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Jon Stewart on Bittergate and Boozegate

In response to media calling Barack 'elitist': "You know, I hear what you're all saying, but doesn't elite mean GOOD? Is that not something we're looking for in a candidate anymore?.. I know 'elite' is a bad word in politics, and you wanna go bowling and throw back a few beers, but the job you're applying for, if you get it and it goes well, they might carve your head into a mountain. If you don't actually think you're better than us, then what the FUCK do you think you're doing [running for president]... In fact, not only do I want an elite president, but I want someone who is embarrassingly superior to me. I want somebody who speaks 16 languages..." -- Jon Stewart
jwraysays...

This video highlights the absurdity of the discourse, wherein the presidential candidate is supposed to be the best but is not allowed to know it (because knowing it would be the "elitism" boogeyman).

Elitism, inasmuch as it is just acknowledging the truth, deserves no opprobrium. Any candidate who doesn't think he is among the best this country has to offer should get the fuck out of the race for president. Anti-elitism is feigned quality-nihilism, while at the same time insinuating self-contradictorily that the anti-elitist is better than the elitist. Anti-elitism is the adult form of the bully beating up the teacher's pet.

gwiz665says...

Damn president, thinks he's smarter than me... I'll show him, I'll get drunk on election day and not vote. I will also hunt some deer with my semi-automatic rifle and pray for his elitist sins.

Crosswordssays...

I'm not sure Gore was ever called an elitist during the election of 2000, but I think the same message applied back then. Bush used would rebut Gore's detailed (well at least for a presidential debate) arguments with things like 'fuzzy math', while saying nothing of his own plans. Its astounding how rampant anti-intellectualism is, and how well it works as a campaign tactic. Of course the implied message is, they don't understand your way of life. Well you know what, maybe they don't, I for one don't care if a president doesn't understand why I like to sit on my couch all day drink beer and scratch my nuts while watching NASCAR, so long as he/she has a fucking clue on how the economy works, or on world affairs.

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