MediaMatters gives it's Most Inane award to Cokie Roberts, daughter of the beltway and creature of the kind of clubby conventional wisdom that makes normal people want to scream. The award was bestowed for Roberts' hand-wringing over Barack Obama's choice of "somewhat odd," "exotic and foreign" Hawaii as a vacation spot.
More than 7 million tourists visit Hawaii every year, most of them Americans. A Hawaiian vacation is the lifelong dream of millions of landlocked midwesterners. And yet in her distorted beltway mind, Americans are so small-minded and ignorant that they conclude that Obama is somehow scary because he vacationed in Hawaii. What provincial rubes we are!
Clearly, Cokie Roberts thinks we're all idiots. It's nice we have the opportunity to return the compliment.
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