What is the significance of the media’s snarkfest?
The Politico’s Roger Simon joins others in the media in mocking two-thirds of Americans as rubes and bigots:
A recent CNN poll found that 68 percent of Americans do not want a mosque built close to ground zero. Which should mean: end of story. That’s all she wrote. Let’s move on to the next crisis. It appears, however, that at least on this occasion, Obama does not care what the polls say…
Maybe Obama is disconnected. After all, as a former professor of constitutional law, he actually knows what the Constitution says. His opponents have no such fetters. They know what they want the Constitution to say: yes to guns, no to gay marriage and never to mosques close to hallowed ground, though churches and synagogues are OK. What’s so wrong with that? I’ll bet they poll great.
Actually, the polling does not support Simon’s contention. What is most fascinating about the mosque controversy is that so many in the media — simultaneously and all of a sudden — have no reluctance to display their revulsion at what a supermajority of Americans think. It feels like some turning point has been reached, though we’re not quite sure what it all means yet.