I'm fed up with this Iowa guy who's been writing in the Chicago Tribune!

[Critters2]

:rant:

Some guy from Maquoketa, named Kurt Ullrich, has been sharing his views of Iowa occasionally in the Tribune for the last year or so. I've been so irritated with the way he supports stereotypes of Iowa as stupid small-town rubes. Today's article was the last straw. Think I'll write the Trib--or Mr. Ullrich personally.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0107caucusjan07,0,7183668.story

I was most angry about this paragraph:

"Iowans have never elected a woman to the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives, and we've never elected a woman to be our governor. We'll allow for a few to slip into our more meaningless jobs, like lieutenant governor, but that's where it ends. So it's not surprising that Hillary Clinton finished in third place here. She's lucky it wasn't any worse. The final results at a Democratic caucus in a small eastern Iowa high school a few miles from my place were likely indicative of the entire state."

Idiot. I served a small town in Iowa (Eagle Grove), where I was one of 4 women clergy--with 10 churches in town. Then i moved to worldly, sophisticated Illinois, a town of 18,500, where I was the only woman in ministry. One UMC church has since had a woman appointed, but we're the only two. Out of 35 churches.

But this moran presents all Iowans as sexist pigs. Jerk.

[taylor egv420106]

1. Uhhh

Your post would work better if you didn't misspell "moron".

[cyberswede]

2. Uhhh...I think it's intentional

[Critters2]

3. LOL!!! You're new around here aren't you?

"Moran" was intentional. You'll see it used a lot on DU. Don't write correcting anyone who spells serious "series", either. But I shouldn't be casting asparagus.

Welcome to DU :hi:

[Blappy]

4. Thanks for your pointing this out,

I mean the original story in the Chicago paper. I don't think it holds water, because frankly, most people who are "rednecks" are less misogynistic than they are bigoted. This writer is obviously a Hillary fan. God, how I long for the days when we had real investigative and objective journalism!! BTW, the term "moran" has been flung around quite a bit over the years on DU, but I think less so after more people became aware of a "good guy" congressman named Moran.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Unbelievable...

I guess he forgot about the impersonal, insulting campaign that Hillary
ran in our state. Planting questions and refusing to be open with voters
isn't exactly a recipie for success.

Women ovewhelmingly did not support Clinton. I guess that makes all of
those women sexist???

I'm a sexist? Who knew. My husband will find that interesting.

For this guy to insult our entire state, because his candidate didn't
win, is really self serving.

[CoffeeCat]

6. Ok, I'm laughing...

I just read the article.

Look at his first sentence, "One day ahead of the Iowa caucuses and instead of using the opportunity to see one last candidate I was in my car with my four cats..."

I don't think there's anything left to say, do you?

:rofl:

[Debi]

7. You had to see it coming

If Biden/Dodd/Edwards came in first we would have been racist and sexist
If Clinton came in first we would have been racist but not sexist
If Richardson/Obama came in first we would have been sexist but not racist

Iowa was going to be in a world of hurt with one group of folks or another. All we had to do was wait to see who it was. Now we know.

[Hardrada]

8. LOL!

This guy is from my town and used to get an article in the DMR now and then. He is some kind of county official in Davenport and his wife is a chief district judge (or whatever). So his wife has a good (appointive) job. They are not bad people but, as you say, probably he was a Hill supporter.