The Angry White Man
I would like to add to this, The Angry White Woman.
In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
Aspen Times News
http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008198091324&template=printart
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates - a woman and an African-American - while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone - just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords - “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” - don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina - he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”
He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.
Gary Hubbell is a regular columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly.
Aspen columnist getting nationwide exposure
John Colson
The Aspen Times
Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado
February 20, 2008
ASPEN - An Aspen Times opinion column has sent ripples of glee through the community of politically conservative thinkers around the United States. The column has raised hopes for the defeat of a leading Democratic candidate for president and for a resurgence of putative American values and beliefs.
The column, "The Redneck Tree-hugger" by Gary Hubbell, was titled, "In election 2008, don't forget Angry White Man," and was intended as a paean to the feelings, frustrations and alienation felt by an entire class of American males.
As the column reaps nationwide exposure for its author, it also is generating enough online comments from readers that it slowed down response time on the newspaper's website.
It was cited on the nationally broadcast radio show of Neal Boortz, and at length on the Sean Hannity syndicated radio show Monday. It also was read in its entirety by conservative standard-bearer Rush Limbaugh on his Tuesday morning syndicated radio show.
Hubbell's words apparently have ignited the imaginations and passions of conservative citizens all over the U.S., specifically in their opposition to the presidential bid of Hillary Clinton and generally in their unhappiness over certain aspects of current American culture.
It had attracted more than 400 comments on The Aspen Times website as of 6 p.m. Tuesday, believed to be more than any other article or column the paper has ever published.
Published in the Feb. 10 Aspen Times Weekly, it is all about what Hubbell believes is the outrage felt by a segment of the American electorate that is not getting enough attention from politicians.
"The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard," wrote Hubbell, formerly of Marble, Colo., and a columnist for The Aspen Times since the mid-1990s.
Hubbell, who has been monitoring the reaction via The Aspen Times website, said by telephone Tuesday that he also has been contacted at home.
"The phone's been ringin'," he said, adding that all of the comments he has received personally have been supportive and laudatory.
One website comment, for example, read as follows: "Superbly written!!!!! I heard Rush Limbaugh reading this article today on his radio broadcast. I jotted down the date & source of the article, and knew I had to find it when I arrived home. I thoroughly enjoyed it in my car and I will enjoy reading it many times over. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you ... it made my day!"
Other comments, which are anonymous, have not been quite as complimentary.
For example, one person wrote, "Hubbell's article could have been titled 'Don't Forget the Dinosaurs.' Angry white men? Please ... The article is replete with code words for people who are racist, who are sexist, who are homophobic, who are intolerant and who pose as defenders of 'family values' yet support an unjust war and a President who never served. I'm an angry white man - and I'm angry at the intolerant bigots who Hubbell postures as 'real men'."
Hubbell, 45, and the father of two young boys, while clearly pleased by all the attention, said he is not actually the person he has described in his column.
"Some of it is me ... my personal background and feelings," he said. But mostly, he continued, it was meant to describe people he's known, such as the 400 or so elk hunters for whom he has worked as a hunting outfitter over the past eight years. "Every one of them despised Hillary Clinton," he recalled of this group, noting that he specifically modeled the column on the sentiments of a golf pro he knows who lives in the valley, Dave Alvarez, who currently is working at a golf resort in California.
"Dave Alvarez is the original Angry White Man," Hubbell said, describing him as a Vietnam veteran who flew numerous missions as a door gunner on an Army helicopter.
Hubbell distanced himself somewhat from those he described in his column, noting that he did not vote for President George Bush in either 2000 or 2004, and that he disagrees with many of the beliefs held by such men, particularly in the area of environmental issues.
But, he said, the column clearly touched a nerve among people who are "almost in fear of losing their constitutional rights through political correctness" and who were amazed that a liberal publication such as The Aspen Times would even publish such a column.
He said he has not been invited to appear on any national conservative talk shows, but added, "I think the momentum is building. It's unbelievable to me where this column has gone."
He said his sons are "excited by it" and his wife, Doris, is "supportive, but she also knows that the trash needs to be taken out."
Expressing a hope that the notoriety of the column may provide a boost to his career as a freelance writer, Hubbell said, "I think I can read the thoughts of the average guy a lot better than some politicians. ... I guess there's a feeling in the country that people are not being heard."
Online readers might have had difficulty accessing The Aspen Times website Tuesday after Limbaugh's broadcast, when a spike in traffic slowed the site's operation.
Anyone who hasn't yet read Hubbell's column can find it by typing www.aspentimes. com/hubbell into their Web browser.
