The Media is enthralled with the "Angry White Man"

[edhopper]

Can either candidate attract enough of them? What do they want? Blah, blah, blah..
But if the sense an "angry black person" around (Is Michelle? Is Wright? Is Obama secretly?) Then OMG, why do they hate America?
Hypocrisy and racism, brought to you by your corporate media.

[bluestateguy]

1. Consider this

White men are 38% of the electorate and dropping. Let's be generous and figure that 60% of them are angry conservatives. This means that the media is fixated on about 23% of the electorate, voters we as Democrats would never win anyway.

[dkofos]

3. Not to mention, the angry white men are watching sports and not news.

[wuushew]

18. You are correct the demographic is shrinking

The Vanishing Male Voter

http://www.newsweek.com/id/164273

[spooky3]

2. add sexism to your list and you have a trifecta.

Those "angry white men" ALWAYS vote heavily Republican. It is time for the media to recognize that there are many other people who live in the country.

[Skidmore]

4. Navel gazing. What percentage of the media is made up of

white men?

[KG]

5. i'm an angry white man.

i'm pissed coz i'm getting fucked by both politcal parties, and neither will even feign a reach around. :grr:

[KansDem]

6. We had "angry white men" in 1994.

And they voted in a Repub congress. Then we had "angry white men" in 2000 and they voted in W.--sort of.

F*ck "angry white men." We will win this time, and the "angry white men" can go lick their wounds!

[edhopper]

7. All good points.

But what I was trying to say is the media condones their anger. Sees nothing wrong with them feeling angry, they even psychoanalyze them a bit.
But the scent of an angry black person is enough to put on the hoods.

[Fuzz]

8. I'm a white guy, and I've been angry since Bush v Gore.

;)

[tularetom]

9. They should come and talk to me if they want to see an angry white man

I'm pissed at what these low lifes have done to my country for the past 30 years, and I'm pissed at myself and our Democratic representatives in congress for allowing it to happen.

I'm livid that my net worth has been reduced by 50% in less than six months.

I'm enraged that they want to take my tax dollars and give them to a bunch of corporate fat cats.

I'm seeing red over the fact that close to half of my fellow citizens are so fucking stupid that they are willing to see this clusterfuck go on for another four years.

I'm beyond angry at the "news" media for their unfair treatment of economic issues and their focus on divisive social non issues.

Yup, I'm an angry white man alright, and I could give them an earful. In fact if they came and asked me about it I'd probably punch 'em out. That's how pissed I am.

Joe the plumber? A pussy, a fake, he's got nothing to be angry about. The system favors him over a lot of people and he still has achieved basically jack shit. I'm pissed at him too. Fuck him.

[juno jones]

10. And as a corollary:

How many of the female shown are white anorexic freaks who are primarily hypocritical because they would justify their own slavery to 'traditional' values? Never mind the brainless parrotings that they vomit forth otherwise.

That is what the 'angry white men' think 'real' women are.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. I want a button that says "Angry White Man for Obama"

[OneGrassRoot]

12. Sweet! n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Yes, the GOP-controlled media is very good at pushing myths that support their team. n/t

[lelgt60]

14. Fortunately, nobody but the MSM gives a crap...

Not even Republicans. What a waste of air time. Just turn the channel to World Class Curling.

[blues90]

15. As an angry white male

I have to say I had nothing to do with this screwed up lying fake Bullshit media or their ignorant views.

I don't support them by buying one single product they advertise.

They just love to drive all sizes and shapes of wedges between the population , this is their highly paid job, to lie and divide and twist everything out of shape which includes the shape of their own fool heads.

The best solution is not to even turn on the TV set and allow their filth into your home. I'm not interested in what anyone of them has to spout out.

I am not race angry I am angry at the way this government has screwed the people no matter what race they happen to be.

It has gone on long enough.

I am not proud of what this country has done to so many other countries through the years or what they have done to the people in this country.

If they want to play us against each other then we do know their game and we don't have to participate in it one second longer. This is the choice we have to make in order to stop them in their tracks.

Remember the saying tune out and drop out in the 60's , well that was stupid but used in this sense in this time it is the realistic approach.

[TexasObserver]

16. The "angry white man" is Archie Bunker, and he's voted GOP the past 44 years.

I don't know why anyone worries about the angry white man. What they really mean is the angry, bigoted, racist, sexist white man, the guy who is angry because he hates blacks, gays and women.

[Franzia]

17. Perhaps because the media largely consists of angry white men.

.

[KayLaw]

19. Ugh!

I remember calling them the Angry White Losers. Not again, please.

[Bluzmann57]

20. Well I'm an angry White man

and the reason I'm angry is because I happen to think the USA is a pretty good place to be, or at least it was until the neocons brought shame and humiliation to us. Not to mention that I'm worried about my job being there for a few more years. Thanks to bushco for the recession, er, economic downturn, er basic fundamentals, er, ah hell I don't know. I'm just too angry I guess.

[edhopper]

21. Okay, I'll try this again

I don't give two shits about the AWG. Why he's angry, or how he votes.
My point is that the media portrays the AWG as a genuine constituency. Someone the candidates need to court.
They validate any "White Guy" in his anger. And lets face it, most of these White MFers are angry that brown people are taking something from him. So the media is validating prejuduce.
But if a black person shows any anger (and why on Earth would a black person be angry in America;-), then it is demanded that all public persons shun them and repudiate them.
I'm not interested in the AWG, I'm commenting on the hypocrisy when it comes to a black person who shows anything but complete optimism in this country.

I hope this post is clearer and would invite comments on this, not the non issue of the AWG.