Chris Matthews will know my wrath.

As posted in, and I can't beleive I'm writing this, The Boston Herald:

How was Hillary Clinton able pull off the biggest upset in New England since Bill Belichick and the Patriots [team stats] lost to, well, anybody? Theories abound.

Some give credit to Clinton’s superior ground game, grinding out votes through house-to-house campaigning. Others suggest Clinton’s “cry me a river” routine reached the Dr. Phil demographic and rallied the sisters to her side.

And then there’s superpundit Chris Matthews’ theory that, in New Hampshire, it was Barack Obama vs. Bull Connor.

Matthews told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that white New Hampshire Democrats lied to pollsters about supporting Obama because they are bigots who never had any intention of voting for a black man.

“You remember the Lone Ranger and Tonto?” Matthews asked. “I think paleface speak with forked tongue.”

So much for that ethnic sensitivity training.

“I thought this was over. I thought it ended with ‘macaca,’ ” Matthews screeched, referring to an alleged racial slur made by former Virginia Sen. George Allen.

“I thought white voters stopped being what they didn’t want to be. You know what it tells me? White people aren’t proud of who they are.”

When Scarborough questioned whether his complaints might be more appropriate to the South than New England, an exasperated Matthews replied “Boston? BOSTON?” - implying that Beantown’s bigotry is so well established that local stores sell bed sheets with the eyeholes already cut.

“There’s a different kind of prejudice in the North than in the South. It may not be ‘I think I’m better than you,’ but it might be ‘I don’t want to live next door to you.’ ”

Got that, you New Hampshire bigots? You didn’t vote for Obama because you feared he’d start dating your sister.

Matthews isn’t alone. Since the Clinton comeback, pundits have been talking endlessly about the so-called “Bradley Effect,” named after black Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley who, running for governor in 1982, had a slight lead in pre-election polls over his white Republican foe but ended up losing a close race.

This theory is particularly popular among pollsters who just earned hundreds of thousands of dollars getting the New Hampshire results completely wrong and now have to explain it to their clients.

“Yeah, it wasn’t our lousy model. It was the KKK!”

ABC’s head pollster Gary Langer rejects the Bradley Effect, noting that recent polling involving black candidates has been solid. So what happened in New Hampshire?

“The polls may have been inaccurate because of bad modeling, compromised sampling or simply an overabundance of enthusiasm for Obama on the heels of his Iowa victory that led his would-be supporters to overstate their propensity to turn out,” says Langer.

In other words, there is no reason to believe that racism is the problem. And yet the first assumption of arrogant media morons like Matthews is to declare that New Hampshire voters are just bad people.

This is the underlying attitude of the media elites toward the rest of us. Vote against Hillary and you obviously have issues with women. Don’t like John “Hug an Illegal” McCain? You’re a xenophobic nut.

Vote against Obama? Well, you know how they are up in New England.

Please. Isn’t it possible for a voter - even an evil, white male one - to come to the rational conclusion that Barack Obama’s first executive position shouldn’t be one that involves the ability to launch nuclear weapons?

No. You, the Democrats of New Hampshire - correction, make that “overwhelmingly white New Hampshire” - are instant suspects. Polls can’t be wrong. Pundits can’t be wrong. And of course Chris Matthews can never be wrong.

So there must be something wrong with you.

But Wait, theres more. Boston has long been labeled a racist city, and I'm never really sure why. Prior to my existance, we had a bussing issue. I'm going to google it after this but the 70's weren't yesterday, the changing price line has gentrified the city to no end leaving anything that might have still carried that 1970's sentiment scattered and sparse in the suburbs at best. Grahm who I go back and forth on, called into his Collegues show (Jay Severin) to explain further that the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts elected a black governor (of which there have been, what 2?). We sent a black man tot he senate in the 60's, our junior senator endorsed Obama over his former running mate and we're still racist. We're the only state that has marrige equality, and one of our cities (a city I happen to be from), Taunton, MA was the first in the country to be settled by a woman.

Somehow Massachusetts is one giant pack of prejudicial hatemongers.

And if its not out of line, will someone explain to me how the way New Hampshire votes is in anyway reflective of the citizenry of Massachusetts?

Tell Chris Matthews to go fuck himself. I just finished up writing about how we get bashed more than anyone else, and now I'm starting to think bashing should be read as persecuted.

Massachusetts is one of the highest grossing states in the union, and for those who grasp that tax code, it means we support a number of states who show up in the red when budget time comes around. Yes, thats what federal txes are for, no its not from welfare.

We were driving the the Blue Ridge Mountains this Labor Day weekend and Amanda asked me "do you think the rest of the country is resentful of our license plate?"

"what? why?"

"Well 'the spirit of america' you know I mean, do you think the heartland thinks they are, the farmers and whatnot?"

"The farmers? hey man, all I know is without our revolution that we started by caffinating our own harbor, there wouldn't be any goddamned farmers out in the midwest. Without the liberal elites Manifest Destiny they'd be trying to figure out what berries weren't posionous in the ticket of what would otherwise be known as Louisiana. Nothing against the farmers, but we didn't drive off the british with our corn fields and tractors"

The rest of the country is getting a little fresh, and teething or not west coast, theres no reason to bite the hand that feeds. This region needs to strap on its boots and give the loud mouth moral-elities a salty taste of its fucking backhand.

Anyways...and now for something completly different:

"If I had my druthers"

Meaning

If I had my preference.

Origin

This is an American phrase and not used widely elsewhere. People elsewhere in the world might want to know what druthers are, as the phrase conveys otherwise. Druthers is a shortening of 'would rathers'. The phrase originated in the late 19th century and is first cited in the January 1870 edition of Overland monthly and Out West magazine, in a story called Centrepole Bill, by George F. Emery:

"If I was a youngster, I 'drather set up in any perfession but a circus-driver, but a man can't always have his 'drathers."

Druthers, as opposed to its earlier variant drathers, is traced back to 1876 in Dialect Notes:

"Bein's I caint have my druthers an' set still, I cal'late I'd better pearten up an' go 'long."