In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man
Aspen Times News
http://www.aspentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008198091324&template=printart
Gary Hubbell
February 9, 2008
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates - a woman and an African-American - while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone - just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords - “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” - don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina - he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”
He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.
Gary Hubbell is a regular columnist with the Aspen Times Weekly.
Aspen columnist getting nationwide exposure
John Colson
The Aspen Times
Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado
February 20, 2008
ASPEN - An Aspen Times opinion column has sent ripples of glee through the community of politically conservative thinkers around the United States. The column has raised hopes for the defeat of a leading Democratic candidate for president and for a resurgence of putative American values and beliefs.
The column, "The Redneck Tree-hugger" by Gary Hubbell, was titled, "In election 2008, don't forget Angry White Man," and was intended as a paean to the feelings, frustrations and alienation felt by an entire class of American males.
As the column reaps nationwide exposure for its author, it also is generating enough online comments from readers that it slowed down response time on the newspaper's website.
It was cited on the nationally broadcast radio show of Neal Boortz, and at length on the Sean Hannity syndicated radio show Monday. It also was read in its entirety by conservative standard-bearer Rush Limbaugh on his Tuesday morning syndicated radio show.
Hubbell's words apparently have ignited the imaginations and passions of conservative citizens all over the U.S., specifically in their opposition to the presidential bid of Hillary Clinton and generally in their unhappiness over certain aspects of current American culture.
It had attracted more than 400 comments on The Aspen Times website as of 6 p.m. Tuesday, believed to be more than any other article or column the paper has ever published.
Published in the Feb. 10 Aspen Times Weekly, it is all about what Hubbell believes is the outrage felt by a segment of the American electorate that is not getting enough attention from politicians.
"The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard," wrote Hubbell, formerly of Marble, Colo., and a columnist for The Aspen Times since the mid-1990s.
Hubbell, who has been monitoring the reaction via The Aspen Times website, said by telephone Tuesday that he also has been contacted at home.
"The phone's been ringin'," he said, adding that all of the comments he has received personally have been supportive and laudatory.
One website comment, for example, read as follows: "Superbly written!!!!! I heard Rush Limbaugh reading this article today on his radio broadcast. I jotted down the date & source of the article, and knew I had to find it when I arrived home. I thoroughly enjoyed it in my car and I will enjoy reading it many times over. Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you ... it made my day!"
Other comments, which are anonymous, have not been quite as complimentary.
For example, one person wrote, "Hubbell's article could have been titled 'Don't Forget the Dinosaurs.' Angry white men? Please ... The article is replete with code words for people who are racist, who are sexist, who are homophobic, who are intolerant and who pose as defenders of 'family values' yet support an unjust war and a President who never served. I'm an angry white man - and I'm angry at the intolerant bigots who Hubbell postures as 'real men'."
Hubbell, 45, and the father of two young boys, while clearly pleased by all the attention, said he is not actually the person he has described in his column.
"Some of it is me ... my personal background and feelings," he said. But mostly, he continued, it was meant to describe people he's known, such as the 400 or so elk hunters for whom he has worked as a hunting outfitter over the past eight years. "Every one of them despised Hillary Clinton," he recalled of this group, noting that he specifically modeled the column on the sentiments of a golf pro he knows who lives in the valley, Dave Alvarez, who currently is working at a golf resort in California.
"Dave Alvarez is the original Angry White Man," Hubbell said, describing him as a Vietnam veteran who flew numerous missions as a door gunner on an Army helicopter.
Hubbell distanced himself somewhat from those he described in his column, noting that he did not vote for President George Bush in either 2000 or 2004, and that he disagrees with many of the beliefs held by such men, particularly in the area of environmental issues.
But, he said, the column clearly touched a nerve among people who are "almost in fear of losing their constitutional rights through political correctness" and who were amazed that a liberal publication such as The Aspen Times would even publish such a column.
He said he has not been invited to appear on any national conservative talk shows, but added, "I think the momentum is building. It's unbelievable to me where this column has gone."
He said his sons are "excited by it" and his wife, Doris, is "supportive, but she also knows that the trash needs to be taken out."
Expressing a hope that the notoriety of the column may provide a boost to his career as a freelance writer, Hubbell said, "I think I can read the thoughts of the average guy a lot better than some politicians. ... I guess there's a feeling in the country that people are not being heard."
Online readers might have had difficulty accessing The Aspen Times website Tuesday after Limbaugh's broadcast, when a spike in traffic slowed the site's operation.
Anyone who hasn't yet read Hubbell's column can find it by typing www.aspentimes. com/hubbell into their Web browser.