Good for Gary

How apropos it was to have the mainstream media waiting on one of America's most urban counties to call the Indiana primary early this morning and to seal Hillary Clinton's fate. Urban communities have been largely ignored in this election. It would have been boring and enabling had the last returns come from a corn-fed rural county at the beginning of the night.

And I don't know if the delay was due to corruption or "Chicago-style" electioneering, but that is certainly the accusatory meme that the ungrateful mainstream press picked up when they did not get the results that they seemed to believe that they were owed. How priceless to hear Wolf whine, "Why haven't they at least given us some of the votes?" But I want to know why the media believes that it is entitled to the results when Lake County reports that its voting tally is bigger than ever and when overrun Democratic primaries and caucuses in other states had their own snafus and delays that had everything to do with the outrageous turnout that the media keeps harping on? Nodding heads can be grouchy heads past midnight, but Gary, IN had legitimate reasons to hang on to its votes as long as it took to confirm their accuracy.

Perhaps the media is picking on the old industrial rust-belt city at the foot of Lake Michigan because to do so is easy and because the media simply can. Gary is a striking example of a city that was literally founded by the steel industry and then viciously abandoned when that industry faltered. What Almighty Money giveth with His right hand, He taketh away with His left. The city is liberal and it has one of the highest percentages of African American populations of any city in the country. It was steam-rollered by white-flight suburbanization. So, perhaps the media started alleging conspiracy not based on any empirical findings, but simply out of spite that they were forced for once to be beholden to communities that they usually treat as unclean and third-class.

Gary made itself the central stage in the Indiana pivot of the Democratic Party away from Hillary Clinton and toward Barack Obama, and if the rust-belt city wants to make the media wait and sweat a little while for all of their past rushes to judgment, then more power to them. My heart won't bleed a drop for CNN's wounded sense of inconvenience.