Sometimes, the liberal media will pull back the curtain and reveal the depth of the contempt in which it holds conservative Americans.

It happened this morning on Joy Reid's MSNBC show. MSNBC contributor Gabriel Sherman -- hired to speak because he obsesses over all things Fox News -- spoke of conservative Americans in contemptuously condescending terms, asserting that the case for impeachment is such:

"a very simple story that even a Fox audience can understand."

Reid could be heard agreeing with Sherman's ugly take.





Sherman's slur came after Never Trumper Charlie Sykes raised the possibility that, at some point, Fox News might no longer support President Trump in his fight against impeachment. Sherman, who wrote a nasty biography of Fox News creator Roger Ailes, claimed that at the moment, "inside Fox there's a lot of confusion . . . and even Sean Hannity, behind the scenes, understand[s] the gravity of this."

Not that conservatives have doubted that the liberal media views them as a bunch of benighted bumpkins, but still, it's bracing to hear someone like Sherman spit it out in such palpably patronizing terms.

Here's the transcript.

MSNBC

AM Joy

9/29/19

10:56 am EDT