posted on November 16, 2004 01:14:39 PM new
Written by Chris Davis
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
I'm just ''an angry white man.'' I live in a red state. I voted for Newt Gingrich in 1994. I voted for President Bush in 2004. I am a sexist, homophobic, conservative animal, a walking stereotype by liberalism. I caused blue state succession talk. I am to blame for everything that is wrong in the world--slavery, women's oppression, worldwide famine, and pestilence. I have become reviled and denigrated by the mainstream media as being greedy and creating poverty. I believe in the Founding Fathers and the U.S. Constitution. And I am in favor of morality and the belief that God ''created the heavens and the earth.''
For forty years, liberalism has sought to cage my love of America. I am to blame for the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II. I dared to rally the American people under the banner of the Stars and Stripes to help overcome tyranny and despotism. In the Korean War, I called on World War II vets and young soldiers to fight Chinese communists. I get chills when I see the American flag flying in the breeze, and shed a tear when I hear the ''Star Spangled Banner'' playing.
In Vietnam, I celebrated the return of our fine young men and women when others spat on them. While liberals threw medals at the White House, I held them in contempt. I denied the charges of liberals when they denigrated the men and women in the National Guard by accusing them of dodging the draft. I rejoiced in the news that we were slowing the spread of communism in Southeast Asia. I am proud of The Wall and of those men that fought in an honorable war, giving the ultimate sacrifice for liberty. I salute the men and women that reported for duty, serving honorably without embellishing their record. I love their courage and will never forget them.
I championed the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coastguardsmen that came home from Operation Desert Storm. I proudly displayed the American flag when America’s sons and daughters kicked a tyrannical thug out of Kuwait, liberating people from oppression once again. I wept the day the Twin Towers fell to the ground, and rejoiced when the first bombs fell on the Taliban. I cheered louder and longer the day Saddam Hussein was yanked from the spider hole. My chest swells with pride as the Iraqi people grow more and more sovereign every day. I feel the loss of every son and daughter in the War on Terror as if it were my own child. I continue my unconditional support of our U.S. Military with every nerve ending in my body. I love the United States of America and have faith in the greatest country in the world, especially the people that represent it.
I believed that all Americans were created equal by helping to initiate Civil Rights legislation in Congress. As one of my presidents, President Nixon was the first to implement Affirmative Action policies. I am a friend to all Americans--African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and women. I believe that meritocracy is the key to success for Americans, resulting in a stronger country. I feel women are far too special--having the ability to carry life inside of them--to treat as subservient. I stand strongly against categorizing them as if they’re victims. Nevertheless, in the minds of feminists, I am responsible for keeping women's wages low through pregnancy and motherhood. I feel it is my duty to protect the woman I love, my family, and my property.
So, I became angrier when Chris Matthews verbally assaulted Michelle Malkin and cut her second segment--a woman of fine integrity and a wonderful example of intellectual conservatism. I was enraged--October 20, 2004--when another host treated Ann Coulter like a second class citizen, trying to impugn the intelligence of a brilliant woman. This is a woman that isn't just a pretty face, but makes feminists wet their Depends and liberal men call for their mothers when comparing I.Q. tests. I am confident that Ann Coulter is one of the finest representatives of womanhood and conservatism in America.
I still think Rush Limbaugh is ''The Passion.'' I''m an advocate of the EIB Network and believe that Rush's work is imperative to conservatism's success in America. I detest the way the mainstream media treats Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck. I can never applaud these men enough for their efforts in stomping out socialism. They represent and embody the beliefs of the majority of Americans. They enjoy the work they do and perform a necessary duty in admonishing liberalism. They are true beacons of this great Republic, and men I admire the most.
Throughout the history of this great country, I have supported the belief in capitalism, Americanism, and conservatism. As part of one of the biggest election mandates in our history, I am embodied in every hardworking, God fearing, patriotic American--from accountants to small business owners, from construction workers to talk radio hosts, and from President George Washington to President George W. Bush. I have been verbally beaten, battered, and bruised, but I return. I am an American that has been labeled by liberals everywhere, regardless of race or ethnic origin.
As a conservative, I have been labeled, ''an angry white man.''
Americans again prove Pres Bush is the best man for the job
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing
to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
posted on November 16, 2004 01:49:58 PM new
Hmm. Me too, with the exception of the comment about Michael Savage. That man should be committed. He's the Republican's version of Michael Moore- Just a hatefilled jerk with too much media power.
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posted on November 16, 2004 02:16:03 PM new
Well, you two are about to get a reprieve of sorts.
