This Just In: CBC Commentator Doesn't Like Palin

Like the news that "the world wants Obama as president," what Canadian Heather Mallick (Who? I hear you mumble to yourself) thinks doesn't really measure on the American richter scale. But it sure got to James Lileks who roused himself to pretty much a sentence by sentence lambasting. A sample:

She added nothing to the ticket that the Republicans didn't already have sewn up, the white trash vote…the demographic that sullies America's name inside and outside its borders yet has such a curious appeal for the right.

Leaving aside whether Europe would like us more if we did something about those horrible people they see in “The Dukes of Hazzard” documentaries, you have to love the idea of the “white trash” demo sullying our name inside our borders – she’s talking about the thin crust of coastal dwellers who regard Manhattan as some sort of precious monastery that keeps the dim flickering light of civilization alive. Why, if the hillbillies disappeared, the New Yorkers would be reduced to making disparaging remarks about people from New Jersey who take the bridges and tunnels to go clubbing in LowSoHo or MoTriVil or whatever old neighborhood has been fitted out with thudding discos and fusion-sushi joints.

Why does this demographic – the white trash, I mean, not the orange trash of the Guido Jersey interlopers - have such a “curious appeal” to the right? Because the right, perhaps, thinks of them as “voters” who cast “ballots” in “elections” for people who don’t consider rhinoplasty so they can look down their noses even further than God intended.