Ah, the name game. We have all played it at one time or another. Lost our cool and fallen into the trap of just lashing out at someone by calling them less than desirable things. Libby is exceptionally adept at it and has come up with some of the best. Let's be real here, no one can compete with him.
But Libby's profanity laced rants aside, why can't anyone decide what to label conservatives? It's one thing to use different profane words to describe someone but lately I have seen them getting referred to as complete polar opposites. Is it that hard to choose one side or the other?
On one hand you hear conservatives referred to with the old Democrat favorite - "Greedy, rich, old white men." The rich man always trying to keep the middle class and poor man down. Vote for us we are working for you and not for tax cuts for the rich. They just want to steal your money through their greedy corporations and tax shelters. They keep getting richer while you keep getting poorer.
On the other hand you hear them referred to as "poor, ignorant, hillbilly hicks". They don't know what they're talking about. They are clinging to their guns and religion. They are uneducated rednecks who don't know what's best.
So my question is.......which one is it? Are conservatives the greedy, rich old white man or the poor, ignorant hillbilly? I mean, they can't be both. At least not in all aspects. I guess they all always have a couple of things in common. They go to church, are racist, and listen to talk radio but other than that you are trying to label them as two totally separate entities.
I mean i'm sure there could be some, but i've never met a greedy, rich, ignorant, poor, old hillbilly white man. And I live in Arkansas. Shit, I forgot Bill Clinton.
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We are the ignorant, angry Americans who listen to Rush Limbaugh, believe in that mythical being who (don't laugh) created humanity, and are voting against Obama simply because we are angry at the government for angers sake and are too stupid to figure out how right Obama is.
Don't you get it? The rich white men are the puppet masters to the poor hillbillies! The rich play by their own rules and they use FOX Noose and the Church to prey on the ignorant and gullible poor who cling to their guns and religion.
Well... the anonymous "contributors" are good for entertainment value if nothing else, no?
Just one word to anon: WRONG.
Lascivious Vulgarians,
Among the pack of wheedling, braying jack-asses that are this sites regular contributors, there have always been those who seek to tell me how to run my business. Indeed, hardly a day goes by in which this strident horde of mewling, puking harpies offers their unwelcome opinions here on how to ‘right the ship’. Like many successful and wealthy plutocrats, I am sometimes asked by one or another of you god-damned sheep exactly what it is to which I credit my good fortune.
There is one quality I possess in spades which separates me from the misled cattle that is man-kind. But it is neither my low animal cunning, nor my ruth-less attitude. It is not even the fact that I was born into incredible wealth and privilege and raised in a stress-infused and Byzantine family before most of you were but a series of brutish animal impulses in your drunken grandfather’s pants-creases. What makes me a force to be reckoned with is my capacity to feel ever-present, mind-wracking, pants-shitting fear.
In the realm of business, it has been an unparalleled boon. Fear, after all, is at the root of hatred and anger, the two empire-building tools which have spurred me to fill my coffers to a state of absolute, unfettered corpulence. Like all good capitalists, I fear and despise competition and have therefore crushed whatever rivals poke their heads up.
I make a point of motivating every last one of my employees, from the scullery-maid to the previous President, with fear, as well as its constant companion, derision and threats. In fact, I believe that if you begin living your life in fear, you will be a better and more successful citizen. Is that enough of a cogent articulation so that the gaggle of you dullards are able to at least vaguely comprehend the primary point?
Uncle Sam esq. (Republican)
The Republicans are the party of the rich and the hillbillies. The can be both. The democrats are the party of the rich and the workers as well. It does seem to me though that there aren't as many ignorant hicks in the Democratic party for some reason. The hullbillies seem to gravitate to the Republicans. Simple question, simple answer.
If you read on down KT I believe it to be an issue of both sides. I used these 2 as an example because I was called these 2 things in the same sentence. And I agree to a point. Marginalizing has a little to do with it. So does having no substance left to your argument. If you can't beat em, call em names.
smashey normally i find your blogs to eb an exciting read but this one is just a tad hypocritical. i have to agree with Brin on this one. how many times have you heard liberals called baby killers who have kids just to stay on welfare. both side play it. i am kinda poor- but still get called an elitist. i see what you are tying to do and i did find it amusing- but all sides play these games. if they can marginalize people they think they can get their vote.
and yet I have never seen that line used on u4prez unlike the lines that Smashey points out.
ah come on ... its not bullshit. lol
LOL! Outstanding, Brinmat!
