Posted by Dan Ewert : 12/17/2002 03:20:00 AM (Archive Link)
Also, one of the earlier Wal-Mart articles I brought up was written by a gentleman named Jim Hightower. Jim is a Texan who is a great populist. At least that’s what he says. Really, Hightower himself seems to trumpet it more than anybody else. I suppose if you call yourself something long enough and loud enough, it becomes true. So following that theory… I AM RICH! I AM FILTHY RICH!! I AM ONE STINKING FILTHY RICH MAN!!! With any luck, within one year I’ll be sleeping on a bed of crumpled hundred dollar bills. Anyway, the man thinks highly of himself. Just look at his website. He also spouts out more colloquialisms than Dan Rather and Dr. Phil at a swap meet. This, of course, is just seasoning for his populist flavor. He goes on and on about how he’s representing the underrepresented little guy. What’s obvious, though, is that this is just a guise for a clearly Democratic and liberal ideology that’s very well represented in the country. Just because he couches it in little-man rhetoric doesn’t make it any less so.