"And at the aforelinked blog, I think we may have an instance of … these alleged people who support and indeed admire the President without having an obvious financial interest at stake," writes the proprietor of Chun the Unavoidable, with reference to our own blog. We stumbled upon the clueless fellow in our Site Meter stats:
One never seems to meet them, however. I've often doubted their existence except as convenient media abstractions. An earnest young person just the other day tried to convince me that there were folks -- many of them -- who listened to Rush Limbaugh as a source of news and analysis rather than camp. Now that's plainly ridiculous, but I am willing to entertain the possibility of a genuine working-class Bush supporter.
While we ourselves are no fans of Limbaugh, we were amused by Chun's assessment of ourselves as "alleged people." We were reminded, of course, of Pauline Kael's reaction to Richard Nixon's landslide presidential victory over George McGovern in 1972: "How can that be?" she supposedly said. "No one I know voted for Nixon."
Glad to see you're back Sissy. Glad to see you're jumping back in with both feet.
Posted by: Rob A. | June 02, 2004 at 06:38 AM
Sissy, my trackback thingy isn't working but I've posted something on this. Sort of a current update on the Kael mindset.
Posted by: Rob A. | June 02, 2004 at 07:07 AM
Hey Sissy. Welcome back.
With regards to Chun, perhaps he should take a look at who donates to who before he decides which candidate has the heart of the "alleged regular folk" and who has the heart of the "fat cats"
We can follow the money here:
http://www.fundrace.org/moneyindex.html
Posted by: CoolBlue | June 02, 2004 at 08:28 AM
I got here from Chun's page, and I think that he might be on to something.
Is it really worth your time to criticize boring old John Kerry?
Posted by: Adam Kotsko | June 02, 2004 at 02:55 PM
It's good to be back and nice to have been missed!
Posted by: Sissy Willis | June 03, 2004 at 11:25 AM
You don't need to be so formal when discussing Mr. Chun. All his friends call him Wang.
Posted by: Zathras | June 03, 2004 at 02:33 PM
Hey, there, Zathras, remember to choose your friends wisely.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | June 03, 2004 at 03:16 PM
Could you please help us explain why Chun thinks you are a common working class person?
What are you? Lt. Colonel (ret.) and now the owner/operator of a home office business? An accountant, perhaps?
Posted by: JSN | June 03, 2004 at 08:08 PM
Thanks for stopping by, JSN. Who knows why Chun "thinks" what he does? My guess would be that he speaks without thinking.
Posted by: Sissy Willis | June 04, 2004 at 09:44 AM