Now hear this:

I have had it. HAD IT. Spare me any more talk about elitists or small towns or anything remotely close to it. Nobody – NOBODY – not ONE SINGLE F-ING MEMBER of the United States Senate has ANY standing to talk as if they’re some salt-of-the-earth defender of the sainted sons of the soil, manning the barricades against the horrible awful big-city slick-talking wheeler-dealers who are out to sucker the hayseeds.
John Rogers said it better than I ever will so go read it there. Meanwhile, I will nick one quote:
“I am just, I guess, well and truly tired of being told what “Middle America” wants, when Middle America is my age and lives in a goddam city, just like I have for my entire life.”
Arlington, Virginia, is America. Manhattan? America. Los Angeles? San Francisco? Silicon Valley? AMERICA, and don’t you !-ing forget it. Anybody who seriously wants to spend 2008 selling the old “real America” trope needs to cut that shit out with a quickness, because I. Will. Cut. Your. Ass. I mean it.