Oh the irony of "newsmen" working their hardest to shut down or crush stories that they don't agree with and doing the same to outlets that refuse to play by their rules.
They want you to only hear the messages that they've approved. They even touch on Leftism being a substitue for religion, and how guilt over racism supplants ideas of original sin. Compare Global Warming with apocolptical theology.
One is remined of this quote atributed to Chesterton: When a Man stops believing in God he doesn¹t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.
If you're a member. Watch it. If you're not a member consider joining. It's important to support media that you agree with.
Powerline has a bit more on this "Great Divide". And it comes down to this: "75% of Likely Voters prefer free markets over a government managed economy... Political Class voters narrowly prefer a government managed economy over free markets by a 44% to 37% margin."
Yeah... The people in goverment prefer a goverment managed economy.
This is notable, too: there has been much controversy over whether the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats (or many of them, anyway) can fairly be labeled "socialist." Many on the left purport to view that label as a vile epithet. But a plurality of the political class, not just a far-left fringe, thinks that a government-managed economy is better than free enterprise. If that isn't socialist, what is?
The difference between the political class and the American mainstream is perhaps the most important divide in our current politics, more significant than that between Democrats and Republicans or even conservatives and liberals (although there is obviously much overlap in those pairings). The tea party fits well into this structure. While no doubt mostly Republican and mostly conservative, the tea party represents, more than anything else, the rebellion of mainstream Americans against the political class.
This whole thing with the political class and the media gatekeepers comes down to people who think that they need to manage your life. They don't trust the people; they don't trust you.
And since they don't think you can run your life, then they've got to limit what you can hear, what you can buy, what you can do, and what you can say.
This supression is absolutely required, because they know the common rabble can't be openly convinced to submit to their benevolent rule.
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