I know that attitude all too well -- how many times I've quietly stood there while these overly emotional leftists say the most awful things about President Bush and those who vote for him. They just assume that I'm one of them. But that's how I get to learn about them, especially how vile, small, nasty, patronizing and hypocritical they really are. Hardly the "Party of Tolerance."
"Everybody seems to hate us these days," said Zito Joseph, a 63-year-old retired psychiatrist. "None of the people who are likely to be hit by a terrorist attack voted for Bush. But the heartland people seemed to be saying, 'We're not affected by it if there would be another terrorist attack.' "
Well, I guess it's true that most shrinks are quite nutty themselves.
Hey, Zito! I'm not only a New Yorker, but I was born here, I live a few blocks from the WTC site and survived the attacks -- and I can tell you why so much of the rest of the country hates us. It's elitist douchebags like you who believe that the world hangs on every word and minor news event that comes out of NYC. Not even all of us who live here are as fascinated with ourselves as you think the rest of the world should be.
So, to make things clear for you, Zito: I live in Manhattan, I survived 9/11 and I cast my ballot for President Bush for the third time (primary and then general election in 2000, and then general election this year).
"To paraphrase our current president, I'm in shock and awe," said Keithe Sales, a 58-year-old former publishing administrator walking a dog near Central Park. He said he and friends shared a feeling of "disempowerment" as a result of the country's choice of President Bush. "There is a feeling of 'What do I have to do to get this man out of office?'''
Well, Keithe, what can I say? Welcome to what was my life from Nov. 1992 until Gore was medicated enough to concede in mid-December 2000. Boo-fricking-hoo.
Ms. Camhe, the film producer, frequents Elaine's restaurant with friends and spends many mornings on a bench in Central Park talking politics with homeless people with whom she's become acquainted.
Typical condescending liberal twit. Instead of talking down to the homeless, why not spend that time helping them get cleaned up or learning a marketable skill or ladeling soup at the Bowery Mission? Nah, it's far easier to sit on a park bench and pontificate. I bet she even tosses them a quarter after they've had to listen to her screechy lectures.
Her doorman on Central Park West gave her a consoling hug.
My doorman gave me a big smile -- imagine that: a black, working class guy who voted for Bush -- and the building manager gave me a big thumbs-up (an immigrant from Eastern Europe who despises communism with a passion, and sees it in the left in this country).
"What's different about New York City is it tends to bring people together and so we can't ignore each others' dreams and values and it creates a much more inclusive consciousness," she said. "When you're in a more isolated environment, you're more susceptible to some ideology that's imposed on you."
Total bull$hit! If you're not a liberal here, you are looked at like some sort of exotic mutant of the species. I've had people's eyes bulge and exclaim "WHOA!" when I am pressed to inform them that I am a Republican and was voting for President Bush.
They're "tolerant" and "inclusive" and all that other sanctimonious crap only as long as you agree with them.
"We live in this marvelous diversity where we actually have gay neighbors," she said. "They're not some vilified unknown. They're our neighbors."
I probably have gay neighbors, too. As long as they don't bother me or interfere with my life, I really don't care who they screw.
He is a nice guy though and not a bad buddy as long as you don't expect too much from him. I'd put him in the easily led, useless idiot category.
btw...We played football for years and I knocked him on his Brit kiester a dozen times.
Why is EVERYTHING about homsexuality lately, and why do liberals think they're the only ones who've had any sort of regular exposure to it? Jeez. I had gay neighbors, coworkers, and friends when I lived in the city. I had gay neighbors back in Ohio. My grandfather in Texas had gay neighbors toward the end of his life. This is not "the unknown". Everyone knows gay people. And most everyone knows gay people they like.
That does NOT mean they get to call their living arrangements "marriage". Unless it's one man and one woman, what they have is not marriage. I will be tolerant of anything except attempts to legally force me to pretend otherwise.
After I read that, I had to go put on my wifebeater shirt, a camoflaugue hat, grow a ZZ Top beard, go out to my pick with a gun rack, take the muffler off of it, drink some cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, throw them up into the air and shoot them afterward, burn some crosses, bash gays, and talk about the "good ole days". /sarcasm (Ann Arbor/New York/Ferndale attack on us)
That's their stereotype of us anyway.
They'll probably be surprised to know that many of us "rednecks and hicks" actually have college degrees. Most of all also have friends who are of other races and ethnicies....who happen to also live here in flyover country.
I just call them what they call us. Extremely ignorant and uneducated fools.