Comments on: Bush loyalists reveal the unvarnished America

By: Deep Blade

Deep Blade — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:36:28 +0000

Both of the calls cited could be spoofs, I should have pointed that out. It’s hard to know. The DeLay connection makes a lot of sense!

By: cs

cs — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:35:13 +0000

Oh, as far as the Louisiana housewife goes, did you hear the audio tape? I listened to it a couple of times and came away wondering if she was for real. The accent didn’t sound like any I’ve ever heard from the area, not that I’ve heard that many, but a few. And she really seemed to stumble when he asked what church she attended, then came up with “the cathedral” in New Orleans. The final, possible “tell” for me was when she said, “That isn’t the only reason. They have other reasons, also.” It sounded like she could have been trying to cover items on a list. And whom did she mean by “they”? Her pronouns became reallly garbled there. I thought she was either a Bush supporter egged on by someone else to call or a prankster feigning bigotted Bush support. But who know which . . .

By: cs

cs — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:20:00 +0000

I think you may be on to something, DB. One might even go on to argue that Tom DeLay is the very apotheosis of your theory. I’d also add that your conflation of Bush/Raid’s form and function — “He’s been molded to fit in the hand and give just the right satisfactions” — suggest some of the fears and frustrations that lead susceptible folks to become Bush supporters may run, mmmm, deeper still.