So what to do? Here’s what I suggested: “I have come up with a list of five very nice places in this great country of ours, any one of which would be a good choice for ABC, NBC and CBS to locate their new worldwide news division headquarters, far from New York City.”
I suggested, Tupelo, Mississippi, or Mitchel, South Dakota, or Oklahoma City, or Indianapolis, or Laughlin, Nevada.
I could have picked a hundred different cities and towns. The places I settled on mattered only because they were not New York City or Washington, D.C.
I understand that the sophisticates who populate America’s liberal newsrooms would rather drink battery acid and walk on shards of broken glass before they’d live in any of those places. But in “Arrogance” I asked:
“Wouldn’t it be a good thing for the elites to live among people who have a different worldview than they do? Wouldn’t it be helpful if the elites sent their children to public school with the children of people who work at the (Mitchell, South Dakota) Corn Palace or the Oklahoma Opry or at Don Laughlin’s casino (in Nevada)? What is so wrong with that? Are they afraid their kids will get cooties if they sit next to ‘regular’ kids? And while we’re on the subject, why would it be any worse than what we have now: elite parents sending their elite children to school with the elite children of other elite parents?
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