Russ Smith

Mugger on the election reactions of Liberals:

We're dealing with stereotypes and clichés here, so that inevitably points to the New York Times as a starting point. Joseph Berger's Nov. 4 article about the disconsolate New Yorkers he encountered—not one Bush supporter was chucked into the story, so I guess this is, at least temporarily, a real war of words—typified the desperate condescension mouthed by Democrats. Beverly Camhe, a film producer that Berger spoke to, is a fitting example.
Camhe, the reader learns, "frequents Elaine's restaurant" by night, and "spends many mornings on a bench in Central Park talking politics with homeless people with whom she's become acquainted." Judging by the hundreds of homeless men and women I've encountered in the past 20 years, most would rather receive a buck or cigarette than squander time on their rounds gabbing about the mendacity of Tom DeLay, but let's be generous and not trash noblesse oblige right now. The Times reporter further explains that Camhe "spent part of [Nov. 2] knocking on doors in Pennsylvania to rustle up Kerry votes, then returned to Manhattan to attend an election-night party thrown by Miramax's chairman, Harvey Weinstein, at The Palm."
She also expresses this heretofore never-expressed boast: "You know how I described New York to my European friends? New York is an island off the coast of Europe."
This sort of snotty view is not only an insult to the vast majority of the 56 million citizens who voted for Kerry, most of whom don't know Weinstein or frequent Elaine's, but those much-derided "heartland" Americans who pulled the lever for Bush. An unbiased observer who didn't follow the campaign but just read the commentary after the election couldn't be faulted if he believed that every single Bush supporter lived in Nebraska. The arrogance is astonishing.

A couple of nice slams at Howell Raines also, which always warms my cold Reopublican heart.