEMIC ELITE SEEN CLOSE-UPI’m not an academic — though I played one for much of the past eight years. I taught magazine sequences at Indiana University’s school of journalism and, more recently, nonfiction writing at a pair of smaller Pennsylvania liberal-arts colleges. My academic station has ranged from that of lowly adjunct to visiting professor to writer-in-residence. In theory, the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122332437820814292005-07-26T09:00:00.000+10:002005-07-26T09:03:25.153+10:00THABO MBEKI: SOUTH AFRICA'S ELITE LEFTISTThough he's not Leftist enough for his old Communist buddies"An elitist, surrounded by an appointed elite with groups of advisors, who are equally elitist, even in their opportunistic analytical advice to the president," one senior ANC official highlights. A "centralist one-man dictamocrat (description of a dictator and de-mocrat in one), who has JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122243738858329662005-07-25T08:21:00.000+10:002005-07-25T08:22:18.863+10:00ARROGANT ELITISM IN THE ARTSThis year's edition of one of Europe's top summer arts events was described as a pretentious catastrophe Thursday after angry audiences booed or walked out of a series of performances. Critics attending the three-week Avignon theatre festival in southern France said it had plumbed new depths of intellectual obscurity and warned that a contempt for the mainstream JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122120020803055402005-07-24T02:57:00.001+10:002005-07-23T22:00:20.810+10:00AN ANGER-DRIVEN ELITE LEFTISTRonald Wilson was a judge of the High Court of Australia who fostered the myth of the non-existent "stolen generation"There are two versions of the convention on discussing the recently departed. The older of them is de mortuis nil nisi bonum; speak nothing but good of the dead. Gore Vidal has made the case for a sterner maxim: nil nisi verum, or nothing but the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1122081759695393732005-07-23T11:22:00.000+10:002005-07-23T11:22:39.703+10:00THE LEFTIST ELITE DISLIKE AMERICANISMAs we know well, most Latinos and Asians are the most enthusiastic supporters of integration and the best examples of its benefits. Instead, the new ideas come from the oldest and most established areas of our society and they grow directly out of the cultural revolution of the 1960s led by the wealthy, young elite of that day.There are two main themes in thisJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121974492997840892005-07-22T05:34:00.000+10:002005-07-22T05:34:53.006+10:00GREENIE ELITISMMiles off the paved highway and at the end of a long, bumpy driveway that cuts deep into the woods, Mick Womersley puts the finishing touches on his solar panel-topped home. It’s not your ordinary rural dwelling, even one designed to be ecologically sound. Womersley, a human ecology professor, and his wife Aimee Phillippi live comfortably in a house built of roughly 200 straw JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121898761710108802005-07-21T08:31:00.000+10:002005-07-21T08:32:41.720+10:00EUROPEAN ELITISM: A VIEW FROM SWEDENThe second interview with Mark Styen, by John Hawkins of Right Wing News http://www.rightwingnews.com/category.php?ent=4049 was as phenomenal as the first. It was conducted via email. In it, Mr. Steyn made many astute points, however, one in particular struck me: John Hawkins: For the time being, the European public seems to have turned against the idea of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121820668285425052005-07-20T10:50:00.000+10:002005-07-20T10:51:08.293+10:00Dispelling Media Elitist Bias Concerning Karl Rove The media frenzy created by the revelation that Karl Rove had talked to a Time magazine correspondent about the issue of Joe Wilson’s claims that CIA Director George Tenet and Vice President Dick Cheney had authorized his trip to Niger continues to build as media elitists are unrelenting in their biased news coverage.These media elitists are JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121720842805609972005-07-19T07:06:00.000+10:002005-07-19T07:07:22.813+10:00THE ARROGANT AND IGNORANT HOLLYWOOD ELITEThen there's Robert Redford, who once played Bob Woodward in ``All the President's Men'' and apparently still believes that role made him an experienced Washington Post-like muckraker from the Watergate era. These days, Redford lectures reporters to go after George W. Bush, undeterred by the fact that the real journalist Dan Rather ended his career by justJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121636246974799422005-07-18T07:36:00.000+10:002005-07-18T07:37:26.980+10:00HOMOSEXUALITY: THE LEFTIST ELITE VERSUS THE PEOPLEFor the third time in recent years, voters in Maine will go to the voting booth to stop the homosexual agenda being forced on them by activists and their own legislature. Michael Heath is executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine. He says homosexual activists began targeting New England in the 1970s, and one of the long-term JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121549072645485932005-07-17T07:21:00.000+10:002005-07-17T07:24:32.653+10:00THE BRITISH LEFTIST ELITE FEARS THE WORKERS Who's whipping up Islamophobia? The British elite seems almost as fearful of the white working class as it is of the terrorists Almost before the dust had settled, warnings about the 'Islamophobic