WaPo Writer Disgusted by Town Hall Protesters 'Lack of Fashion'

NewsBusters ^ | August 16, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

You know what the real problem is with the town hall protesters according to writer Robin Givhan of the Washington Post? It's not so much their ideas, about which she writes almost nothing. What really irks Givhan is what she considers their lousy sense of fashion which she criticizes harshly in her "On Culture" article. Givhan starts out dripping with disdain on the subject of town hall protester attire:

It seems safe to say that of the hundreds of thousands of style guides currently for sale on Amazon, not one of the didactic, shop-your-closet authors was prescient enough to outline the appropriate attire for those public occasions when good citizens decide to behave like raving lunatics and turn lawmakers into punching bags. What does one wear to a town hall meeting on health care when the sole reason for attending is to shout down one's congressman like a peevish teenager in the midst of a hormonal rage?

[PJ-Comix]

And, yes, the Brooks Brothers accusation is brought up. Read the full story.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Yeah, but didn’t someone else complain that the townhall protesters must have been organized because they were too well dressed?

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[PJ-Comix]

Sigh! Read the whole story.

[alecqss]

Ok..., nowadays policy and politics debate comes to one thing - whether that or this politician and/or constituent is, hmm..., cool” or not. Thank God, journos are not out of fashion... Wait, are they?

[frankenMonkey]

Bad, Bad Protesters!

[originalbuckeye]

The superficiality of the Left knows no bounds.

[libertarian27]

Maybe we should all show up wearing snazzy Boob-Belts....

[Pearls Before Swine]

Sigh! Read the whole story.

Right you are. So was I, but hasty (meaning I misinterpreted the author's take).

[Tax Government]

It’s hard to think a greater unintended compliment, than to say the protesters lack a sense of fashion.

[Babu]

Perhaps the hoity toity libtard crowd would prefer we all wear camouflage to townhall events??

Oh vey, then their heads would really explode, eh?

[ArchAngel1983]

Sounds like she misses the good ol’ days of dirty smelly hippies protesting in their levis and flip-flops’. Now that’s a style’n!

[Desdemona]

It's become great sport in my house to watch the town hall videos and check out the "Brooks Brothers" fashions. "Oh, yeah, that's an outfit by Brooks Brothers, alright." I doubt seriously BB has ever sold denim.

What an elitist nitwit.

[mkcc30]

and they accuse US of class warfare.

Keep running your fliptop mouths you pseudo-erudite elitists, puppets to the “cause”. Sharpen your sticks that you keep poking the bear with.

[jersey117]

Amazing that the media could find no criticism of obama getting off Air Force One dressed in baggy jeans, looking like the three card monte hustler that he is.

[SandRat]

Bet she’d be happy if the crowds were wearing Mao, Ho Chi Min, or Che Guevara T-Shirts.

[basil]

Bingo! I think you figured her out! She does miss the hippies......

[Enterprise]

A point the article made was that on the one hand some are accusing the protesters of being too well dressed, and here comes janey come lately accusing them of not being well dressed enough.

[Ozone34]

And what does a Washington Post writer wear when angrily typing out a peevish story about a silly subject such as town hall protester fashion like an elitest liberal in the midst of hormonal rage at the "unwashed masses?" A tie-dyed mumu and a pair of clunky Birkenstocks?

LOL!!!

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