Posted on 11/13/2004 9:43:46 AM PST by tvn
NEW YORK Leave it to syndicated columnist/cartoonist Ted Rall. While others on the left wonder if, and how, they should reach out to those in the "red states" to try to win more elections, the acerbic Rall is sticking to his guns as a proud blue stater.
In his latest column, "Confessions of a Cultural Elitist," Rall declared, among much else, that "living in the sticks doesn't make you more American" and "by any objective standard, you had to be spectacularly stupid to support Bush."
Rall, who grew up in what he calls "flyover" Ohio, adds, "if militant Christianist Republicans from inland backwaters believe that secular liberal Democrats from the big coastal cities look upon them with disdain, there's a reason. We do, and all the more so after this election."
Addressing media coverage, he wrote: "Inland Americans face a bigger challenge than coastal 'cultural elitists' when it comes to finding high-quality news coverage. The best newspapers, which routinely win prizes for their in-depth local and national reporting and staffers overseas, line the coasts....Citizens of the blue states read lackluster dailies stuffed with generic stories cut and pasted from wire services."
Rall also knocked Sen. John Kerry, calling him "morally incongruous" for "running against a war he voted for while insisting that he would have voted for it again."
But he aimed most of his fire at "idiotic" Bush supporters, citing the recent Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) survey which found that nearly 3 out of 4 Bush voters still believe Iraq had WMDs or an active WMD program, and that 1 in 5 think Saddam was involved with the 9/11 attacks.
Rall concluded: "So our guy lost the election. Why shouldn't those of us on the coasts feel superior? We eat better, travel more, dress better, watch cooler movies, earn better salaries, meet more interesting people, listen to better music and know more about what's going on in the world. If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you. We're adjusting to the possibility that there may be more of you than there are of us. But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2."
And just what organizations and groups give these prizes and awards? Talk about preaching to the choir!
Regarding the Blue State-Red State comparisons, I fully expect that if you broke down the Blue State PRODUCERS, the people who actually make those states run economically, you would find a strong Bush majority. Freeloaders and social engineers flock to wealth, where they have a playground to use others' resources. But the playground was created by the producers, and they are generally the conservatives.
Typical arrogant self rightious ponpas a**. I didn't know we Republicans were radical??? LOL the term means Democrat!!!
Not that he's overweight or anything, he would just be doing the rest of us a huge favor.
Sorry Rall you are not really a member of the elite. You are a marginal wacko cry baby.
Well, I guess we can't have everything.
Define "dress better."
Did you know, Ted, that black is not the only "color" for clothing? Watch "cooler movies"? With DVDs almost all movies are accessible anywhere.
"Earn better salaries." Yeah, but spend much more on housing and other things.
"Meet more interesting people." Define "interesting." If Hillary Clinton is your benchmark for "interesting" I guess he is right.
"Know more about what is going on in the world." Because he reads the New York Times? Jayson Blair would be proud.
Ted Rall wouldn't make pimple on Pat Tillman's ass!!!
But don't demand our respect. You lost it on November 2.
To have YOUR respect we would have to reducr yourselves to you moral code! NO THANK YOU! I like looking into the mirror and not suffering revultion at what I see.
Nothing sadder than watching/listening to some poor dumb
chap who doesn't realize the hatred he spawns within is literally eating him up. Hard to imagine the number of
new cases of ulcers being treated on both coasts!
Maybe the doctors will start getting payback for some of the loss in those malpractice suits!
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sorry bout that spelling, it posted before I could do the spell check, I don't know why??
I thought I read that Rall was actually a Canadian like Peter Jennings. I thought Rall held dual citizenship. He is a piece of garbage.
"Addressing media coverage, he wrote: "Inland Americans face a bigger challenge than coastal 'cultural elitists' when it comes to finding high-quality news coverage."
GIVE ME A BREAK!
All this coming from a guy who can't even draw a decent stick figure for his "cartoons"!
Those in the red states are happier and significantly less delusional.
How true.
Well, I huess an honest idiot is better than a dishonest one.
Because they're not superior and the rest of the country knows they're not. It is the main reason the "secular liberal Democrats" lost the election. The Democrats lost because of this same arrogance. Pride goes before a fall.
I teach in a NYC public high school. You have to hear the crap that passes for "music". I can't call it better -- hell, I can't call it music.
TS
I would bet the ranch, that the average IQ of Bush voters is higher than Kerry voters. Most of us, in the fly-over states, have enough smarts to make a living, raise our
familys,and stay out of trouble.
