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The View From Manhattan

By on 2.15.09 @ 2:40AM

Even in tragedy, the N.Y. Times can't help but look down its nose at such places as Buffalo:

"It was perhaps not the most glamorous of destinations, or the most luxurious of flights: a turboprop plane pushing through wind and snow and fog to an ailing Rust Belt city."

Reminds you of Tina Brown initially reacting to Prince Diana's death in late August 1997 by commenting that no one goes to Paris in August…

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Wlady Pleszczynski is editorial director of The American Spectator and editor-at-large of AmSpec Online.

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