Arthur D. Hlavaty

In the world according to Rick Santorum (and Sarah Palin, and Rush Limbaugh), the university-educated are the real One Percent who lord it over the Lord’s people. These fancy folks dare not call themselves by their true name—a French word, not accidentally, with one of those tricky accent marks over the initial é, and how appropriate for a concept so radically un-American. This élite is made up of secular zombies who smash sacred tablets, sneer at hard-working people, use fancy words, and otherwise try to convince the world that they are entitled to lounge around the ski slopes noshing on multigrain bread and Chilean sea bass while Joe the Plumber is busy whacking at government tentacles so that he can afford a decent steak.

Todd Gitlin on the guy who thinks "snob" means someone who wants everybody to go to college

Charles Murray denounces the dread intellectual elite for not liking the Left Behind books, NASCAR, and The Price Is Right. That may mean that he has done a better job than right-wingers generally do of defining that nebulous but despised group.

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