We made the big time

When there are television cameras in Columbia, it usually means there is something bad happening.
But Monday, the bright lights of the television cameras weren’t in town highlighting something. They were using Columbia as a representative of “small town” America to gauge reaction to remarks made last wee by Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.
Campaigning in San Francisco, Sen. Obama commented about working class voters from small towns.
“Its not surprising, then, they get bitter,” Obama said in San Francisco.
“They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” Obama said.
Those remarks got the brain waves moving at ABC World New Tonight. They were looking for a small town to see what the reaction was.
That brought Jake Tapper, a producer for World News Tonight, along with a camera man and two technicians to Columbia.
Tapper basically was looking for small town America and he got it. Tapper said York and Lancaster cities weren’t considered and Columbia was chosen over Wrightsville because it had a lot more to offer.