Bill Clinton has been going after Ryan Lizza's tough Campaign Journal in the New Yorker, turning it, with a classic tweak, into a symbol of elitism and media bias:

He skewered a recent New Yorker magazine article, which quoted an unnamed Clinton campaign adviser's joke that the former president would be "leading a caravan of Wal-Mart greeters to the polls" on primary day. Only in Clinton's retelling, it was the article's author, not his wife's adviser, who was laughing at him.

"You know, there was an article in one of the publications the other day making fun of me for being Hillary's ambassador to rural America. 'They sent that ol' boy out there running around these little towns. What in the world's he doing?' And this guy ended by - he thought he was insulting me - he said, 'Next thing you know, Bill Clinton will be taking Wal-Mart greeters to the polls,'" he said, prompting squeals of delight from an actual Wal-Mart greeter in the crowd and her friends.

"That's the kind of thing those people that aren't for us say. You know, they think we're dumber'n we are. I know, cuz I grew up in a place like this, and I figured out that people are just as smart here as anywhere else. But they ain't figured it out yet."