Mark Finkelstein of NewsBusters posted the transcript of Tina Brown’s appearance this morning on Morning Joe. Ms. Brown was the editor of Vanity Fair and is the current editor of Daily Beast. She lives and breathes elite liberalism.
According to the posted transcript, Ms. Brown thinks that Sarah Palin’s appeal is largely based on ignorance:
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: We saw some fascinating polls that actually showed Barack Obama and Sarah Palin fairly close, meeting, the LA Times says, meeting somewhere in the 40s. Do we all have a blind spot about Sarah Palin?
TINA BROWN: I think what people are responding to is that great sort of vitality, confidence. It doesn’t matter that the confidence is based on a kind of total ignorance. The fact is, it’s a vitality about it that people like. A kind of unequivocal, in-the-present, raw visceral quality that she has. And I think the reason that people are responding quite so profoundly is that we do have a president who does start to feel rarefied, unpassionate, with no bottom line. And I think the sort of juxtaposition of those two things is making the excitement about Palin perhaps even greater.
(Emphasis added.)
I think Tina Brown is speaking from “a kind of total ignorance” of Sarah Palin and her supporters rooted in bicoastal progressive snobbery. She also ignores timing: people were attracted to Sarah Palin before Prez B Cool was elected.
And check out Brown’s description of Prez B Cool: “a president who does start to feel rarefied, unpassionate, with no bottom line” — sounds like her Obamessiah’s balloon is leaking air, his incandescence is flickering, his spice has lost its flavor.
That cannot be said about Sarah Palin. She still snaps, crackles and pops.
(Hat tip: Mark Finkelstein via Twitter.)
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