backlash' began. Don't do anything hasty, came the warnings from all sections of the British establishment - as if our first reaction would be to head out JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121468888355966622005-07-16T09:07:00.000+10:002005-07-16T09:09:53.633+10:00BRITISH ELITE STILL PROTECTS TERRORISMBut the longer I am in London, the more I discover that there are unsettling undercurrents within the government and among elites. One is the application of politically correct rules to coverage of the news. Another is to outlaw free speech as it relates to the treatment of Islamofascism and the bloody consequences of Islamofascism. One of the first concerns JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121377929128804732005-07-15T07:51:00.000+10:002005-07-15T07:52:09.136+10:00THE ELITES WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA“100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37)” is out, and it’s a wonderful read for anyone not on that list. It’s easy to presume that this is the conservatives’ answer to recent published tirades against the right by leftists like Al Franken and Michael Moore, but there are important distinctions. First, Goldberg doesn’t limit the list JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121296526662605722005-07-14T09:15:00.000+10:002005-07-14T09:15:26.670+10:00THE CLOSED-MINDED "LIBERAL" MEDIA John Stossel reports:Where I work (in network TV) and live (on the Upper West Side of Manhattan), people say "conservative" the way they say "child molester." It's the worst thing to be called. Everyone here agrees: Conservatives are repressive, while liberals are open-minded and think it's important to hear a diverse range of voices.Except, of course, if those JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121208496848361902005-07-13T08:46:00.000+10:002005-07-13T08:48:31.126+10:00Attacking The Intelligence Of Middle Class America Leftist media tacticsAmerica has always had a leftist media that is dominated by liberal thought. Their main objective is to present the news or investigative stories based on that leftist ideology. When something happens, no matter what the subject matter is, media representatives will mostly ignore information that comes from a conservative JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121109818020555832005-07-12T05:23:00.000+10:002005-07-12T05:23:38.026+10:00ARROGANT LEFTIST ELITES IN NYCA huge insult to the heroes of 9/11 is in the making. And despite the wall of silence erected by much of the mainstream media (beyond a few local New York outlets), the protest against the left-wing heist of the Ground Zero Memorial is gaining traction in the halls of Congress. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., last month joined forces with the families of 9/11 victims to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1121034942699487432005-07-11T08:35:00.000+10:002005-07-11T08:35:42.706+10:00Power Politics at Postmodern UNew Studies Document American Colleges Overrun With Liberal Faculty Christian parents who are committed to nurturing biblical values in the lives of their children may want to strongly consider the results of recent studies when it comes time to send them to college. Three such studies, conducted by two sets of researchers, analyzed the politics and ideologies of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120933643328767952005-07-10T04:27:00.000+10:002005-07-10T04:27:23.336+10:00Liberate Africa from Its Political Elitesby Moeletsi Mbeki Mr. Mbeki is deputy chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs (an independent think-tank at the University of Witwatersrand), and the brother of South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki. He is the author of a recent Cato Institute study, titled, "Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the Private Sector JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120863492340477832005-07-09T08:58:00.000+10:002005-07-09T08:58:12.346+10:00DEMOCRAT SELF-LOVE THEIR UNDOINGIn a New Republic article that is making the rounds among left-wing intellectuals ("The Case Against New Ideas"), Jonathan Chait argues against the view that Republicans are in power in large part because they are winning a war of ideas. Chait notes -- correctly, I believe -- that this analysis has taken roots on both sides of the political divide over the past JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120750226733998532005-07-08T01:29:00.000+10:002005-07-08T01:30:26.740+10:00THE CANADIAN LIBERAL ELITE AT WORKWell before Canada's ambassador to the United States announced he was declaring war on the "Fox factor" and what he says is Fox News' anti-Canadian bias, a cold war between the news network and our neighbor to the north had been under way. And, as the feisty Canada Free Press has reported, Ambassador Frank McKenna is far from an impartial diplomat. "McKenna alsoJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120686153323423582005-07-07T07:41:00.000+10:002005-07-07T07:42:33.330+10:00The Supreme Court and Little Lord FauntleroyBack in the nineteenth century they used to write books about plucky young American lads—often working to support their widowed mothers—and how they showed up rich kids as liars and lowlifes. In Horatio Alger’s Struggling Upward, young Luke Larkin showed up the banker’s son Randolph Duncan as a cheat and a cad and exposed Randolph’s banker