Jon Stewart & Mocking the Middle

Most of us are tired of the elites and "intellectuals" (including our own representatives) and their constant distain for their fellow Americans. Generally how it goes is that if you aren't liberal, don't vote Democratic, and don't still worship at the altar of Obama, you are somehow intellectually inferior or even defective. This is, of course, hogwash, but the fact that actual verbal attacks on Americans are continuing makes me wonder just what kind of morons we have in Washington. Seriously, they think calling their fellow Americans "backwards" (John Hickenlooper, CO gubernatorial candidate and mayor of Denver) and "enemies" (President Obama) will somehow increase their voter turn out? In a way this is true, voters WILL turn out in records numbers, but not for the reasons these politicians might want.

In the same train of thought, this came from Hugh Hewitt today .....

The Washington Post's Anne Applebaum is worried that Jon Stewart's "rally" in D.C. will turn out badly:

I don't know about you, but my heart sank when I read about Jon Stewart's Million Moderate March, planned for the Mall next weekend. My heart sank further when I learned that liberal groups, lacking any better ideas, have decided to take this endeavor seriously. It's bad enough that the only way to drum up enthusiasm for a "Rally to Restore Sanity" is to make it into a television comedian's joke. But it's far worse that the "moderates" in attendance will have been bused in by Arianna Huffington and organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Stewart's gathering, like Stephen Colbert's "testimony" to Congress last month, is another exercise in mocking middle America --the middle of the country geographically, the middle when it comes to income, the middle when it comes to politics.

It is specifically targeted at the Tea Party, at the hundreds of thousands who turned out at the Beck-Palin rally in September, and at the millions who sympathized with those marching then.

The middle this year is decidely anti-Democratic where it was pro-Obama two years ago. The center of the political spectrum has shifted, and the left now doesn't much like its allies of two years ago, and the result is the venom of some and the condescension of others. Hollywood is divided between the two reactions, but Stewart's overt mocking will go a long way to motivating the center-right's turnout on 11/2.

There is nothing like the contempt of elites to energize anti-elites. The Tea Party owed its creation to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It owes thanks for a last push towards next week's victories to all the members of the chattering class who have been so open in their scorn and so thorough in their disdain for ordinary Americans holding traditional opinions on the size and scope of government.

Sincerely,

Hugh Hewitt