CLASS WARFARE AT FAUX NEWS

A lot of people hopped all over this, including Faiz at ThinkProgress, David Kurtz at TPM and dNA at Too Sense. All 3 have the video and here I provide a part of the transcript¹ of Fred Barnes disparaging working class voters:

HUME: And keep on going they have. Some thoughts on this marathon race now from Fred Barnes, Executive Editor of "The Weekly Standard;" Nina Easton, Washington Bureau Chief of "Fortune" magazine, Bill Kristol, Editor of "The Weekly Standard," and Mort Kondracke, Executive Editor of "Roll Call," FOX News contributors all.

Well, we know something about what the polling was showing going into today, and we know something about what the exit polling has shown about who voted for whom and why. What does it seem to be telling us, Fred?

FRED BARNES, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, "THE WEEKLY STANDARD": That the rift in the Democratic Party is widening, or at least hardening between Obama
getting the upscale type and, obviously, the African-American vote, and Hillary getting the downscale vote, including Catholics and whites, and so on.

And it is a split that we have seen earlier, particularly in Pennsylvania, and again in Indiana and North Carolina. The big difference in these races is that there is in Indiana, I think, African-Americans are 1/7 of the Democratic electorate, and in North Carolina they're a third.

And since Obama gets more than 90 percent of the African-American vote, he does better in North Carolina than Indiana. But you still see that rift where this downscale, traditional base of the Democratic Party seems to be not going for Obama, even though, as he said, he has campaigned for these people at the Ford plant.

HUME: When we mean downscale, we mean down in the economic scale?

BARNES: Downscale not just economically, but culturally and education-wise.

HUME: Why are Catholics downscale?

BARNES: Picky, picky, picky!

HUME: Well, I will not associate myself with those remarks.

MORT KONDRACKE, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ROLL CALL: That strikes me as elitism on Fred's part.

HUME: Fred's a college educated guy who lives in an upscale area.

BARNES: I never drink anything that the word latte is associated with; only black coffee.

¹ Fox News Network
May 6, 2008 Tuesday
SHOW: FOX SPECIAL REPORT WITH BRIT HUME 6:40 PM EST
Fox News All-Stars
BYLINE: Brit Hume, Mort Kondracke, Bill Kristol, Nina Easton
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 2381 words