father as an JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120578418678041742005-07-06T01:46:00.000+10:002005-07-06T01:46:58.686+10:00A FINE BIT OF ABUSE-LADEN LEFTIST ARROGANCE"The assertion that safety must come at the cost of valuable goods and services is so laughably false that one wonders whether they actually believe this drivel. One more time for the economically impaired:Increased safety standards don't necessarily decrease production, if the costs avoided - for example premature death, risk averse behavior leading to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120512811585855442005-07-05T07:32:00.000+10:002005-07-05T07:33:31.593+10:00LEFTIST ELITE UNDER FIRE FROM THE WORKERS IN AUSTRALIAWhy did so many blue-collar workers decide to support the [conservative] Coalition at the 2004 federal election? A new, union-funded study has come to some penetrating conclusions. The Brompton Report was commissioned by the forestry and furnishing products division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union. The title refers to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120401028543158702005-07-04T00:30:00.000+10:002005-07-04T00:30:28.550+10:00H.G. WELLS -- A VERY NASTY LEFTIST ELITISTAuthor H.G. Wells has long been hailed as an imaginative genius, but the truth is much darker. Behind his utopian socialism was a nasty streak of racism and a contempt for those he saw as beneath him - particularly womenWith his drooping moustache, portly frame, arrogant manner and highpitched Cockney voice. H.G. Wells rarely struck his contemporaries as JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120344163072995102005-07-03T08:41:00.000+10:002005-07-03T08:45:29.523+10:00THE BIAS OF THE LITERARY ELITEMany critics place Helprin’s oeuvre on a lofty perch indeed, comparing novels like Winter’s Tale (1983), A Soldier of the Great War (1991), and Memoir from Antproof Case (1995) to the likes of Kafka, Mann, Hemingway, and Tolstoy. In artistic terms, Helprin is the real thing: an immensely talented, dedicated author who aims for the highest literary goals.His novels JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120258057169244402005-07-02T08:46:00.000+10:002005-07-02T08:47:37.176+10:00THE VICIOUS ELITISM OF MARGARET SANGERAlthough Planned Parenthood has tried desperately to shred the files of its founding mother, Margaret Sanger herself has left a detailed record of how she lived and how she thought. The most unimpeachable source of the former is her autobiography, written in 1938, and of the latter, her landmark book, "The Pivot of Civilization," written in 1922. "A JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120172348369035892005-07-01T08:58:00.000+10:002005-07-01T08:59:08.376+10:00France's liberal intellectual elite accused of anti-Semitic biasAnti-Semitism in France has long been associated with the far-right fringe. But a recent lawsuit has generated a debate over whether it lurks in a less obvious quarter: the liberal intellectual elite. The case concerns a commentary published in the prestigious daily Le Monde in June 2002. Two groups, Lawyers Without Borders and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1120087586688964352005-06-30T09:26:00.000+10:002005-06-30T09:26:26.703+10:00LEFTIST AUSTRALIAN PLAYWRIGHT SHOWS HER IGNORANCEAustralian elections are usually fairly close so it is unwise to prophesise about likely outcomes. Nevertheless, the successful Liberal Party federal council meeting in Canberra last weekend should serve as a reminder that for the moment, political conservatives are in the ascendancy. In any event, they will be in office until at least the end of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119998071561962902005-06-29T08:33:00.000+10:002005-06-29T08:34:31.566+10:00A UNIONIST COMMENTS ON THE ELITE DOMINANCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTYOnce upon a time, the federal Labor Party's unambiguous defence of workers' jobs and their livelihoods was seen as progressive. It was admired and respected. These days, the people running the party machine - the apparatchiks, advisers and politicians - are no longer attuned to the basic aspirations of honest working men andJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119939019003854902005-06-28T16:09:00.000+10:002005-06-28T16:10:19.010+10:00 LIBERAL JUDICIAL ELITE SCORNS THE LITTLE GUYFunny that! Liberals used to say they were on the side of the little guy!Most Americans know that for fifty years Liberal Judicial Activists have been the real extremists on our courts, especially the Supreme Court. However, some people haven’t yet learned this lesson and believe the Clintonian-style lie that judges such as Antonin Scalia represent “JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119824783760122242005-06-27T08:25:00.000+10:002005-06-27T08:26:23.766+10:00French bureaucrats refuse to give up lavish free homes as economy wiltsPrivileges of the French elite at taxpayer expenseThe celebrated palace of Louis XIV at Versailles was once home to 20,000 artistocrats. Today, its illustrious apartments are inhabited rent-free by a new kind of nobility - lucky employees of the French Republic. The concept of "egalite" may be enshrined in the French JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119738470520851972005-06-26T08:27:00.000+10:002005-06-26T08:27:50.530+10:00Enlightening the stupid, God-fearing Georgia redneckPost lifted