Classist Editors
5 January 2008 - 28 טבת 5768 by Huw
While it’s certainly true I’m no great fan of Pastor Huckabee, the NY Times‘ Tim Egan reports that, seemingly, “real” Republicans don’t like him either.
And then he draws in every stereotype, every annoying, tedious, coastal bigoted image of the rest of us (here in the flyover areas) available. The entire article is a frontal assault on the vast majority of Americans - not because they are Christian or Conservative, but because they eats, sleep, work, shop, play and live differently than the editors of the NY Times. It’s the same crap that my friends in SF say about Asheville. It’s the same crap the blue voters in Asheville utter about the red voters in Buncombe county.
Class war is forbidden in the Republican playbook. But Huckabee, despite an inept last week of campaigning, has forced the Republican party to face the Wal-Mart shoppers that they have long taken advantage of. He’s here. He’s Gomer. And he’s not going away.
The Times takes Huckabee and rubs him in the face of the Republican Party. These are the people whose votes you wanted, so here they are. Guess who’s coming to dinner!
[Republicans honchos] were appalled at the recent YouTube debate because it looked like a parody of one faction of their party - complete with Bible-waving wackos, trigger-happy gun nuts and Confederate-flag enthusiasts.
The Media is manufacturing Pastor Mike’s “populism”, doing such things as the Times is doing here. By casting aspersions on everyone who is not a Manhattanite in mind and soul, the Times and the other media are helping to create Huckabee as the Mass Market Messiah. They are doing far better in their attacks than he, himself, could do from his campaign office. I’m quite certain that a Gay Sometimes-Wannabe-Jew wouldn’t do well in the type of America that the I-♥-Huckabees want to inflict on the rest of us. But I sure as hell don’t want to be part of the Bigoted World of the NY Times. “Republicans in the three-home set should relax. Huckabee may occasionally lack class, but he’s no class warrior.”
It’s the “lack class” line that annoys me. What that means is that he may not be “one of us proper Republicans” but he also not “one of us properly cultured, NYC types” either.
I may have to vote for Huckabee just in the hopes that he pisses off the NY Times even more. The only thing that needs “culture” is yoghurt. We’ll get a coon pie recipe on the pages of the Arts and Leisure Section yet.
