Fifteen Minutes Of Fame For Aspen's 'Angry White Man'

February 20th, 2008 at 07:46am Post Staff 43

ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Local Aspen columnist Gary Hubbell either struck a chord or rang a bell with his piece entitled: "In election 2008, don’t forget Angry White Man."

"Here is one group no one has recognized," he writes, "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."

One of the keys to the Angry White Male, according to Hubbell: "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." And, not surprisingly, he not only owns guns, but "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." "Four million" of the Angry White Males belong to the National Rifel Association. Needless to say, said male is not homosexual. Indeed, the Angry White Male knows no specific ethnicity at all. "His last name and religion don’t matter," Hubbell writes. "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 might be rich or poor, but "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.'

Above all, according to Hubbell, the Angry White Male is, well, angry.

"Most important," he writes, "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."

Most of all the Angry White Male hates Hillary Clinton: "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."

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10 Comments Add your own

1. Cathleen Krahe | February 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am

White men have done themselves in by letting greed get in the way of the lifestyle and ideals they hold dear. Look at the titans of industry and the salaries they give themselves and huge retirement packages their boards give them for doing a bad job. People have lost respect for them and those not holding them accountable.

It seems very much like the book I just read "Reclaiming Conservatism" by Republican Mickey Edwards (he appeared at the Explorer book store Sunday evening). People have lost respect for Republicans because they no longer stand for separation of powers, the rights of the individual, the Constitution, limited government, balanced budgets, etc., but instead have voted along party lines to keep power.
2. Edward Troy | February 20th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

First of all Boo Hoo Hoo for this diaper butt. He has never had a level playing field except within the segregated unions, boards and country clubs. His 'whiteness' has allowed him to access privilege founded upon a cultural inheritance in the form of land stolen from aboriginal peoples and peoples stolen from their lands, and the labor from therein. Of course this doesn't take away from Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Edison, Carnegie and Salk.

The problem for diaper butt is that he just now being exposed to a leveling playing field. This field is being levelled by Asian and Indian venture capitalists sending tens of billions and even hundreds of billions when combined with the Walmarts of this country , overseas. The field is being levelled by immigration, legal or not, spurred by demand for such by the wealthy Republican heroes he worships (shortly he and or his ilk will tell us the contrary).

Diaper butt can't compete with the Indian PH.Ds he isn't smart enough, however if were to give up his manly (hee hee) truck , guns, remote, burros and bud weiser, he might be able to compete with the immigrants if he had a work ethic, assuming he had to even compete for the job!!

Society has given almost every diaper butt 100 times to fail. If you are any person identified some idiotic hyphenation prefaced by some demographic identity, you get one chance and you are out. That is why I do not work for any one and have chosen to work for my self. I got tired of seeing diaper butts who play golf, get promoted up to and around me. I have quit just to make sure their golf games were disrupted and they actually had to work, instead of suck down a paycheck.

Quite frankly, if you see this going on you should leave so this entitlement turns into real production, whether you are "white" or not. I have met many men (and women) and none that I respect have complained about how tough it is to be "white," even when they do accept this generic identity as a part of individual experience -- they don't live on it. This talk reminds me of aryan propaganda starring the hero of the heroic harvest feeding the entire village on his broad back balanced on wide shoulders. What rot!! I liken this to an expectation that others empathise with a trustafarian who has partied away their inheritance and now has to work -- big deal. Now shut up and get to work stripped of advantages based on sex and your self identified "race." If you don't, those Mexicans and Indians won't be the only ones beatin' you for the job or out of your money.
3. Hugh520 | February 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm

This invention is so full of self-adulation, narcissism and self-referential idiocy that it could almost have been written buy Bill Clinton himself -- our narcissist in chief. It's Bill's "tin ear" that started his wifes descent.

It's also the the kind bitter tripe I would expect from someone whose party has self-destructed while in the hands of former pest control experts (Tom Delay), and the likes of Jack Abramoff and his sock puppet Michael Scanlon who were bilking Native American tribes out of millions of dollars for promised gambling licenses.

You're the kind of guy Richard Pryor said would ask him for his autograph and then say, "You want to kiss my girl, -- not on the lips."

That you have a weekly platform from which to spread your nonsense (Mr. Hubbbell) is exceeded in its folly by your own manifest ignorance and the good luck that it isn't a daily.

Hugh McCormack
4. Mitch Mulhall | February 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

My my my. I hadn’t anticipated quite this reaction from the Aspen Post minions. My wife sent me a link to Gary’s editorial last week, long before his words gained purchase on conservative air-waves. I thought about blogging about it then, but elected not to—until, that is, I heard Hannity read Gary’s editorial on President’s Day.