from the inimitable Mike AdamsFor years, I have argued that anti-religious bigotry is a serious problem in higher education. Recently, a memo was circulated at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, which broaches this controversial subject. Below, I have reproduced it in its entirety: “GC&SU Friends: Recently,JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119654625659758422005-06-25T09:09:00.000+10:002005-06-25T09:10:25.666+10:00ELITIST INTELLECTUALS OUTDONE BY THE DESPISED MORMONSIn the middle of the nineteenth century, two bearded prophets appeared who made a universal appeal to the poor and downtrodden of the earth. One lived in London, and his name was Karl Marx. One lived in Salt Lake City, and his name was Brigham Young. One, Marx, had science on his side. The other had the Book of Mormon. Marx argued that he had JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119568420998985182005-06-24T09:13:00.000+10:002005-06-24T09:13:41.006+10:00WHY BRITISH INTELLECTUALS STILL LOVE THE OLD MISANTHROPEOne of the station’s finest programmes, In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, is running a poll to find the nation’s favourite philosopher. Borrowing some of the techniques, although none of the razzmatazz , of BBC television’s quest for the nation’s greatest Briton, Radio 4 has asked a variety of advocates to put the case for great thinkers, from JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119498085909149952005-06-23T13:41:00.000+10:002005-06-23T13:41:25.916+10:00ELITE CHURCHMEN ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTI-AMERICANAnd they show an utter lack of principle about it. Any real morality is alien to themTwo regional conventions of the United Methodist Church (UMC) have voted to divest from companies that do business with Israel. A conservative Methodist activist is critical of that decision coming from the two groups within the eight-million-member denomination.LastJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119395223729545902005-06-22T09:06:00.000+10:002005-06-22T09:07:03.740+10:00THE HYPOCRITICAL HOLLYWOOD ELITEThe McCarthy era, and particularly the persecution of leftists in Hollywood in the 1950s, remains fresh in our cultural memory. It has been the subject of numerous books, documentaries, and movies, usually following the same basic template: brave dissenters standing up for the right to espouse unpopular beliefs, right-wing bullies leading a witch-hunt against ''JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119308527834467712005-06-21T09:01:00.000+10:002005-06-21T09:02:07.843+10:00Dick Durbin and our post-patriotic elitePost lifted from The American ThinkerHow wrong can you be? No, we are not talking about the analogical genius, Senator Dick Durbin (D. al-Inois). We are talking about the great Mark Steyn, a genuine genius columnist who calls Dick Durbin unpatriotic. Come now, Mr. Steyn. Dick Durbin isn’t unpatriotic. He is post-patriotic.Among the many things that our JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119219266870422042005-06-20T08:01:00.000+10:002005-06-20T08:14:26.876+10:00Our Liberal BettersPost lifted from DummocratsSome Democrats have responded to this blurb with a hearty "Aha!":Strategists for both presidential campaigns detected a late shift to Bush by lower-income voters who were concerned about terrorism and values. Matthew Dowd, former chief strategist for Bush-Cheney, said these voters "decided they were voting in the national interest rather than their JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119147957549330902005-06-19T12:25:00.000+10:002005-06-19T12:25:57.556+10:00LEFTIST EGOTISM AS A DISEASE: A LIBERTARIAN VIEW“Liberal” is a funny word. Like “conservative,” it can mean a lot of different things. In many cases it can have a very positive connotation. For the purposes of this column I refer to persons who hold a series of political positions that early 21st century Americans define as “liberal.” This means supporting high levels of government spending for JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1119046833610601362005-06-18T08:19:00.000+10:002005-06-18T08:20:33.616+10:00Sorry Liberals: Being Arrogant Does Not Make You RightBack during the Presidential Election, Kerry enthusiasts were constantly gushing over the perceived intelligence of John Kerry. If it was not praises toward his "nuanced" approaches of how to creatively surrender to the United Nations and international terrorists then it was how all of his aides had to run around carrying dictionaries just so JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118963900389094022005-06-17T09:17:00.000+10:002005-06-17T09:18:20.396+10:00DEMOCRATS WANT MINORITIES BACK ON THE PLANTATIONIn the minds of many liberal Democrats, Hispanics and African Americans must seem to come in only two varieties: deferential or defective. And according to one angry caller -- who was, from the sound of it, perfectly at home in a blue state -- I fall into the second category. "I think you're deluded," he said, "and maybe insane." I'm just guessing, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118879645704438992005-06-16T09:52:00.000+10:002005-06-16T09:54:05.710+10:00FRENCH ELITISMThe French public may be demanding straight talk, but they shouldn't expect to get it from their leaders until the 2007 presidential election. President Jacques Chirac reacted to the rejection of his