{"id":3821,"date":"2010-02-20T13:42:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2010-02-20T13:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T21:42:54","slug":"no-cliche-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/no-cliche-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"No Clich\u00e9 Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitchfork Pawlenty\u2019s condescending cultural stereotyping doesn\u2019t just include Brie. Chablis is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/20\/us\/politics\/20conservative.html\" target=\"_blank\">apparently<\/a>, unacceptable too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen you listen to the elites and the pundits talk about the Tea Party movement, or they talk about us as conservatives, they may not always say it explicitly,\u201d he said. \u201cBut implicit in their comments are, you know, maybe they\u2019re not as sophisticated, because a lot of them didn\u2019t go to the Ivy League schools. Or you know, they\u2019re from places like the heartland, not \u2014 you know, they don\u2019t hang out at our Chablis-drinking, Brie-eating parties in San Francisco.\u201d \u201cAnd the implication is, you know, we\u2019re kind of bumpkins,\u201d Mr. Pawlenty said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, if anyone is calling anyone a\u00a0bumpkin it is Pawlenty.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong. Neither Chablis nor Brie is a definitive indicator of bumpkinhood or, indeed, its absence. What Pawlenty is trying to do, however,\u00a0is paint a patronizing portrait of the Tea Party people that ignores the reality that (as an emailer to me over at NRO pointed out) many of its supporters are drawn from\u00a0the managerial classes with, I suspect, aspirations, ambitions and tastes to match. In a country once famous for its belief in upward mobility that ought to be just fine. But not, it seems, to Pawlenty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pitchfork Pawlenty\u2019s condescending cultural stereotyping doesn\u2019t just include Brie. Chablis is, apparently, unacceptable too: \u201cWhen you listen to the elites and the pundits talk about the Tea Party movement, or they talk about us as conservatives, they may not always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/no-cliche-left-behind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[470,472,461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}