The LA Times: Neither liberal nor progressive

I hate the posturing of the LATimes. The paper tries so hard, at least politically, to portray themselves as liberal and progressive. Ultimately, the Los Angeles Times is just elitist.

The 'populist liberals' at the LATimes, just like the Washington Post, have chosen hybrid cars as their whipping boy, continually whining about hybrid vehicles and the car pool lane. (Read)

BOO HOO HOO.

I wonder what kind of vehicles these liberal, progressives drive anyway?

Nonetheless, I'm so tired of the hybrid car and HOV lane cry-babies. You'd think from their reaction that HOV lanes were on the verge of saving California from not just congestion, but pollution and foreign oil dependency - if not for 50,000 hybrid cars.

Give me a break. Gas in LA is almost $3.00 per gallon and it isn't even the summer yet. If there is another serious hurricane next year, or continued problems with Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria - not to mention Iraq - we could see $4, $5, even $6 gallons of gas. But I guess that's no problem for this group of liberal, progressives.

Then there is pollution. While the cloud of smog that blocks my view of the foothills in Altadena from Northeast LA has gotten better, it is still ridiculous. How many billions in extra health care costs does this cost every year to SoCal?

Hey, but it's a good thing there's two people in that Hummer driving in the HOV lane getting 12 mpg. Now that's earth-saving efficiency!!!

Damn, if we could just get hybrids out of the HOV lane and replace them with 2 passenger Yukons and Tahoes, all the world's problems would go away - now that's a liberal and progressive idea!!!!