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To: LindyBill who wrote (23074)	1/5/2004 7:17:50 PM
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Tolerance Takes the Subway; Pro-Bush Prejudice Hits the Road A Friday feature story by art critic Roberta Smith, "The Rush-Hour Revelations Of an Underground Museum," takes a look at the real "artistic underground"--the subterranean art found on the walls of the NYC subway system. But she opens the interesting story with this snarky putdown of those narrow-minded Bush-voting denizens of the so-called Red states: "I grew up in Kansas and fell in love with the subways on the first day of my adult life in New York. After years of untold subway time--spent watching, listening, reading--I would say that large, active systems of mass transit are the main difference between the red and the blue states of the 2000 electoral map (California excepted). People who travel only by private car--most of America--can too easily stick to their own kind and cling to their prejudices and misconceptions without the threat of contradictory experiences." As Smith unwittingly demonstrates, Times writers stuck in the liberal cocoon of elite Manhattanites can fall victim to snooty insularity as well. For the rest of Smith on subway art, click here. ___________________________________________________________ Saddam's Capture: OK, But What About Those Funerals? On the December 26 Washington Week in Review, Washington Editor Richard Berke puts the best anti-Bush spin on the recent good news out of Iraq: "But haven't we learned how perilous foreign policy is for this president? I mean, right now, the way you're describing it, it's pretty rosy, and things are looking good for the president, for the country. But before Saddam was caught, not long ago, we were talking about casualties. We were talking about a situation where the president did not want to go to the funerals of a lot of the killed soldiers in Iraq, because why bring attention to the tragedy of--that was going on day after day there. So it seems like things have switched back and forth and up and down. It's been a real roller coaster, and who's to say that couldn't change again?" The Times has hurled itself headlong in carping at Bush for not attending soldiers' funerals. But the History News Network points out it's almost unheard of for sitting presidents to attend soldiers' funerals during wartime. timeswatch.org