As long as Democrats are still wealthy liberal elitist pot-smoking hippies who live on welfare, it's all good.
The issue is the attempt to apply every negative possible to the opposition. The Beverly Hillbillies is a tv show. If you are going to apply honest opposition, at least try to be consistent. The right as well as the left has been inconsistent with their bullshit. I just pointed out the most obvious bullshit. But that doesn't mask the fact that it is still bullshit. Anyone that denies that fact is full of bullshit.
I have but it does not apply to what Smashey is getting at.
"Hillbilly is a term referring to people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas of the United States, primarily Appalachia and the Ozarks. Due to its strongly stereotypical connotations, the term is frequently considered derogatory, and so is usually offensive to those Americans of Ozarkan and Appalachian heritage. However, the term is also used in celebration of their culture by mountain people themselves. Such co-opting and neutralizing use is almost exclusively reserved for Appalachian people themselves. Such people consider the term Hillbilly to be a descriptive term lumping all such inhabitants together in a single ethnic group similar to the term Cajun as a description of a uniquely American ethnic group." - wikipedia
I guess you have never watched the Beverly Hillbilies Show then?
Umm in order to get rich I bet they have a solid education thus not a hill billy.
Rich old white men can be hillbillies and quite often act poor and ignorant because they are greedy.
Lol. Great blog Smashey. I vote for old white rich guys
Does Arch not have a voice? Maybe I am mistaken but I thought this was America. You have the right to say anything you want . I have the right to disagree. Perhaps he has no eloquence to voice his opinion and the article does. Last I saw that wasn't illegal. Or am I somehow mistaken? you are the self proclaimed defender of freedom. You explain it to us (hics)?
Arch, when you write your own blog and don't post someone elses work, then you can legitimately bitch. Until then, go post shit off of youtube.
U know Arch Smashey has written some solid blogs on healthcare and u and others keep ducking the questions he has asked so I suppose this is the best u can do.
Nope Smashey has a very valid point.
since when did arch become a typical liberal
....since it is a BS blog.
That was the intent.
LMAO!
Yea......... that is a simplistic BS answer.
Well, let's see! McCain won the Solid South, so that covers the hicks. McCain won the corporate interests, so that covers the rich old white men. So, to answer your question.....BOTH!
Dowd is upset as she cann't get any with fat rich hick Moore.
So now "lie" equates with and is synonymous with "Nigger" Where the fuck do the lies stop? ( Lies meaning the old definition of "untruth")
Good Lawd! When will those liberal hypocrites stop seeing color and stop playing the race card. As for Dowd, she's the epitome of liberal elitism and their out of touch sensibilities.
They are in a panic kemp, they see the writing on the wall. That is why today, in all the major left wing news papers we read things like, "Joe Wilson wasn't just saying that Obama lied, he was calling Obama the N word. Maureen Dowd, one of the most hatefull people on the planet actually wrote that Joe really meant to say "you lie....Boy". Maureen Dowd is a bitch on wheels who hasn't got a clue about how the American people really feel.
Yeah right, rebuild the Nation that gave you the freedom so you don't have the freedom? whats the point!!!!
Talk about your confused people.......I'm a Republican who is a poor, gay, white guy from the City of New York and I am still referred to as a rich, white, hillbilly, wacko hick. And then you have people like Lucky who call me a liberal. So as to the point of Smashey's blog....I do believe the rhetoric of the left demonstrates the same type of confusion that their policies do.
Now this is a good blog. Smashey is very perceptive. I guess us greedy, rich, ignorant, poor, old hillbilly white men should consider ourselves lucky. It is easy to describe a liberal. Someone who thinks they are smarter than you and believes America is a flawed nation that needs to be rebuilt.
I just peed myself.
LMFAO!
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