So faux uber-populist Glenn (Festus) Beck, lives in one of the most elite communities

cali

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Sat Apr-11-09 07:55 AM
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So faux uber-populist Glenn (Festus) Beck, lives in one of the most elite communities

in the country. Surprise, surprise. Beck is a resident of New Canaan, CT. It doesn't get less populist than that.

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Cassandra

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:00 AM
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1. And David Brooks...

the voice of the put-upon intellectual conservatives (all 5 of them), grew up in Stuyvesant Town, a subsidized, middle-class housing development.

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SpiralHawk

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:00 AM
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2. Fatcat republicon elitist Chickehawks

always pretend they are 'regular guys' It is a part of their cover.

Witness $30 million a year Limbaugh and Junior Propagandista O'Reilly whining all the time about the 'need' for more Tax Breaks for Republicon Rich Guys.

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jonnyblitz

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:17 AM
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3. according to "trivia" about the town posted on google maps

Edited on Sat Apr-11-09 08:18 AM by jonnyblitz

New Canaan, in Fairfield County, is one of the most affluent communities in the nation. I looked it up because though I live in CT now I am not from here and don't know much about the state.

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cali

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:22 AM
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4. I actually, er, grew up there

pretty idyllic when I was a kid back in the sixties. never cared for the town but we lived on acres of fields with woods, an orchard, gardens, barn and cool chicken coop that my dad turned into a playhouse for us. back then it was still a pretty elite place, but nothing like it is today. My mother still lives there.

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jonnyblitz

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:36 AM
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5. I often park the car in Greenwich at the metro-north station

Edited on Sat Apr-11-09 08:37 AM by jonnyblitz

and take the train to NYC rather than drive in. it's a completely different world on that end of the state from where I live in the southeast near the casinos on the Norwich, CT town line.

and speaking of CT famous wing nuts trivia, Laura Ingraham is from Glastonbury, CT, about half an hour up the road from me.(:puke:)

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Canuckistanian

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:51 AM
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6. That's where Ann Coulter grew up

Edited on Sat Apr-11-09 08:51 AM by Canuckistanian

If you call it growing up.

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UTUSN

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Sat Apr-11-09 08:57 AM
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7. He's fighting the local govt, trying to exceed fence height limits

There was an item a couple of weeks ago, how the height isn't supposed to be over 4 feet and he wants a 6 footer or something, going MILES around his perimeter, something like 4 miles. He tried building up the dirt and putting the fence on top of that. He told the locals he has to have protection from "angry (fans?)", not to mention those hordes of illegals wanting to invade his house.

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rurallib

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Sat Apr-11-09 09:13 AM
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8. Fucking crazy is a great career path right now

Doesn't the beckster make @$10 mill a year?

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Vickers

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Sat Apr-11-09 09:17 AM
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9. You should see Limpballs' beachfront house in Palm Beach.

Truly a man of the people.

:sarcasm:

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