Americans: Angry, Ugly and Otherwise
Written by Eric Olsen
Published August 26, 2002
Published August 26, 2002
Joanne Jacobs has a great new site design, URL, and a hilarious post on a misguided attempt by a Guardian writer to understand country music and the "American mind":
- Umm . . . He can hear all that — obesity, hat, mustache, ponytail — on his car radio? Those Brits are sensitive.
Sutherland believes liberals are "enraged" by Angry American's ass-kicking. His enraged liberal is "Paul" Jennings of ABC, who "is from that distinguished generation of newscasters who dragged middle America back from the Vietnam madness.'' He means Peter Jennings, of course. I don't know what he means about the dragging part. The soldiers came back on airplanes....
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Um, Eric, if you read the article before going into spluttering anti-Gruaniad mode, you'd see that it mentions Jennings is Canadian. And he gets his first name right in one sentence - only to revert to Paul in the next.
And you know, we dumbass Brits have as much right to repulsed by the horrible stuff masquerading as country music these days as anyone else....