After all, the Rhino prides itself on "making conservatism cool." And what's cooler than a tricorn hat?
It's a curious decision, to say the least. Editor John Hammer offers an explanation in the Rhino Rumors section (unposted, as far as I could tell) on page 73 of the issue:
"We should have a big story on the Tea Party... but the reporter who was assigned to write the story spent all of his time taking photos and talking to people instead of taking notes.... Next year we plan to assign the story to someone more dependable."
Well ha ha. But the only other treatment given the Tea Party was a full-page photo collage, sans cutlines — the same type of coverage extended to Much and Heaven every weekend, but with a lot less leg and cleavage.
Where, I ask you, is the outrage?
The Tea Parties are getting creamed all over the mediasphere, if I may make up a word here, for racism, gun-nuttery and curmudgeonliness, among other things — all of which, give or take a few curmudgeons, were conspicuously absent at the Greensboro event. But you wouldn't know that by reading the Rhinoceros Times.
The Tea Parties are getting creamed all over the mediasphere, if I may make up a word here, for racism, gun-nuttery and curmudgeonliness, among other things — all of which, give or take a few curmudgeons, were conspicuously absent at the Greensboro event. But you wouldn't know that by reading the Rhinoceros Times.
We played it a little differently, deciding to give the Tea Party event some prominence.
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