[Grit]

This was supposed to be the safe place, the Idaho town that fought the state's stereotype as a haven for white- supremacist and anti-government groups.

"a very moderate place compared to what it could be, being in the middle of nowhere."

Although I'm not from Idaho I am from a town where the tallest building is the grain elevator. I am very offended and intimidated by these stereotypical statements in this hatchet job on a piece of fly-over country. When will a reporterette come to Iowa and do a sobby piece on how I feel threatened because the local rednecks are intolerant of anyone who may look different. (Of course, I am intolerant of those who funnel money to terrorist organizations , but that's just me.) What this Denver doofus doesn't realize is that she's in fly-over country too. I do wonder though why the Muslim's in this community feel threatened. When a white man is arrested in my neighborhood, I don't immediately get my panties in a bunch thinking that its some witch hunt.

[dennisw]

You have her number on the fly-over factor. Big city reporter pulls down big bucks by calling rural folks xenophobic hicks. What an easy gig working for these liberal/hate America newspapers. I could do it standing on my head.

[RWG]

When will a reporterette come to Iowa and do a sobby piece on how I feel threatened because the local rednecks are intolerant of anyone who may look different...harkins is keeping an hispanic from being confirmed to a judgeship. What a redneck, how intolerant.