Posted on 10/16/2008 1:49:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
One of my favorite parts of hitting the campaign trail is chatting with cabdrivers, who always seem especially eager to discuss politics. (Listening to talk radio all day will do that to you.)
Take my cabbie this evening out on Long Island. A black man in his mid-40's who arrived in the U.S. from Jamaica in 1990, Steve was something of an enigma. As we motored from the Garden City station to the local Marriott, Steve immediately asked whether I was attending the debate. I told him I was a reporter for Newsweek. "Is that in the city?" he said, drawing a blank; I explained that it was "like Time." "Oh," he said. "You know, I've been following the politics, what's going on. It's my hobby."
As if to prove his point, Steve flipped from FM (Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'") to AM, where he settled on Michael Savage's "Savage Nation." (I was deeply saddened by the change.) "I listen to this guy, Savage, all the time," he said. "He gives me both sides of an issue." Considering that Savage, an arch-rightie, was blabbering at that point about how the "false conservative" (Bush) had selected the "old man" (McCain) as his "fall guy" so that "BO" ("Obama") would win the election and allow the "power structure" to "usher in worldwide socialism," I assumed that Steve was something of a conservative (or simply a conspiracist). When he mentioned that he agreed with "most of what Bill O'Reilly says," that simply sealed the deal.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.newsweek.com ...
How many interviews with PUMAs are they doing? None.
Newsweak pretends that no liberals ever listen or call in to “Right Wing radio”.
So he doesn’t know what Newsweek is but he’s voting for Obama anyway.
Well, it just goes to show ya, taxi cab drivers can be stupid too.
Jus’ helpin’ a brutha out, mon.
Racist. :)
Let’s see: New York cabbie likes entertaining radio = Reagan Democrat voting for Obama???
Their math still doesn’t work. People aren’t easily categorized. Ask Jann Wenner how he wished he knew that prior to attacking Palin in US Weekly.
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