Princess Caroline Takes a Beating

Having been safely ensconced on Fifth Avenue all these years, I wonder if she's ever been to Utica, Syracuse and Rochester before and mingled with the little people?

Well, apparently the locals aren't so enthused about this lame "listening tour," ripped straight from the carpetbagger pages of Her Thighness, Queen Hillary of Rodham.

Caroline Kennedy took a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook and began an upstate listening tour On Wednesday.

The road trip included stops in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo to help convince Gov. David Paterson and voters she's the one to replace Clinton in the U.S. Senate.

But it was a tough crowd.

The black SUV pulled up to Syracuse city hall Wednesday morning. It was stop one on Kennedy's upstate tour.

But after meeting with Mayor Matt Driscoll, she ran into a buzz saw -- angry reporters who wanted her to do more talking and less listening.

"But you've never held public office so what experience [do you have]?" one reporter asked.

Actually, she did speak briefly in Syracuse.

"I wanted to come upstate and meet with Mayor Driscoll and others to tell them about my experience and also learn more about how Washington can help these communities," Kennedy said.

Her quick remarks fell flat. Reporters seemed to feel brushed off and they pursued her out.

Don't they feel satisfied just to be in the presence of royalty? How dare they question the Princess? And by the way, why is she now called Mrs. Kennedy? What happened to her last name (it's Schlossberg, by the way)?

Not for nothing, but Mrs. Clinton didn't do diddly squat for Central and Western New York, which long preceded the nation into recession. You can also bet the fresh 137 taxes Governor Paterson is about to impose won't do much of anything for those regions other than drive more residents out of state.

Update: Mrs. Schlossberg's listening tour took her to Harlem today where she broke bread with racial arsonist/Democrat kingmaker Al Sharpton. I have a hunch she was the one doing the listening.