Today’s Post story on Senator-elect Brown’s visit to the Capitol had a curious reference in the lede:
Scott Brown left the truck back in Massachusetts.
At 9:30 on Thursday morning, the Republican state senator arrived by US Airways shuttle at Reagan National Airport, though he rode a GMC-driving everyman image and a wave of Tea Party-stoked, establishment-financed frustration into the U.S. Senate seat of Jack and Teddy Kennedy. Looking fresh and fit, he stepped out of Gate 43 for his crash-course introduction to official Washington.
What is “establishment-financed” supposed to mean? Maybe I’m missing something, but the implication is that the witless tea-bagger boobs who voted for Brown were duped by the filthy lucre of plutocrats to vote against their interests. Apparently, the million dollars a day Brown took in last week was from the “establishment”? This is the kind of thing I’d expect in a bitchy Style section story, not a news story on the front page.