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Conservative people like this aren't understandable
Apr 7, 2013 18:12:03   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
Those would be the words of this Boston Globe reporter who wrote the article for the paper. I remember back in 1976 when the Washington Post sent one of their liberal reporters to my town in western Kansas that is about 65 miles from Jetmore. The poor guy spent three or four days in our town and was overtaken by culture shock. His article in the WAPO the next week was really hilarious for us to read. Those guys really are funny to those of us who live out here.

Anyway, it was our Congressional Representative who brought the guy out here to look at the Big First District as we call it. Big, hell it is bigger than the entire state of Illinois. Gotta be big since it is pretty sparsely populated. Looking at the picture of Jetmore in the Globe is about like looking into any town of its size in the Big First. We are also very conservative, politically speaking, which may mean what I am like is honest.

Read the article, especially if you are one of those left leaners.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/03/conservative-kansas-district-cheers-its-congressman-for-being-thorn-side/CFIcoTVhIzzPMUAYoSVh1J/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

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Apr 7, 2013 18:26:21   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
I have to add these words of a Huelskamp constituent because they could have been mine.

Please notice that the man says that in 1972 when McGovern won only one state out of 50 that a New Yorker writer spoke a mouthful when he said he didn't know anybody who v**ed for Nixon. i wonder how he carried all those states when east coast people v**ed so much for McGovern. In case you don't know that was the first e******n in which I didn't v**e for the Democrat. It was McGovern's admission to being a socialist that caused me to change parties.


The constituent wrote: “It is evident this Boston Globe reporter experienced a culture shock and was dumbfounded by our ideological worldview. He writes as though he has never met such people when we actually represent most Americans, at least in flyover country. Published surveys of journalists confirm they don’t go to church, own a gun, or v**e Republican. Their newsrooms are incubators for political correctness. They ply their trade within insular, echo chambers that are filled with elitist, urbane snobs. That’s why they cannot relate to people whose values are different from theirs (and everybody they know). If one were gathering evidence of liberal media bias attributable to this phenomenon, Exhibit A could be this Boston Globe reporter’s discovery that, gasp, the overwhelming majority of Congressman Huelskamp’s constituents are as conservative as he is! Exhibit B could be the admission of New Yorker magazine journalist Pauline Kael. After McGovern lost 49 states in 1972, she said: ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who v**ed for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken.’”

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Apr 8, 2013 15:34:07   #
oldroy Loc: Western Kansas (No longer in hiding)
 
I remember in 1976 a senior class that I helped sponsor planned a trip to Washington, DC and the WAPO sent out a reporter to get up some hype for the tiny town in the middle of nowhere that was sending its graduating class to DC. When we met the man at the Wichita airport he was shocked at the place and it was about 8:00 pm so he couldn't see much. He just couldn't believe the two lane highways and the small towns they went directly through. He was surely in hell for four days before he flew back to DC with the class. He mentioned in one of his articles the conservative bent of the people he talked to in that four days. I am sure he just didn't think he could stand this place in the beginning since he was a very liberal thinker. He interviewed me but didn't mention a thing I told him since his liberal leanings just didn't like what I said. He surely was unhappy to learn that I had changed parties four years earlier because the Dems had nominated an admitted socialist.

I always have wondered if he knew how hard it was for me to be in one of his liberal cities, knowing that I had to keep my mouth shut to stay alive.

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