The New York Times did a rear-kissing profile of new White House press secretary Jay Carney. This is a trick as old as dirt. A new press secretary is named and the in-crowd media slobber all over him or her, if he or she is a Democrat, that is.

They report that Carney is a salt-of-the-earth kind of common man. No elitist he:

Mr. Carney grew up in Northern Virginia. He attended the Lawrenceville School, an exclusive boarding school near Princeton, N.J., and then Yale. But he did not have the blue-blood, silver-spoon-in-mouth pedigree of many of his peers.

Isn’t it funny that when liberally biased Democratic news reporters go to hoity-toity private schools like the Lawrenceville School (tuition $46,000) and Yale, they’re still not blue bloods nor do they have silver spoons in their mouths.

But when a Republican sends his kids to a private high school in an effort to find more rigorous academics, they are immediately branded elitists by the elitist media. Like Jay Carney and The New York Times.

Question for the editors and reporters of the Times: Just what does a Democrat have to do to be considered to have a “blue-blood, silver-spoon-in-mouth pedigree,” be the Prince of Wales?