"I’m part of a movement and didn’t even know it!” writes The Enlightened Redneck, Danny Glover [via Instapundit], energized at the realization that he is not alone:
Like me, the group is irked at elitist actress Janeane Garofalo for her bigoted rant about rednecks at last week’s anti-tax “tea parties.” Save the Redneck wants an apology from her.
Clicking on over, we found a rousing call to arms:
It is time to take a stand. We believe it is our inherent right to commemorate our place in American culture. This website has been created to celebrate everything right with the redneck. Celebrate who you are, and Save the Redneck.
"We’re definitely on the same wavelength," says Danny Glover:
Anyone can be a redneck if he wants to be. As Callebs says, it’s all about “talking the talk and walking the walk” — whether you have an accent or not.
Count us in. In fact, we've considered ourselves an honorary member of the tribe ever since we were identified five years back — by a member of the loony left calling himself Chun the Unavoidable — as "an instance of … these alleged [working-class] people who support and indeed admire [President Bush] without having an obvious financial interest at stake." It calls to mind David Axelrod & Company's bewildered elitist "Royalist response" to the upstart Tea Party Movement's resistance to burdensome government.
Back to where we started with Enlightened Redneck's “I’m part of a movement and didn’t even know it!” above, as we wrote in Glover's comments this morning:
With apologies to Helen Reddy — and not a little irony — I am tea party woman, hear me roar!
Update: Laura Lee links.
While I am happy to save the redneck, at no point in time would I call Janeane Garofalo either sophisticated or elite.
Just sayin'...
Posted by: Teresa | April 24, 2009 at 05:13 PM
Material and economic abundance depend on free enterprise. Those who want a bountiful economy must roar to be heard over the ignorant chatter of the so called liberal elite who favor letting unproductive political ideas rule.
Posted by: goomp | April 24, 2009 at 05:19 PM
It's no fun when men are henpeckèd
Or when their nice cars all get wreckèd
Let them take off their clothes
Protest liberal woes
And run down the streets all redneckèd.
Posted by: Elisson | April 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM