from some right wing pundit, or even those who used to be enamored by the right (Chris Matthews who adored W before he hated him, Gregory and the rest of NBC who played the right was right about white trash Clinton game)that the regular folks love Palin, I will kick in my television.

I came from working class, poor working class....immigrants who despite not being able to graduate high school sent their children to college because they valued education. My mother's English was never great because it was not her first language. She mispronounced words and we kids remember those words with fondness. But my mother made damn sure her children were well spoken, well educated, as well as proud of their heritage. There is no conflict between being well spoken and well educated and still admiring, remembering and cherishing your roots.

But the right has distorted this. George W had the best education money could buy and still he sounded like some backwoods dufus, and had no intellectual curiosity. Sarah Palin's claim to being a regular person and her attempt to make sounding well educated and intelligent and bad thing sickens me.

The pundit class insulted Al Gore daily for his "intellectualism." They allowed George W's alcoholic past, AWOL past be ignored and hidden while pushing the "Kerry is an elitist" meme. And some have pushed the Obama, a man whom Harvard can be proud of, is an elitist and McCain, who graduated at the bottom of his class, is cool.

I have come to the conclusion that the pundit class loves the status quo, the plutocracy which benefits so many of them. The Matthews, the Russerts, the Williams, and so many others live in the gated communities of the ultra rich and the policies of Reagan, Bush and son benefitted them. They feared that Bill Clinton's successful economy, the one that benefitted middle class would continue with another democrat and perhaps undo some of the damage of the "Reagan trickle down" farce....and so they had a hand in electing W. If I had a nickle for everytime the pundits told us how W is a regular guy, someone to have a beer with, someone we could relate to, I would have a saving account. Even sadder is how the public fell for such garbage.

We cannot let these people do it again.

We cannot allow the pundit class to put into office another dolt administration that will benefit them.

Brooks is the elitist......and so are most republican pundits and leaders...but they are GREEDY elitists who would love nothing more than to remain the landed gentry while the rest of us barely make ends meet.

I blame the MSM for a lot of this, along with an ignorant electorate whose own greed has turned their ignorance at the ballot box into a disaster.

Many of us have been screaming from the rafters about the unholy alliance, the "buddy system" between the media and the politicians.

I believe the media helped greatly in getting George W elected. I believed they were the ones, not the public, who saw him as a guy they wanted to have a beer with......

I believe they, the millionaire pundit boys club, especially those established by Jack Welch, looked their noses down on the "the trailer trash Clintons"'; did not want to associate with geeks like Gore.....

Watching this unfold has been amazing.

I used to tell students "The free and independent media, the press, is our protection for democracy. With an independent press corps we have people who represent us against the elected officials..."

NOW, I would tell students: WE HAVE A PROBLEM. Our media corps, perhaps due to their personal desire to be a part of the plutocracy, part of the fraternity of the rich and powerful, no longer protect democracy.

It amazes me how long it has taken so many in this country to wake up. Sad.

I saw Helen Thomas take the press corps to task for their failures in the run up to the war. David Gregory defended the press corps. No surprise there. His "dancing skit with Rove" spoke volumes. These guys love Rove the kingmaker, love W, the frat boy who never grew up, love McCain, the cool bully who remains self serving and petulant. These guys want to like Obama (because he is so cool) but they are not feeling safe to do so. They know which party butters their bread.

Seriously, we are in trouble since the press still is more about their own greed and power.

you hit the nail on the head.

The sanctimony and hypocrisy of the pundit class, the obnoxious admiration Broder has for American "royalty" while he dissed that "white trash" Clinton for daring to overcome his circumstances, speaks volumes about journalism today.

Dowd has CDS pretty badly. Why anyone reads that woman is beyond comprehension.