Contempt is a two-way road

"The president's itinerary is giving him a homespun backdrop for his hard-edged message, taking him past family farms and through fly-speck towns like Peosta, Iowa, (population 1,377) and Alpha, Ill. (pop. 671)."--New York Times, Aug. 16

That big bus might have trouble negotiating the curves and hills out here in gnat-speck (pop. 180). The caravan of reporters following it would be hard pressed, however, to find a lovelier place to live. But they can just keep on going. It's all downhillbilly for the New York Times.