Man, what an asshole

P.J. O'Rourke quotes John Kerry and his views on why he lost the election:

Addressing the audience of tame Democrats, Kerry explained his defeat. "There has
been," he said, "a profound and negative change in the relationship of America's media with the American people. . . . If 77 percent of the people who voted for George Bush on Election Day believed weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq--as they did--and 77 percent of the people who voted for him believed that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11--as they did--then something has happened in the way in which we are talking to each other and who is arbitrating the truth in American politics. . . . When fear is dominating the discussion and when there are false choices presented and there is no arbitrator, we have a problem."

America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable. Henry Wallace never quite managed, or George Wallace either. But Kerry's done it. American free speech needs to be submitted to arbitration because Americans aren't smart enough to have a First Amendment, and you can tell this is so, because Americans weren't smart enough to vote for John Kerry.

Hey, I got an idea. Let's conduct a smarmy poll of people who listen to NPR and watch CNN, and let's see how many folks hold the mistaken beliefs that Bush claimed Saddam Hussein was an "imminent threat," or that outing Valarie Plame was a crime, or that Bush claimed that Iraq was looking for uranium in Niger.
I mean, fucking hell, I'm all about trashing the mainstream media, but let's at least try to even fake it and look bipartisan here.