Readers rush to defend this one:

I'm a gay Mississippian who thoroughly enjoyed voting for Barack Obama, has spent the last three years in exasperation as the right has painted him with every offensive lie it can dream up and will eagerly vote for him again in November.  So this criticism does not come from anywhere near the Hannity-Limbaugh-Fox & Friends axis: This video is PRECISELY the sort of condescending, self-congratulating, tautological garbage that fuels the stereotype of the mainstream media as a band of snotty elitists who sneer at everything that resides outside the Beltway, NYC, Hollywood or San Francisco.

My family and friends in Mississippi are well-educated, well-informed, tolerant, open-minded people of differing political opinions - which is more, apparently, than we can say for Bill Maher and the daughter of the former Speaker.  We're lawyers, judges, doctors, teachers, counselors, farmers, students, business people, writers, artists, entertainers and home makers.  Some of my family and friends in Mississippi are deeply religious; some are atheist or agnostic.  Quite a few are fans of your blog and of Maher's show. We hail from the state that gave American culture William Faulkner (estimated as second only to Shakespeare as the most widely read author in the English language), Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Barry Hannah and Tennessee Williams.  This is the seedbed of the blues tradition (Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, B.B. King) and the home of Elvis Presley, so it's fair to say we invented rock and roll, for fuck's sake. 

If Ms. Pelosi had stood for an hour with her camera outside Square Books in Oxford, or Turn Row Books in Greenwood, or Lemuira Bookstore in Jackson, she would have collected ample material to present a startling contrast from black and white Missisippians who have thoughtful political opinions and all of their teeth. But instead we have to sit here and take this tired barefoot-and-toothless Southerners shit from people who can't go a week without reminding each other how morally and intellectually superior they are to people who are quite obviously bigots.

Another also counters me:

Yes, the video does "speak for itself". It is the manifestation of why the Democratic Party, and left-leaning politics in general, are so totally irrelevant to many of the people who should, by all rights, be its base. The clip is patently offensive, and the fact that nobody on the left seems to get why is truly worrisome.