An American Myth Rides Into the Sunset (Bush is not a real cowboy)

The New York Times ^ | 03/30/03 | SUSAN FALUDI

[x1stcav]

Pokey,

It's nice, it's OK, but why do you serve us up with such easy targets?

[dighton]

Gawwwwwwd, what dreary stuff.

[nomorecameljocks]

The leftists are obviously desperate for anti Bush material.

[merrin]

So, they tried to ridicule him by calling him a "cowboy," and that backfired because the American people kinda like cowboys. So, now the new line is he's not a cowboy.

At least liberals have, uh, flexible minds.

[Pokey78]

LOL!

Susan Faludi, why does that name ring a bell?

[Fiddlstix]

What a bunch of useless drivel......
(Who cares?)

[Ymani Cricket]

They forgot to mention anything about pre-emptive strikes against known rustler bands operating in the area. Not petty cattle thieves here, except at first, but rustlers going after 500-1000 head of cattle at a time. Maybe the author of this article should try reading some other authors too.

[Let's Roll]

The only thing I know for sure after wading through this convoluted, navel gazing, self-indulgent tripe is Ms. Faludi doesn't know anything about Cowboys.

[cajun-jack]

sure she does....she knows she wants to get her hair pulled and her booty spanked by one....but she is probably so ugly that all she has a chance of is getting branded.

[ThreePuttinDude]

Most Femi-Nazis don't have a clue, she proves it here....

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Being a native Texan, I know Bull Sh!T when I read it, and I assure you, this is a pile of it!

[zarf]

Did Lola Falana quit her Vegas gig?

[Billthedrill]

While I respect Faludi for her iconoclastic reformulation of feminism, this is really a thoroughgoing mush. Bush is not a cowboy, he is a professional politician and the President of the United States. Projecting people into symbols and then shuffling the symbols around to attempt to produce meaning may be a high art in university semiotics classes, but to those of us for whom words have real meanings, it's just more futile intellectual masturbation.

[goldstategop]

A feminazi with credentials in masculinity? Yeah it takes one to know one and er, Susan Faludi has never even been a cowgirl!!!

[dighton]

Susan Faludi, why does that name ring a bell?

She's well-known for having it really, really rough.

[kayak]

Care to take a shot at this one, Luis?

[Ditter]

President Bush's family is New England blue blood. He was born in the east & came to Texas as a boy (age 11 ?) He lived in a mid sized west Texas town until he went back east to school. He is by no stretch of the imagination a cowboy, farm boy or country boy. He is a plain spoken, God fearing, honest man. Men like that can come from any background.

[NMC EXP]

Being a native Texan, I know Bull Sh!T when I read it, and I assure you, this is a pile of it!

Then you also are familar with the phrase "All hat, no cattle." That one is more appropriate than "cowboy".

Regards

J.R.

[okie01]

Did the New York Times run a contest for "Most Obscure Criticism of President Bush"?

And did Ms. Faludi win?