I think I'm as cynical about Sarah Palin's future prospects as any of her fans. The media HATES her with an astounding passion, and will do absolutely anything they have to, to see to it that she never is elected to national office. And I'm not talking about the Rachel Maddow's and Joy Behar's of the world - I expect it from them. I mean the self described 'impartial' media. They're the ones who will leave no lie untold to keep Sarah in the background of American politics. She's not as dim as they think she is; conservatives never are. But for liberals the mythology matters far more than the facts.
With all that though, I'd like to see Katy Couric or whoopie Goldberg do something like this. For the denizens of the upper west side, going to a Greek restaurant in Queens is about the biggest chance they're willing to take. And for that reason if nothing else, I think this is really cool.
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I removed a comment here by someone who looked to me to be professionally engaged in Palin smearing. It was some silly spoof designed to amplify liberal’s view of her as an overreaching and unsophisticated rube. The fact that it was posted about 10 minutes after I put the original post up speaks volumes about how psychotic the liberal media establishment is about her. Somewhere there is a person out there scanning the web for any chance to make her look stupid. If that seems petty and small minded to you, I feel your pain.
I myself came from a trailer park and had to polish off my accent when I came to NYC, so I'm unsympathetic to the view that everyone who grew up west of 11th avenue is a dumb hick. On the contrary, I find people from flyover country to be far more realistic about their own ignorance than urban liberals. And it’s not ignorance that’s ever a problem, no one knows everything. Problems come when you don’t know what you’re talking about but genuinely believe that you do. That describes the liberal view perfectly if you ask me.
If this comment had come from a regular I'd have left it. If the commenter had anything cogent to say about it (rather than representing the spoof as absolutely true) I would have left it. But I see no reason to help facilitate liberal mythology, especially if that mythology is intentional misrepresentation.
Tom - I grew up 18 miles from mid-down (in Westchester County NY) and have worked in and around NYC my whole life. I have been fortunate, however, to have travelled the country (and later, the world) for business extensively.
I have always been struck by this snobbishness of NYC denizens about their fellow countrymen. I can understand someone who says "well, I like the conveniences of the city - life in a rural town is not for me" (something like the reverse of this is what you encounter when you talk so someone in Jefferson, NC, about New York)... but that is never the attitude of New Yorkers - it's a visceral disdain for the backward neanderthals living outside of the major metropolitan centers.
There is a need among these people, of some kind, to group-identify by way of holding 'the other' (to use a popular lefty term) in contempt. And as someone who came to the area later in life, you have probably noticed that this attitude can be even more pronounced among transplants. No-one is more devout than a convert...
It would be interesting to see the breakdown of Palin's fav/unfav ratings by: Within 25 miles of a major (top 5 or 6) urban center vs. outside 25 miles of a major urban center.
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