Exotic?

Even NPR and ABC senior analyst Cokie Roberts is playing into the right wing propaganda machine's playbook and referring to Obama's vacation in Hawaii as "exotic." Since when is Hawaii an "exotic" vacation destination? Isn't it a State? Isn't it one of the most popular vacation destinations? Isn't Hawaii's entire economy built on tourism? More importantly, the question needs to be asked, "Is it exotic to go visit your grandmother when you take a break?" If he didn't go visit his family would he have been painted as "anti-family?"

It's bad enough that the Republican propaganda machine is able to paint their opponents as elitist, exotic, effete, liberal, etc. and make these words into unquestioned negatives but when the talking heads belonging to real journalists (as opposed to Fox Noise fuckwads) begin to use these labels as if they were legitimate reasons for doubt, who is left not in the hands of the enemy? I had respect for Cokie Roberts until Sunday but now that she has bought into the language of the propagandists I will look askance at her reporting. This is somewhat like Edwin R. Murrow reporting from London that they were being bombed by the Fatherland.