Words matter, especially the words uttered by main stream broadcasters like Andrea Mitchell. So when Mitchell and other journalists and talking heads toss around labels like “the anti-war left” my blood begins to boil. Mitchell used that term on the Don Imus show on MSNBC to characterize a person who questioned Hillary Clinton about her vote in favor of the Iraq War in early February. With a clear and widening majority of Americans calling the Iraq War a “mistake” and a ever widening majority calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq, I fail to see how you can possibly in good conscious as an objective journalist call people who are against the war in Iraq as ‘on the fringe’ or ‘on the left’ or even out of the main stream. Those days are long gone. I think Mitchell’s characterization just proves how far she and all the rest of the media elite are in their own rarified bubble and out of touch with the American public.

How can Andrea Mitchell possibly be in touch with the pulse of the American public? She’s married to the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, she dines on a regular basis with the media and political elite of Washington D.C. She’s a card carrying member of the crème de’le crème of not only Washington D.C. but New York City. She’s climbed to the very top of broadcast journalism and she’s married to a big time power broker. She’s the very essence of power and money in American society. She doesn’t socialize with any regular people. The only working people she knows probably work for her. But she ought to at least check the polls before she opens her mouth. When six out of ten people are saying that they want Congress to set a time table to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of 2008 according to the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll and just 28% say the U.S will probably or definitely will win the Iraq war, down from 35% in December you can’t call that the anti-war left fringe any longer.

Hell, even Southerners have become disenchanted with President Bush over the war. A recent poll by Elon University found that the Iraq war is the most important issue facing the U.S. according to 45% of the 719 residents of Florida, Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas surveyed. Of those surveyed 64% disapproved or strongly disapproved of Bush’s handling of the Iraq war, that’s up from 57% from last year, while 31% still approve a decrease of 38.5% last year. When Bush’s rock bed support in the South has begun to erode you know he’s really begun to hit rock bottom. Wake up Andrea…it’s time to come out of the bubble.