Digby: Knee Jerk Jerk

I am getting really, really tired of this:

BARNICLE: And now you have Speaker Pelosi in Syria. You know, I think if she were Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Birmingham, Alabama, or Pensacola, Florida, or Chicago, Illinois, even, it might play a little better politically in Washington than it has been. But she‘s from San Francisco.

This is Mike "I promise not to plagiarize anymore" Barnicle from Taxachusetts saying this. He goes on to say that it doesn't matter what Nancy does, but he apparently felt he had to bond with the macho gasbags on Scarborough by gratuitously taking a shot at San Francisco. I wish these people would just stop it. It's chauvanistic, outdated and stupid.