Reply #86: I think I flagged it sufficiently clearly...

[shaayecanaan]

for people to know I was referring to the old WASP establishment.

There is an article on frontpagemag, generally a fairly limp, bile-filled online rag but this article on the WASPs is pretty much accurate:-

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=19715

For those of you whose sense of American social history is blurry, the WASP establishment was the world of the Ivy League, Fifth Avenue, gentlemen’s clubs, the Social Register, elite country clubs, top New York law firms and investment banks, Boston Brahmins, Main Line Philadelphia, the upper management of great corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad, certain parts of the military, the OSS and its successor the CIA, the Episcopal Church, New England boarding schools, and the old diplomatic corps. It ruled America from Plymouth Rock until the late 1960’s.

and

The spiritual basis of WASP society, the Episcopal Church, was corrupted from within. Religious modernists started taking over the seminaries in the 1930's, resulting today in the terror-apologizing near-atheist Episcopal Bishop John Spong today and anti-Christian, anti-American Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold. Even among Episcopal bishops who do not express disdain for traditional Christian beliefs, there is a cold, alienated, intellectualized approach to central matters of faith.

In any event, perhaps it would do well to check these things before claiming that someone has "no idea" what they are talking about.