For instance, New York Times reporter Frank Bruni was one of the reporters assigned to cover Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Later, he covered a few months of Bush’s presidency. So, of course, Bruni thinks that qualifies him to write not just a newspaper article or two but a whole book about Dubya.

Bruni, an inhabitant of the concrete jungle where daily life often appears to border on the line between chaos and mayhem -- yet some of the residents actually believe they are at the center of America’s "culture" -- describes President Bush as affable and good-natured but shallow and largely clueless about many aspects of the culture of the nation he heads.

Bruni’s book, "Ambling into History," claims to derive at least some of its presuppositions from Bush’s interaction with reporters on the campaign trail. "At long last, the Republican Party had nominated its first baby boomer for the presidency, and the man they had chosen was no more culturally ’with it’ than Bob Dole, the septuagenarian previous nominee, had been," Bruni writes.

Among the things Bruni harps about are that Bush had never heard of actor Leonardo DiCaprio or television newscaster Stone Phillips -- "despite the enormous nationwide exposure of both." Or, when asked about HBO’s sitcom "Sex and the City," Bruni reports that Bush thought the sitcom was "an inquiry into his erotic and geographic whereabouts." Sounding like a typical New York City culture vulture who is convinced his existence is far superior than the rest of the world’s, Bruni writes that when reporters on the campaign trail used New York colloquialisms like "vegan" or "yenta," Bush had no idea what they were talking about.

Problem is, folks like Bruni cannot understand that not all people in America care about things like HBO’s ongoing tribulations of a trollop, a goofball and a ding-bat living in that concrete jungle called New York City. Put Bruni & friends out in our vast Midwest, the hills of Kentucky or Tennessee, or Texas, and see how much they know then! New York City is but a small fraction of the total culture that makes up the United States and is most certainly not representative of the whole.

Meanwhile, the daughter of House Democratic Whip Nancy Pelosi has strung together her interpretation of President Bush relaxing while on the campaign trail. From our point of view, the Bush campaign should have known better. Alexandra Pelosi might sometimes call herself a "journalist," but first she is the daughter of one of Congress’s most liberal Democrats.

Anyway, folks in the Bush campaign knew Pelosi was videoing many of the more relaxed moments on the campaign trail and got quite a lot of footage of Bush. Of course, there was an agreement with Bush campaign officials that the material "was for personal use" only. But, making an agreement with a liberal Democrat who has saleable material that could be embarrassing to a conservative president is . . . well . . . rather worthless. Let’s face it, those on the far left are not famous for keeping their word. Rather, they tend to be a self-aggrandizing lot. And, Pelosi smelled a buck to be made. Therefore, the often unflattering 90-minute movie she calls "Journeys With George" was screened publicly on March 8 at an Austin, Texas, film festival.

Frank Bruni, we might add, describes Pelosi as "the unrivaled queen of the pack when it came to self- amusement and consequences-be-damned diversion." A "dingbat" was the colloquialism those of us in the Midwest used to use for someone like that.

Later, Matt Labash reported in The Weekly Standard that "Pelosi had conducted a super-secret margarita- fueled straw poll among reporters in the back of the [Bush campaign] plane about who they thought would win the election. Most predicted Al Gore. Somebody leaked the results to outside media." That made many of the Washington press corps covering the Bush campaign "embarrassed by the disclosure, and fearful that it would cost them access to Bush."

That is what is called "objective journalism" by the Washington press corps nowadays -- a pack of liberals covering a conservative candidate.

Then came the "make believe" White House, as in Aaron Sorkin, producer of the far left "West Wing" television program. According to Matt Drudge, it appears that Sorkin asked that some of the real White House players appear in an upcoming episode. The administration, being just a little busy these days, turned Sorkin down. So, Sorkin went off on a public rant, disparaging President Bush, and some "journalists" quoted Sorkin’s babble as actual news.

And so goes the never-ending attack of the far-left media on the real America they have never come to understand. Most have never seen Americans working to build quality products so they will last a few years and be competitive. Nor have they watched how attentively a farmer cares for his cows, poultry or hogs. They do not see the children studying at the kitchen table after doing their chores and the dinner dishes, watch all the little Midwest churches fill up on Sunday morning or know just the simple joy of shopping in town while also socializing with nearly everyone around you.

Instead, they scratch out their existence in an environment where their "America" is little more than the steel and glass of skyscrapers, the heavy traffic on the concrete outside and living on the edge because there is a constant hassle and danger coming from every direction. Then they go home at night and triple lock the doors of their small apartment in their guarded building and hope they will be safe till morning.

That is not the real America, of course. But, that is all they know. That may also explain a lot of why so much of what they write and broadcast seems so snippy.