http://bernielatham.com/2008/11/23/insight-the-intellectual-elite-notion/ American politics. This is bat country. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bernielatham.com/2008/11/23/insight-the-intellectual-elite-notion/#comment-13 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:36:56 +0000 http://bernielatham.wordpress.com/?p=684#comment-13 Excuse me, but the term “intellectually elite” or “elite intellectual” is just this side of an oxymoron. Very few of the true intellectual are in the upper money classes, nor are they professors (sorry, but I don’t believe grade school teachers normally count). Nearly all professors are not particularly wealthy although I know several in Orange County who have made it to that status not from their earnings but by inheritance. There are some professors who are, well, professors — not always on an “elite” intellectual level. Good teachers, but not smart enough to actually be able to do what they are teaching. I know that’s an old mantra re those who can do, do, and those who can’t, teach. All semantic generalizations of course but the right-wing nitwits like the Sarah Palins are always willing to make those accusations of “intellectually elite.” We’re all away of what happened to the infamous lead of this travesty — Spiro Agnew.

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