Neil Steinberg Declares People in Small Towns are Mean
Gee Barack, I wish you’d checked with me before you let slip that the small towns of America are chock-a-block with bitter gun fanatics nursing their wounded pride with a thick salve of religion and xenophobia.
Because I’d have cautioned against saying that.
Not that it isn’t true. Of course it’s true—you left out “mean,” by the way. But so what? The sharpest insults are usually true. Truth is a defense in libel, not a strategy in politics. Not that you planned this. Obviously, it was an off-the-cuff remark, because it’s plain that unhappy small-town people are certain to respond negatively to a mirror being held up to themselves, particularly a mirror in the hands of a city-slick college fellah in a necktie.
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