October 23, 2001
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Virtuecrat
Margery Eagan coins this term in an article about the Hillary booing on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. The full context:
self-proclaimed virtuecrat and humanitarian, most meritorious of the meritocracy, smartest of the smart set, chief priestess of right-thinking, diversity-university, holier-than-thou know-it-alls who surely know that it takes a village and if you don't know it too you are, simply, a knuckle-dragging member of the vast right-wing conspiracy of dunces.I don't think Ms. Eagan likes her, do you? Hillary's been a bit over-demonized, but I guess she's come to stand for a virulent strain of political correctness. A strain that I would happily tar with Eagan's language. I did hear a recording of Ms. Clinton's 30 seconds, and she didn't handle it well. Kind of like the schoolteacher Sister Mary Elephant in Cheech & Chong's Weeding Album: "Class....class....SHUT UUUUUUP!!!" Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at October 23, 2001 09:34 PM | Technorati inbound links