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The Gap Between Main Street and the Elites
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review@RCP ^ | October 18, 2009 | Salena Zito

Posted on 10/18/2009 7:41:52 AM PDT by skimbell

Remember the city mouse and the country mouse who exchanged visits?

In the end, the gap between the cousins' worlds left both comfortable with their own choices and baffled by the other's.

That's not so different from how anyone who lives 15 minutes outside of Washington, D.C., feels about those who govern their lives and deliver their news.

"Absolutely," agrees John King, CNN's "State of the Union" host and chief national correspondent.

King spends considerable time outside of Washington's beltway, reporting the news. He says he's a better reporter because he's gotten to know the real feelings of people not tied to Washington or New York...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrymob; msm; rush; teaparty; zito
Gee? Who'd of ever thought the MSM was "out of touch"?
1 posted on 10/18/2009 7:41:52 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

Who’s John King?

I watched CNN once in the last five years...it was in an airport terminal.


2 posted on 10/18/2009 7:43:33 AM PDT by kjo
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(The Obama administration almost appears to be forgetting blue-collar Americans who have been the Democrats’ political backbone. The administration still caters to labor leaders, but they don’t dictate policy or wield the same power they once did.

If they did, the health-care bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee would be to their liking and the Employee Free-Choice Act - card check - would have been enacted months ago.)

Even articles that seem to “get it” don’t get it, as they are written by leftists.


3 posted on 10/18/2009 8:36:09 AM PDT by winner3000
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King spends considerable time outside of Washington's beltway, reporting the news. He says he's a better reporter because he's gotten to know the real feelings of people not tied to Washington or New York...

Oh really??? ROFL!!!!

4 posted on 10/18/2009 8:41:57 AM PDT by gogeo (Democrats want to support the troops by accusing them of war crimes.)
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To: gogeo

Very enlightened isn’t he.


5 posted on 10/18/2009 9:18:05 AM PDT by BBell
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