Reply #6: That snobby elitist!!

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"I feel sure, in any case, that Al Sharpton speaks the way he does because he wants to speak that way. It's part of his public persona, his shtick."

Try replacing "Al Sharpton" with "George W. Bush", and see how well it still fits. How else does the priveleged son of a wealthy New England family, a graduate of Andover, Harvard, and Yale, who is no more familiar with Wal-Mart than Paris Hilton, manage to portray himself as a "plain-spoken, man of the people", while painting his political foes as elitist? Would Derbyshire hack on the pres for his legendary "Bushisms"? Naw, that dog won't hunt. He doesn't want to sound elitist.

Would he make fun of the diction of the rural, white, southern working class? No, that elitism would anger National Review subscribers. Perish the thought!!