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I'm elite!

Words are pretty powerful. Last night during Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech for the GOP nomination for Vice President, she called out the media “elite”. It got a nice round of boos and negative cheers in agreement, but then delegates and guests started pointing and yelling at media people. Now, it was still light-hearted but you could feel the hate. A couple guys starting shouting up at Tom Brokaw, who shrugged it off with a funny smile. It was a very surreal moment to watch politicians get so fired up and take it out on anyone with a camera or a fake tan. I think I should go back to school and get my trial lawyer license. ‘Cuz they are off the hook while media is on.

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