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...kind of right. Palin proved herself to be an embarrassment on the campaign trail, alienating voters as she demonstrated not only her love of unabashed oil-drilling but also her complete lack of preference for fiscal conservatism, aside from tax breaks. She made known her disgust for the high-falutin?? language of elitist Ivy League types. In his VP pick and his election-cycle shenanigans, McCain fell back on the knee-jerk style of conservatism upon which less worthy Republicans have built their careers—the kind that pooh-poohs intellectualism and favors the worst sort...
...when I disagreed with them, my disagreements helped me to refine my own perspective as an audience member and as a critic. And during my limited time among VES students, I never really perceived a catastrophic strain of elitism in them. But if they’re as high-falutin?? as you say they are, let’s lock them in an auditorium and force them to watch Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests over and over for a week. After an ordeal like that, they’ll stagger out and happily kiss The Rock?...
First, Larry, let’s talk about the image problem. The way I see it, your run-ins with all these high-falutin?? faculty have put you in the New York Times, Time and Newsweek, a.k.a., the “CBS crowd.” Had you purchased the Red Sox, imagine what type of p.r. you’d have then! The cover of Sports Illustrated! ESPN.com! Even Maxim would have written about you—minus the nine-page photo spread...
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