STRUTTING A SHOWY IGNORANCE

I did not write this but I loved it. This wonderful, spot on paragraph was written by Timothy Egan and appeared in The New York Times as part of a piece on the Supreme Court vacancy.

"Nor do I see much merit in the mindless elite-bashing practiced by people who drop their g’s and strut a showy ignorance for the sake of cable television ratings. We should celebrate smart, accomplished people. The kind of elites who do deserve derision are politicians who feign populism while demanding that “the private aircraft must be a Lear 60 or larger,” for travel to their appearances, and a bendable straw at the lectern, as the Sarah Palin contract found in a California dumpster this week stipulated."