| re: NJC (U.S. Politics): Bill Maher speaks up for the East Coast | |
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John_Galt (g_brandon_martin@ureach.com) 08:34 am UTC 09/18/08 |
| In reply to: | NJC (U.S. Politics): Bill Maher speaks up for the East Coast - Vin 01:53 pm UTC 09/17/08 |
| I can't resist... > "All right. Finally, New Rule: Just because you live in > the middle of nowhere doesn't make you more authentic > than me. It just means you have a much longer drive to > the airport. This "authenticity" bit comes from a guy who accessorizes by offering to pay fuglies like Coco Johnson to hang out with him. And he's still doing a schtick based on the premise he's a libertarian when everyone knows he became a celebrity socialist years ago. > But, what Mitt was getting at is that the East Coast is > where all the liberals, with their bad ideas, come from. > You know, bad ideas like the Declaration of Independence > and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. As opposed > to the brilliant ideas that have come out of the west > like frontier justice and wearing cowboy boots with a > suit. This doesn't make sense. Are you really suggesting that Mitt meant that the bad ideas were coming from constituationalists and founders from over 200 years ago instead of today's modern New England liberals, a la Ted Kennedy and Charlie Rangel? Or do you want us to believe that it is profound or meaningful in any way that you can connect Ted Kennedy and James Madison geographically and imply speciously that that means something philosphically? It doesn't, and everyone knows it. Oh, and cowboy boots have more style than fugly escorts, Bill. > The ideas this nation was founded on came from the most > cosmopolitan people of their day, the founding fathers, > who believed in science, who looked to Europe for wisdom, > and who had no use for ignorant hicks like Bush and > Palin. Bill, you need a history lesson on early America. Early America was largely an agrarian society of large plots and small towns. The Boston of yesteryear wasn't the Boston that welcomes you to do lame political preaching and revisionist history... er, I mean what you call standup. Many early Americans hunted, belonged to militias, and believed in God in ways that kinda resemble what you find offensive about Sarah Palin. While some were deists and others could read Montesquieu, few Early Americans would have seen the fact that Bush and Palin are mainstream Christians who like the countryside and can be unilateral in their temperment as qualification for the "ignorant hicks" label. > Truth is - the truth is, as America moved west and got > farther away from its birthing in Boston and > Philadelphia, > it became less American, not more. We keep hearing about > small-town values, you know, like shooting wolves from an > airplane or forcing your daughter into a doomed, loveless > marriage. > Cities are about diversity of thought. Small towns are > about...well, crystal meth. And, last year, police found > 42 meth labs in Sarah Palin's home county. Drug addiction > is a terrible thing, but apparently it beats living in > Wasilla sober. I'm not sure about shooting wolfs from above, but people here in the big city shoot other people on the freeway far too often. Oh, and in case the crack whore of the week on your arm hasn't told you, there's a bit of a recreational drug problem in the City, too. Bill, you're an unfunny snob. You think you're intelligent and superior because you point out that people in small towns have problems. That's not profound, insightful, or funny --- especially since Palin and company have never claimed otherwise. But here's something to think about: The last time I bumped into you, you were wearing makeup for a late night trip to Blockbuster Video in Westwood with some escort with a comically fake rack and a crooked smile. You looked so unhappy it was actually depressing to see you. Just be glad Sarah Palin wants liberty and respect instead of a diss-off because I assure you that even people in young marriages who hunt and live in small towns have a very, very good shot at a better life than you seem to be living. -=John Galt=- | |
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