PrintMarch 2, 2010
The Smartest Guys in the Room?
I recently read an article by Joe Klein titled "It's Her Party: The Brilliance of Sarah Palin." I assumed it would be the usual anti-Palin screed we've come to expect from the mainstream media, but before I finished the first paragraph I was stunned at the contempt...contempt aimed not only at Governor Palin, but at us, conservative Tea Partiers. Mr. Klein, I'm certain, is so confident in his rhetorical skills that he believes that we'll never catch on to how he feels about non-Obama fans out here. But get a load of phrases such as:... anti-élitist Tea Party élites ... gathered in suffocating self-righteousness ...Then again, any sentence that begins with "Most economists" is a license to snore in tea party nation. A woman who goes to war against the 19-year-old boy who knocked up her daughter and then posed for Playgirl is far more comprehensible to most Americans than deficit spending is. As a nurse, I've been the target of some overt hate...(Read Full Article)
