Howard Dean's Northern condescension is showing

Tallahassee ^ | 11/6/03 | Kathleen Parker

[bulldogs]

The dems are going to get there asses kicked in 04. No one, or very few, think they can protect our country. In this environment, security is number 1. I think the senate will be close to 60 republicians. The only ones that think anything will be close is the liberial media. It will be shock and awe for the dems.

[Skip Ripley]

If America wanted an angry nut in the White House, John McCain would have won in 2000. Take a lesson, Howie...

[DeFault User]

Grizzard's comments. I googled Grizzard and the flag and found an article he wrote about a Georgia v. Ole Miss football game. Ole Miss fans all had flags and the band played Dixie repeatedly. From the article:

The football team (Ole Miss) was filled with blacks, two members of the mini-band were black and there was a black family standing outside their van, eating chicken and taking an active part of the post-game celebration. I'm no sociologist, but does it say anything that everybody in that scenario seemed to be getting along nicely?

Maybe Mississippians, both black and white, have it figured out. The key to any sort of co-existence is tolerance, even of symbols that once stood for hate.

[kcvl]

Jake Halpern grew up in Buffalo, New York and attended Yale University. He has written for The New Republic, The New Yorker, Commonwealth and The Jerusalem Report. His newly published first book is called Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava Side Inn, and Extreme Locales. Jake Halpern currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[q_an_a]

did anyone see the dixie chicks at CMA last night? did they perform or present? i know they did not win!!

[q_an_a]

did you notice how in the pciture the folks in boston are all cool and slim while the folks in the heartland are big fat mena and women? what a bunch of crap.

[Windcatcher]

Note the picture. The "enlightened" Bostonians are trim, fit, and oh, so tolerant by holding hands. If the picture could but speak, we'd surely hear the couple singing Kum By Yah (sp?).

Now look in the distance. The rest of us are fat, even obese. We're gluttonous and lazy. We *smoke*. We're evil and represent all the negative aspects of society. No, these Bostonians aren't arrogant, never.

/sarcasm

[arasina]

ROFL! Great pix.

You KNOW Dean is desperate now when he condescends to appear on Fox & Friends like he did this morning! Trying to be the chicken in every pot, are ya, Howie?

[Mark Turbo]

The woman laughed and said, "You Southerners really crack me up. You have a language all your own."

Yeah, we do. If you don't like it, go back home and stick your head in a snow bank.

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But know this: I'm a white man and a Southerner. And I'm sick of being told what is wrong with me from outside critics, and I'm tired of being stereotyped as a refugee from God's Little Acre.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, and I'll probably have to say it a thousand times again: Delta may be hurting financially, but it's still ready to take you back to Toledo whenever you're ready to go.

Lewis Grizzard, "Delta's Ready When You Are, Toledo-Guy", June 1993, The Last Bus to Albuquerque, p.162-164.

[claudiustg]

What self-respecting Southerner would vote for that Yankee fool, Dean? They have plenty of homegrown politicians to insult their intelligence.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

You've got to love this hyperinflated, egocentric doofus! He is the poster boy for Eastern Ivy elitism! If he wasn't so pathetically funny, I'd like to go "up side his head" a few times...not really to to hurt him or anything rural like that...just to see what kind of bongo tonality I could get out of freestylin' on his bean. It's going to be quite hysterical to observe his antics during this election cycle. We can only hope his fellow travelers will join in. Rev. Al showed promise by jumping up in his grill at the last debate. City slicker frat boys are too much fun, don't you think?

[sarge4]

GO DEAN! GO DEAN!! GO DEAN!! GO TO CHINA DEAN!!

[mvpel]

"I Want a Fat Babe" - The Snacktreat Boys

[Between the Lines]

Living in rural South Carolina, I'm surrounded by pickup trucks and, I reckon, good ol' boys.....But I'll be gall-durned if I can remember the last time I saw a Confederate flag - on a truck or off it, as we say in the sticks.

I live in South Carolina and every since the flag flap in Columbia there are thousands of bumper stickers and window decals that have popped up with the Confederate flag on them and the words 'Heritage not Hate'. Even my wife has one on her pickup.

To stereotype southerners as Bubbas driving pickup trucks with Confederate flags is a lie, but so is denying that there is some basis for this stereotype.

[Mears]

I think you have to be a paid subscriber to Boston Magazine and I'll never give them another nickle,the jerks.

They have a very small picture on their web site of the one that was in the magazine but the devil is in the details and can't be seen in the small pic.

They show,in the magazine picture, two slim,young people holding white wine in one hand,looking at the Boston Mag's idea of everyone else. All the others are very fat,smoking cigs,packing a piece, drinking beer,eating from McDonalds bags and shopping at Walmart.There are also a few tractors and cows in the background.

That gives you an idea of what Boston Magazine thinks of the rest of the country.It makes me embarassed to say that I was born in Boston and have always lived in Metro Boston.

[Mears]

See post # 35--I posted that before I saw your question.

Mears

[Mears]

More info--

They ask"Are Bostonians actually better than other Americans?Here's the breakdown".

1. We're smarter.

2. They own guns and shop at Walmart.

3. We're younger and single or living together.

4. We're healthier;They're fatter and smoke more.

5. We make more money.

6. They're more Republican.


Of course there is an article to go along with these "facts",but you get the picture.

[.cnI redruM]

What a bunch of condescending s----.

[Endeavor]

So let me get this straight, these are the same people who can't seem to finish a tunnel on time and on budget; whose gun control isn't working (the Boston bus shooting this week); whose airport security is so poor that two of the four hijacked planes initiated from there; and we're supposed to believe these are superior beings? Ha! If I DID believe that, then I WOULD be as dumb as they claim I am!

[Mears]

You forgot the Boston public schools!!!!!!!!