James Taranto at Wall St. Jnl Best of the Web notes that “the liberal elite” puts itrs “ugly attitudes . . . on display” at moments like this, when erstwhile White Houser James Carville says publicly that “there are a lot of stupid people out there” who think Obama is a muslim.  It’s a pattern, says T., noting that the Pew Center considered the matter worth polling.

Thus, at a time when the vast majority of voters oppose the president’s policies for any number of legitimate reasons, the media’s self-superior dwelling on “stupid” or “kooky” Obama critics tends to marginalize Obama, not his opponents. Obama’s presidency is being consumed in a bonfire of liberal vanities.

That’s very good, that bonfire stuff.  Will have to read Tom Wolfe’s book.