#HuffPoInTheHeartland

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Jul 142017
 

As has been incessantly pointed out, the US is kinda split, politically. There are people on both sides who seem wholly ignorant of the realities of The Other (feel free to speculate whether the sides are evenly split… given that the media is forever extolling the virtues of one side in the news, TV shows and movies while often ignoring the other side, I have drawn my own conclusions). This is not exactly good for the future of the country, but there are at least occasional attempts for one side to try to understand the other.

But sometimes those attempts to learn are… kinda laughable. For example:

Should we scoff at HuffPost’s Safari to Middle America?

Huffington Post, a left-wing echo chamber, has decided to launch a seven week bus tour “safari” to “middle America” to try to understand the divide, hosting media events and running a “listening tour.” Yeah… but.

The problem is, they’re not really going after Red State Middle America, but instead they seem to be focusing on the islands of Hillarian Blue:

… they’re not visiting “Trump country,” pointing to a reason for each city or state on the tour like an interesting community college system in Fort Wayne or Detroit’s large Arab-American population.

Meh.

So, it seems likely to have no utility except to reinforce their preconceptions. Shrug.

Still, while HuffPo stands ready to learn nothing, this little exercise has already proven to be a fertile source of amusement for those who aren’t in the HuffPo bubble. A twitter hashtag has been set upand people are already snarkily reporting as HuffPo Pajama boys as they are exposed to Middle America.

Advance team of journalists left literally shaking after scouting run for #HuffPoInTheHeartland tour

 

 

 

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