New York Times writer Gail Collins' column this morning is All Alabama All The Time!
But it's not the oil spill that's got her attention, it's those campaign commercials!
She writes about them going viral, while helping to spreading the microbes herself.
A lot of Americans who knew absolutely zero about Alabama will now have a little factoid to file away: We have crazy people running for office.
Hard to argue with that! It's a kinda speciality of ours no? Remeber Shorty Price?
And if those same Americans read more than the headlines about the oil spill in the Gulf, they'll have another Alabama factoid. There is a beach in Alabama. Of course they'll think it's covered in BP crude, but at least they'll know it exists! That's something all the tourism ads in the world may not have accomplished.
(NOTE: As of Saturdaymid-afternoon evening. her column was the 4th 2nd most emailed item from the paper.)
But it's not the oil spill that's got her attention, it's those campaign commercials!
She writes about them going viral, while helping to spreading the microbes herself.
A lot of Americans who knew absolutely zero about Alabama will now have a little factoid to file away: We have crazy people running for office.
Hard to argue with that! It's a kinda speciality of ours no? Remeber Shorty Price?
And if those same Americans read more than the headlines about the oil spill in the Gulf, they'll have another Alabama factoid. There is a beach in Alabama. Of course they'll think it's covered in BP crude, but at least they'll know it exists! That's something all the tourism ads in the world may not have accomplished.
(NOTE: As of Saturday
Yup, it's a well-written piece and oh, so true.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I haven't yet seen this year the mantra, "Too liberal for Alabama."
Plenty of pickup trucks and shotguns and baseball caps, though.