CNN Host Phil Mattingly's Pauline Kael Moment

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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In 1968, Pauline Kael, then The New Yorker's film critic, has famously been quoted as saying, "I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.” The actual quote might actually have been a bit different, but the point remains: liberal elitists live in an echo chamber of their own ideas.

On Monday, Phil Mattingly (recently named Kaitlin Collins' permanent replacement as a co-host of CNN This Morning) seemed to have his own Pauline Kael moment.

Mattingly was commenting on a recent column by CNN analyst Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic entitled "Why Biden Just Can't Shake Trump in the Polls." Said Mattingly:

"Ron, I think that the value of this piece, and I say this often about your analysis, is you listen to Donna Brazile, you listen to people talk, and it's just this constant how, why, why does this keep happening? Even after seven years of it always happening to some degree."

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[Jim Noble]

The three words Podhoretz left off the original quote are so precious:

"I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them out there, breathing"