More joys of living in an ultra-conservative town!
I’m used to the extremely right-wing editorials in our local paper, but this one amazed me! The Sunday Oct 24th edition of the Review Journal had an editorial called “Why Isn’t Kerry Way Ahead?”.
The editorial rambles, and I don’t think there was a single point that was trying to be made. The part that really got to me, though, was when the writer was – apparently – trying to talk about the “liberal media” and the best that he could come up with was “This Week In Washington” – a ½ hour show – on Sunday – at noon – on PBS!!! This was his big indictment!
I had to search to even find this show in my TV guide! So, I watched the show, and it was extremely balanced and gave both sides of the story, which apparently makes it a “liberal” show in the eyes of the Republicans!
The writer then goes on to insult Kerry – repeatedly – as well as the commentator, the French, “unwashed snake-handling Bible-thumpers”, people “still out at the stock car races”, “socialists in California, Daleytown, New York and New England”, “that slow-talking, dimwit, Dwight D. Eisenhower”, “the rest, a huge red mass of pickup trucks with dogs in the back shouting ‘Yahoo’ and anxious to go back and kick tome serious A-rab ass”!
Wow! And this is the main editorial in the main newspaper in town! I guess this is intellectual discourse for the right!
The editorial rambles, and I don’t think there was a single point that was trying to be made. The part that really got to me, though, was when the writer was – apparently – trying to talk about the “liberal media” and the best that he could come up with was “This Week In Washington” – a ½ hour show – on Sunday – at noon – on PBS!!! This was his big indictment!
I had to search to even find this show in my TV guide! So, I watched the show, and it was extremely balanced and gave both sides of the story, which apparently makes it a “liberal” show in the eyes of the Republicans!
The writer then goes on to insult Kerry – repeatedly – as well as the commentator, the French, “unwashed snake-handling Bible-thumpers”, people “still out at the stock car races”, “socialists in California, Daleytown, New York and New England”, “that slow-talking, dimwit, Dwight D. Eisenhower”, “the rest, a huge red mass of pickup trucks with dogs in the back shouting ‘Yahoo’ and anxious to go back and kick tome serious A-rab ass”!
Wow! And this is the main editorial in the main newspaper in town! I guess this is intellectual discourse for the right!
posted by rich at 9:01 AM
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