Silly New York Times Editorial #2

The prize goes to Frank Rich for It Still Felt Good the Morning After.

For eight years, we’ve been told by those in power that we are small, bigoted and stupid — easily divided and easily frightened. This was the toxic catechism of Bush-Rove politics. It was the soiled banner picked up by the sad McCain campaign

Bush, Rove and McCain think we are bigoted and stupid? Or was it Democrat John Murtha? Or Democrat Al Sharpton? Rich cites zero examples of Republicans calling us stupid bigots.

If I had a dollar for every Democrat who told me there was no way that Americans would ever ... elect a black man named Barack Hussein Obama president, I could almost start to recoup my 401(k).

Rich cites democrats thinking us bigoted, not Bush or Rove.

and it was often abetted by an amen corner in the dominant news media.

Agreed here. But, ever since no WMDs were found in Iraq in 2004, the dominant news media is hardly a mouthpiece for Bush / Rove. Anybody claiming otherwise is delusional.

While there are still bigots in America, they are in unambiguous retreat.

And which press enabler of Bush / Rove said this? Frank Rich himself!

It's a remarkable editorial to complain about Bush / Rove thinking Americans are bigots, then documenting only democrats and the press calling them so. Topping it off by the author himself calling Americans bigots.

To their great credit, on an historic election day the American people showed that they are not racist bigots. Rich provides good statistics proving this. One final example: my dad, who grew up in the 20s and 30s in a small town in a former slave state, voted for Obama.