There are two Americas.
In one America, the real one, people are worried about their jobs, their retirement, their kids, being able to buy a home, getting health care.
In the other America, the one that is relentlessly splashed across cable news, vomited across the front pages of major newspapers and shrilled across media Twitter, there is fury and outrage that President Trump made fun of a media personality.
The average American has no idea who Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. And doesn't care what's said about them on Twitter. But the media lives in its own bubble. And so it obsessively provides coverage of what is, to most people, a baffling non-issue.
But the media and America have two very different sets of priorities. And what the media coverage reveals is that it's the media's cultural priorities that dominate its own coverage.
The media doesn't care about Americans. It doesn't care about the issues that matter most to Americans. It cares about its own narcissistic obsession with itself.
That is why the media won't shut up about Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough. In the media's much smaller world, there is nothing more meaningful than its own small and incestuous world of ego. And a baffled nation is treated to roughly three trillion stories and non-stop coverage of the hurt feelings of the media.
Again.