Posted on 01/09/2005 12:38:56 PM PST by UB355
Feingold's ignorant original article
http://www.jsonline.com/news/editorials/jan05/291010.asp
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Senator, don’t judge us so quickly! By MORGAN MANN Posted: Jan. 8, 2005 Recently Sen. Russ Feingold visited my place of residence, Greenville, Ala., and in a shameless example of political opportunism, penned an article the likes of which would have made our former Gov. George Wallace proud.
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Feingold labeled Greenville “the reddest spot on the entire map,” a place of economic decay demonstrated by check-cashing stores on every corner, run-down used car lots peddling rusted-out hulks, a citizenry with no prospect of health coverage, and, of course, endless trailers.
The latter portrayal undoubtedly offered up so as to reinforce the stereotype that so many of his elitist ilk so eagerly embrace when it relates to rural Alabama.
Feingold portrays the citizenry as too preoccupied with the encroachment of homosexual culture and abortion to be conscious of their own poverty and wretchedness.
It is what Feingold failed to tell you about Greenville that speaks volumes about his party and its love affair with a backward and totally destructive ideology that has been rejected time and again.
The senator did not disclose that Greenville is on the cusp of an economic boom that has even drawn the attention of The Wall Street Journal.
This is a boom coming more than a decade after the disastrous impact on the local manufacturing economy from the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
How is it that he can say that there are no promising job opportunities when two international automotive suppliers will soon open the doors of multimillion dollar facilities to 1,000 plus workers, with many more such jobs to be added in the inevitable expansions that will follow?
He managed to locate a used car lot tucked away on some forgotten corner of the bypass but failed to notice the sparkling new facilities of two of six banks.
Will these “evil, greedy corporations” not pay the wages that will allow their employees to purchase a method of transportation other than a clunker, nor provide the health coverage?
Feingold made no mention of the gorgeous tree-lined streets, the stately and affordable homes ranging from antebellum and Victorian to modern contemporary, nor of the state-of-the-art public high school so clearly visible from I-65.
The senator spoke not of the abundance of churches, from Catholic and Episcopalian on one end of the denominational spectrum to Church of Christ on the other, all of which are well-attended and function as pillars of the community, all in harmony with one another.
Each of these things contributed to the designation of Greenville, by one Web site, as the “Best Small Town in America.”
Ironically, he saw what he wanted to see and heard nothing, for he failed to talk to anyone. He merely submitted to his deep-seeded biases, which were undoubtedly instilled in him in the poisonous leftist culture of Harvard University.
Forgive us if we reject outright the type of country that Feingold and his party wish to create. They call us the “red states”; however, the moniker of “red” is a more accurate descriptor of his party.
The attacks on businesses, religion and the traditional family are chillingly similar to the war that the Bolsheviks waged against these institutions in Russia.
In the fictional world presented to us in George Orwell’s “1984,” love was referred to as hate, and war as peace.
So, today, we have a group of left-wing idealogues including the senator from Wisconsin, who package decadence and market it to the masses as progressive.
Witness how he labels the residents, who choose to live their lives in the manner that Americans have for 300 years, in a place that is a living Norman Rockwell painting with an admitted Southern twist - not as traditionalists, but in his preferred term: radical conservatives!
So when Feingold dons his smoking jacket and ascot and sips his cognac while sitting in his winged-backed chair by the fire, may he be conscious of the fact that he has demonstrated to the residents of Greenville, Ala., that ignorance, narrow-mindedness and bigotry exists even among those with Ivy League pedigrees.
It is this point, my dear Sen. Feingold, that Ronnie Van Zant was trying to convey when he said “that a Southern man doesn’t need him around anyhow.”
May you not soon forget it.
Morgan Mann lives in Greenville, Ala.
From the Jan. 9, 2005, editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
I've been to Greenville, Alabama and thought it was a fine small southern town.
It also has the best two golf courses I have ever played (On the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail).
Feingold doesn't represent Wisconsin.
No, he's not a U.S. representative from Wisconsin if that's what you mean but he is a U.S. Senator elected by a majority of the voters in Wisconsin.
BTW, Russ did mention that Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI is the most segregated city in America (cities w/ 1,000,000 population & at least 3% African-American minority), didn't he? /s
Gee I would of thought that the reddest part of the nation would be filled with rich evil Republicans...
The liberals are having a hard time keeping their stories straight.
This esteemed (sarcasm) senator who insults a red city should come to my garbage blue state, New York.
Here we go with the tired old class envy shtick again. Fiengold is acting like all the other communists who hijacked the Democratic Party. The man knows nothing about the South, yet he's going to tell us what is in our "own families’ basic interests". To him and all the other pink-o's in his party, that means taxes taxes taxes!!!
Dont pay any attention to his screed...he presides over a subset of WI that has been annexed by liberal Marxists from Chicago....he is not really a true Wisconsite...of the old north woods variety.
Feingold is a FIB at heart always has been always will be...
Rip the senator a new one BUMP!!
" ... he presides over a subset of WI that has been annexed by liberal Marxists from Chicago ... "
He won 55% of the WI vote in November, that's one hell of a subset!
I know he serves in the senate. If more Wisconsinites knew what was in his heart, he'd be out of there...
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