Good article. I have also had people (well, the sort of people the author describes, the "right kind" of people) say incredibly insulting things to my face and get so enraged they completely lose it if I merely mention that I support Bush.
But I hope the author doesn't wear a Kerry tee shirt on her next trip. It's a free country, as we say, and it's her right to like Bush and proclaim it, regardless of the opinions of the elite. It just takes a bit of courage, but freedom has never been free.
Or maybe the next time she goes to NY, she should look up some NYC Freepers.
I live in New York City and have discovered on many occasions the power of the simple words "I admire Bush" to inspire tirades, tears and temper tantrums. It was disconcerting at first, but after a while I began to feel a sense of power. At any rate, trying to fit in by keeping a low profile is hopeless. Eventually, you'll hear some idiocy that makes you lose your cool. Be honest from the beginning and the advantage remains on your side.
People like Ms. Latte crack me up. I've known quite a few.
The part that really cracks me up is that they can, in one breath, say that people like us see everything in black and white and, in the next, say that is bad. They speak in SUCH terms of black and white that, examining their views, you'd never suspect that they believe anything is "shades of grey". In their minds, Bush is absolutely bad. People who vote for Bush are absolutely bad. People who take their religion seriously are absolutely bad. War in Iraq is absolutely bad. Extreme enviromentalist measures are absolutely good. So-called "Seperation of Church and State" is absolutely good.
I've never seen any evidence that some of these people understand what true nuance is. Nuance is merely an excuse to hold their black and white views in the face of contradictory evidence they simply do not like.
I realize that this will upset my Chabadnik friends, but thank goodness those west side, hollywood type are intermarrying themselves out of existance. THe goyim can have them. but then again we might still get the blame.
I found much the same reaction on business trips to New York if politics was discussed. Don't step back a milimetre - usually you can catch them in their inconsistencies and go in for the kill when you make it clear that all they're supporting is snuggling up to the likes of Saddam Hussein.
Regards, Ivan
Boy Ms Latte sure sounds like Juliet Huddy. HEHEHE
Aha! Something we finally agree on.
That dumb bee-otch would have been wearing her latte on her blouse if she'd called me stupid for supporting Pres. Bush.
You know, I wonder to whom exactly this foreign correspondent would cry out to had she been in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon or on any of the planes on 911-- or on any of the buses or in the buildings that regularly blow up in Israel?
She doesn't appreciate either the threat of terrorism or the love of God it appears.
Being that Ms. Coffee Latte (or whatever she drinks) has such disdain and loathing for believers in God, I guess she feels invincible in her terribly self-centered world.
It must be so very difficult to be a giant like she is, having to walk around in life looking so far down at people all the time. Pity.
Why ruin a perfectly good breakfast?
Important to note that this author is himself probably a rather liberal guy on political/social issues. He is merely saying that Bush is the man for the survival of Western Civilization, and that the Michael Moore wing of the left--a big chunk of the Democrats and the Eastern elite--have really gone off their rocker. That leaves the center and the right to the Republicans; witness 55 Republican senators...
I once walked into the office of a newspaper editor and told him it was one thing to insult Ronald Reagan. It was quite another to insult everyone who voted for Reagan,(something he had just done on his editorial page) quite a number of whom subscribed to his newspaper.
He was shocked I called him on it, IN PERSON.
It's been years and I still remember the look on his face and the joy in my heart from putting the pinhead in his place.
Thank God.
This article reminded me of the most excellent time I had strolling into the local Starbucks the morning after the election. I stood in line with the latte crew whistling "There's a bright golden haze on the meadow" from the musical "Oklahoma." The looks I got: they were tasty! It was a MegaGLOAT of epic proportions. The next morning in the same Starbucks I got to expound on the incomparable beauties of Canada to a fat, skanky, lesbian professoress with a straight face (mine, not the professoress'). Ahhhh . . . Golden Days.
I have this conversation weekly sometimes....I usually get the Bush is stupid AND evil. Then I have to explain you can't be both stupid AND evil....choose one. It stumps them.