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In reading about Joe Klein and "ordinary people," I recalled seeing Klein on a late night talk show some years ago. Klein was wittily disparaging chain restaurants, particularly Red Lobster. (For those who haven't been, Red Lobster provides decent, moderately priced seafood.) What struck Klein as the "funniest thing" about Red Lobster was the people who have dinner there and "get all dressed up as if it were a nice restaurant." He then laughed heartily. It's funny, see, because people of modest means, who may not be able to afford to dine like celebrity Beltway pundits, actually have the nerve to wear nice clothes when they go out to dinner at a restaurant in their price range.
I remember this clearly because it was one of the snottiest, most aggressively elitist things I've ever heard a public figure say. And I thought, what a fucking asshole. Pardon the vitriol.
