Why not say it

Only a Democrat gives a shit about repairing New Orleans for the poor people who used to live there, yet there's no mention in the editorial of the yawning partisan divide. Instead, the liberal media as represented by the New York Times is too ... establishment to say something so direct and obvious and hurtful to one side of the great bipartisan elite who really run this country and most of the buffets that journalists might graze on.

(Wow. That sounds really bitter.)