[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Even Stewart couldn't swallow that and said, "Isn't that what this election showed you? That we're actually the media elite they keep talking about?"

No, Jon. You're simply The Media.

There's nothing even remotely "elite" about you, whatsoever. :)

[Ichneumon]

No, Jon. You're simply The Media. There's nothing even remotely "elite" about you, whatsoever.

As Laura Ingraham says so eloquently in her book "Shut Up and Sing", what makes these people the "media elite" (or "Hollywood elite", "academic elite", etc.) is not that they *are* elite, it's that they *think* they're the elite, the brightest, the best, etc.

In short, "media elite" is shorthand for "the self-appointed media elite".