At 02:17 PM 1/6/2004 -0600 The Fool wrote:
>http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_01_04_atrios_archive.html#1073407288252422
>65
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>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.
Slightly?
This country has zero-tolerance for white-on-black race based insults.
That's the real reason for the difference.
Cultural steroetypes of West Virginia are just as permissible as of Vermont
in American culture for better-or-for-worse, and it has nothing to do with
your delusions of right-wing-media-bias.
JDG
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