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Also on the theme of lefty hypocrisy, a piece derides the "steep decline of liberal moralism."
In Newsweek , Dan Quayle derides Al Gore's recent praise for Ellen : "By paying homage both to Hollywood and to the gay lobby, Al Gore has beaten his rivals to the cash machine."
*Know, like, thyself* The WP reports that in her book, Monica Lewinsky derides Linda Tripp's accent and her "lumpy figure."
He derides the BBC and respectable newspapers as "unpopular" media subsidized by a condescending, out-of-touch gentry.
That formulation strikes me as emblematic of the very ornamental culture that Faludi derides.