Tuesday, October 21, 2008

What It Means to Be an Elitist, Explained by Ben Shapiro; or, Assy McGee Award® for 10/21

For today's Assy McGee Award® Harrogate throws a link out to Ben Shapiro's probing analysis of what it means to be an elitist. Shapiro's Column, entitled "You Know You're An Elitist If....", lists off a wealth of markers whereby we can see if we are, indeed, elitists.

Verily, his rubric couldn't be more helpful in our current Rhetorical climate. Because you know, we haven't had nearly enough talk yet about Real Americans®, Real Virginians®, Real Patriots®, and the like.

Readers, what are YOUR favorites among the items Shapiro enumerates? There are so many to choose from, but Harrogate is gonna have to opt for the one that Paperweight will likely find most amusing:

You’re an elitist if you know what arugula is but don’t know who Jimmie Johnson is.

2 comments:

supadiscomama said...

P.S. The third one--referring to Dobson--should have ended with a question mark. WTF?

solon said...

You're an elitist if you spend $150,000 in clothing in less than two months.

Wait. No. Your a populist if you do that.