Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill contemplated by Obama or Congress. The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded.- Frank Rich confesses, on the pages of the New York Times.
28 March 2010
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I think he means "harbingers," not "avatars."
ReplyDeleteGood catch. Even with that improvement it's still bad writing.
ReplyDeleteThat's Rich's thing, bad writing. Actually, I've always been impressed by how bad Rich is even by NYT standards. They have one real-albeit-awful stylist (Dowd), two bland affirmative actions (Blow, Herbert), one functional whatever (Kristoff), the other chick (?), one highly talented mountebank (Friedman), and then the Washington Generals (Brooks, Douthat). But only Rich combines the rote crap that every political junkie has inhaled from the earlier part of the week's commentary with a perfect unremarkable writing style, distinguished only by his retarded version of pop culture referencing. He's like a shitty left-wing Mark Steyn.
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