How could you draw any other conclusion after reading her latest article on the Huffington Post? Here, you decide:

This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don’t mean people, I mean white men. How ironic is this? After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can’t even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder — after all this, they turn out (surprise!) to have all the power. (As they always did, by the way; I hope you didn’t believe any of those articles.)

To put it bluntly, the next president will be elected by them: the outcome of Tuesday’s primary will depend on whether they go for Hillary or Obama, and the outcome of the general election will depend on whether enough of them vote for McCain. A lot of them will: white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them. And McCain is a compelling candidate, particularly because of the Torture Thing. As for the Democratic hope that McCain’s temper will be a problem, don’t bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what’s more, they think it’s normal. […]

Hillary’s case is not an attractive one, because what she’ll essentially be saying (and has been saying, although very carefully) is that she can attract more racist white male voters than Obama can. Nonetheless, and as I said, she has a case.

First, the obvious point: What if she had been talking about black women? — or Asian men? — or Muslims? I’ll bet you’d be hearing about it from the New York Times, or on a network news broadcast — instead of learning about it from little old me. (I understand that’s a trite argument, but a valid one, nonetheless.)

Remember, Nora Ephron isn’t just another liberal face in the crowd — she’s a highly successful author and screenwriter. She’s about as mainstream as you can get.

I’m not going to whine here about everything she said; I hope you can detect the absurdity and vileness in her statements. But let me just say as a white man from Pennsylvania who is neither a racist nor a woman-hater — I’m not pleased.