beloved European Constitution by appointing an old ally, career diplomat Dominique de Villepin, as his new prime minister. Americans first heard of Mr. de Villepin in 2002 when he was JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118791991963049722005-06-15T09:31:00.000+10:002005-06-15T09:33:11.986+10:00A LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND OF LEFTIST ELITISM FROM EX-MARXIST, FRANK FUREDIThis is an excerpt from an expanded version of the article that I put up a few days agoFrom Europe to America: the populist moment has arrived. On both sides of the Atlantic, the political class has become convinced that the people do not know what is best for them. At first sight, opponents of the EU Constitution appearJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118704764573930872005-06-14T09:18:00.000+10:002005-06-14T09:19:24.580+10:00MAO THE ELITISTThe author of Wild Swans and her historian husband, Jon Halliday, have torn away the many masks and falsehoods with which Mao and the Communist party of China to this day have hidden the true picture of Mao the man and Mao the ruler. Mao now stands revealed as one of the greatest monsters of the 20th century alongside Hitler and Stalin. Indeed, in terms of sheer numbers of deaths JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118612867894706262005-06-13T07:47:00.000+10:002005-06-13T07:47:47.900+10:00ANOTHER CRAZY ACADEMIC ELITIST WHO DESPISES MOST OF HIS FELLOW COUNTRYMENUniversity of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill got all sorts of press coverage in January for calling the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks "little Eichmanns." Timothy Shortell, a professor at Brooklyn College, may well have Mr. Churchill beat. In fevered Weblog entries and online journal articles bearing his JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118563699480360552005-06-12T18:07:00.000+10:002005-06-12T18:08:19.493+10:00'To say or imply that the public is too stupid to grasp the high-minded and sophisticated ideals of the advocates of the EU is to express a profound sense of contempt towards ordinary people'Europe's political classes, particularly on the left, are bending over backwards to claim that no doesn't really mean no. This is an insult to democracy, writes Frank FurediIncreasingly, the political class JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118451344160391792005-06-11T10:55:00.000+10:002005-06-11T10:55:44.166+10:00A CORRUPT ELITEEach day, the mass media expends rivers of ink in an effort to portray the “Religious Right” as villains. The photos of conservative religious leaders which are published in our daily newspapers are invariably dark and sinister. Yet the so-called Religious Right represents, in the final analysis, the traditional values of the American people. Those whom we may call the “Religious JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118349542026447472005-06-10T06:38:00.000+10:002005-06-10T06:39:02.036+10:00A TWISTED AND CONCEITED LEFTIST ELITELately, I’ve been receiving quite a few messages from liberals who accuse me of over generalizing them as socialists, traitors, and any number of other things. This isn’t precisely what I believe, so I’ve been motivated to an attempt at clarifying the issue. When I write about liberal Democrats, it’s usually safe to assume I’m not referring to all of them. JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118272575406566552005-06-09T09:15:00.000+10:002005-06-09T09:16:15.413+10:00MAYBE WE SHOULD ABOLISH THE LEFT-LEANING ELITE UNIVERSITIESWe take large, modern research universities so much for granted that it requires an effort to realise how easily we could do without them - even Berkeley, Harvard, and Oxford, to take the three that members of the academy themselves recently rated as the best in the world. Consider the higher education of the young. One of university’s JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118181786210955632005-06-08T08:02:00.000+10:002005-06-08T08:03:06.216+10:00THEY LOOK DOWN ON THE MILITARY TOOAnd if they have to misrepresent the military to do so? No problem!Recently Bill Maher remarked during his HBO show that the military recruits the dregs of society. This infuriated Congressman Spencer Bauchus of Alabama who said Maher's comment borders on treason. This is not the first time Maher has cast aspersions on the military. Nor is he alone in his JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118086716713124612005-06-07T05:37:00.000+10:002005-06-07T05:38:36.720+10:00Elitist Parents and Their Sappy Class DelusionsA rich TV writer yelled at me on a political talk show recently. He'd been arguing that Arnold Schwarzenegger's popularity is sinking because parents, himself included, were angry that the governor wasn't being sufficiently deferential to California's public school teachers. "Every single teacher my daughter has had," he said, "has been a great JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1118010823263806402005-06-06T08:32:00.000+10:002005-06-06T08:33:43.270+10:00TOTALITARIAN INTELLECTUALSRalph Waldo Emerson, established early in American culture the bias towards men of practical endeavour in political leadership. The successful legislator, argued America's foundational philosopher, should be a rough-handed and optimistic fellow not given to examining the minute subtleties of every matter put before him. Emerson was a liberal, but