WASHINGTON, D.C. — Steve Roberts — the other half of the Cokie and Stevie comedy team — was on the Diane Rehm Show on NPR the day after Mitt Romney's acceptance speech.
As you may imagine, he was essentially repeating the Democratic Party's line for that day — like so many others in the capital's slavish and incestuous mainstream media.
Roberts noted that Romney grew up the pampered son of man who owned an automobile company (American Motors), then quickly corrected himself to say that Mitt's dad, George Romney, only ran AMC, but didn't own it up.
Nevertheless, Roberts wondered how such a wealthy man could relate to the average American in such trying times.
Roberts didn't note — nor have many of his media colleagues — that Mitt Romney foreswore his inheritance from his father and is basically a self-made man. With the help of his wife Ann and his Mormon faith, he pretty much worked his way through Harvard Business School, gave millions upon millions of his earning to selected charities and took no pay for several of his public service jobs, including his stint as governor of Massachusetts.
And of course, Roberts made no mention of the accumulated wealth of the his own immediate family, who have lived very well for decades off the overflow of Big Government — despite having questionable intellectual credentials.
Roberts currently is a contributing editor for the once prosperous
U.S. News and World Report Magazine. As a canonized DC pundit, he appears regularly on ABC Radio, PBS'
Washington Week in Review with the doting Obama biographer Gwen Ifill, MSNBC'S
Hardball with Chris Matthews and, of course,
The Diane Rehm Show, where her most constant guests are purveyors of conventional liberal wisdom. He does all this while still finding time to teach journalism and political communication at The George Washington University in Washington's aptly-named Foggy Bottom, a stone's throw from the State Department.
His wife, Cokie, is also a longtime bottom-feeder at the Washington trough. The daughter of the late Hale Boggs, (D-LA) a former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, she serves as senior news analysts for NPR, where she was the totally unbiased congressional correspondent for 10 years.
Both Roberts reckon their accumulated wealth in the millions. They live in a fashionable mansion on Bradley Boulevard and Barrett Lane in the posh DC suburb of Bethesda. Estimated value by real estate agents: $3.6 million.
If you're ever in town, drive over, ring their doorbell and congratulate them on their ability to "feel the pain" of the 23 million out-of-work Americans and the tens of millions of more who are struggling to survive in a country where the federal government has become an avaricious Leviathan.
Nick Scaramouche is a longtime Washington observer, who has never scampered for scraps thrown from the government's high table