On balance, I agree with the much of what Gary writes, with these exceptions:

1. Indifference in killing a human, no matter how deserving, constitutes a darkness of heart I cannot abide.

2. I don’t have a problem with “press one for English.” If I have anything to say about it, and I do, my children will be fluent in Spanish before they finish high school. With any luck, they will know some German and French as well.

3. I don’t simmer when a tech support call is answered by an Indian national because I figure out a solution without picking up a phone.

4. I don’t loathe Hillary Clinton. I just won’t vote for her.

I don’t know Gary well—he was much younger than me growing up—but I did spend many days skiing at Sunlight with his older sister. He comes from a good family. I know Gary well enough to say that the last thing he needs is an apologist, so I won’t pose as one.

I think it would be quite an interesting Congames segment, Michael interviewing Gary on this subject. It’s just a hunch, but I’m pretty sure sparks would fly.

Cheers,
5. Hugh520 | February 20th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

I tell you what's doing The Clintons in: it's the fact that they no longer need to be democrats. They each got 8 + million dollar advances for their post-white house tombs....

They live in -- find a richer suburb -- Chappaqua for the love of God. Their health-care is government guaranteed. They ride in blacked-out suburbans, all the better to protect them from you and me. I wish them no harm, but I will not swallow any populist swill when it comes to the Clintons.

They have traded in they're populist credentials as quickly as John McCain traded in his torture credentials last week. They're power hungry pac mans. And if it took Hillary 35 years to find her voice, then it's a reasonable question to ask: Where was it?
6. mgman | February 21st, 2008 at 8:23 am

It is difficult to rail about this blather without sounding like a self-loathing caucasian filled with "white-guilt."

Mitch is correct in suggesting an interview with Gary before we all pigeon hole his intention and character.

With that said, I find the notion of white men, as a group, having a grouse about any kind injustice to them - that their voice is not heard - as absurd. Employable white males have the least number of hurdles to whatever level of success they strive to. Pointing to a minority of examples where a white man was passed over by a woman or minority just doesn't garner 'oppression- sympathy' in my world.

This kind of nonsense has surely contributed to the self-destruction of the conservative movement. Conservatives often harken back to the 'utopia' of the 1950's because you had the world at your fingertips if you were white, male, and employable. Otherwise, the ladder of success was greased all the way to the top.

mgman
7. Andy In Glenwood | February 21st, 2008 at 8:04 pm

If you look past the "White Male" wrapping you see quite a bit a logic and down to earthness.

"he isn’t looking for anything from anyone"

"he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard"

"He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally"

"He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others"

"His last name and religion don’t matter"

"He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny"

"He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says 'Yes, sir' and 'No, ma’am.'"

All things I agree with.
8. Mitch Mulhall | February 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 am

[...a white man... passed over by a woman or minority...]

The Australians have a term for this: "A big woman's blouse"... Especially when he bitches, in which case you ask him where he forgot his purse...

Cheers,
9. mgman | February 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 am

Woa,
Gimme Shelter!...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wmcxqsO8rY
10. Edward Troy | February 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Andy,
I would too -- in a perfectly level world of access and merit. Olmpic 200m Gold Medalist and world record setter Tommy "Jet" Smith and Bronze Medalist John arlos raised their fists in Mexico City in '68. The Canadian Silver Medalist showed solidarity by bowing his head and may have even worn the black wrist bands the Americans were wearing. The world is full of unjust history. AIM, King and Ghandi showed that asking for the righting of wrongs does not deserve belittlement. Why should anyone not try to get back what was stolen from their fathers by some other's fathers who willed the ill begotten wealth. Enjoying an inheritance is far removed from doing great things with the inheritance, or creating a great one without stepping on someone else. It just happens to more than annoy me when some of my ancestors took a hike to Oklahoma and others sailed from Africa as pack animals and cargo, to hear any sort of this whiney belly ache. I do wonder what it would have been like to have massive support where getting a job with upwardly mobile realisation was there, or getting a huge tract of land would be like. To me a dirt poor "angry white man" is poor because he made no effort to do anything about it, at least in this country, while I can't even think of any fortunes made by minorities without extraordinary work, luck and intelligence. I have been fired or resigned in disgust while being number 1 a few times in completely different businesses, because of diaper butts.
I don't begrudge the fruits of honest labor and effort, just don't expect me to buy in to some egalitarian utopia and listen to the tough to be "white" cry baby stuff from some imagined oppression -- it really is pathetic.

(If you look past the "White Male" wrapping you see quite a bit a logic and down to earthness.

"he isn’t looking for anything from anyone"

"he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard"

"He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally"

"He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others"

"His last name and religion don’t matter"

"He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny"

"He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says 'Yes, sir' and 'No, ma’am.'"

All things I agree with. )