Paul Farhi of the Washington Post offers "Joe the Author, Plumbing New Lows in Interest" (link), a slab of hackwork showing how much the Beltway establishment dislikes Americans from the heartland, especially of the conservative variety. (For a related campaign that also involved the WaPo, see the Sarah Palin smear posts.) If JTP were in a DC establishment-approved occupation or class, articles like this would never have been written. Instead, the coverage would match that last seen in Socialist Realism. As proof of that, here are the more pungent parts of the article with "Joe the...