We know from that Colbert interview that Rep. Westmoreland is no polished rhetor but even for a dim bulb that’s a pretty rockin’ string-o’-words. I mean just in terms of structure, content aside.
“they’re a member” - either “they’re members” or “she’s a member”. “They” is plural, “a member” is singular.
“a member of an elitist-class individual” - can’t make sense any way you parse it, either “an elitist-class individual” (or “individuals”) or “a member of an elitist-class” (or “members”)
Well there’s this: “The innocent young girl, during her first day as house-servant in Farnsworth Manor, was dusting the knick-knack shelf when Lord Farnsworth himself walked up behind her with his pants off and said, ‘Heh heh, my little working-class cupcake, here’s something I don’t suppose you’ve ever seen before, a member of an elitist-class individual.‘ Startled, she turned to see his ancient claw-like hands reaching out to grab her. His eyes were glassy, his mouth agape. She shrieked, threw the feather-duster at him, and fled.”
Surely some young house-maid in one of Senator McCain’s seven or eight or nine houses knows exactly what I’m talkin’ about.
“that thinks” - “who thinks” or “who think”
“that thinks they’re” - this ain’t rocket-science, Rep. W., get it straight: “that thinks” = just one, “they” = two or more.
“that thinks they’re uppity” - “who are uppity” That’s got to be what Rep. W. meant. Otherwise it's just crazy. Fact: no one, not even the uppitiest of the uppity, thinks inwardly that they themselves are “uppity.” No one anywhere has ever sung:
Hey look over here, I’m uppity As uppity as can a man be Ain’t another soul in all Saint Louie Half as uppity as me
or
I feel uppity Oh so uppity I feel uppity and witty and gay And I pity Any candidate Who isn’t me today
“Uppity” is a word one applies to others, never to oneself.
After you boil out surplus words (”members of an elitist-class individual” => “elitist”) and repair the grammar and logic errors, you end up with three words instead of twelve: “They’re uppity elitists.”
One last obscure Southron culture note. The unnecessary-to-speak phrase-mate to "uppity" is not "nigger", it is "nigra". Don't ask me why, that's just they way these weirdos always say it.
We know from that Colbert interview that Rep. Westmoreland is no polished rhetor but even for a dim bulb that’s a pretty rockin’ string-o’-words. I mean just in terms of structure, content aside.
“they’re a member” - either “they’re members” or “she’s a member”. “They” is plural, “a member” is singular.
“a member of an elitist-class individual” - can’t make sense any way you parse it, either “an elitist-class individual” (or “individuals”) or “a member of an elitist-class” (or “members”)
Well there’s this: “The innocent young girl, during her first day as house-servant in Farnsworth Manor, was dusting the knick-knack shelf when Lord Farnsworth himself walked up behind her with his pants off and said, ‘Heh heh, my little working-class cupcake, here’s something I don’t suppose you’ve ever seen before, a member of an elitist-class individual.‘ Startled, she turned to see his ancient claw-like hands reaching out to grab her. His eyes were glassy, his mouth agape. She shrieked, threw the feather-duster at him, and fled.”
Surely some young house-maid in one of Senator McCain’s seven or eight or nine houses knows exactly what I’m talkin’ about.
“that thinks” - “who thinks” or “who think”
“that thinks they’re” - this ain’t rocket-science, Rep. W., get it straight: “that thinks” = just one, “they” = two or more.
“that thinks they’re uppity” - “who are uppity” That’s got to be what Rep. W. meant. Otherwise it's just crazy. Fact: no one, not even the uppitiest of the uppity, thinks inwardly that they themselves are “uppity.” No one anywhere has ever sung:
Hey look over here, I’m uppity
As uppity as can a man be
Ain’t another soul in all Saint Louie
Half as uppity as me
or
I feel uppity
Oh so uppity
I feel uppity and witty and gay
And I pity
Any candidate
Who isn’t me today
“Uppity” is a word one applies to others, never to oneself.
After you boil out surplus words (”members of an elitist-class individual” => “elitist”) and repair the grammar and logic errors, you end up with three words instead of twelve: “They’re uppity elitists.”
One last obscure Southron culture note. The unnecessary-to-speak phrase-mate to "uppity" is not "nigger", it is "nigra". Don't ask me why, that's just they way these weirdos always say it.