One of the chief proponents of the idea that Miers objectors are elitists, as we all know, is Hugh Hewitt. Here’s the relevant bit of his bio:
Hewitt graduated from Harvard College cum laude with a degree in Government in 1978. He was Order of the Coif at the University of Michigan Law School and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1983, magna cum laude. Hewitt clerked for Judges Roger Robb and George MacKinnon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983-84, and then went on to serve as Special Assistant to Attorneys General William French Smith and Edwin Meese, Assistant Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office, General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, where he finished his career in the Reagan Administration as Deputy Director of the agency, having been confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate.
Hewitt returned to California to oversee construction of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace as the Library’s executive director from groundbreaking through dedication and opening at the request of former President Richard Nixon, for whom he had worked as a ghostwriter between college and law school in San Clemente, California and New York City. When he left the library to practice law, Hewitt also began a weekend radio talk show for Los Angeles radio station KFI, where he broadcast from late 1990 to 1995. In the spring of 1992 he began co-hosting Los Angeles PBS member station KCET’s nightly news and public affairs program “Life & Times,” and remained with the program until the fall of 2001 when he began broadcasting his radio show in the afternoons. Hewitt received three Emmys for his work on “Life & Times” on KCET, and also conceived and hosted the 1996 PBS series “Searching for God in America.”
Ah yes, those Harvard alum, Coif-ordered, presidential library-building, appeals court clerking, Justice Department working, three-time-Emmy-award-winning, NEH-counselling, PBS-hosting men of the people really have us National Review aristocrats dead to rights.






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