Harvard-graduate Hewitt blasts Obama’s ‘condescending’ ‘Harvard Law School stuff.’
Harvard-graduate Hewitt blasts Obama’s ‘condescending’ ‘Harvard Law School stuff.’
Yesterday on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes, right-wing pundit Hugh Hewitt blasted Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for being “so condescending.” “In San Francisco, he insulted people of faith,” said Hewitt. “He insulted people who own guns.” Hewitt then took a swipe at Obama’s educational background, stating, “That Harvard Law School stuff, it shows.” Watch it:
Hewitt claimed he was able to make these accusations because he has “Midwestern roots.” Ironically, Obama also has Midwestern roots (who spent decades in Illinois and has a mother born in Kansas), and like Obama, Hewitt graduated from Harvard. Although Hewitt was born in Ohio, he has spent much of his life working in both Los Angeles and Washington, DC.
Transcript:
COLMES: Let me ask you, Hugh Hewitt, has Michelle Obama — as people get to know the Obama family, should he be the nominee, Michelle Obama, for example, Harvard for college, is talking about as her mother used food stamps, supported a family of four on a city salary, they carried school loan debts into their 40’s, this doesn’t sound like a bunch of elitists to me, and as the narrative expands and people get to know who they are, it may not be as dire as you’re suggesting.
HEWITT: Come on, Alan, you’re an East Coast liberal elite.
(CROSSTALK)
COLMES: Thank you for the compliment. All three things are true.
HEWITT: And what I think you’re going to miss here, and again, I go back — I’ve got Midwestern roots, Tom has Midwestern roots as well, and what you look at is how does this play when you insult people? One of those things I was doing in Warren this week and I went to a fundraiser for my old high school, fondly named John F. Kennedy High School, it’s a Catholic high school, all those people are there supporting this great institution in a small town. They’re not bitter, they’re hard-working, very proud people, there’s a lot of economic activity in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. […]
He is so — he is so condescending. When he thought to Messiah College, he thought they’d renamed it for him. It’s coming home to roost now. He didn’t say that in San Francisco. It’s got nothing to do with what he said in San Francisco. In San Francisco, he insulted people of faith. He insulted people who own guns. In San Francisco he was candid about what he believes.
He is a hard left politician. If he’s the nominee, he will be the most liberal, most radical nominee in the history of American politics. And it shows. That Harvard Law School stuff, it shows. And you cannot reinvent what he said.
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If people like Hewitt possessed balls, I’d say they were big ones.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:52 pmWell, OBVIOUSLY, that’s DIFFERENT.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:54 pmgee, is that like Republic party patronizing?
snark
April 16th, 2008 at 12:57 pmZooey Says:
If people like Hewitt possessed balls, I’d say they were big ones.
Actually, if he had balls, that would be where his brains were, and they would be very small indeed.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pmBut thats my humble opinion. =)
Difference between Harvard Law and Harvard College? The former, more top flight scholars; the latter, more legacies? The moral of the story? Class is more important than quality!
April 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pmThe really depressing thing about stuff like this is, no one in the MSM will point out the false populism of right-wing idiots. And they continue to wield pejorative buzz words as if they actually meant something. And a certain audience will listen to the tone rather than the content — to the style, rather than the substance, and it will strike a cord in their subconscious, lighting up an inferiority complex that feeds their conservative fervor.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pmLet’s see if I got this straight:
Harvard Law School= condescending elitist
Harvard Business School= down to earth, everyday common joe
April 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pmYeah, golly gee, we cain’t have no SMART people runnin’ things, no sirree Bob!!!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:02 pmL. Hussein Annie Says:
Yeah, golly gee, we cain’t have no SMART people runnin’ things, no sirree Bob!!!
Heck no! If we wanted smart people running the country, we would have elected Al Gore for president. Oh wait..
April 16th, 2008 at 1:05 pmThe buttons are back!!
April 16th, 2008 at 1:05 pmIs Hewitt related to Doocey?
April 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pm#11 continued: or did he get stupid on his own?
April 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pmYeah , Huge Nitwit
Vote again for the least intelligent candidate left at this point in a moronic senior citizen who was one of the 5 most stupid individuals in his naval graduating class so we can increase the number of violent deaths in Iraq to include Iran and incur $10 trillion more in debt………………That’s just what this country needs ; another “regular” guy to screw up even more
April 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm(though what is “regular” about someone whose father and grandfather were both Admirals in the Navy , and who left his 1st wife after cheating on her incessantly to marry into money , is certainly beyond me)
celtic cynic Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Hewitt & Doocy don’t need help with teh stupid.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pmIs this guy related to glenn beck? ..An older skinnier brother maybe…Crap all these people in the 23% are starting to look and sound like all the troll’s here…Maybe to much inbreeding….They rely need a life guard in their gene pool…Blessings
April 16th, 2008 at 1:15 pmMCMetal Says:
(though what is “regular” about someone whose father and grandfather were both Admirals in the Navy , and who left his 1st wife after cheating on her incessantly to marry into money , is certainly beyond me)
April 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Put the name “Obama” in front of that description, and the troll-kind would have their heads spinning off their necks.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:17 pm… because the right-wing smear merchants and MSM are either too evil or too stupid to understand what he said the first time.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pmjdc Says:
April 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Funny, y’all loved it when Reagan started that department.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:20 pmin response to Mr. Hewitt, I am pleased to be able to quote our Vice President on this matter:
“So?”