This article from yesterday speaks to the new democratic 'targeted' group...no longer just Angry White Men...now as we have witnessed on our own boards....they're going after ....the religious.
The myth of the bigoted Christian redneck
Charles Krauthammer
November 12, 2004
WASHINGTON -- In 1994, when the Gingrich revolution swept Republicans into power, ending 40 years of Democratic hegemony, the mainstream press needed to account for this inversion of the Perfect Order of Things. A myth was born. Explained the USA Today headline: ``Angry White Men: Their votes turned the tide for the GOP.´´
Overnight, the revolution of the Angry White Male became conventional wisdom. In the 10 years before the 1994 election, there were 53 Nexis mentions of angry white men in the media. In the next seven months there were more than 1,400.
At the time, I looked into this story line -- and found not a scintilla of evidence to support the claim. Nonetheless, it was a necessary invention, a way for the liberal elite to delegitimize a conservative victory. And even better, a way to assuage their moral vanity: You never lose because your ideas are sclerotic or your positions retrograde, but because your opponent appealed to the baser instincts of mankind.
we've constantly heard that one repeated here too
Plus ca change ... Ten years and another stunning Democratic defeat later, and liberals are at it again. The Angry White Male has been transmuted into the Bigoted Christian Redneck.
In the post-election analyses, the liberal elite, led by the holy trinity of The New York Times--Krugman, Friedman, and Dowd---just about lost its mind denouncing the return of medieval primitivism. As usual, Maureen Dowd achieved the highest level of hysteria, cursing the Republicans for pandering to ``isolationism, nativism, chauvinism, puritanism and religious fanaticism´´ in their unfailing drive to ``summon our nasty devils.´´
Whence comes this fable? With President Bush increasing his share of the vote among Hispanics, Jews, women (especially married women), Catholics, seniors and even African-Americans, on what does this victory-of-the-homophobic-evangelical rest?
Its origins lie in a single question in the Election Day exit poll. The urban myth grew around the fact that ``moral values´´ ranked highest in the answer to Question J: ``Which ONE issue mattered most in deciding how you voted for president?''
It is a thin reed upon which to base a General Theory of the '04 Election. In fact, it is no reed at all. The way the question was set up, moral values was sure to be ranked disproportionately high. Why? Because it was a multiple-choice question and moral values cover a group of issues, while all the other choices were individual issues. Chop up the alternatives finely enough, and moral values is sure to get a bare plurality over the others.
Look at the choices:
-- Education, 4 percent
-- Taxes, 5 percent
-- Health Care, 8 percent
-- Iraq, 15 percent
-- Terrorism, 19 percent
-- Economy and Jobs, 20 percent
-- Moral Values, 22 percent
``Moral values´´ encompasses abortion, gay marriage, Hollywood´s influence, the general coarsening of the culture, and, for some, the morality of pre-emptive war. The way to logically pit this class of issues against the others would be to pit it against other classes: ``war issues´´ or ``foreign policy issues´´ (Iraq plus terrorism) and ``economic issues´´ (jobs, taxes, health care, etc).
If you pit group against group, moral values comes in dead last: war issues at 34 percent, economic issues variously described at 33 percent, and moral values at 22 percent -- i.e., they are at least a third less salient than the others.
And we know that this is the real ranking. After all, the exit poll is just a single poll. We had dozens of polls in the run-up to the election that showed that the chief concerns were the war on terror, the war in Iraq and the economy.
Ah, yes. But the fallback is then to attribute Bush's victory to the gay marriage referendums that pushed Bush over the top, particularly in Ohio. This is more nonsense. George Bush increased his vote in 2004 over 2000 by an average of 3.1 percent nationwide. In Ohio the increase was 1 percent -- less than a third of the national average. In the 11 states in which the gay marriage referendums were held, Bush increased his vote by less than he did in the 39 states that did not have the referendum. The great anti-gay surge was pure fiction.
This does not deter the myth of the Bigoted Christian Redneck from dominating the thinking of liberals, and from infecting the blue-state media. They need their moral superiority like oxygen, and cannot have it cut off by mere facts. And so once again they angrily claim the moral high ground, while standing in the ruins of yet another humiliating electoral defeat.
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posted on November 16, 2004 06:39:11 PM new
If you listen to Michael Savage he says he is an independant. Which I agree because sometimes he is left of a subject and sometimes right. When I have heard him he gives both equal rights. He has a name for every one whether Republican or Democrat. He is more for himself than anyone else.
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