> From: The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <<http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_01_04_atrios_archive.html#10734072882524 2265>> > > Double Standards on Regional Bigotry > > Imagine if I ran an ad which went something like "George Bush should take > his negro lynching, anti-intellectual, pig feet eating, sister-screwing, > wife beating..." before the farmer's wife then finishes the sentence: > "... KKK-loving, right-wing freak show back to Texas where it belongs." > > Mine's slightly more over the top than the actual Club for Growth ad, but > it's no more incorrect. > > -- > > <<http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040105-103754-1355r.htm>> > > In the ad, a farmer says he thinks that "Howard Dean should take his > tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, > Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading ..." before the farmer's wife then > finishes the sentence: "... Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back > to Vermont, where it belongs."
Correction: In the ad they say: "Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, body-piercing, Hollywood-loving, left-wing freak show back to Vermont, where it belongs." Once again showing that anything printed by Sugar Daddy Moon's Propaganda Arm, The Washington Times, should be gone over with a fine grained comb. <<http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/000487.html>> > -- > > For some reason it's perfectly valid to make just about any regional > stereotype about the Hollywood and Northeastern "elite," (which, we > should remember, was just code for "JOOs and Negro-lovers"), but people > get all sensitive when one stereotypes the South and Texas. I don't think > such regional stereotypes are particularly enlightening or useful, but > nor do I think their invocation should provoke the kind of outrage that > genuine racism should. But, why the double standard? > > Of course, the amusing thing about the Club for Growth ad is how wrong it > is - Vermont is not part of the "elite Northeast" to the extent that it > exists, it's a small rural farm state. > > ...for the record, Vermont has precisely two Starbucks for all those > latte drinkers to go to. > > <<http://www.starbucks.com/retail/locator/ViewAll.aspx?a=1&CountryID=244&S tateID=25&FC=RETAIL&City=>> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
