Posted on 12/05/2010 8:50:03 AM PST by Exton1
Because I’m simplistic I tend to break the world down into three simple categories:
Category one is made up of those who keep the world safe: our military, police, firefighters. Those men and women who risk their own lives to protect the rest of us from the bad guys. Without them we have nothing.
Category two is made up of those who keep the world turning. These are our doctors and nurses and entrepreneurs and those who do the hard work of keeping us fed, our cars on the road, the toilets flushing and the air conditioner running. They don’t complain, they don’t whine, they have no sense of entitlement. And without them we have suffering.
Category three is the rest of us, those privileged to enjoy the luxury of being website editors, film critics, writers, journalists, professors and the like. Remove these people from the planet (and I include myself among them) and the world stays safe and keeps right on turning. We’d miss them, but do we really need them?
Like I said, simplistic. But if you think about it, our pop culture gatekeepers spend way too much time celebrating category three and just as much time ridiculing and/or marginalizing the everyday Americans who make up category two.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
Davy Crockett was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee (1827-31, 1833-35), campaigning as a “straight shooter.” Defeated in a reelection bid, remarked, “you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.” In Texas, Crockett joined Col. William B. Travis in the defense of the Alamo.
Excellent commentary. Ted’s “simplistic” view is very astute.
One of these things is not like the others (anymore).
The answer is b, police. Because...well, when was the last time you read about a soldier or a firefighter executing a dog?
OTOH, I also count Ted Nugent as a hero......
I’m with Ted and add Reagan and maybe cool Calvin Coolidge to the list.
Is today’s Alamo a TSA nude groping center?
bttt
But statistically, only a few, so far. So far.
He left off the fourth category: Parasites who live off the labors of those in the first two categories.
I would love to see Ted and Sarah out hunting together in Alaska.
It would probably overload the nations cable systems.
He left off the fourth category: Parasites = DEMOCRATS who live off the labors of those in the first two categories .
Ted and I don't consider them people.
There’s a FOURTH category also. Those who sponge off the labor of others and don’t care about their own freedoms, as long as they eat and can be titallated on a regular basis.
The only things standing between Uncle Ted and an extremely successful intellectual career is the lack of a pretentious writing style, respect for his fellow man and, most d@mning of all, too much common sense.
See Post 14.
The thing that galls me most about the Palin family’s cruelest and most unfair critics is that almost all of them fall into category three. Sanctimonious, narcissistic underminers desperate to be liked by everyone else in category three. People such as Joe Scarborough and Kathleen Parker who contribute nothing to our society; oxygen thieves like Whoopi Goldberg, Keith Olbermann, David Letterman, Katie Couric, Chris Matthews, Joy Behar, and most of the leftist entertainment community who could all disappear tomorrow and the world would turn just fine; snarky, elitist, left-wing news outlets such as the Washington Post, Newsweek, Mediaite, and Politico who could blink offline tomorrow and somehow we’d manage to get by.
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But what would we do without the Palin families of our world? Without the devoted married couple who separate for months so Todd can earn a paycheck bringing energy to our homes from the North Slope while Sarah stays home and raises the kind of son who goes to war on behalf of his country. What would we do without the millions of Palin families who do the incredibly hard and dangerous work of fishing the seas so we can eat and make the selfless choice to give the world the gift of a beautiful child who just happens to have Down syndrome?
By some standard that matters only to them, the Joe Scarboroughs and Kathleen Parkers of our world might be educated and refined, but they’re also insufferable and rather useless. My grandparents were farmers, my father an auto mechanic, my mother a school teacher. These are the people I grew up around, my friends and neighbors and relatives. When I see the Palins, I see them. And for the first time in a long time I see their vital contributions and native intelligence celebrated in an entertainment culture normally dominated by real housewives, superior journalists and smug celebrities.
Best of all, the ongoing and entertaining TLC adventures of the Palin family does the important work of reminding us of the modest and irreplaceable heroism of the everyday American family. This might be the most avante-garde series on television right now.
But what would we do without the Palin families of our world? Without the devoted married couple who separate for months so Todd can earn a paycheck bringing energy to our homes from the North Slope while Sarah stays home and raises the kind of son who goes to war on behalf of his country.
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Awesome post. Kudos.
Sorry, I forgot to post the link...my post was the rest of Nolte’s excellent piece. Bad form I know.
KUDOS to Nolte!
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