Our Uncurious Betters

I read a few film sites. Lately, many of them have become very politicized. One of them, by an intense and basically decent man named Jeffrey Wells is called Hollywood Elsewhere. I've corresponded with the man, even donated money to his site, because I mostly enjoy his passion and occasional insanity.

He's pretty bent about Sarah Palin, and tends to trip over into bilious rage about hypothetical Red-Staters and their/our various proclivities and moral failings. I wonder who is the person that came to represent Red-Staters and their sins to him...but that's between him and His Higher Power.

Here's a fairly typical graph from a recent post about Sarah Palin:


"If low-information Walmart moms were inclined to read or even consider what's reported in the N.Y. Times, they might be thinking twice right now about supporting Sarah Palin's vice-presidential candidacy. But of course, if they did read news stories of this sort they would no longer deserve the sobriquet."

You gotta love the "low information" bit.

What Mr. Wells and his fellows don't seem to understand is the lack of balance displayed between the treatment of his preferred candidate and the opponents is one of the things that drives those of us suffering from information deficit from the fields of leftist righteousness.

What might pain the voter who wish to be informed is the lack of a similar light turned upon Mr. Obama and his past actions. Admittedly, given the halo with which he is generally portrayed by the mighty Grey Lady and others, it might seem to shine a light is redundant (and an unspeakable increase to the carbon footprint, one might add).

And yet…there is that curious lack of curiosity. Surely, there are some who would speak of Barack’s time in the cloisters of the Chicago political machine. Perhaps some who might have an observation or two about his curious facility with that most pure, even-handed, and, yea, saintly of organizations. One might even ask why stories like this, Obama got ex-boss 1 million dollars , from the Chicago Sun Times back the dark (and dinosaur free) days of 2007, haven’t received the same scrutiny as say, Ms. Palin’s per diem requests.

And then there is that connection with Bill Ayers, the former Weatherman who felt the bombs he set off weren’t enough, that he should have done more. There are widows and orphans who might disagree with that point of view. His association with Barack is untidy, to say the least.

If the lights were turned as clearly upon these elements of Mr. Obama’s past as they have been so fiercely, repeatedly, and persistently turned up Ms. Palin…well, our uncurious Betters might be more deserving of the right to rule which they seem to presume is their right.