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NBC Gives Platform to Professor Who Called Iowans 'Meth Addicts' and 'Elderly Waiting to Die'
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Posted on 01/03/2012 7:39:38 PM PST by chessplayer

Following correspondent Andrea Mitchell referring to Iowa as "Too white, too evangelical, too rural" on Sunday's NBC Nightly News, on Monday's Rock Center, correspondent Willie Geist spoke to University of Iowa Professor Stephen Bloom, who similarly fretted: "It's basically a white, very, very Christian state."

Geist explained how Bloom has been "in hiding" since writing a scathing article in The Atlantic attacking Iowa as, "An assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that the sun will come out tomorrow." Bloom also ranted: "Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: academia; andreamitchell; genbc4dnc; genbc4obama; ingrate; iowa; notaxes4ge; nothingbutcrap; quidproquo; racistleft; sourcetitlenoturl; stephenbloom; tolerantleft; universityofiowa; williegeist
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1 posted on 01/03/2012 7:39:43 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer; Chode

“Too white, too evangelical, too rural”

okay as in...
No eric holder’s people?

No freaky religions?

no big cities full of crime?

Yea! Our kind of place!


2 posted on 01/03/2012 7:45:05 PM PST by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: prairiebreeze

marker


3 posted on 01/03/2012 7:45:05 PM PST by prairiebreeze
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To: chessplayer

He shot that wad and now is in hiding? I should think.


4 posted on 01/03/2012 7:48:15 PM PST by bboop (Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
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To: chessplayer

The liberals just keep pushing the envelope!


5 posted on 01/03/2012 7:48:15 PM PST by longhorn too
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To: Morgana

cornfed rednecks... with gay marriage (duck’n & runn’n)


6 posted on 01/03/2012 7:48:24 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: chessplayer

But Bloom, an employee of an Iowa state school, is not too good to take the tax dollars of those palefaced wasteoids with rotting teeth.


7 posted on 01/03/2012 7:49:38 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: chessplayer

"NBC Gives Platform to Professor Who Called Iowans 'Meth Addicts' and 'Elderly Waiting to Die' "

I don't think it's really a good idea for NBC to insult the only two groups of people who still watch their network.

8 posted on 01/03/2012 7:50:39 PM PST by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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To: Morgana

It’s the standard fare - self-loathing pseudo-intellectuals with a death wish.

They are Quacks.

Why anyone would send their children to government schools to be brainwashed by these clowns is one of those imponderables, and at the parents expense, even.


9 posted on 01/03/2012 7:50:46 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: chessplayer

Liberals are the most biggoted Americans.


10 posted on 01/03/2012 7:56:12 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: chessplayer

NBC = Nothing But Crap


11 posted on 01/03/2012 7:59:37 PM PST by GBA (Natural Born American)
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To: chessplayer

An assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that the sun will come out tomorrow.” Bloom also ranted: “Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die.”
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Being that he lives there, which category does he fit under?



12 posted on 01/03/2012 8:04:05 PM PST by o-n-money
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Cornfed or cornliquor?


13 posted on 01/03/2012 8:09:40 PM PST by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: chessplayer
Geist explained how Bloom has been "in hiding" since writing a scathing article in The Atlantic attacking Iowa as, "An assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that the sun will come out tomorrow." Bloom also ranted: "Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die."

Four years ago, these "waste-oids and meth addicts" launched The Obamessiah's campaign, while handing the Hildebeest a solid thrashing -- she even trailed the Silky Pony.

I wonder what Andrea Mitchell, Stephen Bloom and NBC thought about Iowans back then...

Note: Born in New Jersey, Bloom attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received a B.A. in Journalism in 1973.

14 posted on 01/03/2012 8:13:08 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: Brilliant

They’re sly though. Give us slavery and Jim Crow, then blame the opposition party and get the former victims to BELIEVE it.


15 posted on 01/03/2012 8:13:08 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Morgana
pretty much
17 posted on 01/03/2012 8:27:28 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: chessplayer

And IA is a state that Obama won in 2008. Looks like Bozo’s friends think he is in heap big trouble.


18 posted on 01/03/2012 8:46:22 PM PST by Mike Darancette (11/06/2012: Starts "Occupy the White House")
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To: chessplayer

The terrible burden this poor liberal professor must carry being so superior to the folks around him. Maybe he will do something wonderful for the State of Iowa and move.


19 posted on 01/03/2012 8:56:55 PM PST by dog breath
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To: chessplayer

And clinging to their guns and religion. /s


20 posted on 01/03/2012 8:58:43 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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