Huh?

Can anyone make sense of this Dahlia Lithwick op-ed. It is so illogical and poorly reasoned that I am unsure what her argument is.

I also despise how our media overlords claim a clear idea of what the American polity thinks and feels. For example, "Public opinion now turns on which of our leaders makes the best case for having been persecuted, and which has most effectively used the words "I've suffered" as a substitute for "I'm sorry."" And "How else can we explain an American polity horrified when Rush Limbaugh mocked Parkinson's sufferer Michael J. Fox last month, yet willing to look past a Senate ad campaign that cast black Democrat Harold E. Ford Jr. as a masher who preys on white women?" Are both cases the opinion of the general American public or the opinion of our media overlords?