Mon May 26, 11:40 AM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison

More hard-hitting journalism from TPM

File this under the category of "no shit":

Seriously, who doesn't know this? It's like the MSM hasn't been beating this into our brains every single day of the week since March. And now TPM -- without offering any fresh analysis of its own -- is not only pimping the meme, but embracing it's ties to Newsweek, another MSM creature?

Lame.  And don't give me that arrogant "Well, if you think Obama is the nominee, why should we cover Hillary?" response. It doesn't matter what I think -- you're still covering the primary, so you should do a fair job of it.

On a related, here's some stats:

  • The median household income among white non-Hispanics in West Virginia is $35,439, well below the national average of $52,345.
  • The median household income among African Americans in West Virginia is $21,554, well below the national average of $32,272.

I am disturbed by the amount of vitriol some Obama supporters have directed towards West Virginians. It does nobody any good. But at the same time, it's at least as disturbing to watch Bill Clinton try and whip up the same resentment against us.

"Hillary is in this race because of people like you and places like this and no matter what they say," Clinton said. "And no matter how much fun they make of your support of her and the fact that working people all over America have stuck with her, she thinks you're as smart as they are. She thinks you've got as much right to have your say as anybody else. And, you know, they make a lot of fun of me because I like to campaign in places like this, they say I have been exiled to rural America, as if that was a problem. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be here than listening to that stuff I have to hear on television, I'd rather be with you. There is a simple reason: You need a president a lot more than those people telling you not to vote for her."

When you look at stuff like that, and you ask which campaign has done more to create divisions -- it's not even close.