Comments on: ‘A Kinder, Gentler DLC’ http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/14/10/a-kinder-gentler-dlc/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:54:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: zuzu http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/14/10/a-kinder-gentler-dlc/#comment-143131 zuzu Sun, 11 May 2008 02:14:15 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24796#comment-143131 Sorry, did you miss the part where Chris Bowers is the one talking without irony about the creative class, Whole Foods and PBR? I never did understand why the hipsters all started drinking shitty beer a few years ago. You can't swing a dead cat in parts of Brooklyn without hitting a hipster bar with PBR specials. I didn't even drink that stuff in college, when the best I could afford was Bud. When I started making money, I drank better beer; if you can afford to buy your food at Whole Foods you can afford a non-shitty beer. Besides, I don't drink ironically. Sorry, did you miss the part where Chris Bowers is the one talking without irony about the creative class, Whole Foods and PBR?

I never did understand why the hipsters all started drinking shitty beer a few years ago. You can’t swing a dead cat in parts of Brooklyn without hitting a hipster bar with PBR specials.

I didn’t even drink that stuff in college, when the best I could afford was Bud. When I started making money, I drank better beer; if you can afford to buy your food at Whole Foods you can afford a non-shitty beer. Besides, I don’t drink ironically.

]]> By: sid http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/14/10/a-kinder-gentler-dlc/#comment-143097 sid Sat, 10 May 2008 21:27:31 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24796#comment-143097 I would guess Matt became the arbiter of cool around the time folks like you thought it was cool to talk about the "creative class". I bet you bashed Obama for using right-wing frames too. Oh yeah, the Whole Foods schtick is another really winning frame, I am sure you are bringing tons of undecideds into your fold with that. I would guess Matt became the arbiter of cool around the time folks like you thought it was cool to talk about the “creative class”. I bet you bashed Obama for using right-wing frames too. Oh yeah, the Whole Foods schtick is another really winning frame, I am sure you are bringing tons of undecideds into your fold with that.

]]> By: zuzu http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/10/14/10/a-kinder-gentler-dlc/#comment-143094 zuzu Sat, 10 May 2008 20:41:23 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24796#comment-143094 Well, that was embarrassing. Interesting that he follows a post triumphantly titled "We Nominated the Black Guy!" with a post in which he seems to be cutting out all of the black people. The coalition to get the nomination was the creative class and African-Americans, but only the creative class gets to run the show, I guess. Maybe black people should start drinking PBR and shopping at Whole Foods. p.s. how on earth did <i>Matt Yglesias</i> become the arbiter of cool? Well, that was embarrassing.

Interesting that he follows a post triumphantly titled “We Nominated the Black Guy!” with a post in which he seems to be cutting out all of the black people. The coalition to get the nomination was the creative class and African-Americans, but only the creative class gets to run the show, I guess. Maybe black people should start drinking PBR and shopping at Whole Foods.

p.s. how on earth did Matt Yglesias become the arbiter of cool?

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