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Moderation? Oh, Please!
The American Spectator ^ | 8/10/2006 | Jeffrey Lord

Posted on 08/14/2006 6:50:45 PM PDT by neverdem

Don't you love it?

The Poohbahs of the Media have Spoken.

"CONNECTICUT'S MESSAGE" proclaims the editorial page of the New York Times that endorsed peacenik Ned Lamont over Senator Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary.

There are two problems here, both ironic and hilarious.

Number One: In their bones, the generational peers of the editorial writers and videotape editors of the mainstream media get the game.

Number Two: Those of us who once agreed have seen the light...and disagree.

Franklin Roosevelt, scion of the Eastern Establishment's upper class, was frequently called a "traitor" to his class, his class being defined at the time as an economic class. One of the reasons George W. Bush is so hated by the Left is that like FDR he is perceived as a "traitor" to his class...in this case class being defined as a class of liberal sensibility.

It is a sensibility for which Bush has a well-recorded contempt. Rich American sons who go to Yale and Harvard are just not supposed to think the way Bush does -- and if they do...heaven forbid that they actually say anything!!!!! As FDR sided with working- and middle-class Americans, so too has Bush. What Bush possesses, as does anyone who spent time in life as a liberal in the 1960s, is a genuine knee-slapping laugh at the self-righteousness of those liberal classmates who just refused to grow up.

Which brings us to the hilarious New York Times editorial on the results of the Lieberman-Lamont primary.

I know, lobster and champagne doesn't serve up as well, but try and control yourself. You, dear Spectator readers, can surely imagine the editorial staff of the Times sharing a bite...

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
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To: Yankee
I agree.

"Cadre" would be far more appropriate than "bunch".

After all, that IS what Lenin and Trotsky called such people...

21 posted on 08/15/2006 12:49:41 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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