his description fits JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117930724616435682005-06-05T10:18:00.000+10:002005-06-05T10:18:44.623+10:00AN ANTISEMITIC BRITISH ELITEContext for the vote by British academics to boycott IsraelTaboos against the open expression of Jew-hatred in England have fallen because the elites responsible for maintaining those taboos are themselves infested with anti-Semitism. Such elite failure can be lethal. An unlettered sign painter and his beer-hall followers could never have taken over the most JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117831258114578272005-06-04T06:40:00.000+10:002005-06-04T06:40:58.120+10:00LEFTIST ARROGANCE AND RELIANCE ON ABUSE Under the heading, "Bush, The Spoiled Man-Child. What causes the fall of empires? Why, stubborn leaders who speak like toddlers and never admit mistakes", columnist Morford pours out a torrent of abuse. Remember that he is talking about a man whom more than half of America's voters chose. That show what Morford thinks of the majority of his JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117753928626741292005-06-03T09:11:00.000+10:002005-06-03T09:12:08.630+10:00EU REFERENDUM AN ELITE DEFEATDutch voters echoed their French counterparts Wednesday, rejecting the European Union's proposed constitutional treaty. While the Dutch nee has likely dealt a killer blow to the constitution, voters who have complained for years about a "democratic deficit" in Europe may now get a chance to do something about it. The Dutch vote, like the French referendum Sunday, JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117640281097293112005-06-02T01:37:00.000+10:002005-06-02T01:38:01.106+10:00MARK STEYN ON THE ARROGANCE OF THE EURO ELITESA couple of days before Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution, Jean-Claude Juncker, the “president” of the European Union, let French and Dutch voters know how much he values their opinion: “If at the end of the ratification process, we do not manage to solve the problems, the countries that would have said ‘No,’ would have to ask JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117576285812312552005-06-01T07:50:00.000+10:002005-06-01T07:51:25.820+10:00THE WEIRD MENTAL WORLD OF THE WHITE LIBERAL ELITEIt is amazing to see how much power of freedom is returning to the people in these days. I bet this is not what Al had in mind when he "invented" the internet. But with liberals, you never can tell. In their world of individualized relativism 5 year girls get expelled from preschool for wearing a cross, while mass-murderers file lawsuits against JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117494449844521342005-05-31T09:06:00.000+10:002005-05-31T09:07:29.850+10:00LIBERAL ARROGANCE IN CANADA Whether you liked it or not, there was once in this country a party that stood for something. Liberalism held sway and the vague yet compelling notions of constant progress and social justice attracted mass support. We could vote for or against such a party. Conservatives may not have approved of the Liberals, but they grudgingly acknowledged the greatness of the JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117387329687905252005-05-30T03:21:00.000+10:002005-05-30T03:22:09.693+10:00The Arrogance of power County officials abuse public trust by using taxpayer money to fight term limitsPoliticians hate term limits nearly as much as they hate accountability. They complain term limits dump "experienced" people out of office and encourage a steady stream of newbies. They hate being forced to keep on their toes, to be constantly figuring out how to stay on the public's good side JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117316415512066552005-05-29T07:39:00.000+10:002005-05-29T07:40:15.523+10:00AN UNGRATEFUL ELITENot long ago Pepsi Cola’s chief operating officer, Indra Nooyi, gave an address to the graduating class at Columbia Business School. In it, she metaphorically likened America to the middle finger on the global hand. Denunciations and anger arose from her use of the silly metaphor (e.g., “This analogy of the five fingers as the five major continents leaves the long, middle JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117230737233190872005-05-28T07:49:00.000+10:002005-05-28T07:52:17.240+10:00ELITIST CONTEMPT FOR RELIGIONYou must not be "up there" if you are religious -- unless the religion is Leftism, of course. I am myself an atheist but I always treat Christians with the respect due to their high ethical aspirationsDuring his nationally televised press conference April 28, President Bush was asked about the Family Research Council's allegation that some of his judicial nominees JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117146441009175692005-05-27T08:24:00.000+10:002005-05-27T08:27:21.016+10:00LEFTISTS WANT TO KEEP BLACKS "IN THEIR PLACE"If the share of the black vote that goes to the Democrats ever falls to 70 percent, it may be virtually impossible for the Democrats to win the White House or Congress, because they have long ago lost the white male vote and their support among other groups is eroding. Against that background, it is possible to understand their desperate efforts to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1117060902227138692005-05-26T08:40:00.000+10:002005-05-26T08:41:42.233+10:00AN ANTI-RELIGIOUS ELITEFor a while last winter, Ruth Kelly, Britain's newly appointed