Elitism

Welcome to the 'Elitism' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Elitism'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Elitism”

• Wine, Music & Snobbery

  
  Inside the Classics — Authority: 123
  If you live in the Twin Cities, and have any interest at all in good food and the restaurants that serve it, you probably dont need me to tell you who Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl is, or that she has a new book out which purports to make sense of the oh-so-highfalutin world of wine. Shes been all over the local ...
  5 hours ago

• Words, Meaning, and Power

  
  Front Porch Republic — Authority: 134
  Kearneysville , WV . The publication of Sarah Palin’s autobiography, Going Rogue , provides an opportunity to discuss contemporary political rhetoric, especially the use of certain words that have the effect of shutting down discussion rather than stimulating further thought. Palin’s rhetoric is only a case ...
  10 hours ago

• Orwellian lies, Obama camp brainwashing, Obama eligibility, Obama not natural born citizen, Mail Online, London, British Isles, 1984, George Orwell, Nazi Germany

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 566
  “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed –if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”… George Orwell, “1984″   This is ...
  12 hours ago

• Palin Populism Is Just Another Kind Of Elitism

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 811
  As Sarah Palin s "bus" tour rolls on, journalists are beginning to identify her as the leader of a new kind of populism. But this movement really just enshrines another elite. In the new New Yorker , Sam Tanenhaus writes, Polls taken last November showed that [Palin] had alienated centrists, and a majority ...
  1 day ago

• 7 stories Obama doesn’t want told – Yahoo! News

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 140
  John F. Harris Presidential politics is about storytelling. Presented with a vivid storyline, voters naturally tend to fit every new event or piece of information into a picture that is already neatly framed in their minds. No one understands this better than Barack Obama and his team, who won the 2008 election in ...
  1 day ago

• Democracy & Elitism: an introduction to the American false consciousness

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  Part one in a series. Is there a more radioactive word in American politics today than elitist ? Admit it – you saw the word and had an instinctive negative reaction, didn’t you? If not, then count yourself among the rarest minority in our culture, the fraction of a percent that has not yet had its ...
  1 day ago

• Hate Sarah Palin? She loves that

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 671
  By GottaLaff An op-ed by Neal Gabler pretty much confirms much of what we already know, but it was an interesting read. Here are a few excerpts: As commentators revile her, Palin realizes they are also empowering her. Indeed, she is engaged in one of the greatest feats of rope-a-dope in political history. ...
  2 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  2 days ago

• The ‘WaterAid’ Test for the Legitimacy of Charities

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 490
  I was cold-called late last week by a very polite young man seeking a regular monthly donation to WaterAid , the charity that seeks to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to some of the poorest parts of the world. Whether or not I chose to donate to the charity is my business, but I am in ...
  2 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 days ago

• Inexcusable Froth from BBC Scotland’s Newsdrive

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 490
  The BBC Newsdrive programme on Radio Scotland decided to run a piece yesterday (25th November) on Ollie Bray ’s perfectly sensible suggestion that young learners should be encouraged to make use of Wikipedia in their school research. The BBC Scotland news team hauled in Oliver Kamm on the basis of his ...
  6 days ago

• Sarah Palin does the populist talk: The elites are not gonna be in control anymore.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 135
  Watch OReilly and Palin decide that anyone who thinks she is unfit to govern is part of an "elite". Its now officially "elitist" to think that Palin is one of the stupidest people ever to seek high office; indeed, her stupidity is now the very thing that makes her "one of us" and should be embraced. Tags: Palin , ...
  6 days ago

• Britons Want to Decrease Legal Immigration

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  People in Britain believe too many immigrants are entering the country, according to a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion. 68 per cent of respondents think the number of legal immigrants who are allowed to relocate in the United Kingdom should decrease.In June 2007, Gordon Brown officially became Labour leader and ...
  6 days ago

• Populist Politics for Dummies

  
  Just Above Sunset — Authority: 129
  Another Thanksgiving, and the same problem, as always – if you’re of the liberal persuasion, even though you try to hide it with some hedging and saying that you’re really a progressive, but not really that, rather just curious about things and open-minded and willing to listen, you know you’ll get hammered ...
  1 week ago

• Going Rogue "too dumb" for SF stores, but tome on psychedelic space travel is smart enough

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 627
  Pajamas Medias David Steinberg links to a San Freaksicko Chronicle quote from a really "smart" bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland on his reason for not stocking Sarah Palins memoir Going Rogue : "Our customers are thinking people. They’re not into reading drivel." So if former Governor Palins book is ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Liberals?

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 490
  This month’s Prospect Magazine (still the most intelligent of the monthlies by a long way) offers the results of an interesting poll conducted on its behalf by YouGov in which, it seems, Twitter users across the UK do pretty well (a personal take, of course) on a relative continuum that goes from Authoritarian ...
  1 week ago

• Thoughts on Elitism

  
  Perpetual Anticipation — Authority: 127
  "Dont let your experience turn you in to an expert". This is a healthy reminder to keep your ego in check. To keep you from rambling on being divise to the purpose of collaboration and unity. However, if you find yourself being dished up lavish amounts of elitism, it seems there are two instinctual responses. You ...
  1 week ago

• Echoblowcation: Nota Bene #2009-41

  
  Scholars and Rogues — Authority: 604
  A few things for you NB readers: 1. NB is now numbered by year-issue instead of marked by date; 2. NB will continue to be issued weekly, but not necessarily on Monday night/Tuesday morning; 3. I liked last week’s format ( quoted line from source ) so much I’m repeating it. Enjoy! … “[O]ur recovery is likely to ...
  1 week ago

• Sarah Palin, Fauxpulism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics

  
  Comments from Left Field — Authority: 462
  (Image:  Tacoma Urbanist , Flickr) Sarah Palin is back — and, seemingly, everywhere, as she launches a book tour (and, perhaps, a run at the White House in 2012). Max Blumenthal : In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sarah Palin, Fauxpulism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics

  
  bastard.logic — Authority: 113
  by matttbastard (Image:  Tacoma Urbanist , Flickr) Sarah Palin is back — and, seemingly, everywhere, as she launches a book tour (and, perhaps, a run at the White House in 2012). Max Blumenthal : In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically ...
  2 weeks ago

Comments about Elitism