RADICAL CHIC, THE GERITOL YEARS:

● Establishment Media Bury Obama-Farrakhan Photo.

● “Managing editor of The Beat DC, Tiffany Cross, said Democrats should treat their state of the union response like a ‘trailer for the black panther party,’ Sunday on MSNBC’s ‘AM Joy.’”

● The deep meaning of Keith Ellison.

In 2005, on the 35th anniversary of Leonard and Felicia Bernstein’s infamous fundraising party for the Black Panthers in their uber-swank Park Ave. duplex that inspired Tom Wolfe’s epochal “Radical Chic” article for New York magazine, I asked: “Has radical chic run its course?… the next four years will be interesting to watch, indeed. The wheels came off [for the Democrats as they moved further and further left during McGovern’s run] in ’72. This might be their last chance to put them back on.”

Given Alan Dershowitz’s shocked reaction this past week that he would not have campaigned for Obama had he known about his affiliation with Farrakhan, burying the Obama-Farrakhan photo may have bought the Democrats some breathing room in 2008. But radical chic continues to be one of the key motivators for that “progressive” party, despite being a half-century old worldview.