Joe Six Pack
This one is a little shorter than my previous post!
Just wanted to point out that I am glad someone in the media finally called Joe Six Pack what it really is…
George Packer in the New Yorker:
No one with a sharp, clear image in her head of a hard-pressed American would use a term like “Joe Six Pack,” an insulting cliché on the order of “the little people.”
Couldn’t agree more. Every time I hear Joe Six Pack, I wince. It’s sad that Palin actually thinks it is in the same ballpark as Hockey or Soccer Mom. Sorry, but insinuating that all average folks have to live for is a six pack is derogatory and ignorant. But it seems as if the whole Republican ticket is out of touch with the middle class. Not only does McCain not mention the term ‘middle class’, but he’s said a good definition of rich is $5 million and that Americans wouldn’t pick lettuce for $50 an hour.
Update: And that isn’t even mentioning that Palin is no where near an ‘average joe”. The Palin household is worth at least $1.2 million dollars and they routinely pulled down six figure incomes, even before she was governor. And remember, this is ALASKA. She’s well off, face it.
The estimate includes 5 properties, a few planes, some boats, and don’t forget, the very non-elitist gubernatorial salary of $125K/year, but it doesn’t include the $11K the family receives every year in state oil dividends that help enable Alaskans to be so anti-tax.
