Pretty funny. David Brooks goes on MSNBC to talk about how Barack Obama doesn’t resonate with the Little People, and says this:

And so, Obama’s problem is he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee’s salad bar, and people think he fits in naturally there.

Only one problem, notes Media Matters: Applebee’s doesn’t have salad bars.

This is, of course a recycling of the meme that Obama is an elitist. Which, the longer I think about it, gets just more and more ridiculous.

Hillary Clinton showed us what a non-elitist she was by downing a shot of whiskey here in Pennsylvania. Anyone out there think that, on your average day of the week, Hillary is downing shots in corner bars?

And John McCain, he of the $6 million dollar wife - he’s a Regular Joe? Give me a break; give us all a break.

This is the little game we play periodically, in which our candidates, all of whom are indeed elitists, try to pretend that they’re salt-of-the-earth NASCAR types. It’s a farce and basically everyone involved knows it’s a farce; the campaigns themselves, the media covering it… one suspects even the local yokels, sitting in those corner bars, realize it’s all one big lie.

Yet we persist with it. Why? How relevant is this charade, really? Are the local yokels so stupid that they need to be pandered to in this manner? Do we really think any of the remaining candidates, or any of the original candidates, have any real-world experience telling them what a loaf of bread costs? So why must we pretend otherwise?