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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (139799)4/20/2001 6:01:02 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
that we are all either rednecks

Check out this use of stereotype in the service of fear mongering.

Do we really want more of them around?

So you're watching a game at the Metrodome next fall, and the guy next to you is downing his fourth beer of the first half. You can just tell he's not your sort of fellow, but you don't know the half of it: He's got two DWIs on his record and a history of barroom dust-ups.

When he lived up north a few years back, he was convicted of shoving his son's teacher, shouting obscenities on a street corner, kicking a cop and pointing a gun at his neighbor. He's also notoriously nasty to his wife -- though his many arrests for knocking her around have never led to a conviction.

You don't know any of this, of course, and perhaps you'd rather not. But there's something else you don't know about your less-than-charming seatmate: He's carrying a loaded gun. He's carrying it legally -- because nothing he's done was terrible enough or recent enough to keep him from qualifying for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

startribune.com

Hey, outstate rednecks don't buy their paper anyway. But, imagine if they had added just one word. Changes nothing about the tenor of the argument but it graphically demonstrates how truly evil this editorial is and how low the liberal press is willing to go to manipulate public opinion on issues they care about:

So you're watching a game at the Metrodome next fall, and the [BLACK] guy next to you is downing his fourth beer of the first half. You can just tell he's not your sort of fellow, but you don't know the half of it: He's got two DWIs on his record and a history of barroom dust-ups.
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