I think Elliott's column is rather infantile. It's easy to claim of FTers "they are jerks", but with over 450,000 FT members he's going to be right about some FTers, no matter what he claims ("they drive Hondas", "they support the Yankees" and so on).

I was planning to rebut his arguments, but really, there is nothing sensible enough that he has written to enable a rebuttal.

In a community of 450,000 people there are going to be jerks, and there are going to be angels, and all and sundry in between. Elliott's article is so shallow an ant could not drown in it.