Palin’s Nonsensical Two Americas

Governor Sarah Palin has a lot going for her, and a lot for which she can be criticized.  Her latest comments, though, go beyond the already unfortunate social wars the two parties wage on the campaign trail and into the realm of hate speech.  That’s right, if people who live in cities were a race, Palin would be inciting hate of that race.  If people from cities were a religion, she would be clearly biased against it for no rational reason.  Palin has taken the opportunity to point out that “real America” is small town, conservative America.  I had not realized that I was a fake American.  Here’s what she said (thanks Huffington Post):

 

            “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, um, very, um, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom.”

 

I forgot that there are no teachers or factory workers in cities.  Last time I checked, the only reason Detroit lacks teachers and factory workers is because our economy is in the toilet.  In fact, rural America, the farms and small towns, rely on those factories, just as the cities rely on the rural areas.

 

How does Sarah Palin explain to Rudy Giuliani that he is not a real American?  Rush Limbaugh declares every hour, on the hour, that New York is the greatest city in the world (I assume he does so when off the air as well).  Is he once again full of hot air?  Does he work in a fake American city?  How big does a town have to be in order to have real American citizens.  Can we break Los Angeles into a thousand little towns so these poor fake Americans can finally see the light?

 

I’m not a liberal.  I mean, I’m very not liberal, but I’m not conservative either, so please forgive me for pulling a Giuliani/McCain.  That’s right, I am playing the 9/11 card.  As Jon Stewart aptly pointed out recently, Al Qaida didn’t attack real America.  They attacked the liberal elitists of New York City, cesspool of human filth and all around Hell-on-Earth.  Real Americans didn’t respond with courage and heroism.  Real Americans didn’t die trying to save strangers, didn’t spend weeks digging for survivors, didn’t (and don’t) mourn for those lost and aren’t the prime targets for future attacks.  From the looks of it, real Americans have nothing to worry about.