I Suppose It Had To Happen Some Day

Lord knows DIH does not say this kind of thing often, but here goes:

I am sooooo glad I bought the New York Times today!

If I had read only the online version of hte NYT I would have missed all the fun. All I would have seen was the text of the frontpage story, "Grass Roots Roared, and an Immigration Plan Fell" by Julia Preston.

The story, which continues on page 24 of the first section of the paper, is all about how the Swenate came a cropper with their latest immigration bill.

"The undoing of the immigration bill in the Senate this week had many platers, but none more effective than angry voters like Monique Thibodeaux... Mrs. Thibodeaux [is] an office manager at a towing company here in suburban Detroit... guided by conservative Internet organizations she made calls and sent e-mail messages to senators across the country" opposing the bill.

Mrs. Thibodeaux is pictured in a photograph. She's old, white, has a do-it-yourself dye job and seems to be the owner of a short-haired Louisiana swamp hound. She also seems to be the owner of the fat old white guy in the American flag t-shirt lounging in the doorway behind her. An American flag hangs on a flagpole on her house.

Further along, on p. 24, there's another picture of another "grass roots" Republican activists. He is also old, white, paunchy and has a couple of teeth missing. "William Murphy of Wisconsin said he thought the bill would degrade the valule of American citizenship," the caption reads. (He has an American flag on his house,too.)

Isn't it funny how whenever the mainstream media folks show pictures of Democrat "grassroots" groups, they run pictures of George Clooney? Or people who look just like George Clooney, or Susan Sarandon, or Brad Pitt, or... well, you get the idea.


But when they need a Republican "grassroots" activist, he or she always looks like something out of "Deliverance."

Really, it's getting just plain tiresome. Wake up, NYT. We get it, okay? Democrat "activists" are all gorgeous movie stars, Republican ones are all low-brow, low-rent, low-class lowlifes. Absolutely right.

The nerve of those people, calling their congressmen.

Bad enough they go around in those tacky clothes, am I right?

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