Posted on 04/04/2016 12:30:11 AM PDT by detective
When members of Manhattan’s media elite come to Mark Halperin’s home for dinner, Halperin likes to ask his guests whether they have spent more time in Paris or Staten Island. More often than not, his guests select the destination that does not offer regular ferry service from Battery Park.
Halperin’s dinner quiz provides a glimpse into what conservatives have long mocked as the cloistered existence of liberal elites who report on a nation they don’t understand. Republican critics have long complained that these media elites are schooled, spend their summers and live most of their lives in urbane enclaves that provide little insight into how the rest of America lives.
But in 2016, conservative commentators are sounding as cocooned from their own political party as any liberal writing social commentary for the New Yorker or providing political analysis for ABC News. Even after the passing of Antonin Scalia and the Paris and San Bernadino, Calif., attacks, many right-leaning pundits are spending their days scolding readers and declaring that no true conservative or God-fearing Christian could support Donald Trump. This simmering rage has now risen to such a level that many conservative opinion shapers are spending their waking hours coping with a festering Zapruder-like obsession over video frames of the Corey Lewandowski-Michelle Fields confrontation while obsessing over the GOP front-runner’s latest embarrassing gaffe.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles," wrote Williamson.
“Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin."
That's just pure hatred and disdain for anyone not UPPERclass. That's why we have heard it called "The Washington Compost". It's too bad the one who coined that term has become as vicious and vile as them.
Scarborough NAILS IT! Here is the type of GARBAGE I see on twitter every day: (What a joke!)
Trump forces the YOUTH at his rally to take a PLEDGE [video] http://wp.me/pqwpd-CcM
Conservative establishment is an oximoron.
Great article
Joe Scarborough is the most intelligent pundit out there.
Even Mika has been right more often than anybody on Foxnews.
This author is a good deal smarter than his colleagues are, particularly the ones at NR.
I think the elephant in the room, as it were, is what happens if the electorate is successfully pushed out of the GOP by writers like Williamson? His own little quasi-biographical ravings really have nothing to do with the majority of voters and is likely to have the effect of seeing people edge away and head for the door.
Seriously though. The same people who are proclaiming that “Jesus would not approve” are the same ones who tried to marry Christianity and Objectivism (which is literally the mother of Satanism!)
All that said, I can’t get too excited about anyone who, like this author, proclaims proudly that Jeb! would have the best president since Reagan. Yet, he’s smarter than the rest of them. I think we are seeing daylight between the neo-cons and the hyphenated Republican elites.
If you live near a Whole Foods, you may be part of the problem. That was my favorite one.
Think George Will, National Review, Mitt Romney, The Bushes and the Washington careerists who call themselves conservative.
conservative, no , elitist ivy league scum bags who want to keep their elitist cocktail parties and corruption going then yes.
People like them supported Hitler. If he makes them fall boom and hurt themselves, I’ll even be happy that he got elected.
The unmasking continues....
This is hilarious...
Trump supporters are so disconnected from WHO their candidate is, they cannot see HE is the ultimate insider elitist.
His home in Palm Beach, his tower on the east side of midtown, jetting around in literally a 757 with his name splashed on the side in gold, the man is the ultimate elitist.
And you want to portray these folks as out of touch...
That’s rich...
Totally agree with your assessment of Erick Erickson. That tweet of his encapsulates the self-righteous judgmental smugness of the GOPe. They see the voters as sub-human.
"Like many Republican critics of Trump, my first, second and third choices did not survive the early stages of Trumpism. I still believe Jeb Bush would have been the best president to sit in the Oval Office since Ronald Reagan. And if John Kasich is still campaigning when Connecticut Republicans go to the polls, he will get my vote."
don’t forget that they are stupid, low-information voters who didn’t get much of an education - except for the Wisconsin poll that suggest Trump was only winning in the over $200,000 per year income category.
There ya go, Morning Joe conservatives
“No dictatorship is wanted by Trump supporters just a major change in Washington with the only candidate possible in 2016.”
Sure about that?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3376629/posts?page=5#5
Hear! Hear! You have aptly spoken!
Well said, ma’am. Well said indeed.
L
Trump works for a living. He’s earned it.
The GOPe, not so much.
L
Eric Erickson is a well known Georgia based conservative writer and Kevin Williamson's hometown is Amarillo Texas, hardly the pedigrees that one would normally associate with Manhattan conservative elites.
With Jamie Kurchick (a Jewish, homosexual, neocon, Yalie), Scarborough gets closer to the mark of who these Manhattan media elites truly are, but still fails to identify by name the patrefamillis of the problem he correctly identifies.
Maybe Scarborough needs to step back and take a closer look at the people whom he frequently hosts on his own Manhattan based television program. Folks like Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard, Richard Haas President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Mary Kissel WSJ Opinion Editor, and Rich Lowry editor of National Review to name a few.
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