If Keith Olbermann can eat his words, perhaps there’s hope for the Democrats even now. And perhaps Scott Brown’s stunning victory in Massachusetts will finally knock the scorn-colored spectacles off the noses of what New York Times columnist David Brooks fragrantly calls “the educated classes.”
On MSNBC, snakes and lizards poured almost visibly from Olbermann’s mouth when he said Scott Brown spoke “out of his bare bottom,” and called the Massachusetts father of two “an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude-model tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.” Olbermann has apologized; Scott Brown is on his way to Washington
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