Have conservatives caused the liberal media to totally crack up and reveal their utter contempt for those who disagree with them? In recent days we've seen Mike Barnicle declare that he wants to live "as far away as possible" from anti-establishment Republican voters, and Sirius host John Fugelsang contemptously call conservatives "rubes" that Fox News labors to keep in its "paddock."
The cavalcade of liberal contempt for conservatives continued on Chris Hayes' MSNBC show on Tuesday night, as Esquire's Charlie Pierce described the Republican Iowa caucuses as being controlled "by a freakish minority of a freakish Republican party."
CHRIS HAYES: No one, I think no one, it doesn't matter: Democrat, Republican, someone who's been in elected or not, is prepared for what this campaign, the modern campaign machinery looks like in the year 2015.
CHARLIE PIERCE: Oh, it's a meat grinder, but it's also made more difficult on that side of the aisle because you've got a political party that's gone insane. The Iowa caucuses are a freakish mechanism that have been controlled since about 1988, by a freakish minority of a freakish Republican party. They're not a measure of anything, really. And if you don't believe me, you can ask President Santorum about that. So, I can see a surprise in the Iowa -- again, back to my original point, it's August --
HAYES: September, Charlie.
PIERCE: But I could see an out-of-nowhere winner like Ben Carson in the Iowa caucuses, which will come to mean nothing within a week and a half.
