Another divisive election

She said current leaders are "middle-class elites" who came of age during the 1960s. "It's a straight-line development from the 1960s 'free love' era," she said of [the] election. "They listen to NPR. They don't watch Fox TV."

No, it's not a comment on the California debacle. It's a conservative Episcopalian characterizing the majority of Episcopalian leaders who approved the election of a gay priest as bishop. All she left out was the cliche about how liberals drive Volvos. I think that's because people in Dallas don't even know what a Volvo is.

But imagine the mentality of someone who disdains NPR over Fox. To the extent she is aware of a difference between the two networks, she actually prefers the one that expresses a clear bias to the one that strives for objectivity. She prefers the one that stresses noisy, antagonistic pundits over the one that stresses admittedly twee humor and culture programs like "My Word." We might guess that she feels more comfortable watching Fox, and uncomfortable listening to NPR. Just what kind of person is that? It's not merely a matter of taste -- as in, one simply prefers listening to Mexican oom-pah music over salsa. It's someone who prefers the demonstrably dumber thing -- and parades that preference as a badge of identity. Pathetic.