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"I think there's a lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue-ribbon talk here."
— Chris Matthews, at 5:00 of 6:44 minutes in a YouTube video of an MSNBC discussion at the news blog ArlingtonCardinal.com Wednesday morning. The post containing the video was headlined "Word of the Day: Meritocracy."
"There is a growing meme that Mr. Obama is too impressed by credentialism, by the meritocracy, by those who hold forth in the faculty lounge, and too strongly identifies with them."
— Peggy Noonan in today's Wall Street Journal
Some background—
Lost in the Meritocracy:
The Undereducation of an Overachiever
by Walter Kirn, 224 pp. Doubleday, 2009
and the review by Laura Miller in the Sunday,
May 24, 2009, New York Times Book Review.
See also Log24 on this date three years ago—
a post on Harvard, Bunker Hill Community College,
and the Mystic River area in between.