The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide

The New York Times > Arts > Frank Rich: On 'Moral Values,' It's Blue in a Landslide: "There's only one problem with the storyline proclaiming that the country swung to the right on cultural issues in 2004. Like so many other narratives that immediately calcify into our 24/7 media's conventional wisdom, it is fiction. Everything about the election results - and about American culture itself - confirms an inescapable reality: John Kerry's defeat notwithstanding, it's blue America, not red, that is inexorably winning the culture war, and by a landslide. Kerry voters who have been flagellating themselves since Election Day with a vengeance worthy of 'The Passion of the Christ' should wake up and smell the Chardonnay."