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Mickey Kaus is a %%$%@ Moron, Part LXXIII

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Mickey is railing again about Plano, Texas. Apparently, An Inconvenient Truth is doing well in Plano multiplexes, which has given Mickey conniptions. Plano, he would have his readers believe, is not, in fact, a conservative town. Indeed, according to Mickey, it’s not even really a Texas town:

Plano [is] not alll [sic] that much of a “conservative bastion”**–and certainly not the good-ol’-boy cow town its characterful name conjures for clueless coastal types

Mickey made the same remark about Plano when it was discovered that Brokeback Mountain was doing well. Here is what I commented at the time:

Plano, Texas is part of Collin County, Texas. It is genuinely affluent, with a median income of over $75000. In 2004, Collin County gave 71.2% of its vote to George W. Bush, and 28.1% to John Kerry, a percentage that exceeded Bush’s margin in Texas as a whole. In other words, Collin County is conservative for Texas.

Plano also rated as the fifth most conservative city in the United States with a population over 100000.

… I have sent an e-mail to the distinguished Mr. Kaus with the following query:

In spite of this, you continue to insist that Plano is a liberal, coastal elite bastion. I’m wondering: Did you not bother to do any research, or do you just not care?

We’ll see if I get a response. It should be noted that while Kaus precedes Weisberg’s tenure as editor, Weisberg’s stated policy of not requiring any fact-checking by his authors enables this kind of garbage.

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