Speaking Of "Values"

The New Yorker made a good point in this week's mag. What about the values of the 55 million people who voted for John Kerry?

Thank god for the New Yorker. This week they treat their readers to some unapologetic elitism. Here's an excerpt from a very stimulating article about the national debate over the direction of politics and journalism... in the FRENCH media, most notably Le Monde.

"It is not that an ex-Trotskyite is in any way expected to believe in Trotskyism. It is just that what the William Morris mailroom is to Hollywood, Trotskyism was to a generation in French politics and journalism"

They took the words right out of my mouth. There's nothing New York's intellectual elites secretely enjoy more than being condescended to. This article is downright masochistic in it's snobbery. And while reading it you'll inevitably find yourself fantasizing about sitting in some outdoor cafe in France, reading this article, and thanking god you're in FRANCE instead of that horrible America with le bourgoise bandit Bush. By the time you're done reading you'll be comforted and reminded that, "it's OK, you're still much better than everyone else." And that afterall, is what's really important.

P.S. -doesn't Lester Holt look a little like O.J. Simpson? Just asking...