The icons of glamour and glitz all said John Kerry was the only choice for people with any intelligence -- but Middle America didn't care, says Michael Coren
Remember when Streisand wanted everybody else to dry their clothes on a line?
Robert Redford is another hypocrit.
I would compare IQ's with any of them.
Saved this one to my desktop!!!
I wish to God, that people would quit telling me that I don't.
I DON'T LIKE KERRY!!!!
Great find, Clive!
That sub-head bears some examination.
The icons of glamour and glitz, the famous entertainers, are generally surrounded by people whose job it is to attend to their needs, or else who want to stroke their ego in some fashion so as to get some of their fame, power, or money. Certainly there are the details of business to attend to, and that can require some hard decisions. But for the most part, they are surrounded by people who admire or respect them.
But they forget that there are a lot of people who don't do either. Oprah Winfrey has 26 million people watching her show. That's a lot of people who care about what she says. It gives her money and influence. God knows that I'd be lucky to get anyone outside my immediate family and friends to watch me on TV. But that number means that around 11 out of 12 people in the U.S. don't watch her show.
Celebrities are surrounded by people who care what they say. TV shows, newspapers, and magazines are supported by simply selling their pictures, details of their private lives, and interviews of what they say. In the midst of this, and given that many of them are otherwise quite unsophisticated, it's understandable that they don't see beyond the crowd surrounding them and realize that all this respresents only a tiny fraction of the entire country.
I don't watch many movies. Outside of a weakness for Law and Order and cop shows, I don't watch too many TV dramas (sports, news, the History channel are what I watch otherwise). I don't read People magazine or watch E! or the Oscars or the Emmys. I do listen to rock music, but refreshingly enough there are a lot of rock stars who'd be the first to tell you that you'd have to be an idiot to take your political cues from them. And anyway, half the time I'm lucky if I can ID the band, never mind the band's members. I'm interested in their music. That's way different from being interested in them.
What do I read? Scientific American, National Geographic, Sky and Telescope, Outside, the Chicago Tribune's front section, funnies, and sports pages. And I read a number of blogs. I'm not watching TV on a lot of weekday nights because I'm at Boy Scout Troop meeting, Church choir practice, vestry meetings, or a Boy Scout adult leader meeting. Celebrities' output aren't in my life much. They need to look at their numbers and realize that I'm in an overwhelming majority in this country.
This is good. I sent it to everyone on my e-mail list, some of whom I am sure are wondering how this could happen.
One of Coren's better efforts.
Normally, he annoys me. ;^)
bttt
Bump for later read
The people of middle America unveiled a vaccine against the disease of liberalism on November 2, 2004. Don't forget to go to the polls for your booster shots every year.
Middle America remembered a time when actors, singers and writers reflected the nation. These performers no longer aspired to reflect but to reshape it in their own narcissistic image. John Kerry was too close to that clan, too much part of the culture of smug assumption. It wasn't George Bush who was the victor last week, but men and women who stood up and announced to the self-defined elites that "the people" is not a concept but a flesh-and-blood reality. And one that bites back.
I disagree. While telling our "betters to shove it" we were doing it FOR President Bush. He was the victor & "they" might as well get over it.
Yes, Howard Stern. America listened to Stern and his giggling sidekick explain why only a "retard" would vote for George Bush. In between fart noises and references to naked lesbians, this tired peddler of smut made fun of people who spoke with southern accents and voted on "moral issues."
Hehehe.
Woohoo! Great article - thanks for posting!