Mark Steyn seems to be rather hated in Detroit these days. His remarks on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show have cut too close to the bone, apparently.
“This is an American city at the dawn of the 21st century, and one in two of its citizens are illiterate. That’s about the same rate as the Ivory Coast, or the Central African Republic, under its aforementioned cannibal emperor. Whereas in the Seventies and Eighties Detroit was ruled by a Democrat mayor, a bureaucracy-for-life, and an ever more featherbedded union army, all of whom cannibalized the city.”
His many responding emailents (is that a word? it is now) proved to be at least half-literate, though they seem to know four-letter words best. A few got up to two syllables with arse-hole. Not really arse, of course, but we try to be nice around here. Why, I don’t really know, given the state of the culture. Just habit, I suppose.
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