Published January 4, 2012, 8:05 PM
The most read and most commented upon article on Townhall.com over the last 12 hours is Michelle Malkin’s "Iowa-Bashing Snobs and Sore Losers."
Malkin’s piece in large part takes to task the condescension, often untruthfully, with which Big Media and Big Academia types have been bashing residents the Hawkeye State.
Among the highlights of Malkin’s approximately-825-word column, at least in Jewish Culture Examiner’s opinion, were the following passages:
As they do every presidential election cycle, progressives of pallor wore their indelible disdain for Middle America on their sleeves. … Pale-faced University of Iowa journalism professor Stephen Bloom [Jewish Culture Examiner is not pleased by the fact that this condescending individual has a Jewish last name.] launched a 6,000-word jeremiad, littered with factual errors, against his home state's residents. The abridged version: Raaaaaaaacists! Hicks! Christians! Argggh!
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In the safe harbors of The Atlantic just a few weeks before Tuesday's electoral event, Bloom sneered: "Those who stay in rural Iowa are often the elderly waiting to die." The rest are "(a)n assortment of waste-toids and meth addicts with pale skin and rotted teeth or those who quixotically believe, like Little Orphan Annie, that 'the sun will come out tomorrow.'"
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[A]t the overwhelmingly white "NBC Nightly News" on Sunday, Andrea Mitchell swallowed the Iowa-bashing chum whole -- and then dutifully regurgitated the attack on the state as, "Too white, too evangelical, too rural." She was quick to slip in a "critics say" disclaimer, of course. But let's not kid ourselves about the network's prejudices.
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One local Hawkeye State veteran journalist, David Yepsen, tried to correct the coastal myth of the redneck-hick-outlier Iowa voter by politely pointing out Barack Obama's triumph in the 2008 Democratic caucuses at the hands of, yes, mostly white voters.
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Census statistics show that the majority of Iowans are urban, not rural; the median age is 38 (nationally, it's 36.7); and out of a population of 3 million people statewide, some 90,000 are farming families. More Iowa sins according to Stone: "The food is awful, the people are stout, and a lot of them smoke."
Malkin’s full column is available via this link.
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