Finally, the Media Elite Admit the Truth About Themselves

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Finally, oh thank God finally, the Washington media elite is making it easy. Usually, D.C.'s professional pundits, pontificators and partisan puppets very carefully package their language to hide their real motives and their real beliefs. But this week following the primary defeat of Sen. Joe Lieberman by first-time candidate Ned Lamont, America is witnessing a good-old-fashioned watershed moment: the perfume is off, the restraint is removed, and the ugly, rancid, sweaty-lockerroom stench of truth is there for all of us commoners to waft. Sniff up, contain your dry heaving, and you will finally understand that all the talk of the Establishment's disdain for ordinary citizens is not just talk or conspiracy theory - it's very real, and very powerful.

Take, for instance, New York Times columnist David Brooks's piece yesterday ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) - it is arguably the most brazen admission of elite disdain for democracy that has ever been printed in a major American newspaper. Before you dismiss that as hyperbole, read the third line of Brooks' piece: Continued at SirotaBlog ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

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Interesting snippet. Frankly NYT plays the same elitist game.
They just happen to be backing the other horse. So pulling
back the curtains to show the wizard is done for their gain.

Once their guy wins/loses, NYT will close the curtain again.