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Slipperylane,
Even though you'll never read this because I'm posting it too late, I have a response to your response.
One, my post is better than yours in every way. It is a well-written, engaging polemic.
Two, your criticisms of my opinion are nothing but stock responses. "Faux-moral outrage"...there is nothing moral or faux-moral about my outrage. Nor am I outraged. I am amusing myself at the expense of a pantywaist and his pretentious discourse. The real reason I continue to read Salon.com, of which I coyly pretended to be unaware in my last post, is because I don't like President Bush or Republicans and I like reading articles insulting him. You also suggested I "get over myself". I think this is one of those things that people say on forums that's supposed to deflate the adversary's posturing. You are like one of those famous Jerry Springer Strong Black Ladies who hollers from the audience, bringing the debate back down to earth by injecting some Down Home Straight Talk...after she says her thing, people start affirmative action cheering...and don't tell me I'm a racist...I admit it freely. I am one of those famous Southern Racists. I am also smarter and better than you...whoever you are...and more authentic too, why not. Your world is more advanced than ours...and I am not really welcome in the South because I evidently have more in common with you, a Northeastern Liberal Type, then I do with my Southern brothers and sisters, who are indeed mostly stupid and backwards...but somehow when you make fun of them on Salon it doesn't work. I think it's the position from which you're making fun...or maybe it's the fact that you can never seem to get it right. Those Red State videos, for example...these videos would probably be more convincing if you put them on some sort of right-wing website as examples of Northeast Bien-Pensant Liberals trying and failing badly to caricature the South and succeeding only in looking weak. They are petty and badly-done...the accents aren't good...and the people acting are obviously castrated New England wimps.