And that, my friend, is an example of something truly condescending.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:22 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
… because the right-wing smear merchants and MSM are either too evil or too stupid to understand what he said the first time.
Indeed. Same eejits calling him elitist before they climb into the limo for the drive home to the gated mansion.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:22 pm…I should have said theright-wing smear merchants and MSM are either too dishonest or too stupid.
“Evil” is a word I should not use so lightly. It should be reserved for the likes of Darth Cheney, or maybe Pat Robertson.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:22 pmjdc Says:
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The largest department in the Obama campaign is the one that has to explain what he really meant after he said what he said.
Yeah, it must be tough to have to try and digest complete sentences that aren’t broken up with extended pauses while the president trys desperately to remember basic words. If you’re used to understanding what bush stutters, then of course you’ll need an entire department to comprehend the fluid eloquence of Obama. Don’t worry, your brain will have 8 years to adjust.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pmYou know who is not an elitist? - John McCain - 3rd generation Annapolis cadet, with a 300 million dollar fortune, 8 houses, and a private jet at his disposal.
Also Dubbie - 5th generation Connecticut blue-blood private prep-school cheerleader and Ivy Leaguer - not elite in the least.
As they lower the moral and ethical bar, righties push the bar of unabashed demagoguery higher every day.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pmBobwurst Says:
Yeah, it must be tough to have to try and digest complete sentences that aren’t broken up with extended pauses while the president trys desperately to remember basic words. If you’re used to understanding what bush stutters, then of course you’ll need an entire department to comprehend the fluid eloquence of Obama. Don’t worry, your brain will have 8 years to adjust.
The Bush administration has needed such a “department” because they don’t bother to justify or explain anything George says, and they don’t need to explain Cheney’s upraised middle finger.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:27 pmThe MSM is the enemy in most cases. It should be obvious that Obama epitomizes the American dream of rising from poverty to a position of leadership, responsibility and success. He has lived the dream. Only the Republicans can turn that into some sort of effeminate and elitist background.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pmYou’re absolutely right, tom. Neither Bush nor McSame is elitist in the sense that “elite” means one of a rarefied level of achievement, the very best in a field.
Oh, wait — that just means they’re not “elite”. However, since their policies benefit the economic elite in contrast to their faux-populist rhetoric, they truly are “elitist” in THAT sense.
The English language can be very confusing sometimes. I guess that’s why Chimpy gave up on it.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pmI just can’t stand to watch Hewitt Spewitt.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pmLemme get this straight — a Harvard-educated man with midwestern roots who spews vitriol for a living is accusing another Harvard-educated man with midwestern roots of being insulting? WTF???
Hewitt — Obama has more class in his little finger than you’ll ever have. He could have phrased his point better, and he said so, which is more than you’ll ever do. Furthermore, acknowledging that there are a lot of people out there who are being ignored by their government (and yes, some ARE bitter!) is neither condescending nor insulting. It’s true.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:38 pmGet ready for more. The right-wing tactic has always to paint the opposition as; high & mighty, effete, and unpatriotic.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:04 pmOK. And the Connecticut Yankee millionaire pretending to be a Texas cowboy, working hand and hand with the neocons, pro big business, etc. etc. etc. is a man of the people how ?
April 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pmjdc Says:
The largest department in the Obama campaign is the one that has to explain what he really meant after he said what he said.
April 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Yeah… It’s going to be so nice to have a President who can use polysyllabic words, and in the right order and with the correct verb conjugation.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:10 pm#27 ralph the wonder llama Says:
The English language can be very confusing sometimes. I guess that’s why Chimpy gave up on it.
Thankfully, I have had a few laughs from some really hilarious posts today. Helps me out of my usual WTF funks.
April 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pmKeep the funny ones coming, folks. I’m afraid we’re gonna be needing them more and more.
Probably too late to post, but I will anyway. Did anyone hear Michelle Obama respond to the “elitist non-story?” I can’t wait until she becomes 1st lady. She can kick butt and take names. A very powerful, intellectual, honest woman. That’s the image I want the nation to project.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:18 pmI’ve got nothing to say until TP brings back the abuse link, the trolls have destroyed this site.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pmperhaps the controversy is not that obama is elitist, but that he doesn’t fit so many of the ethnic stereotypes we traditionally think of. I mean, wow, the guy is educated and doesn’t wear bling- how elitist! And Hillary is suprisingly not transparent in her shot-drinking. WTF? There can be no progress if we don’t move past stereotypes. But the next generation doesn’t seem to be faring too well with sites like stuffethnicpeoplelike.com
April 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pmThis is why I change the channel on any TV that’s tuned in to Fox whenever I can. I hate it when some jerk leaves Fox on the TV in the gym. H&C is absurd in their dishonesty.
April 16th, 2008 at 4:48 pmTo build on shoeless in post #7:
Harvard Attendance “shows” - elitist
Harvard Attendance and still appears like a chimp - Good ?
April 16th, 2008 at 8:25 pmHey, don’t be so harsh on Harvard. They are, after all, perhaps the third best school in all of Cambridge.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm