This same arsewipe would be screaming bloody murder if anyone published a piece about the “ghettoisation” of American culture.
Don’t let your typewriter hit you in the A$$ on your way out you maroon.
“Read more at newsweek.com”
Ummmmmm....No.
One ... two ... three ... HEAVE!
Hey, dufus, the South was mostly Democratic from 1828 up until Jimmy Carter's disastrous administration.
What a moron!
Ill advised? You usually do not win if you do not take risks.
Lee came damn close to winning at Gettysburg, a poor aim here and a CMofH performance by 20th Maine and the outcome quite probably would have differed.
Just one more revelation of the kind of ungrateful, disgusting scum we have in this country. Why are these primates allowed to breed?
This guy hasn't a clue, there is a lot of commonality in ideas between us Typical White People, than this turkey realizes.
This clueless putz probably thinks it’s a national tragedy that the MSM is on deathwatch. This is the closest I’ve come to reading Newsweek in about 10 years.
i like the gal that was voted off and i think she should not have been and i think her “Jesus Christ Superstar” performance was one of the two best vocals on that night
but i don't think she should worry, she has enough talent that some agents are most likely already seeking to manage what i believe will be a good musical career but
my take on why she was voted off is that she had fewer fans among the teenyboppers who are keeping a little-talent dread-locked young white guy on the show (hardly the favorite of the American “south” the author hates so much)
my other take on possibilities is that no idol contestant has made it into the final four sporting prominent tattoos or body rings/piercings (the voted off gal has a prominent tattoo on her right shoulder)
by this point in the contest it is a popularity contest more than a singing contest - steady fans care less about an individual nite's performance than how well they have already appreciated the sum of a contestant's performances up to that point - the ones you favor can have a bad individual nite and you still vote for them
but leave it newspeak to look for something sinister in the american people
“Yet John McCain, even with the GOP nomination in hand, would never dare repeat his brave but politically foolhardy condemnation of the religious right in 2000 as “agents of intolerance.” Why? Because we have become an intolerant nation, and that’s what gets you elected.”
This writer is just one more elitist hater with his nose in the air. Not worth dwelling upon.
A particularly idiotic remark. Wilson was the quintessential Yankee. There wasn't anything southern about him.
Carly Smithson took what should have been a ticket to the next round, shanked the lyrics at least twice and--although she has a good voice--shrieked and screeched and bellowed her way into turn down the volume land. How that proves that we Bible-thumpin', gun-totin' southern turnip truck refugees have managed to destroy the wonderful land that surely God and General Grant intended be run by northeastern elites is apparent only to Mr. Hirsch, graduate of something called "Tufts" which we hickory nuts assumed were scruffy hair patches that appeared where they shouldn't be, sort of like on the underarms of girls in Massachusetts and France which, as it turns out, are home to "Tufts" campuses.
Not content with such world class foolishness, Mr. Hirsch goes on to suggest that Senator Obama's "association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weatherman Bill Ayers" is justified because "after Obama graduated from college he became an inner-city organizer in Chicago, and they were natural allies for someone in a situation like that." I suppose that had Obama arrived on the Chicago scene decades earlier, fresh out of business school and becoming a bank employee, folks named Capone or Sutton would have been "natural allies."
Its an incoherent mess, but it goes as follows:
He thinks someone got voted off “American Idol” for singing a supposedly “controversial” song, which isn’t what happened, of course. Its at that stage of the contest, there are only the talented performers left, so at this stage everyone who leaves is a talented performer. And only in Hirshworld is a 35 year-old rock opera “controversial”.
He thinks the south has taken over America, by which he means the south, west, and mid-west have taken over America, but he tries to make that sound like a bad thing by associating the 3/4 of America he doesn’t like with the old confederacy, although the party he doesn’t like defeated the confederacy and the party he does like “was” the confederacy. And what he doesn’t like about them is what he calls “radical patriotism”.
He goes on to complain about that fact that evangelicals and believing catholics seem to have found one another. I’ve noticed the same thing, but in my world its a good thing, but it seems to bother Hirsh quite a lot.
There is one line that is rich, and it is one which I heartily agree with. He thinks Obama should excuse his friendship with Ayers and Wright by explaining that they are natural allies for someone like him. Which, I think, is precisely what the rest of us have been trying to say, and Hirsh has now expressed it for us very eloquently. Yes, Ayers, Wright, and Obama are natural allies. There is no doubting it.
He wishes McCain would find the nerve to repeat his attacks on conservative Christians, and believes that the fact he doesn’t is due to the fact that this is an intolerant nation. Yes, Hirsh is right, the catholics and evangelicals who have found one another are intolerant of intolerance directed at them. Or maybe they aren’t, but what politician wants to risk alienating the very people he is trying to snooker into voting for him? So, for Hirsh, this obvious dark night of intolerance, during which politicians don’t dare to insult their voters, can only mean that the confederacy has risen again, to vote singers off of American Idol.
Whatever he gets paid to write this stuff, its too much.
Hirsh shows the Marxist thought that got him a job at Newsweek and has been driving Newsweek circulation down.
What a revolting, ignorant article. It brought to mind an episode of Southpark where a perfect storm of smug occurred at South Park when the San Fransisco smug merged with the smug from George Clooney’s Academy Award speech. These people are insufferable.
Does this Michael Hirsh ever get his head out of his navel and visit the planet? Please try to keep up with this century Michael.
Will someone investigate the makers of those tainted immunizations? The evidence of subtle autism is becoming more and more prevalent.
1. The Scots-Irish did not clear out Ulster under James I. That was Elizabeth I's doing. James settled the lands with Scots after the lands were seized when the previous owners joined one of many rebellions in Ulster. Many of the poor Irish were still there - someone had to do the work, and most didn't want any part of Ulster.
2. Scots-Irish were not necessarily Southern. They fought on both sides of the Civil War. They also settled in New Hampshire and Maine, as well as the Rockies.
3. Scots-Irish presidents run the gambit of Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Grant (there's a contrast, Polk and Grant), Arthur, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Nixon, Reagan(mom's side), and Bill Clinton. There's some diversity in its real meaning. Their politics range from leftist (Wilson) to conservative (Reagan).