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Glenn's looking at this from the wrong perspective by addressing this as some sort of "new threat" due to the media. The problem he's talking about is part of our most basic psychological/sociological tendencies, and no "professor of American Constitutional & Legal History" is needed to figure it out. Humans like what is familiar, even if the familiar is inferior. Imagine if Sylvester Stallone ran in the next CA governor election against a Nobel prize winning economist with bad teeth and a strange-sounding last name. We all no who would win. So long as the chimps we share 98% of our DNA with attack and cannibalize chimps from unfamiliar packs, I suspect our electoral behavior should be unsurprising.
