Small World Punditry

The Blog | David Sirota: Media Disconnect from America: It's the Geography, Stupid | The Huffington Post: "...This narrow world view, mind you, spans the partisan divide. Remember, conservative columnists like John Stossel, Bill O'Reilly, Max Boot and George Will are among this group of coastal elites. The world view, in other words, is not really partisan: it is about power. Almost all of these columnists, with a few exceptions, worship power rather than challenge it, and disdain the very concept of change coming from ordinary Americans, who they see as the 'great unwashed' (by the way, this explains why these people so often use their platforms to attack the netroots). Almost all of them, with few exceptions, believe America's great source of wisdom comes from inside the Beltway from what Duncan Black calls The Serious People - no matter how many times the Serious People hurt the country, no matter how far out of touch these Serious People are with what the vast majority of the country wants and voted for. And worst of all, almost all of them, with few exceptions, push a definition of the political 'center' that has nothing to do with the actual political 'center' in the country..."