{"id":157628,"date":"2024-10-08T03:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157628"},"modified":"2024-10-13T04:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T12:45:38","slug":"the-embodied-expression-of-the-elite-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=157628","title":{"rendered":"The Embodied Expression Of The Elite Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his Oct. 7, 2024 “Israel Update” video with the Hudson Institute’s Middle East analyst Michael Doran<\/a>, right-wing Israeli historian Gadi Taub<\/a> selected this as his dumbest media commentary moment of the week: “[Journalist] Ilana Dayan<\/a> speaking on CNN to Christiane Amanpour<\/a> who asked her about the horrible death tall in Gaza including she said 16,000 innocent children… Ilana Dayan is trying to explain why she is under such a strong impression of October 7 that she primarily sees that, but she confesses Israel does not cover Gaza’s suffering enough. this is how our elites are — the supplicants of progressive elites elsewhere because what any sane Israeli journalist, and there are very few of these, should have said is that why are you asking me when these [Hamas] people are deliberately using their children as human shields and then you want me to take responsibility for that? These [Israeli] elites are looking up to elites [elsewhere], their their sense of solidarity and belonging is closer to elites in other countries than they are to their own people and this becomes especially poignant since they think of themselves as provincials and they want to rise up to the tier of the metropolitan elites where the real elites are, the real cultured people are Christian Amanpour, who are the real people with a moral compass, so they end up kissing the feet of anti-semites and playing to CNN biases with which are tinged with with anti-Semitism. This is not just a dumb take on the news, this is infuriating. Ilana Dayan is called the Barbara Walters of of Israeli TV so she’s the dean of highbrow journalism and she has the fanciest Israeli accent with the knitted brows and and the thoughtful look in her eyes and the rimless glasses, she’s like the epitome of intelligence and conscience and yet what she does in the end when faced with something like that is she grovels at the feet of a nasty CNN anchor.”<\/p>\n

Michael Doran: “I need to get a knitted brow and rimless glasses. I’ve never mastered that look — thoughtful, pensive.”<\/p>\n

This discourse by Gadi Taub made me wonder if there are certain physical manifestations of the elite point of view and of the counter-elite view. Take Tucker Carlson for example. I can\u2019t think of any elite commentator who makes Tucker\u2019s dramatic facial postures. Could we detect who has the elite worldview vs the counter-elite worldview just by looking at someone without listening to anything they\u2019re saying? Did Tucker\u2019s expressions change as he became more populist?<\/p>\n

Tucker today presents himself differently from the Tucker of the 2000s. He no longer wears a bowtie. He\u2019s more dramatic now and he pulls more funny faces.<\/p>\n