If lightning only struck irony, I could see the New York Times headquarters from Ohio. Hotair quoted the Times review of Sarah Palin’s tome “Going Rogue.” Here’s the selection.
Yet, Mr. McCain’s astonishing decision to pick someone with so little experience (less than two years as the governor of Alaska, and before that, two terms as mayor of Wasilla, a town with fewer than 7,000 residents) as his running mate and Ms. Palin’s own surprisingly nonchalant reaction to Mr. McCain’s initial phone call about the vice president’s slot (she writes that it felt “like a natural progression”) underscore just how alarmingly expertise is discounted — or equated with elitism — in our increasingly democratized era, and just how thoroughly colorful personal narratives overshadow policy arguments and actual knowledge.”
Yeah, that’s never happened before.
I’ve yet to find anyone on the right who believes expertise is equated with elitism, but I can find plenty on the left (and the various mainstream media outlets) who have no problem equating elitism with expertise – the result of that is sitting in the White House. To most in the corridor, you can’t have one without the other.
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I believe this is related to the celebrity culture we live in – where authority seems to come from having a TV camera pointed in your direction.
Well, since no one else wants to comment…
Are those people really that oblivious to their own side’s actions and ideals? Are they so eager to find any criticism of their enemies (not opponents, enemies) that they don’t even bother to see how their criticisms apply to themselves before they cough them up for all to see? Isn’t one of the signs of terminal narcissism an obsessive inability or unwillingness to look at and criticize one’s self, let alone recognize any flaws?
For people in love with “diversity” and “tolerance”, they sure do want and expect everyone to be just like themselves, don’t they? Well, you can be superficially different if you express love and devotion and subservience to your betters. And they openly despise anyone who doesn’t aspire to be just like them.
They’re like the teenaged “non-conformists” who all dress alike, all listen to the same music, all sport the same body mutilations, and all spout the same tired cliches. Correction– not “like”. They “are”.
The elite should know enough to make a decision. Any decision. A decision about something… Just make one for God’s sake:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091115/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama