Watching over the morning coffee as various Tech pundits we know and love weighed in on Twitter, Friendfeed etc about the terrible goings on in the US Election run off.

(For the uninitiated, much of the New Media is populated by the US Coastal Elite, who are staunch Obama-ites and of course are horrified by Ms Palin and even more horrified that the lumpen proletariat may actually vote her and Mr McCain in).

Given that many of these same people have been among the most vociferous crusaders for various Wisdom of Crowds services, and things like Net Neutrality to ensure that the voices of those without power get through, it did strike me that there was a certain incongruity here.

In other words, when the 2.0 crowd talk about the “Wisdom of Crowds”, do they mean that its fine for helping Mall Man buy consumer tat from their companies – but for serious situations like, oh, the practice of democracy, its time for the Coastal Elites to take over?

Tom Lehrer foresaw all this in the 1950′s of course – thats the video above