Fowler, in addition to being generally rude, repeatedly called Midwesterners "ignorant and lazy," denigrated the US military and, to put a cherry on top, refused to sing the National Anthem. For a guy who touting a stratospheric IQ, Fowler wasn't smart enough to figure out that badmouthing America on primetime national network TV was a bad idea. The good news is he was forced to apologize and resign from two environmental boards. We can only hope more public censure is to come.
The incident got us thinking about the many, many things Fowler and his ilk don't like; guns, fast cars, sports, beer, pizza. In other words, almost everything that makes life fun. Here is our look at the Top Five Things Weenies Love to Hate.
Wal-MartIt's pathetic and absurd the way culture snobs bash Wal-Mart; a company whose only crime is selling more goods and services at lower prices than any other retail operation in the history of mankind. Have you ever noticed how the people who complain that Wal-Mart "destroys small town life" are the same people who have never been to a small town. Here's a secret about shopping at Mom-and-Pop owned stores on a small-town Main Street: It sucks. Shopping takes forever, prices are high and the selection is bad. Wal-Mart also pays more and has better benefits than most Mom and Pop-owned retail.
McDonalds'Mickey D's is an almost unparalleled American success story. The chain has not only served more food, faster and cheaper than anybody else, Ray Kroc's franchise concept revolutionized restaurants. People like to bitch about corporate sameness, but if you have ever tried to find a place to eat in a strange city, you know corporate sameness like Chili's, Applebee's and, yes, the Golden Arches, can be a blessed relief to find. McDonalds had drinkable coffee now, too. No, nobody is paying us for this.
Television
There is no surer sign of cultural snobbery than TV-bashing. Since the fist big shows in the 50's, every douchebag with a college degree who wants to sound smart has railed against the boob tube. It's kind of sad, really. Anyone who has never enjoyed Barney Fife, Cliff Clavin and Dr. Johnny Fever, to name a few, has missed out. Anyway, TV has changed since the days of "My Mother The Car." With the cable explosion, "TV" can now mean cooking shows, Japanese anime, the London Symphony Orchestra or a guy eating raw camel balls in the Sahara.
Maybe even more importantly, the sensory experience of TV has gotten much, much better all of sudden in the last few years. HD has radically improved the broadcast picture and sound, while DVR's have dramatically reduced the number of commercials people have to watch. Refusing to watch any TV at this point is like living in the 1920's and refusing to take part in this new technology called "movies." You're just being dumb and missing out.
MegachurchesProbably because the word sounds scary, people think "megachuches" are where radical, gay-hating, anti-abortion extremists go to watch closeted gay preachers. But "megachuches" are no more or less conservative than any other church. It’s just a catch-all coinage for a congregation over 10,000 people; which sounds big unless you consider that twice that many people will show up for a moderately interesting high school football game.
The KillersOkay, they don't quite fall into the catagory of things that snotty super-liberals from San Francisco hate. Guys that that only listen o NPR. But we still hear a lot of bashing and want to defend them.
Yeah, the last record was synth-heavy and Brandon Flowers' voice lacked the urgency of the other two. Everyone is allowed a slump. Maybe the band had too much success with the first record and got too well-fed. Being worshiped as gods in Britain is enough to screw up anybody's career.
