Fake America Located

[MilesAustinforMVP]

In tonight's NBC News interview with Brian Williams, McCain explains that the "elites" are located in D.C. and New York City:
WILLIAMS: Who is a member of the elite?
PALIN: Oh, I guess just people who think that they're better than anyone else. And-- John McCain and I are so committed to serving every American. Hard-working, middle-class Americans who are so desiring of this economy getting put back on the right track. And winning these wars. And America's starting to reach her potential. And that is opportunity and hope provided everyone equally. So anyone who thinks that they are-- I guess-- better than anyone else, that's-- that's my definition of elitism.

WILLIAMS: So it's not education? It's not income-based? It's--
PALIN: Anyone who thinks that they're better than someone else.
WILLIAMS: --a state of mind? It's not geography?
PALIN: 'Course not.
WILLIAMS: Senator?
MCCAIN: I-- I know where a lot of 'em live. (LAUGH)
WILLIAMS: Where's that?
MCCAIN: Well, in our nation's capital and New York City. I've seen it. I've lived there. I know the town. I know-- I know what a lot of these elitists are. The ones that she never went to a cocktail party with in Georgetown. I'll be very frank with you. Who think that they can dictate what they believe to America rather than let Americans decide for themselves.
UPDATE: Numerous readers in those cities note that they were the targets on 9/11.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Fake_America_located.html?showall

[MilesAustinforMVP]

chirp chirp... McCain just said the people who died on 9/11 are not real Americans... Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

[bbgun]

Good for him. I can vouch for the DC part. Disappointed that he didn't throw in Berkeley.

[Sasquatch]

Mrs. Palin might want to inform herself of Mr. McCain's background a bit before speaking of insiders and elites.

[MilesAustinforMVP]

Good for him. I can vouch for the DC part. Disappointed that he didn't throw in Berkeley.

And I can throw in anyone who waves the Confederate Flag, considering that is the only time in history that certain states have used military action to secede from America. So basically you can throw in the South altogether, also considering it was the south during the Revolutionary war that had loyalist tendencies.

And I can't forget Todd and Sarah Palin for supporting the secession of Alaska.

[CowboyFan74]

chirp chirp... McCain just said the people who died on 9/11 are not real Americans... Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Settle down Beavis..

[bbgun]

Settle down Beavis..

He had no choice but to bump up his own lame thread. Pathetic.

[bbgun]

And I can throw in anyone who waves the Confederate Flag, considering that is the only time in history that certain states have used military action to secede from America. So basically you can throw in the South altogether, also considering it was the south during the Revolutionary war that had loyalist tendencies.

And yet a "racist" Southern state like Florida is leaning towards Nobama.

And I can't forget Todd and Sarah Palin for supporting the secession of Alaska.

Alas, that rumor is faker than Obama's birth certificate.

[Phrozen Phil]

Fake America is located on the chests of most of the Strippers in Las Vegas. I hope that settles the argument........

[BrAinPaiNt]

The fake America is that Canada place up north full of maple syrup chuggers. :p: ;)

[CowboyPrincess]

chirp chirp... McCain just said the people who died on 9/11 are not real Americans... Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Where was that written that he said that.

And for the record, It wasn't just Americans killed on 9/11. The WTC did have foreigners working in it.

1 percent (27 people) were foreign nationals from eight different countries. Also, about 21 percent (568 people) were born outside of the U.S. It's also been suggested that a certain percentage of the unaccounted 93 victims were illegal immigrants whose families did not want to step forward and request a death certificate from the government. That is a possible 688 foreign born victims. Close to a quarter of those that died in the WTC that day. So depending on your definition of "real" that statement could be partially true if it had been made.

[ScipioCowboy]

Excellent response from Palin.;)

[VCDefectors]

Palin deserves credit points for not falling into another one of those verbal gaffe traps. McCain, on the other hand, I expected him to know better.

[peplaw06]

chirp chirp... McCain just said the people who died on 9/11 are not real Americans... Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?This is 1000 times lamer than the lamest smack talk you've posted on this forum in the past few weeks. Embarrassing.

I never believed that there were people like you out there. Now I guess I've virtually met one.

[DaBoys4Life]

The fake America is that Canada place up north full of maple syrup chuggers. :p: ;)

:bow:

[burmafrd]

Pepie, miles is right down there with yeah yeah. Should not surprise you.

[bbgun]

Sarah Palin Is Correct (Again)
Patriotism runs higher in some areas than in others.

By James G. Gimpel
U. of Maryland

Joe Biden may be “tired, tired, tired, tired, tired!” of hearing that some places in the country are more patriotic than others, but Sarah Palin is right: Patriotic and pro-American sentiment run higher in some areas than in others.

Naturally, how to measure patriotism is a matter of argument. One way is to look at differences in military involvement: Rural and small-town families are more likely to see their children go off into combat, and return in body bags. Or, we can turn to one of the few recent non-partisan surveys on the matter, the American National Election Study from the University of Michigan. It’s produced every election year, and the most recent data is from 2004.

This installment asked two pertinent questions:

1. How strong is your love for your country? . . . EXTREMELY strong, VERY strong, SOMEWHAT strong, or NOT VERY strong?

2. Is being an American EXTREMELY important, VERY important, SOMEWHAT important, NOT TOO important, or NOT AT ALL important to you personally?

If we scrutinize the responses from large cities, suburbs, and small towns, the small towns are far more patriotic. Nearly three in every four (73.4 percent) respondents from counties of fewer than 25,000 people expressed that their love for their country was extremely strong, compared to only half of those in counties with more than 300,000 inhabitants. In the nation’s largest population centers, those expressing “extremely strong” love for country stood at only 46 percent. And over two-thirds of respondents from small counties reported that it is ”extremely important” to be American, compared to about half of big-city folk.

It is certainly possible that factors other than simple geography are at work here. The populations in small towns are older, and older people are generally more expressive of pro-American values than younger people are, for example. Also, rural areas are more Republican, and the University of Michigan survey shows a significant partisan difference in patriotism. Democrats are considerably less likely to express strong love of country than Republicans are, and less likely to think being an American is important. Of those who claimed to be “Strong Democrats,” only around half expressed extremely strong love of country, compared to three-fourths of the “Strong Republicans.” A sizable share of (but by no means all) committed Democrats are apparently embarrassed about their country and about being American.

Perhaps Governor Palin’s comment is one of those truths that is better left unspoken. The McCain campaign seems to be treating it that way. But there is certainly no falsehood in her remarks, as Senator Biden suggested.