Tom Wolfe, who has a new novel coming out this week, reveals a dirty little secret about the liberal intelligentsia:

The truth is that my pals, my fellow journos and literary types, would feel more comfortable going to Baghdad than to Cincinnati. Most couldn’t tell you what state Cincinnati is in and going there would be like being assigned to a tumbleweed county in Mexico.

They can talk to sheikhs in Lebanon and esoteric radical groups in Uzbekistan, but talk to someone in Cincinnati . . . are you crazy? They have no concept of what America is made of and even now they won’t see that.

He voted for Bush, he said, suggesting that his fellow writers and literary types weren't amused.

Did we mention he has a book coming out this week?