It’s no secret that I think Howie Carr is a vile right wing Pig, so it was a little amusing to me to be listening to him the other day go on a rant about how he believes that the recent Newsweek cover of Sarah Palin is the most sexist cover he’s ever seen. Man, I was starting to think that ole Howie was truly changes his colors before my eyes, but then I made the mistake of listening to him again the day after his rant, because during this particular rant about Alexandra Kerry (daughter of John Kerry whom Howie hates and despises!) getting an OUI, ole Howie proved me correct that he is a sexist right wing Pig by telling his listeners (paraphrasing but close), “You gotta see this photo of Alexandra from a few years ago! Hey Sandy (his assistant on the program), put that photo of her up on the website so everyone can see it! I’m telling you right now….if I had to arrest someone dressed like that, I wouldn’t be able to!”.
Here’s the “non-sexist photo Howie believes is nothing compared to the one of Sarah Palin on the cover of Newsweek” (NUDITY):
And here’s the “extremely sexist photo of Sarah Palin on the cover of Newsweek” that Howie practically committed suicide on the air for:
Get it now? According to Howie he’s very good at knowing sexism when he sees and he believes it’s not sexist to put a photo up on your website showing the nipples of the daughter of a sitting Senator for everyone to gawk at, but it is sexism if you put up a photo of Sarah Palin on the cover of a magazine where she’s wearing shorts and not a nipple in sight!
See?
(image by KayInMaine of White Noise Insanity)
What a crock of crap coming out of Howie Carr’s (a millionaire) mouth today (same shit, different day!). If you’re wondering where the class wars are, just tune into WRKO’s Howie Carr’s show to hear the constant berating of the poor and kicking them down when they don’t deserve it. Howie also hates the homeless in our country. He’s one of many conservatives who thinks all the homeless needs is a good long shower and a haircut to be able to make it in America! Spit. But that’s another post.
Today on Carr’s show, he stated that all the kids on the first day of school who have brand-new clothes are the poor kids, while it’s the kids of the working class who arrive on the first day of school wearing hand-me-downs. Can you believe this bullshit? Is Howie trying to make his listeners hate the poor even more than they do by saying it’s the kids on welfare who get all the benefits? Yep! That’s exactly what he’s doing! He’s absolutely lying about the poor in this country.
I can tell you right now (I’ve spent a decade and a half in the homes of the wealthy because of my job)…..THE RICH KID’S CLOSETS & BUREAUS ARE PACKED WITH NEW CLOTHES FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR. Not only that, during the school year some of these kids shop for clothes all year long! One of my customer’s daughter has a clothing allowance. A clothing allowance. Did you have a clothing allowance when you were in school? LOL! I didn’t! In fact, my father was a Union paper mill worker and my mother would order our clothes from Sears. We’re we wealthy? Nope. We’re we upper middle class? Nope. We’re we part of the working class. Yes, but that did not mean we lavished ourselves with clothes all year long. What it did mean was: THOSE WERE THE ONLY CLOTHES WE WERE GOING TO HAVE FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR and if we ripped our pants or stained a shirt….oh well! We still had to wear them. And that was that.
I remember the delivery truck showing up to our house from Sears and then being made fun of in school for the clothes I was wearing! We couldn’t afford the nice brands, but you know what, we were clothed for crying out loud! Not only that, I also got hand-me-downs from my cousins while the poor in my class never had new clothes. Same goes for today. The poor of today are not buying the latest fashions. What they are doing (and it’s what I’ve done for years with my son) is buying a couple of outfits for the new school year, buying some clothes at Christmastime (if they can afford it of course) and then clothes on the birthdays (again, if they can afford to). This is how the poor and lower middle class survives. The wealthy and the upper class? They’re buying tons of clothes every year and if they have a kid who only wants to wear hand-me-downs during school, this kid is most likely considered the ‘weird kid” at school! LOL
The class wars are coming from the right wing in this country. The health care debate is fueling it too. They think all Americans who don’t have health care are the poor ones and not the people of the middle class who have lost their job and can’t afford to buy new insurance or they have a pre-existing condition and can’t! Howie wants you to believe that it’s only the poor of America who has it good while it’s the rest who are suffering because of the poor. What bullshit!
Spits of rage…