Like outfitting a 19th century expedition to darkest Africa, or finding someone willing to live with the Amish, the clueless clerisy of the MSM are at it again, looking to hire some brave, adventurous soul to bring them dispatches from that exotic foreign locale know as “Texas”:
Job posting: The Washington Post is looking for an enterprising reporter based in Texas to document life in red state America and develop a new beat mapping the culture, public policies and politics in a region shaped by conservative ideology.https://t.co/CJS99O8kg7
— Washington Post PR (@WashPostPR) April 12, 2022
“A region shaped by conservative ideology.” Truly a penchant for low taxes, limited government, strong borders, free speech, the rule of law, and opposition to strangers diddling and mutilating your children is alien and unfathomable for those who dwell inside the Beltway.
"Anthropologists capable of understanding the mysterious tribal ways of that dimly understood part of the world know as 'Red America' encouraged to apply. May have to endure weeks, or even months, without access to arugula, bodegas or lesbian poetry slams." pic.twitter.com/MQQFVUdoL0
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) April 12, 2022
Translation: "We need an enlightened white liberal with an Ivy League J-School degree to interview those inbred redneck freaks from JesusLand so we can report on why the country is so polarized." pic.twitter.com/dEFKATg2R3
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) April 12, 2022
Commentators had a field day:
I always have to warn them tenderfoots to best not go wanderin' too far outside the Austin city limits, out there is Apache and Comanche and F-250 Supercab country
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 12, 2022
Washington Post activist landing in Texas pic.twitter.com/fZbqQrql6B
— Christina Pushaw 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 12, 2022
This is hilarious, as we approach the deep dark suburbs of witchita falls our guides become nervous. Rumors of f250 ahead.our supply of advocado toast is running low
— john (@rawmobile36608) April 12, 2022
Tell us you're out of touch with a sizable portion of America without telling us you're out of touch with a sizable portion of America.
— Tim Hagle (@ProfHagle) April 12, 2022
The Post was engaged in a time-honored literary device known as "lying your ass off in order to help Democrats." pic.twitter.com/HVrYkIrqrv
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) April 12, 2022
Pity the poor Waposians, whose social circle is so circumscribed that they never interact with actual living, breathing conservatives, and must dispatch intrepid explorers to learn the secrets of that exotic tribe…
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They should be worried.
Put him/her/xer in Texas for 6 months, they get a pay stub without income taxes from NYC/NY state, might just turn them. A little brisket and two step-in’ and we got a new Texan!
The journo had best speak Spanish.
Why bother to hire someone? WaPo could just reprint articles from the Texas Tribune or Texas Monthly, and get all the BlueAnon Texiana they could swallow.
Prepare to send more than one. Texians don’t take lightly to infiltration by the enemy.
It was over at Powerline blog that they coined the phrase, “Conservatives in the Mist” to describe the liberal fascination with seeing non-liberals as another species, and a potentially dangerous one at that, which should be “studied.”
I won’t read Powerline again until they dump Paul Mirengoff, but they definitely hit this one squarely on the head.
Xir will probably hold up in Moscow on the Colorado and read the Houston Chronicle for source material. Would love to see xir at an Aggie home football game!
Oh, they can get arugula in the bigger supermarkets, and Texas has bodegas, but they call them 7Elevens. Don’t know about the lesbian poetry slams. Outside Austin, I imagine not.
I would find it FAR more interesting to send a Texan inside the beltway and let the Texan report on all the critters and creatures and tribal cultures the Texan comes across. The idea of some skinny jean wearing panty waste coming to Texas and acting like the problem is the people HERE….not so appealing.
Iowahawk predicted this in ‘Heart of Darkness’
Correction: Iowahawk’s ‘Heart of Redness’
The “Waposians” haha – like the old Cabot/Lodge:”The Waposians speak only to the Kaloramans and the Kaloramans speak only to God.”
Pity the poor soul they send to South Louisiana.
They don’t drive in the correct lanes on the interstates. Someone’s in the left lane doing 45 and the guy in the right lane is doing 65.
As far as Jonah has fallen, he was once a good guy:
Whenever I read liberals reporting about the goings- on of conservatives I always get the nature-documentary vibe. A liberal reporter puts on his or her Dian Fossey hat in order to attempt to write another installment of Conservatives in the Mist. I’ve followed this particular brand of reporting for years, it’s almost a fetish of mine. Most attempts fail. Of these lesser varieties, there’s fear (“Troglodytes!”), mockery (“Irrelevant troglodytes!”), condescension (“I had to explain to them they’re troglodytes.”), bewilderment (“Why don’t they understand they’re troglodytes?”), astonishment (Dear God, they’re not all troglodytes!”), and a few combinations of all the above.
— Jonah Goldberg
I gave up on Jonah and National Review when he took it off, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off, into the weeds and the deeeeep swamps.