Big fans
Joan Walsh describes life among her friends at MSNBC:
My friends at MSNBC were getting ready for a big party Tuesday night when the first results came in, showing Barack Obama winning handily in Georgia. There was genuine news, and very good news, in the results: Obama carried more than 40 percent of white Georgia voters, showing he can break out of the “black candidate” box some observers (perhaps some in the Hillary Clinton camp) want to lock him in, and in the South, no less. No matter which candidate or which party you support, Obama’s growing appeal with white voters is good news for America.
But it was really good news at MSNBC. You could see the expectations grow that finally they would be able to finish the dance on Clinton’s grave they’d begun on Jan. 8, when she denied them the fun by winning New Hampshire. “Barack Obama is putting a smile on America’s face,” declared Mike Barnicle…the pundit class’s love for Obama might be hurting their chosen candidate.
We’ll just have to see.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
“…Obama’s growing appeal with white voters is good news for America.”
So insular and ignorant are the members of the media elite that they think that Obama’s growing appeal is the first and only sign that America is racist no more. Of course, they’re surprised that white Georgia is voting for a black man… this is because they think that all of America (except for their close circle of friends and colleagues) are racist. Especially the South.
Of course, this isn’t true and hasn’t been for some time.
Their surprise is rather embarrassing. They specialize in condescension.