Saturday, June 18, 2005

He spoofs Liberals. Should we stop him?

If you don't like people spoofing Liberals and/or PCers and/or the New York Times' best opinion-shaper reporters, skip this post and go straight to my Sanctimony Reigns post. It's here. (Or did I delete it?)

Anyway, do you know Iowahawk? If not, I think you'll enjoy meeting him.

Here's a sample where Iowahawk picks up on that NPR/NYT story about how we all mourn for that dying mill town where Dad worked 66 hour weeks while Mom rung clothes by hand and we dreamed in Miss. Quimby's English IV class about a place she called "the Hamptons."

Each year they come here, from Cambridge and Ithaca and New Haven, young and eager social critics seeking nothing more than an honest day's wage for an honest day's condescension, and perhaps a decent squab pate in white wine reduction.

For the newest generation of polemic workers, though, the promise of that simple Anti-American Dream seems ever more distant. Most of the mills have long fallen silent, tragic victims of cheap foreign radio talk shows and the growing monopoly of multinational corporate blogs.

Now, even the grandest of the old mills -- the venerated New York Times 43rd Street Opinion Works - stands at risk. A recent spate of quality control problems, product recalls, management turmoil and a painful round of layoffs is leading many here to worry if the plant is destined to go the way of Automats, five cent Cokes and international socialism.

Iowahawk keeps up with things. Just today he made public some letters of Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill) that even Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) didn't know about.

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