WILLIAMS: Who is a member of the elite?
PALIN: Oh, I guess just people who think that they're better than anyone else. And-- John McCain and I are so committed to serving every American. Hard-working, middle-class Americans who are so desiring of this economy getting put back on the right track. And winning these wars. And America's starting to reach her potential. And that is opportunity and hope provided everyone equally. So anyone who thinks that they are-- I guess-- better than anyone else, that's-- that's my definition of elitism.
WILLIAMS: So it's not education? It's not income-based? It's--
PALIN: Anyone who thinks that they're better than someone else.
WILLIAMS: --a state of mind? It's not geography?
PALIN: 'Course not.
WILLIAMS: Senator?
MCCAIN: I-- I know where a lot of 'em live. (LAUGH)
WILLIAMS: Where's that?
MCCAIN: Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there. I know the town. I know-- I know what a lot of these elitists are. The ones that she never went to a cocktail party with in Georgetown. I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.—Brian Williams interviewing John McCain and Sarah Palin,
NBC Nightly News, October 23, 2008 (via)
While I was studying the frozen
food department of Gristede’s one
day, Mrs. Elliott
Carter came up and said,
“Hello, John.
I thought you
touched only fresh foods.”
I said, “All
you have to do is look at
them and then you come
over here.” She said,
“Elliott and I have
just gotten back from Europe.
We’d sublet
to some intellectuals whose
names I won’t mention.
They had been
eating those platters with
all sorts of food on them.”
I said,
“Not TV dinners?”
She said, “Yes,
I found
them stuffed around everywhere.”—John Cage, Indeterminacy
1 comment:
There's really nothing to add to that; it speaks for itself. But I felt I had to add something:
What a pair of ironic, self-contradictory, inauthentic twits.
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