This is from Jeff Greenfield, one of the most willing Bush bobbleheads of the Media Elite, as proven when he discounted Ohio exit polling showing Kerry winning the state live on CNN in 2004.

I keep meeting all kinds of blue-collar vets and working-class folks who drink Starbuck’s coffee and imported beer, and are even known to eat arugula in a salad — it’s available at Bennigan’s, TGIF and Olive Garden, after all — and chow down on wine and cheese now and then. A guy I know who’s a union pipefitter even makes his own Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.

This bullshit portrait of the ‘average American’ is being made by media elitists who really have no idea what people out in Fly-Over Country are doing or thinking — instead they rely on stereotypes from 1950s movies. Jesus, they even talk about ‘lunch bucket’ hardhat construction workers — I know some of these guys — they haven’t carried lunch buckets in forty years and one of them is an Nam-vet vegetarian who eats tofu and, yep, arugula. I’d like that little weasel Greenfield to tell him to his face he’s some kind of elitist and not a regular American.

“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist and feminist in England.”

Except I’m not a Quaker.