{"id":11321,"date":"2018-08-06T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11321"},"modified":"2018-08-06T11:43:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T18:43:41","slug":"the-elites-war-on-the-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-elites-war-on-the-deplorables\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elites\u2019 War on the Deplorables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">R<\/span>ecently\u00a0<i>Politico\u00a0<\/i>reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.<\/p>\n<p>So Caputo tweeted of them, \u201cIf you put everyone\u2019s mouths together in this video, you\u2019d get a full set of teeth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Politico<\/i>\u00a0had not employed such a crass journalist since before it fired Julia Ioffe for tweeting,\u00a0\u201cEither Trump is f\u2014ing his daughter or he\u2019s shirking nepotism laws. Which is worse?\u201d (Ioffe was\u00a0then snatched up by the\u00a0<i>Atlantic<\/i>, which has an unpredictable policy either of excusing or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/04\/23\/kevin-williamson-abortion-and-extremism\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">not excusing<\/a>\u00a0the controversial expressions of its newly hired journalists.)<\/p>\n<p>I suppose Caputo meant that Trump voters intrinsically lacked either the money to fix their teeth or the knowledge of the hygiene required to take care of them or the aesthetic sensitivity of how awful their mouths looked. Or Caputo was simply rehashing the stereotypes that he had seen on reality TV shows like \u201cDuck Dynasty\u201d and \u201cThe Deadliest Catch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/08\/05\/the-elitist-war-on-the-deplorables\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Recently\u00a0Politico\u00a0reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta. So Caputo tweeted of them, \u201cIf you put everyone\u2019s mouths together in this video, you\u2019d get a full set of teeth.\u201d Politico\u00a0had not employed such a crass journalist since before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1192,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2WB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9688,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-trump-nail-in-the-media-coffin\/","url_meta":{"origin":11321,"position":0},"title":"The Trump Nail in the Media Coffin","author":"Megan Ring","date":"January 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ Town Hall | President-elect Donald Trump probably will not often communicate with the nation via traditional press conferences. 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