The Elitist Tipping Point
John McCain can't remember how many houses he has, and immediately he's hit by some with the charge of being an elitist. And so, this is our public conundrum: what exactly is the elitist tipping point?
John McCain can't remember how many houses he has, and immediately he's hit by some with the charge of being an elitist. And so, this is our public conundrum: what exactly is the elitist tipping point?
Bob Cesca | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
The barbecue media script for this election has crow-barred Sen. Obama into the incongruous frame of the exotic effete elitist, irrespective of the fact that, on all counts, he's absolutely none of those things.
Bill Folman | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
A historic victory is Obama's grasp so long as he remembers the football team who entered the second half 17 points ahead and doesn't throw out the brilliant strategy that got him this far.
Nina Darnton | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
In Communist Poland, even when the government told the truth, the public had been conditioned not to believe anything it said. If the Republican propaganda machine isn't careful, it risks the same fate.
ABC News | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
ABC News' Christianne Klein reports that at a breakfast with Republican insiders at the Capitol Hill Club this morning, former White House senior aid...
Joan Williams | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Obama's doing a great job keeping the focus on the economy. Let's not blow it on the cultural front.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Media personalities say the darnedest things sometimes! Like MSNBC's Contessa Brewer, who helpfully defined elitism this afternoon as basically A). b...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
Elitist? Not so, says Barack Obama, who laughs off the idea that he is the wine-and-cheese candidate by mocking the media coverage of himself relative...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.03.2008 | Politics
Obama is being described as unelectable, as incapable of connecting with working class voters, and as someone who might be uncomfortable with patriotism. Obama is being defined by others. It's time for him to do the defining.
John Ridley | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics