"I feel like he is an elitist."

should be "as if".

you forgot to mention one of her more distinguishing traits - she manages to speak while her head is firmly planted up her a**

orange

It's because McCain will institute the New Economic Policy of 2009.

You know, I think this will actually help Obama.. Imagine how pleasant they pinched-faced, spoiled, rich harpy will come across at her "press conference." John McCain, you're welcome to her.

I suspect she is now a former member of the DNC Platform Committee.

gcochran wins the thread with the first post. Well done.

I think Lady Rothschild is more concerned that Obama might want to be a member of the Elite. "Why, I am chagrinned; a dark-skinned advocate wishes to join our clique". Indeed, Lady Rothschild; indeed.

Yeh, The election is over. McCain has just sealed up the trailer trash vote.

When I read the announcement this morning I nearly fell out of my chair. "Lady" Lynn thinks Obama is an elitist? What a joke.

I suspect she is now a former member of the DNC Platform Committee.

Of course she will remain a member of the DNC. Obama people do not want to be partisan, you know. Think of the children! think of the children!

Yet while we are laughing hysterically, the MSM will be picking up the story and the "Obama is an elistest" meme will be getting reinforced all across America.

Remember, we live in a country where most people are too lazy to read past the headline and too stupid to understand the nuances of public policy, and who therefore vote for whomever they like the most.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Anybody who tends to use a title in their name makes me wonder how much they love this country and our Constitution.

This is the kind of thing that should be countered with derisive laughter. Anytime an Obama spokesperson (or the candidates themselves) are asked about this, they should include a snicker (or a supressed snort of laughter) when they draw out Lady Rothchilds full name.

I would like the fact that this is getting some play, all the more chance to point out who the elitists are (and it ain't Obama).

Will one pundit, just one, tell the rest of us why the heck we should care what this lady thinks?

I've never heard of her. My guess is that neither has 99.99% of the population.

She appears to be a very wealthy lady with an overinflated sense of importance. Why are we giving her any attention whatsoever? Because the rest of the blogosphere is?

HELLLOOOOOOO????

The first time around (during the primary) it was comedy, the second time around it's high comedy.

I saw that this morning and it really twisted me. Up is now officially down. Tune in later today as McCain explains how day is really night (and the Media concurs).

Ok, but can she field dress a moose?

This is the new standard in GOP politics.

'Let me get this straight. Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who tends to go by "Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild," is the CEO of an international holding company. She's married to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, a British financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. She splits her time living in London and New York." Lynn Forester de Rothschild
says "elitist" as she won't say "black man"

'Let me get this straight. Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who tends to go by "Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild," is the CEO of an international holding company. She's married to Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, a British financier and a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England. She splits her time living in London and New York." Lynn Forester de Rothschild
says "elitist" as she won't say "black man"

This is America where the common man is king, so of course some European aristocrat is going to think Obama is elitist. Reverse snobbery I guess.

The fatcat Republicans keep throwing that term, "elitist" around, but I wonder what Inigo Montoya would say?

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

This is the same Lynn Forester who wed the wealthy and socially prominent City Council President Andrew Stein just before he ran for NYC Mayor, and divorced him instantaneously after he lost the election. She then happens to marry the far wealthier and more prominent De Rothschild. What a warmhearted populist. Just the kind of idealism that Obama represents, eh?

This is the same Lynn Forester who wed the wealthy and socially prominent City Council President Andrew Stein just before he ran for NYC Mayor, and divorced him instantaneously after he lost the election. She then happens to marry the far wealthier and more prominent De Rothschild. What a warmhearted populist. Just the kind of idealism that Obama represents, eh?

But a lot of news outlets seem to be taking this pretty seriously

This is the issue. As someone above noted, the majority of sheeple don't look past the headline of "Clinton supporter endorses McCain" and "Obama found to be elitist". Nor do these lots of news outlets mention that high profile Republicans endorse Obama. In 2004, a genuine war hero that fought in the Mekong delta was labeled "weak, effeminate, elitist" while a petulant, Daddy's boy who skipped his air national guard responsibilities was "tough, strong, resolute"
Up is Down.

So, Baroness Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is a former Hillary supporter who is now backing McCain. She thinks Obama is an "elitist." Apparently the irony escapes her. I've long thought that inbreeding among royalty and elites is a genetic problem that should be investigated and regulated. It isn't an issue confined to Appalachian backwaters. Here's her bio.....

Who cares?

This must be another one of those headlines from The Onion that have fooled the news media. "Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild" cannot possibly be a real person.

If you've ever heard of Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, you're already an elitist.

Yeah, good point Steve! But wait, you lifted that story right off Drudge, don't make a habit of it ... ;-)

Go BO-Joe!
Stop McBushlin!

In Lady Lynn's lexicon, if you marry a Rotschild or a beer heiress that makes you an "elite". But if you aspire to leadership without becoming filthy rich, then you are "elitist". In other words, her "elitist" is a polite term for "uppity".

>>her spokesman tells CNN.

"lutton's belief is that if you have a spokesman, you might just be elitist," lutton's spokesman said.

She also is very keen on Rupert Murdoch:

"On the Dark Lord Murdoch: "I have so much respect for Rupert Murdoch, I cannot even tell you. I don't, of course, agree with his politics all the time, but I think that he is a visionary. I think he is gutsy. Everyone I've ever known who's done a deal with Rupert cannot say a bad word about him. He's honorable, and I think it's an obvious thing for him to do, and I think it was brilliant.""
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/10/lady_lynn_forester_de_rothschi.html

"Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild," sounds like one of bitter old biddies featured on "Law and Order" who sells her soul for a piece of fraudulent art.

Elite?? Naaaaa.

Somebody else said, somewhere else, "it's all about the 'de'"

ROTFLMAO

"She appears to be a very wealthy lady with an overinflated sense of importance. Why are we giving her any attention whatsoever? Because the rest of the blogosphere is?"

Because her statement is soooooo ridiculous on the face of it that it goes a fairly long way to making this "elitist" crapola the laughing stock it always should have been.

Democratic Talking Point: "Obama's an elitist? According to "Lady" Lynn "de Rothschild"? You've GOT to be kidding me.

Umm, I think what she really means is "uppity."

I know women like this, and yes, when they say "sexist" or "elitist" they mean uppity.

I say this as a woman. I hope these dumb racist bitches rot in hell.

In other words, her "elitist" is a polite term for "uppity".

Exactly. She pulled the same crap during the primary, and it really clinched it for me that "elitist" was being used as a code word for "uppity."

Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....
Born into great wealth, Evelyn de Rothschild became one of England's most eligible bachelors, spending his youth travelling, socialising, driving exotic sports cars, enjoying thoroughbred horse racing and playing polo...

Lady Rothschild won't vote for an "elitist" - but she'll surely marry one.

Meanwhile, Mark Halperin, the conventional wisdom meter of the msm, is making fun of Sarah Palin:

"Leave my candidate's verbiage alone!"
http://thepage.time.com/2008/09/17/leave-my-candidates-verbiage-alone/

“It was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use…He means our workforce. He means the ingenuity of the American people and of course that is strong and that is the foundation of our economy.�

Palin has become a big JOKE.

I've been saying it for weeks, arugula is going to lose the election.

Think about it. Arugula????

To eat arugula is to be elitist because working class folks don't even know what the stuff is.

2000: Gore Invented the Internet

2004: Kerry Windsurfs

2008: Obama eats arugula.

THAT is the whole kit and kaboodled in a nutshell, and i do mean nut!

Sad ain't it?

Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of England....

So can we call her Lynn de England?

But, what is her "commoner" name? She apparently wasn't born Lady Lynn...She is hiding some very "dark" roots, methinks.

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st john

heaven forbid the most powerful job in the world going to an elite member of society. christ.

My money's on Lady Lynn to do quite well in this year's Upperclass Twit of the Year contest.

To eat arugula is to be elitist because working class folks don't even know what the stuff is. -Tom Nicholson

Maybe 5-10 years ago, but Emeril and Rachel Ray changed that. The booming popularity of The Food Network and HGTV have elevated culinary vocabulary over the last few years.

People know chipotle, arugula, and smoked paprika now. Hell, arugula is in the generic salad mix now.

I don't think it will work this time.

On a more serious note, Hillary could go a long way (IMHO) towards defusing this disaffected-supporter meme by publicly coming out and saying that "Lady de Rothschild" doesn't represent her or her values, that the old bat obviously has her head deeply implanted up Her Highness's desiccated ass, and give back her campaign contributions to boot.

It's not just Jim Leach, whom even his opponents liked, but former Republican Senator, and former Republican, Lincoln Chafee, as well as Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Ike. And considering his policies and statements, Ike would be a Democrat too if he was alive, as well as Teddy Roosevelt. Last month's Smithsonian Magazine had an article on historic conventions; the Republican convention of 1912, where Teddy's populist bid to unseat the deeply unpopular and truly elitist William Howard Taft was turned back, was called the birth of the modern Republlcan Party. I would have put it earlier, around the Gilded Age or McKInley years, but that was their take and for some reason, probably having to do with the Smithsonian's funding, the author didn't seem to think it was such a bad thing.

All the Republicans have left is neocon wingnuts, bigots and, yes, hardcore elitists.

I'd have to say that many folks are intimidated and feel threatened by true intellect (Whether they are aware of it or not is another discussion).

Add to the mixture that Obama is black and has a Muslim sounding name and you have what should be a landslide when our planet is in peril a very close race. On the other hand, it's truly amazing he's gotten this far!

Most won't admit to this bias / barrier, btw--a good amount of folks are truly clueless they are even indulging the same, IMO.

Steve,

The irony doesn't end there. They held her press conference in the National Republican Club at Capital Hill -- a private, members only club for Republicans!

I would prefer an elitist over a liar. Actually, a Presidential candidate who believes its OK to lie to the common voters is about as elitist as you can get.

...or "that" he is an elitist.

But it's so much folksier to say stupid things in the dumbest way possible.

Pork rinds anyone?

My favorite response is from, of all people, the thoroughly execrable Robert Stacey McCain: "It's like getting endorsed by the Bavarian Illuminati or the Tri-Lateral Commission."

Cognitive dissonance is pretty amazing.

I suspect she is now a former member of the DNC Platform Committee.

She'd damn well better be.

I like the quip someone else made about the announcement:

Elitist is the new black!

"He means the ingenuity of the American people"

The American people? Those whiners? Pfft.

‘Elitist’ is a Nixonland classic. It doesn’t mean ‘aristocratic’ or ‘rich’ or ‘wealthy’ or even‘powerful’. It is an epithet used to denounce people who tell you what to do. Originally it had a racist appeal. The liberal elites were forcing integration. You- in your respectable Republican cloth coat-couldn’t sell your home to who you wanted or send your kids to the schools you wanted. For Southerners it was just so more federalism. Of course meddling liberal bureaucrats from ivy-league schools had long been the prime enemy of the free-market kings of capital. The Repubican coalition is made up of those that hate the elitist liberal state- for integration, for being secular and for limiting the more destructive means of wealth accumulation.

Segregation is long gone and the religous conservatives will gain few if any of their goals. But the rich have made out like bandits, so much so that the American Middle Class is in decline and the US is fast becoming a nation with an upper class and everyone else.

She's mad she didn't get a David Plouffe blowjob at the convention.

Oh I can't wait for Jon Stewart and John Oliver to discuss this one! Or maybe Stewart will have to fold his show in the face of news that simply cannot be further satirized.

More like the lady macbeth de'mtsensk. She's another U-POP and that doesn't stand for Useless Piece of Pinapple.

or Pineapple for that matter..

(Durp!)

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild? Didn't Margaret Dumnot play her in "Duck Soup"?

She and Cindy can co-chair Booze Whores for McCain.

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild? Didn't Margaret Dumont play her in "Duck Soup"?

She and Cindy can co-chair Booze Whores for McCain.

Sorry--I meant "Dumont"!

So Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is endorsing John Sidney McCain III because Barrack Obama's an elitist?

I hate to give Kaus any credit, since he's been a total ass for the past year (at least), but proving the "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" theory, Kaus nailed this one when he said of the headline about Obama being an elitist "you lost me at 'de'"

I read somewhere that this lady is a real nasty piece of work (In the Leona Helmsly mold) and is the woman who had the fundraiser in London for McCain, remember the one that was thought to be illegal. She was an ardent Hillary supporter, so she thought one of those two would get elected. I have heard rumors that she was angling for a spot as Ambassador to the Court of King James in the next U>S> administration.

"Wherever there's a grasping opportunist clawing her way up the social ladder... I'll be there. Wherever there's a girl hungry from skipping lunch, so she can squeeze into her new de la Renta frock... I'll be there. Wherever there's a candidate fighting to protect the rich from the uppity wannabes... I'll be there."
-- "The Grapes of Rothschild"

PS Right now a really good article on the Down with Tyrany website about this!

To eat arugula is to be elitist because working class folks don't even know what the stuff is.

You haven't eaten at McDonald's lately, have you?

I suspect working class folks know what it is better than you do. Especially the ones who farm it -- you know, the ones Obama was originally talking to.

what a douchebag. Oh -- was that sexist? What a maroon. Raising mucho bucks for Hillary and then Jimmy Chooing it over to the GOP opponent, who has the anti-Hillary on his ticket. This fine woman must be thinking with her little head.

And again the elitists turn this election upside down as they declare the only Presidential candidate who is actually middle class to be an elitist. Shame on Senator Obama for playing by the rules, going to Harvard Law, working in the community so effectively, and then becoming a state and then U.S. Senator. Heck, at least he doesn't wear $500 Ferragomo imported shoes, own 6 or 7 homes, have an annual family income greater than $6 million, or come from a line of military officers who got him into the Naval Academy, bailed him out of trouble again and again while he was demonstrating his stupidity graduating at the bottom of his class. Good gads? How dumb does McCain think the American people are?

You may pronounce it 'elitist' but it's spelled U-P-P-I-T-Y.

I suspect working class folks know what it (arugula] is better than you do. Especially the ones who farm it -- Mnemosyne, @16:48

Yes, but those are *elitist farmers*. They pay their workers $50 an hour and still cannot lure any true American to work for them.

Gotcha! :)

As for Lady de... She can kiss my "de" (dupa)

Ooops... it was me -- and my proletarian "de" -- speaking @17:41

bless Wash Monthly's heart for not remembering personal info...

The Rothschilds are Jewish. Maybe the back story is that her crowd doesn't think Obama is sufficiently loyal to Israel. This could be a real factor in Florida.

You may pronounce it 'elitist' but it's spelled U-P-P-I-T-Y.

Was that an MC LYTE song?

Yes, but those are *elitist farmers*. They pay their workers $50 an hour and still cannot lure any true American to work for them.

When I read that, I thought of Mike Myers as Dr. Evil saying, "An evil vet?"

I can't explain why.

It's Court of St. James, akshuly.
*polishes monocle*

I just watched Campbell Brown interview "Her Majestsy" on CNN it was quite fun. The "Lady" looked like a pompous ass and Campbell called her on it every step of the way.....it was quite fun.

I hope they don't fire Ms. Brown in the near distant future, because she rocks!

I'm late to this - but like John McCain would say - "What a c*nt"

The question of what in hell Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is doing on the Democratic National Committee's Platform Committee, of course, goes unanswered.
Maybe it's the US equivalent of the Knights of St. John.

Explaining her distaste for Obama, Forester said, "I feel like he is an elitist."

First, her nanme is not "Forester" - it's "de Rothschild" - as in the de Rothschilds who have been members of the financial elite for close to 200 years.

It's really interesting to see the "Black Nationalist wing" of modern feminism showing their ignorant stupidty. Identity politics are reactionary bullshit no matter who is playing them.

As my wife - whose feminism goes back to being a "Friend of Jane" - put it: "A woman who supports the Republican party is no feminist."

I was sure I had something pithy and witty to say to this - it just seems so ripe. But I am struck dumb by its galactic-scale absurdity. Sorry. I'll try to do better next time.

A woman voting for Palin is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?� the senator said. “I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff."

Since there are no Whole Foods in Iowa and neither lettuce nor greens are in the top 30 crops in the state, maybe Obama should have come up with a different crop. I find it interesting the mr ethanol thinks Iowans should plant less corn.