I submit to you that the two most out of touch elitists in America are Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton.
Here's Matthews in the New York Times profile about him:
"I don't think people look at me as the establishment, do you?" Matthews asked me. "Am I part of the winner's circle in American life? I don't think so."
The article, of course, notes that Matthews makes $5 million a year, lives in a posh Chevy Chase house with three Mercedes, and has been a Washington insider for almost his entire life. But no, he doesn't think he's inside the establishment or part of the winner's circle.
Similarly, Clinton continues to label Barack Obama "out of touch" for saying that when people get economically crapped on by politicians and corporations, they get angry. From the confines of her mansions in Georgetown and Chappaqua, surveying her $110 million fortune and her long career as a corporate lawyer and Wal-Mart board member, Clinton expresses a "let them eat cake" attitude, apparently believing regular folks are totally happy when politicians like her champion policies like NAFTA that crush them.
Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton -- the two most out of touch human beings in America.
He has no earned right to have a platform. She has run the most foully mismanaged poorly executed campaign in recent history.
So much for entitlement.
As a thirteenth generational American, I know that's not what America is about.
Having two families dominate the executive branch of government is just plain wrong.
Not in this land formerly lauded for it's diversity.
I, for one, am very happy that this story broke, even if Obama has to take an initial hit; he can handle it. It's the one time that we get to address a real issue even if it's temporarily clouded; this furor over "bitter"/"cling to" will soon give way to the reality that people have been ignored and even victimized by politicians and the MSM for years.
Specifically, Republicans have preyed on people's fears for too many years while padding their own pockets. Do you think the Buchanans, Hannitys, Dobbs's, and Limbaughs of the world are suffering like the people they manipulate? Not on your life!! They have been wickedly masterful in getting people to vote against their own interests as Obama pointed out so clearly in 2004 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGF3cyHE7M ).
Obama has revealed a truth that can no longer be denied. Win or lose in PA, people's bitterness and frustration will not be so easily dismissed when this dust settles.
AN ELITIST IS DICK CHENEY SAYING..."SO" WHEN TOLD 68% OF AMERICANS ARE OPPOSED TO THE IRAQ WAR!
If you make 150,000 per year, I would understand that one is not necessarily 'rich' in many regards, HOWEVER, you are still sitting in the top 5% of Americans, remembering that about 4 Billion people on earth make about one dollar per day. Historically speaking, the SOL of such a person is at the top .000001% of humans who ever existed.
Most people struggle, and those who win, WIN big... as you showed.. Chris makes about 5 MIL per year. Almost everyone in media are in the top .5%, and have no clue what they are talking about. I grew up never having money, but there are communities all over America that are DESPERATELY disadvantaged, not just POOR. Drugs, bad schools, no infrastructure, no economic dev. and safety, bad criminal justice system, along with 30 yrs. of destroying manufacturing jobs... There is a deep level of poverty that is growing, while the rich are FILTHY rich... I know 14 people with college degrees and no job... what's new!
We know that the script readers aren't the same as the script wirters, but the process by which the tele-prompter gets filled with the same words in all the various corporate media studios would be intriguing to learn about.
How humbling of the mighty one that must be.
Its about an ATTITUDE, which Obama (and his supporters) posesses in spades.
1) The delusional fool, who thinks God talks to him and through him, acts as if has papal infallibility multiplied by 100, hides from real public discourse, and believes that history will view his disastrous and openly criminal administration favorably.
2) The Republican party supporter who cheers the party whose policies favor the ultra-rich and no one else; cheers for war, but does not enlist; cheers for policies that gave us gasoline approaching $4 per gallon; cheers as our Constitution is trashed; cheers as the administration illegally spies on us; cheers in endless blissful ignorance as the party acts against their own best interest.
Chris Matthews is a close runner up. How is it that highly paid TV personalities only need to be opinionated, ignorant, and rude?