Liberals Will Never Look at Themselves
November 8, 2004
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(...roll liberals from Dowd to Tina Brown refusing to look in the mirror)
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I mentioned to you earlier that Chris Matthews last week on his show Hardboiled, was talking to -- and I can't remember who he was talking to. They were lamenting the election loss and what has to happen, and whoever it was that he was talking to, Matthews asked this guy: "Do you think the media needs more foreign correspondent-type people to go out into these red states and actually learn what's happening there?" The media needs more foreign correspondents to go into the red states of the United States of America! So we fast forward to last night on CNBC, Topic A with Tina Brown. I'm happy to play this bite to you because fewer people watch this show than watch John McEnroe's show on MSNBC, and she had David Westin on this program.
David Westin is the president of ABC News. You know, this is something. The left ought to look at this, and I've identified Tina Brown on this program before, and she's responded and thanked me very much for this characterization, but if you want to know -- and I happen to know this because I spent eight years living there; you learn things in eight years -- Tina Brown used to publish Vanity Fair, used to be the editor, and that's the bible of the left, folks, and then the New Yorker, she straightened that out, and then she tried TALK magazine with Harvey Weinstein's Miramax. It didn't work out. But Tina Brown is considered the doyenne of East Coast liberalism. She is to New York what Sally Quinn used to be to Washington: The queen of the social circuit; the arbiter of what's hip and what isn't, and who's hip and who isn't and who's worth talking to and who isn't worth talking to; who's worth profiling and who's not worth profiling, she's it, and I think it's interesting that the East Coast's leader in all of this has a 0.1 on CNBC on her Sunday night show.
This is not a putdown. I'm not putting her down. I don't want anybody to misunderstand. I'm simply stating the case. She is what she is. She's a Brit. Her husband is Harry Evans, used to run -- What was the publisher? What was the book company, Doubleday or something? He used to run a big publishing house, published "Primary Colors," book by "Anonymous" that Joe Klein wrote. So they're big. I mean, they're huge, big in the literary crowd in New York, and they largely... You will not, nobody ever will dare in any venue, gossip column, news column, nobody ever will utter anything but total love and devotion for Tina Brown because they're scared of her. Folks, I don't want to name any names, but I didn't know who she was when I got to New York. Didn't take me long to figure it out. I had Republicans (you'd know the names) call me up all giddy when they were invited to a Tina Brown dinner party and I said, "Hmm, maybe this is somebody I should like to be invited to dinner parties. Well, hell, if this is what's happening!"
This is before I had my head screwed on right about this and knew what was going on. I'm just telling you all this. This is who she is. I mean, nobody watches her show. To me it's a clear microcosm of where the left is. Nobody watches her show, but you go to New York and there's nobody more powerful in the media in literary, it's not Peter Jennings. I mean, it's a tight competition. I mean, she may not be the #1 now, but she was. She was it, and she still is. You get an invitation to one of her parties and you don't go at your own risk. You go. You drop everything. If you're scheduled to have a baby, you call the doctor and say, "I need a cesarean by Friday so I can go to Tina's party Saturday." I mean, it's that big. Well, that's the best way I can think to illustrate it. So, anyway, she's got David Westin on the program, and she says, "David, would you have a reporter/producer live in any of these communities?" She's talking about the red states of America here, folks. "Would you have a reporter/producer live in any of these communities and saturate themselves in these cultures so that they get more stories from those communities?"
WESTIN: I think we don't do that enough, and I'm not just talking religious communities. I'm talking all sorts of communities across the country. I think that... You understand this, Tina, living in New York or in Los Angeles, we have busy jobs. We go into the office every day. We tend to socialize with the same people, or the same types of people, and I think it's terribly important for journalists to get out whether it's overseas or domestically and try to understand.
RUSH: We need more foreign correspondents in Alabama! We need more foreign correspondents north of Palm Beach County in Florida! We need embeds to go to church, find out what's going on with these holy rollers! Ah, folks, you can't know how much I love this. You just can't know. Moving on, let's go. This is Meet the Press with Tim Russert yesterday, their roundtable, and Maureen Dowd -- who is literally a shadow of her former self both physically and intellectually; it's a shame what's happened to MoDo. She was, at one time, she was pretty funny. She had a caustic, rapier-like whip. She's just become embittered, just totally embittered, and there are a number of reasons why we won't go into, but she typifies one of the attitudes that is out there amongst the left. Tim Russert says, actually asks her this question. What does he know? I mean, to ask this question, you've got to know the kind of answer you're going to get. He says to Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, "Do you think the president ran a jihad?"
DOWD: Uh, yeah. I think that if you look at all the quotes from evangelicals today they're talking about how we're "on the eve of destruction" and God gave us a reprieve. You know, we got Satan, you know, away from the White House by defeating Kerry. I mean, it's very... I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.
RUSH: Now, this is all Greek to me. Who's out there saying that we were on the eve of destruction, that God gave us a reprieve and that Kerry was Satan, who was saying this? I, frankly, didn't hear this, either, and I think most people would assume that I would be wired to this community, given that I am the spokesman. (broadcast engineer interruption) Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Mr. Maimone tells me it was a guest on the Tina Brown show one night that said this. Oh, do you happen to remember who it was? He doesn't know who it was. Some guest on Tina Brown said this. Maureen Dowd must have been the person watching that night. All right, so, then Chris Matthews, he's on the roundtable. He says, "Maureen, we grew up with 'let's get this country moving again.' We all remember George Bush winning the White House by saying, 'When I put my hand up to take the oath of office I promise to restore the dignity of the office,' and everybody knew he was talking about Clinton. At least there was a one-liner. Was there ever a one-liner you could point to and say that's the Kerry campaign?"
DOWD: No, Kerry was like Gore. He was a winner who somehow managed to lose. He won all three debates and still lost the election, and they're loners. They were loners in the Senate and they didn't have that many friends and they were hall monitor personalities. Democrats have to choose people who are cooler, and sexier, really, to be blunt.
RUSH: If you didn't hear the double-talk, she said Democrats "have to choose people who are cool and sexy, really, to be blunt," if they want to win. These hall monitor-types just don't win the elections. Now, what she didn't say here but what she said in a column, it was either on Sunday or Friday, I forget which, but she said Karl Rove is the kind of guy that was never a cool guy in the big clique when he was in high school, and he spent the rest of his life (paraphrasing) spent the rest of his life getting even with people who had shut him out. It always goes back to high school with these people, and somebody was or was not "in." So what they're telling us here they know they're the elites. They know that they are the big click in their own mind and they think that those of us who have not been admitted are loaded for bear to take 'em out because they are excluding us.
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