The Albuquerque Tribune: Columnists

Jeffry Gardner: Poor, miserly liberals

Ah, those socially and economically advanced blue-region inhabitants – enlightened, wealthy and miserly. There isn’t a blue state in the top ten [on the Catalogue for Philanthropy’s Generosity Index]. …

There are genuine cultural and values differences between blue state progressives and red state conservatives. The Generosity Index details them in black and white.

Great values like feeling superiour and smug?

Anyone who has read just a little of Jeffry Gardner has to wonder what he knows of “generosity.” To say the man is a pitbull maligns that species. Gardner is a tiny representative of the foaming-at-the-mouth Rabid Right.

Come on, Jeffry, show us your canceled check! Everything is a competition-to-the-death for these punks. Thanks to his ilk, we must all *prove* our worth to those who judge us constantly. Show your flag, show your ribbons, show your stamped papers, prove you are a citizen-of-worth! Expect ridicule and abuse if you don’t conform. Jawohl. Christ himself would punch this guy.

Quick question: just how liberal was Ebenezer Scrooge? Was Bob Cratchet a red-stater? Come on, Jeff, let’s start judging and dividing everything. Another great uniter bringing the world together. mjh

Props to sister Pika for standing first against this Limbaugh-wannabe.

Quirky Burque: Jeffry Gardner’s Gross Inaccuracies

I, for one, refuse to accept your notion that being American means being afraid. I refute your idea that Red and Blue don’t mix. That Red & Blue can’t be friends or lovers or coworkers. To me, and to so many others, the fertile dialogue of PURPLE is exactly what America is all about. And your belligerent scribblings only aim to destroy the day-to-day unity that keeps the real America — a PURPLE America — harmonious. Purple is beautiful, purple is proud, purple is the REAL and feisty America.

Now get off my back, Jeffry Gardner….