I'm afraid this cannot be said for a large percent of the Dem. base.....
If one looks at the county map, the majority of the so called "blue" states were not blue, they were mostly RED! (CA, OH, IL, to name a few)
So when I see drivel such as what Rall wrote, I cringe. Because it not only divides this country even more but is incorrect in its assumptions.
And after reading his screed, I am reminded of something my father used to say: "There's nothing worse than a stupid person who thinks they're smart."
I have read several varitions on this theme, some including the line "we have better sex". They must do mass emailings of this stuff.
Any 'swamper' down-on-the-bayou can get the NYTimes, WPost and The New Yorker online if they so desire.
Rall is forced to find a scapegoat... Germany had to do the same after WWI. I see the 'radicals' of the dem party playing with a hand-grenade... if they 'wanna play this game, their looking for a trip to the hospital.
Conservatives love a debate... they DON'T like being spit on!
Ted Rall is just as terrible, if not worse than Michael Moore!
Who is this moron and why should I care about his opinion?
How about itiotic newspaper columnists who continue to distort the facts for political reasons long after those paying attention know the truth. Iraq had WMDs and programs to make them. That's what it meant to capture Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax and kill Chemical Ali. That's why you idiot blue state "reporters" were all aflutter about 300 missing TONS of high explosived used in building A-Bombs. That's why are brave troops found Sarin in Falluja this week. That's why we will be finding parts of Saddams smuggled WMDs all over Mohammed-land for the next 15 years.
As for the connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda they are proven. They are documented at length in the 9/11 commission report. Even a bipartisan commission stacked with Democratic hatchet men and a woman who should have been on the witness stand found this to be true. It takes a certain type of know-it-all idiot to claim with absolute assurance proof of what can't be proved. It certainly is a reasonable conjecture that Saddam may have played a role in 911. It certainly is a huge overstatement to insist there was not connection. (I refer the completely ignorant author of the article to Stephen Hayes' excellent "Case Closed" article in the Weekly Standard or book of the same title.
In closing, screw you, you lying, conceited, arrogant, ignorant, intolerant, snide, rude, ugly nazi freak. We have had it with you and all your coastal media pals. Stay the f*ck out of the Red States. If we see you we're going to give you a good old fashioned mid-west ass kicking.
Them's some shiny threads, indeed. Is what they is. My woman Brandine would done be mighty smitten wit dem fancy-like dressed fat, hairy varmints. Look prettier than a 'posum.
(Looks despairingly at soiled undershirt. Picks tooth.)
The shock they recieved over Bush's re-election gives evidence to the fact that they don't really know that much about what is going on in the world.
"If we see you we're going to give you a good old fashioned mid-west ass kicking."
*APPLAUSE*
in the blue states do the red or blue counties pay the lions share of the states federal taxes? in the blue states do the red or blue counties receive the lions share of the states federal taxes?.
Rall, is an delusional asshole, but at least he's an honest delusional asshole.
You can find the column (and appropriate commentary) here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1275889/posts
Even a redneck with a GED understands the need for "regional salary adjustment."
And yet he thinks WE'RE stupid.
Kerry embodies liberal amorality. He claims he's against abortion but never votes to stop it. He claims he supports our troops but never votes to give them weapons or better intelligence. He claims he's against the war but would vote to go back to war again.
And yet, to Blue State liberals, WE are the morons for voting for the guy with moral clarity and one firm position.
Maybe they should be the ones apologizing to us.
Besides, WE have Ann Coulter.
"If you voted for Bush, we accept that we have to share the country with you."
Yes but there may well come a day when we decide we don't have to share it with you.
Am I the only one tired of hearing about the "blue states"? Its but a few deep blue large cities that make these states blue. We ought to push the idea of the blue counties and cities, not states.
I challenge Rall, or for that matter any Kerry supporter or "Bush lied--People died" peacenik to read the Key Findings of the Duelfer Report, and then try to argue that Saddam was not a threat. Duelfer makes it clear that, before W took his stand, Saddam was playing a waiting game and employing a "divide-and-conquer" strategy with the UN--and it was working. Support for sanctions was collapsing, and Saddam would have been sitting on go to start stockpiling WMD again. After 9/11 the "OJ jury" mentality is a risk we can't afford. The burden of proof is on the despots, not us. If Ted Rall and the rest of the world can't see that, they'll get over it.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/Comp_Report_Key_Findings.pdf
I guess we're stupid for not believing their propaganda.
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