Journalists Disgusted by Piper Palin
Barack Obama likes to campaign that John McCain is out of touch with average Americans. But it looks like his surrogates in the media need a lesson or two about life outside their “cosmopolitan” bubbles. The New York Times has a nice write-up on Sarah Palin revealing this little nugget on how unbelievably out of touch our media really is:
In the press galleries at the convention, journalists wrinkled their noses in disgust when Piper, Ms. Palin’s youngest daughter, was filmed kitty-licking her baby brother’s hair into place. But to many Americans — including some I talked to in the convention hall — that looked like family church on Sunday, evidence of good breeding and sibling regard.
Disgusted by the most adorable moment in either convention:
Coincidentally Clive Crook has an excellent Op-Ed today in The Financial Times titled “Democrats must learn some respect.” Here is just one of many exceptional passages:
Democrats regard their policies as self-evidently in the interests of the US working and middle classes. Yet those wide segments of US society keep helping to elect Republican presidents. How is one to account for this? Are those people idiots? Frankly, yes – or so many liberals are driven to conclude. Either that or bigots, clinging to guns, God and white supremacy; or else pathetic dupes, ever at the disposal of Republican strategists. If they only had the brains to vote in their interests, Democrats think, the party would never be out of power. But again and again, the Republicans tell their lies, and those stupid damned voters buy it.It is an attitude that a good part of the US media share.
Be sure to read the whole thing.
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