Stine hates Americans who made him rich!
Posted on 11/08/2010 11:41:55 PM PST by roses of sharon
'I am so glad I live in New York City and not the United States,” the author RL Stine wrote last week on Twitter. That New Yorkers view the rest of America with contempt is no secret, but the elections last week were a vivid reminder of their alienation from the rest of the country. “It feels like 2004 all over again,” one friend told me.
The mood on the street was sombre on Tuesday night, with most choosing to watch the results from home, rather than seeing events unfold from a bar, as they did two years ago. One friend implored online: “Let sanity prevail!” Another staunch East Coast Republican called the Tea Party “anger without an agenda”. The week before, a magazine writer referred to the Tea Partiers as “Second Amendment zealots and s---kickers”, and went on to call the prospect of Sarah Palin as president “a kind of spook story told around a campfire”.
Election or not, New Yorkers still regard the places between the two coasts as the “fly-over states”: the unglamorous bits full of fat people who go to church. (I’ve been to Ohio, and the generalisation isn’t far off.)
In fact, for such a cosmopolitan city, it’s astonishing how parochial people are. “If you want to find Middle America,” says one friend of mine, “just drive an hour outside of any city.” The Panhandle states, he says, are thought of as “the Redneck Riviera”; Wyoming and Montana are Unabomber country.
Four years ago, Eliot Spitzer, the then attorney general, was campaigning for governor and got into trouble for comparing upstate New York to Appalachia. He was accused of “city-centric elitism”. But he’s far from the only one who starts humming the theme from Deliverance as soon as he gets beyond the city limits.
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Bigots.
One day that asshat is going to realize that most of the foreign policy decisions that get America drawn into brouhahas are caused by people in New York and DC. But it's the rest of America whose kids are sent to fight in the wars that result.
Scary people are starting to notice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNqK4jngcs
They hate us, but love our tax money that supports their system.
I’m from NYC and I have to admit that I am not in tune with the style of the tea party demonstrators. But I am 100% in support of the substance.
Escape from New York before its too late....
The comments are pure NYC. The article snides that NYC’ers are too cool to be impressed with celebrity (actors) but brags it is excited by ‘real people’ (Sully, the pilot who landed the plane on the river, one of the Chilean miners). So someone else commented that Sully and the miner are exactly the type of people (from flyover country) that NYC’ers purport to hate.
I liked this comment:
The sentiment is reciprocated. My Grandfather was billeted with men from NYC during the First World War. He preferred the French, (...and if you knew his opinion of the French!) Well, let’s just say the boys from NYC didn’t impress my grandfather - they were neither men nor soldiers.
Very unoriginal.
lol I was wondering why his name was so familiar. Author of some crappy books that I remembered from elementary school.
Yep, one “Goosebumps” would have been enough.
Thanks!
None of those books were that scary except for the Dummy ones.
Eh, Michael Savage always says New Yorkers don’t know much about America west of the Hudson River. Says he used to think that way back when he lived in NY. That’s why guys like Sean Hannity actually thought Rudy Giuliani (ultimate RINO) would make a good president.
I am from NYC and lived there for 32 years.
After living in Berlin for the last 13 years and knowing what a real city life can be like, I would never move back to NYC.
I tell the couple of people I know who are still living in NYC that they need to get out - and they agree!
Those tax sucking cities would also get mighty hungry, awfully quick if it weren’t for the food grown and raised in those redneck infested places.
I love NYC but I do not care for the Broadway shows and the garment district. I love NYC for all for its religious institutions (eat that, NYC lefties). In my neighborhood alone, we have a choice of several private schools. There are Catholic and Jewish schools and colleges.
Indeed, one thing I don’t quite understand is why do most Christians, who are from Middle America, send their kids to secular public schools instead of creating their own religious schools like the Jews and the Catholics?
It was my understanding the “RL Stine” was not a real person. Different authors contributed to the series, but they were all attributed to “RL Stine”.
It's scarier than that. NY actually pays a boatload of taxes. Probably more than most of us realize.
But a lot of their taxes actually come out of the wealth they get out of getting the rest of the country to send a percentage of its paychecks to NY. Without the donors seeming to notice that that's what we are doing. Every week.
Imagine if 1% of the nation's payroll happened to be sent to your town. Think of the nice crap your town would be able to do for itself if it got a cut of the entire nation's payroll.
All those 401K contributions that you think you're sending to your fund? (which you know you probably won't see again) That's capital going to NY.
And people in flyover country are starting to wake up about it.
So this RL Stine jerk needs to STFU if he knows what's good for him, unless he is actually trying to get more people to notice.
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