Anchor: Many responses pivoted on the amusing contrast between uptown swells and downtown schlubs, but this reliable device, the mighty comic engine that generated so many terrific Depression-era comedies and dimwitted Lampoon movies--Snobs vs.
Entailed: There was a comic engine running during the Depression-era.
Contradiction: There was no visible difference between the uptown and downtown.
Contradiction: The issue has been entirely defused. 
Contradiction: It prioritizes the sources.
Contradiction: A view of a farm and a large white house.
Contradiction: "For the last four years now I have been with them."