education secretary, had to feel that she was getting the Buttiglione Treatment. Rocco Buttiglione, that is: Italy's nominee to the European Union's executive commission, who had only a few months before come under sharp attack--both from EU parliamentarians and the press--for his traditional Catholic views JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116974266847569912005-05-25T08:37:00.000+10:002005-05-25T08:37:46.853+10:00STAR WARS: MORE SELF-IMPORTANT IGNORANCE FROM HOLLYWOODThe Lib-Left multimillionaire set that is the Hollywood cabal just doesn't realize the average American isn't the least interested in the non-stop slurring of the values for which President George W. Bush and the Republicans stand. The irrelevancy of the spoiled brats of the entertainment world was shown in the 2004 presidential elections JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116890060926587112005-05-24T09:13:00.000+10:002005-05-24T09:14:20.933+10:00LEFTISTS: IT IS OK FOR US TO IMPOSE OUR MORALITY BUT NOT OK FOR OTHERS TO IMPOSE THEIRSIn his article "Political pulpit--The Bible as weapon in the culture war," John Shelby Spong is critical of those Christians who are trying to influence government according to their convictions (Perspective, May 15). Spong writes, "When leaders seek to intimidate the presumably independent courts, the first JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116800280189108842005-05-23T08:17:00.000+10:002005-05-23T08:18:00.196+10:00DEMOCRAT FUNDAMENTALISMThe only thing more medieval than the concept of absolute truth is some groups' claim that they alone possess it. Yet, not only is such backward, fundamentalist thinking thriving in 21st-century America, it dominates one of our major political parties. Concerned citizens wonder: What's the matter with Democrats? To answer that question, read Thomas Frank, who articulatesJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116710788534172432005-05-22T07:25:00.000+10:002005-05-22T07:26:28.540+10:00LEFTISTS THINK THAT THEY ALONE HAVE ANY RIGHTSAnd that only they can grant them to othersMaybe the non-stop denunciations of judicial nominees by Senate Democrats will seem relevant to some people but it is in fact wholly beside the point. Senators who don't like any particular judicial nominee -- or any nominee for any other federal appointment -- have a right to vote against that nominee for JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116627400060245112005-05-21T08:15:00.000+10:002005-05-21T08:17:43.320+10:00"LIBERAL" FUNDAMENTAILSMAmerican liberalism has traditionally derived much of its energy from a volatile mixture of emotion and moral superiority. The liberal belief that one's policies would on balance accomplish something indisputably good generally made opposing arguments about shortcomings, costs or unintended consequences unpersuasive. Nonetheless, politics during the presidencies of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116542471517440952005-05-20T08:40:00.000+10:002005-05-20T08:41:11.526+10:00ARIZONANS VERSUS THE ELITE MEDIAAnybody who appreciates a good yuck was sad to see the Minutemen pack up their pickups and go home. After all, it wasn't every day that we got to enjoy the spectacle of sunscreen-lathered ACLU observers chasing volunteer border-watchers through the desert. But in the media bonfire accompanying Arizona's Redneck Revolt, we saw the cultural divide separating media JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116456834432063652005-05-19T08:53:00.000+10:002005-05-19T08:53:54.440+10:00LEFTIST INTELLECTUALS ARE THE MAJOR PROP OF TOTALITARIANSA dirty little secret is that totalitarian ideologies always empower intellectuals. The best name for all the bloody-minded professors of the last hundred years comes from a Frenchman named Julien Benda. It is the title of his book, The Treason of the Clerks. The treasonous "clerks" are the intellectuals of Europe, who directly inspired allJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116371870927012592005-05-18T09:16:00.000+10:002005-05-18T09:17:50.933+10:00THE ELITIST PBSThe New York Times recently ran an article titled "Time to Defund PBS?" The bias at PBS has gotten so bad that the president of The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has acknowledged that its programming leans to the left. All Americans support PBS with their taxes, but the "Public" network pushes a far-left agenda that represents the beliefs of only a fraction of JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116283935338665992005-05-17T08:51:00.000+10:002005-05-17T08:52:41.896+10:00THE NYT ON SOCIAL CLASS: CONFUSED THINKING GALOREIn which good news is greeted glumly. Excerpts onlyThere was a time when Americans thought they understood class. The upper crust vacationed in Europe and worshiped an Episcopal God. The middle class drove Ford Fairlanes, settled the San Fernando Valley and enlisted as company men. The working class belonged to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., voted Democratic JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116196367914121202005-05-16T08:31:00.000+10:002005-05-16T08:32:47.923+10:00ELITIST DENIES HE IS AN ELITIST BUT PROVES HE IS!The article below is one of the funnier examples of foot-shooting that I have seen. He denies that he or his Leftist ilk are elitist and defines elitism as "thinking that you are better than everyone else" and yet his