Posted on 12/08/2014 6:24:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Michael Tomasky is not content to argue, in the wake of Mary Landrieu's defeat, that Democrats should write off the South as politically-unfriendly territory.
In his Daily Beast item of today, Tomasky goes to great lengths to trash the region in the ugliest of terms. "Reactionary, prejudice-infested, fetid, reject[ing] nearly everything that’s good about this country, just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment," is how Tomasky slurs most of the South, saying "almost the entire South" is as he describes it.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Southern man don’t need him around, anyhow!
I’m a military veteran, 2nd amendment supporting conservative Jew. And without mentioning names of any columnists, let me say that I despise liberal Jews.
Bingo.
Having grown up on a dairy farm where we kept a herd sire to perpetuate the desired bloodline, I consider myself an authority on BS. Then along came AI, we got rid of the dangerous bull, and since then my expertise has diminished slightly. However, I still know what it is when I encounter it. ;oD
I’m also a Jewish conservative, and one who has chosen to live in the South. But not sure Tomasky is Jewish. According to Wikipedia:
Tomasky is “the son of Maria (Aluisi) and Michael Tomasky, a trial attorney. He is of Serbian and Italian descent.”
“reject[ing] nearly everything that’s good about this country”
It would be interesting to know just what he thinks is good about this country
The bad news:
This guy is totally consumed with hate. Typical leftie.
The good news:
It will kill him before his time is due.
I was just picking a town.
This Jewish guy lived in Brookline (shocker, I know, being Jewish, but that’s kind of my point)and rode his bike through Allston and Cambridge to go to school at MIT.
Allston was then pretty much working class Irish and when you crossed the Charles immediately because a black ghetto.
For such a supposed “progressive” town, Boston has the most cleanly delineated lines along race/religion/class of any town I have ever seen, reviling East and West Jerusalem.
I came to school looking for a house (I am Israeli and rather obviously Jewish), and the housing agent for MIT flatly refused to show me any brownstone near campus (”Cambridge is not a ‘good fit’ for you”) and just took me to Brookline.
Worked out well, and she was probably right, but was my first taste of the de facto segregation -— which was, in my case, probably for my own safety.
Nonetheless, still absurd to get lectured by twits who live in such segregation.
> The road was rocky for Landrieu from the start. The public found out about her improper use of taxpayer funds, then the fact she doesn’t even own a home in Louisiana. Then, she dissed her constituents.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3234572/posts
> “An ObamaCare architect bragged about deceiving Americans to pass the law,” the narrator says before cutting to a mash-up of Gruber making his controversial remarks. “How can Mary Landrieu fight for Louisiana and still support the ObamaCare deception?” the narrator asks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3233405/posts
CLOUT? 35 Anti-Keystone Pipeline Senators Mary Landrieu Helped Elect
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3229247/posts
There is nothing new or uncommon about his attitude, now you know the real reason why the South seceded because there is no common ground. Now way to live with people like that, there HAS TO BE A SPLIT, either peacefully or in a hot pitched war. I am good either way.
You made it that far? wow my hats off.
The problem is that it is not all those who live north of the Mason-Dixon line, but those who live in the ‘rat-infested hellholes of urban decay that are the problem.
For instance, most of PA outside of the larger Philly metro area and Allegheny county has more in common with the average Southerner than with the average Northerner.
Newton is a great place——and lots of Asians compared to a few years ago.
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Yup,you're correct.Wealthy "progressives" do seem to segregate themselves from folks so poor that they drive four year old Fords.I know this as the result of many life experiences...including a quick drive I once took past a certain well know residence in Chappaqua,NY (*very* nice neighborhood with not a single dark skinned person in sight).
Your experience with the MIT housing agent must have been some time ago.It's hard to imagine that happening today.But one thing you've gotta admit about Brookline...the food at the Golden Temple on Beacon Street is about the best Cantonese you can find in the Western Hemisphere! ;-)
Wasn’t kosher, so I never ate there. Had a few scorpion bowls, I think. (May be a different restaurant, this was several decades ago.)
At the time, Brookline was majority Jewish. Lived not too far from Kennedy original home.
Even the T was set up to keep people segregated, I think.
We had the green line, above ground, and you’d have to take it past Kenmore and switch to Orange(?) to get to Cambridge.
Or, ride a bike through Allston and/or BU, cross any given bridge, and then MIT.
yes,a very nice place to live.A very nice place to have grown up in.Don't know how familiar you are with Newton but the "south side" (Waban,Newton Centre and Chestnut Hill) is the wealthier section and has always had a fair number of Asians.Physicians,scientists,etc.I grew up in Waban and,although I went to Catholic schools,it was still common for me to see Asian kids around even in the 50's and 60's.
I’m very familiar with Newton.
The Asian population has more than doubled since the 60s and that is a good thing.
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‘Lived not too far from Kennedy original home.”
My sister [also Jewish] lived two houses away from the Kennedy home!
Of course, New England never seceded, and the region was an enthusiastic supporter of the war that ended the South's bid for independence a half century after the Hartford Convention. Throughout history, New England and its satellites, such as New York, the Upper Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest were politically opposite to the South and its satellites in the Lower Midwest and the Southwest. When the South was reliably Democrat, greater New England was reliably Republican. In 1936, when Franklin Roosevelt won 46 states in his re-election bid, the only holdouts were Maine and Vermont. From the 1960s onwards, this pattern reversed. The South is again a one party region, with that party being the GOP.
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