Aw, S***, Roy!
Jun. 30th, 2004 05:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaYet another reason to hate ClearChannel:
A large portion of the people who support Bush are the good ol' boys whom Dean correctly but impoliticly described as the white guys with Confederate battle flag bumper stickers on the pickups. As Dean also noted at the time, there's no damn way these Bubbas and Billy Joes should like Bush at all, or have ever voted for him in the first place; not a single policy of his is made with them in mind, except perhaps some of the loosenings of restrictions on firearms. Most of his policies are downright bad for them. And this should be obvious. The problem is that Dubya fakes good ol' boy fairly proficiently, despite not actually being one. (Gore wasn't one, and it was obvious. Clinton was one, albeit a well-educated one, and that was obvious, too - and many of these Bubbas voted for him, or at least voted for Perot instead.)
Michael Moore is from the same social class as they are (a point I believe he makes in Bowling for Columbine, and it's sort of the point of both Flint movies), but he's a Yankee to the core. He's factory, not farm. He'll play well to their economic and social cousins in the middle northern states, but perhaps not so well to the Southern boys - and we need the Southern boys.
You know who was of their class that they did listen to (despite him also being a Yankee)? Who they laughed along with, and thought was on their wavelength? Who they'd turn their pickup radios to instead of Rush? Who can't stand the Shrub, either?
Yup - Howard Stern. The guy ClearChannel recently bounced.
Now, I think Stern is an even bigger dick than Moore, but the Right has so many dicks flapping in their self-generated breeze - Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Coulter - that I'll even take the help of a misogynistic pro-breast-implant centrist right now if it'll mean Anyone But Bush. And of course ClearChannel yanked him right before an election, on the advice of Colin Powell's even more conservative son at the FCC.
Ay.
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Note that this is also more evidence for the right/left pulpit/comedian comparison I made earlier. So is the fact that the two most liberal networks currently in existence are MTV and the Comedy Channel. The Daily Show is, I hear from those with cable, the closest thing to a leftist news show on the air.
We need a Religious Left in this country, pronto. Oh, wait, we have one and I'm part of it. Except that Dubya doesn't think we're a real religion (nor does Comptroller Strayhorn).
A large portion of the people who support Bush are the good ol' boys whom Dean correctly but impoliticly described as the white guys with Confederate battle flag bumper stickers on the pickups. As Dean also noted at the time, there's no damn way these Bubbas and Billy Joes should like Bush at all, or have ever voted for him in the first place; not a single policy of his is made with them in mind, except perhaps some of the loosenings of restrictions on firearms. Most of his policies are downright bad for them. And this should be obvious. The problem is that Dubya fakes good ol' boy fairly proficiently, despite not actually being one. (Gore wasn't one, and it was obvious. Clinton was one, albeit a well-educated one, and that was obvious, too - and many of these Bubbas voted for him, or at least voted for Perot instead.)
Michael Moore is from the same social class as they are (a point I believe he makes in Bowling for Columbine, and it's sort of the point of both Flint movies), but he's a Yankee to the core. He's factory, not farm. He'll play well to their economic and social cousins in the middle northern states, but perhaps not so well to the Southern boys - and we need the Southern boys.
You know who was of their class that they did listen to (despite him also being a Yankee)? Who they laughed along with, and thought was on their wavelength? Who they'd turn their pickup radios to instead of Rush? Who can't stand the Shrub, either?
Yup - Howard Stern. The guy ClearChannel recently bounced.
Now, I think Stern is an even bigger dick than Moore, but the Right has so many dicks flapping in their self-generated breeze - Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Coulter - that I'll even take the help of a misogynistic pro-breast-implant centrist right now if it'll mean Anyone But Bush. And of course ClearChannel yanked him right before an election, on the advice of Colin Powell's even more conservative son at the FCC.
Ay.
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Note that this is also more evidence for the right/left pulpit/comedian comparison I made earlier. So is the fact that the two most liberal networks currently in existence are MTV and the Comedy Channel. The Daily Show is, I hear from those with cable, the closest thing to a leftist news show on the air.
We need a Religious Left in this country, pronto. Oh, wait, we have one and I'm part of it. Except that Dubya doesn't think we're a real religion (nor does Comptroller Strayhorn).
