My Elite are Better Than Your Elite

Republicans want elite to mean -- YOU TALK PERTY.
GWB from Kennybunkport, legacy admission to Yale, moved to Texas, threw on a cowboy hat and talked regler and folks wanted to have a beer with him. So he wasn't a damn elite. Got it? He was guvner but that's cuz people liked him. Just don't show your college and you'll do okay

What makes someone elite? Apparently not your circumstances, like GWB of Kennebunkport.
Throw on a cowboy hat and talk kinda reglar like and you're there. The Beer Guy !! Talk nice with lots of syllables and you're a damn elite !

Is Alito an Elito ?

How elite do you have to be to call your opponents The Nattering Nabobs of Negativism? Elite denizen William Safire gave the phrase to Spiro Agnew to say. Those were the old Republican days. The new days came along with Grandpa RayGun promising wealth would trickle down if revenue were transferred to the SuperRich. When nothing trickled down and jobs were shipped out and some big unions were busted, the new anti-elite movement was born. Got resentments? The elite did it. Their damn programs for the damn poor. Gotta cut those programs to fund the attacks on those elitist liberation theologists in Central and South America. Gotta get the Polish Pope to condemn those liberation theology proponents-- too elite for the peasants? (And the Pope did it by the way.)

Think tanks were created to encourage attacks on intellectuals and to promote miraculous thinking. Life is broken somehow-- pray for a miracle. Defund government then curse its inefficiency as an affliction foisted upon the regular people by the damn elite. Too cool !!

And don't forget how Newt Gingrich taught modern Republicans to use language and distributed word lists for their use. (Here's an excerpt. Find the FULL STORY with the famous word lists at : http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1276)

In fact, the new speaker of the House--who once described his goal as "reshaping the entire nation through the news media" (New York Times, 12/14/94)--has given a great deal of thought to the media and how to manipulate them. One Newtonian axiom is "fights make news." (Boston Globe, 11/20/94) Another skill he has taught to Republican candidates through his political organization, GOPAC, is how to create a "shield issue" to deflect criticism:

"A shield issue is just, you know, your opponent is going to attack you as lacking compassion," a GOPAC training tape advises. "You better find a good compassion issue where, you know, you show up in the local paper holding a baby in the neonatal center, and all you're trying to do is shield yourself from the inevitable attack."

But the clearest expression of Gingrich's philosophy of media came in a GOPAC memo entitled "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control." Distributed to GOP candidates across the country, the memo's list of words for Democrats and words for Republicans was endorsed by Gingrich in a cover letter: "The words in that paper are tested language from a recent series of focus groups where we actually tested ideas and language." Next time you hear Gingrich complain about media focusing on the negative, refer back to these lists.