The current political season is causing some headache, heartache, and heartburn over at the New York Times. In a heartfelt editorial, the Gray Lady complains bitterly that the American people are just not listening to the American people. Even worse, they aren’t listening to the New York Times.
“Americans have made it clear that they are fed up with partisan division,” the Times intones, although it isn’t at all clear how they came up with that. What’s really biting the Times, it seems, is that some people are saying they won’t vote for the people the Times is telling them to vote for. A recent Times editorial endorsing Hillary Clinton apparently prompted a spate of emails from Obama folks saying they wouldn’t vote for Hillary if she beat their man. “That is not the way democracy is supposed to work,” said the Times, sourly.
Things are just as bad among the Republicans. It’s well known that the Times heart John McCain, pretty much. Well, Big John “has been shrilly attacked by Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter,” who say they won’t vote for him if he wins the nomination. Guess what: “That is not the way democracy is supposed to work.”
Some of us believe that democracy means that people have the right to say and do what they please, regardless of the impact on the sensibilities of a great metropolitan newspaper like the Times. Frankly, that’s the way democracy is supposed to work.