article just drips with assurance that he and his ilk are better and wiser than everyone else -- in particular better and wiser JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116109734432417172005-05-15T08:28:00.000+10:002005-05-15T08:28:54.440+10:00BRITISH LEFTIST ELITE FEAR IMMIGRATION DISCUSSIONThus revealing their contempt for the ordinary people of BritainIt seems safe to say that 'the immigration issue' - which involved so little debate about the facts, figures or politics of immigration - is about something other than immigration. It is about how the political elite views the rest of us. You can see that in the Tories' desperate JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1116038746395028272005-05-14T12:45:00.000+10:002005-05-14T12:45:46.403+10:00ARROGANT MEDIA THEIR OWN UNDOINGIn case you haven't noticed, Big Media is collapsing. The country's oldest and most prestigious news media organizations -- elite mainstream media outlets such as CBS, the New York Times and Newsweek -- no longer have the economic clout, moral authority or persuasive power they once had. This fact of modern media life makes a lot of powerful journalists and JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115936549990655242005-05-13T08:21:00.000+10:002005-05-13T08:22:29.996+10:00GARRISON KEILLOR: ARROGANCE EXPRESSED AS CONDESCENSIONIf you have a strong stomach, read this article by Keillor in "The Nation". It just drips with condescension. He plays the part of the Olympian God looking down on a the cute little kiddies below with their silly passions and concerns. He makes a superficial pretence of finding charming what he is really mocking. When it come to JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115853760725543182005-05-12T09:21:00.000+10:002005-05-12T09:22:40.733+10:00THE INDIGNANT ELITERecently a friend described a meeting with a nasty-tempered leftist who was from a rich family. Unfortunately, there are a lot of leftists who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth -- and, instead of being grateful, are venomous against American society. Conversely, there are people like yours truly who were born on the other end of the economic scale and think this is JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115765920148285722005-05-11T08:58:00.000+10:002005-05-11T08:58:40.153+10:00A PURELY DESTRUCTIVE ELITEExcerpt from a discussion between David Horowitz and Jacob HeilbrunnBritish academics are more brazenly anti-Semitic than their American counterparts, but then Jews in America are far more numerous and influential than Jews in Britain and they are supported by an even more powerful ally in the Christian right, which doesn’t exist in England or the rest of Europe having JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115674753358974022005-05-10T07:38:00.000+10:002005-05-10T07:39:13.363+10:00THE INFLUENTIAL RELIGIOUS ELITISTS OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURYI began to consider the question: Why did we fight in World War I? It is a question that has been answered by Richard Gamble in his new book, The War for Righteousness. Professor Gamble’s book is a cautionary history, a warning of what can happen when elitists seek to implement their vision predicated on false doctrine or a myopic JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115589860320363462005-05-09T08:03:00.000+10:002005-05-09T08:04:20.326+10:00RELIGIOUS ELITISTSThe Great Depression and the New Deal ultimately was a boon for the religious progressives, who not only fully supported Franklin Roosevelt’s political and legislative agenda, but there was also considerable sympathy for Josef Stalin’s regime.... During that same period, their theological positions became increasingly secular as many came to the conclusion that even ChristianityJRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115498864183359802005-05-08T06:46:00.000+10:002005-05-08T06:47:44.190+10:00DEMOCRATS: THE PARTY OF THE RICHThe old class warfare was effective for two reasons: Americans did not have unemployment insurance, disability protection, minimum wages, social security, or health coverage. Much less were they awash in cheap material goods from China that offer the less well off the semblance of consumer parity with those far wealthier. Second, the advocates of such rights JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115411718852768152005-05-07T06:34:00.000+10:002005-05-07T06:38:37.523+10:00AN ATHEIST ELITISTThe article below -- excerpted from the Leftist "Salon" -- assumes that Richard Dawkins's atheism makes him an enemy of the religious Right. Yet I am as thoroughgoing an atheist as you will find and I am very supportive of conservative Christians -- see my leading post on Dissecting Leftism yesterday -- as is Taranto in yesterday's post here. The plain fact is that it is JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5140562.post-1115328059671324882005-05-06T07:20:00.000+10:002005-05-06T07:20:59.680+10:00Why I'm Rooting for the Religious Right Secular liberals show open contempt for traditionalists. BY JAMES TARANTO (Excerpt) I am not a Christian, or even a religious believer, and my opinions on social issues are decidedly middle-of-the-road. So why do I find myself rooting for the "religious right"? I suppose it is because I am put off by self-righteousness, closed-mindedness, and contempt JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.com