Hollywood types have--for the most part--always been notoriously liberal.

I’m not sure if it’s the piles of money they make or the result of constantly being in the global limelight, but long-time celebrities seem to develop colossal egos and assume an aloof, arrogant snobbishness toward those less fortunate who have to live in the real world.

This has never been truer than in the ongoing presidential election where media celebrities-including actors, singers, TV newspeople and talk show hosts-are lining up by the dozens to demean/belittle/besmirch/turn their back on John McCain in the cheapest, most gutless ways imaginable.

Let’s take a look at the list:

By now, everybody knows that Oprah, after touring with her black brother Barack on the campaign trail, refused to have McCain on her show because she didn’t want to “influence the election”. She might be the darling of day-time television but down deep she’s a two-faced hypocrite.

Then comes Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews—two long-time, card-carrying liberals, who were blatantly demeaning/belittling/besmirching McCain on the air.  Long ago, they had forgotten that the reporter’s job is to present facts and not the reporter’s personal political views.  As a result, they were bumped down a notch in the broadcaster pecking order.

In the take-them-down-a-notch conference, the studio heads told them something like:

”Look guys, we expect you to quietly promote the liberal candidates on air because we’ve been doing that for years, but you’ve got to be more subtle in your approach. Professional broadcasters know how to use indirectness, innuendo and carefully-selected keywords to promote liberals. You guys were too in-your-face with your promotions.”

Then comes smooth-talking, placid-faced Charles Gibson and his sweetly-vicious twin sister Katie Couric who went above and beyond the call of duty to prove that Sarah Palin is not another Henry Kissinger.

In his interview with Palin on the Bush Doctrine subject, Gibson--with typical holier-than-thou arrogance—was staring down his nose at her and questioning her as if he were a political science professor conducting an oral exam on one of his students.

Gibson pretended to KNOW--after all, this is the high and mighty Charles Gibson—everything there was to know about the Bush Doctrine, when, in fact, he didn’t know jack crap about it. Check out Charles Krauthammer’s (THE expert on the Bush Doctrine) article if you’re interested in the truth!

Of course, Katie Couric—in the same mold as Charles Gibson—brought forth her holier-than-thou, know-it-all attitude and furthered the liberal cause as much as she possibly could by pushing harder and harder on a KNOWN vulnerability. Of course, her presentation and gouging technique was a bit more innocent and certainly more feminine than Gibson’s.

Everybody knows that Sarah Palin is not another Kissinger, but Gibson and Couric had to rub it in. They wanted to thrill the souls of their fellow liberals by smearing it in her face to the point of embarrassment.

Sarah Palin in not a seasoned Washington veteran.  Everybody knows that. That’s the reason she was chosen for the slot in the first place. She has never been conditioned to the good old boys network in Washington like McCain, Biden and Obama. We all know that Sarah Palin is NOT another Madeline Albright….. at least not yet.

By the same token, nobody has bothered to understand where Palin is coming from with this Russia/Alaska thing. It’s too easy to dismiss her with sarcastic derision than to take a moment and reflect on what she is saying.

Basically, what Palin is saying is that proximity is information. If you live next door to an Asian family and see and observe them day after day after day, you become keenly aware of their existence and have a much more intimate knowledge of that group of people than someone who has never lived near Asians. And, you must remember that Alaska has a long history of cultural/political interface with Russia down through the years.  Remember that the U.S. bought Alaska from the Russians. Many cities in Alaska were settled, named and remain inhabited by the descendants of native Russians. No other state in the U.S. can make that claim!

I’ll lay odds that, while Sara Palin has never met ranking dignitaries in official diplomatic talks, she has known and interfaced with more on-the-ground Russians and has a better understanding of the Russian culture/heritage and their daily lives than anybody else in the race.

Of course, the essence of what Palin was trying to say will never be broadcast to the outside world because the liberals and the leftist-soaked media control such information. They only have time in promote their own candidate. They certainly aren’t going to promote yours. 

Now late night talk show host David Letterman--the boyish-grinning, baseball cap wearing comic with his phallic symbol cigar, has joined the fray against McCain/Palin.

After McCain told Letterman he would not appear on his show, Letterman launched a flurry of on-the-air personal attacks against McCain. Of course, all were designed to promote the Democratic cause and belittle/demean/besmirch McCain.

He made light of McCain’s age with a “Metamucil” joke and quipped that Sarah Palin “sometimes calls John McCain ‘grandpa.’” Then he suggested that McCain would not win with the comment: “We might not see you on inauguration day!”

But you can’t blame McCain.

After Bill O’Reilly went on Letterman’s show and was told he “was full of crap,” McCain probably felt he would get more of the same because Letterman is cut from the same cloth as Oprah, Matthews, Olbermann, Gibson, Couric et al.

Why expose yourself to a ravenous shark?

Letterman is just another rich celebrity soaked in liberalism who thinks he owns the world and expects everyone else to bow down to him and his opinions. Of course, he’s made his millions making fun of other people so I guess it’s pretty easy to poke personal jabs at the person he would hate to become president.

Earlier this month, some 300 members of Hollywood’s elite gathered at the posh Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills and paid $28,500 a head to hear their darling Barack Obama speak and dine on the finest, most lavish food that the most talented chefs in Hollywood could prepare.

They are the aristocrats in our society who have achieved success beyond the wildest dreams of the average person. They are the privileged, those who live above the heads and means of the so-called working, common man. They are the sweet cream of our society and they can do anything they like and they are so rich and powerful that there is nothing you can do about it.

Like the French Queen Marie Antoinette—the most famous aristocrat of all—they are looking down their noses at the common, workaday Joes in this world and saying sarcastically: “Let ‘em eat cake!”

This piece was written by John I.  John regularly blogs at Global Nook.