founding average joes

This clip of a Glenn Beck/Michael Scheuer conversation has received a lot of play/babble time on the webs the last few weeks. I'm not going to cover the America-needs-another-attack aspect of it; you can find plenty of opinions on Google (or Bing?). What struck me (aside from the obvious) were two things:
1. the unabashed fear-mongering insinuations by Glenn Beck and...
2. the claim by Scheuer that:

"...its a very odd situation... those folks who go to Harvard and Yale and the prestigious universities who think they know everything and who want the government to control everything--are in power... it turns the founders on its head..."

The first point is a bit nuanced and tough to analyze. Is Beck accurately reflecting the revolutionary inclinations of a core minority in America or is he stoking the fire of a tiny faction on the fringe? To me it seems that Beck is grossly exaggerating - if not flat-out making up - the "shit's about to go down" smell in the air. But I live in Seattle, which is probably second only to San Francisco in this guy's list of targets for America's next terror attack which he so craves, so what do I know.

The second point is a bit more straightforward. Scheuer is claiming that the founders instituted protection for minorities from the "tyranny of the majority" and that having a bunch of over-educated "elites" running the country is contrary to that goal. Now I love me some lefty-easty-gun-rights-hater bashing as much as the next guy, but I'd assume that the handful of guys who singlehandedly defined the most highly regarded form of government to date, united thirteen independent states under that government as a new nation, and went on to govern that nation through its tumultuous first years are pretty fucking elite. Of course when Scheuer - and the right in general - talks about the "elite" he means it not in a "fucking badass at what they do" sense, but in a "they went to a good college" sense (see his reference of Yale and Harvard), but it turns out this doesn't hold up for the founding fathers:

"The Founding Fathers had strong educational backgrounds."

"Thirty-five were lawyers or had benefited from legal education"

My 18th century history is a bit rusty, but I'm assuming that the fathers were by no means in the majority with their educational credentials. Pretending that educated individuals running the country is a recent development is disingenuous and a disservice to the people Scheuer seems to admire.