The Angry White Male!

The loathsome Michael Smerconish made a big deal of this editorial today on his radio show, and you'll hear much more about it in the coming weeks. Smerconish and the other dime store Limbaughs are treating it like some Talmudic revelation, rather than the infantile babbling of a blustery moron with an overwhelming fear of women, homosexuals and anyone with darker skin than Richie Cunningham.

A snippet of this eminent widsom:

The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.

The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.....

He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.

There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.

The obvious problem with this simplistic characterization of the Angry White Male, it seems to me is that there is a very strong possibility a few things have happened to this flattened cartoon of a man:

His son/daughter/nephew/cousin/neighbor was killed or maimed in Iraq or Afghanistan
His son/daughter/nephew/cousin/neighbor came out
His son/daughter/nephew etc. married a 'new American'
He worked for Chrysler, GM, Delphi, or Countrywide, with the operative word being "worked"
That fancy three year ARM just adjusted, and if he was smart enough not to drown in Katrina, it sure feels like he's drowning now



I'm guessing that the Angry White Male aint what he used to be, and probably never was.