quote of the day
Matt Taibbi is always going to produce far more aggressive, combative, and yes, oftentimes much funnier rhetoric than I probably ever will on politics. But even taking that into account, I think there’s a very compelling point within what Andrew Sullivan calls “his usual bravado” :
“Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American Death Star. She is a television camera’s dream, a threat to do or say something insane at any time, the ultimate reality-show protagonist. She has brilliantly piloted a media system that is incapable of averting its eyes from a story, riding that attention to an easy conquest of an overeducated cultural elite from both parties that is far too full of itself to understand the price of its contemptuous laughter. All of those people out there aren’t voting for Michele Bachmann. They’re voting against us. And to them, it turns out, we suck enough to make anyone a contender.”
I don’t mean to imply that this audience — and remember, I used to live in suburban Ohio, so I’ve at least got a sliver of credibility here — only makes political decisions out of spite; I don’t think that’s true at all. But are they capable of doing it? Is that “overeducated cultural elite from both parties” really that infuriating these days?
I dunno, you tell me.
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