When it comes to conservatives, liberal media types are lately really letting their snobbery show. Last week, as we reported here, John Fugelsang referred to conservatives as "rubes" that Fox News struggles to keep in its "paddock."
Today, it was Mike Barnicle's turn to display his disdain. Guest-hosting on With All Due Respect, Barnicle declared: "I would want to live as far away as possible" from the 53% of Iowa Republican voters who favor anti-establishment candidates Trump, Carson, Fiorina and Cruz.
JOHN HEILEMANN: You got Trump right now at 23-
MIKE BARNICLE: You should do this: you should hold the card up, like Carnac-
HEILEMANN: Like Carnac. I got Carson at 18. I got Cruz it 8, I got Walker it 8, Bush at 6. The key thing is: Trump, Carson, Fiorina and Cruz. Four anti-establishment candidates. All of them total over 50% of that vote in Iowa. That is a huge story. The top four establishment candidates: Walker, Rubio, Bush, Kasich, they're about 20--somewhere in the mid-20s. Again, yearning for something new, something different. Not standard politics, not establishment.
BARNICLE: Could you give me those names and those numbers again? Add them up. What are they?
HEILEMANN: Which ones?
BARNICLE: The four names and what they add up to.
HEILEMANN: The four anti-establishment ones?
BARNICLE: Yeah.
HEILEMANN: Trump, Carson, Cruz, Fiorina -- add up to about 53%.
BARNICLE: 53%.
HEILEMANN: 54. Something like that.
BARNICLE: So that means if I lived in Iowa, I would want to know where each of those members of that 53% were. I would want to live as far away from them as possible. Because there is something seriously wrong with the Republican party if those people combined have a majority of the deleg -- of the voters.
