[antimedia] antimedia: I got an interesting email today....

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I got an interesting email today....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1151641184.shtml


   ....from The New Republic. It seems they've sent out their scientists
   to study the conservative animal.

     Red state and blue state America are more than different voting
     patterns. They are different ways of life. This week, we devote our
     issue to touring the conservative lifestyle--the world of
     conservative cookbooks, conservative folk music, and conservative
     investment funds. It's a world where people buy $2,000 bronze busts
     of George W. Bush, Ann Coulter Gone Wild videos, and kiddie books
     on the horrors of liberalism. This may seem like frivolous kitsch.
     But it's far more than that. There's a conservative culture out
     there--and it binds together a movement filled with pot-smoking
     libertarians and bible-thumping evangelicals and gun nuts who would
     not otherwise get along.
     We sent our reporters out to live and breathe this conservative
     subculture. One of our writers, Eve Fairbanks, went on the
     conservative dating circuit--Candace Bushnell meets Russell Kirk.
     There are sites out there that aim to make matches of young
     conservatives like Sean Hannity's Hannidate. She describes the
     differences between the aspirations of hardy-partying right-wing
     men and the chaste right-wing women they desire. Also in the
     package, the historian Rick Perlstein places the conservative
     subculture in historical perspective, tracing its roots back to the
     Goldwater era. He excavates and explains the continued relevance of
     the EP, "Folk Songs to Bug Liberals." The album's a classic.
     Subscribe today for only $9.97 to read these articles about the
     conservative lifestyle.

   And [1]what did they find?

     Mass Martyr by Rick Perlstein
     What conservative kitsch tells us about the tortured soul of the
     American right.
     Spam-a-Lot by Kelly Alexander
     The stultifying blandness of conservative cuisine.
     Nitwit Lit by Michelle Cottle
     Conservative publishing gets even more juvenile.
     Mutual Fun by Noam Scheiber
     How do you stick it to liberals? Invest your life savings in global
     warming, secondhand smoke, and no-goodnik corporations.
     Mr. Right by Eve Fairbanks
     SWF seeks friendship--possibly more--with adventurous, nonsmoking
     lover of William F. Buckley.

   Something tells me they won't be selling many copies in the heartland.

References

   1. http://www.tnr.com/thisweek.mhtml?i=20060703