Irrational Leftist Calls Sarah Palin "Elitist"

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Unhinged New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier has launched the Left's newest anti-Palin meme:

"Anyone who has run for the vice presidency, and has published a monster bestseller, and appears regularly on television, and will run for the presidency is a member in good standing of the American elite."

Although his rebuttal includes no flaming skull (dang!), Ace shreds the ridiculous charge:

This is a common practice of the left. Take the right's complaints about you and argue, ludicrously, that they actually apply more to the right itself.

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And now, as Sarah Palin [h]as been riding the anti-elitist horse for a while, it becomes the new stupid meme that it's really Sarah Palin who's the elitist. Google it! Notice they have no problem at all abandoning their previous trope (elitism is good and only an imbecile would argue differently) and sliding into the complete opposite notion (Sarah Palin is the real elistist; the lefties are in fact... I don't know, the Common Man being grinded down under her chic heel).

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Essentially this guy... is angry. He and his cronies have repeatedly insisted on the special privileges of what his buddy David Brooks proudly calls The Educated Class; Palin is refusing to extend that privilege to them, and he's whining about it, basically arguing that if he and his buddies are not given their special privilege to rule the plebians then Sarah Palin is being "elitist" by refusing to admit they are entitled to their asserted public-policy psuedo-intellectual droit de seigneur.

Those are just a few excerpts from Ace's complete deconstruction of Wieseltier's howler of an argument. Read the full evisceration here.

- JP