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Home Front: Culture Wars
And again: Vogue Magazine gets caught making fake but accurate statements about a soldier
2007-09-29
This is complicated and I'm prolly getting it wrong, but it seems that the October issue of Vogue has a story by "trailblazing journalist" Maggie McGuane whose son enlists in the Army and features these types of statements:

There is an arrant social iniquity that comes from our country's all-volunteer army. Some ZIP codes, those of America's upper socioeconomic stratosphere, have been unscathed by the war in Iraq, while others, particularly in provincial America, take disproportionate losses. It's in those regions that public school students are targeted by military-recruitment efforts, as their labors are more often rewarded in places where patriotism is as common as yellow-ribbon bumper stickers, and high school kids see few options for escaping the confines of their hometowns.

Anyway. It turns out that the kid (Zach) is not strictly her son, and not even really her stepson as she is only dating Zach's father and they keep separate residences. And Zach's mom is NOT happy with Maggie's attempt to pimp out her son's personal decisions for a magazine story.
Posted by:Seafarious

#11  We'd have more recruits from northeast New Jersey if the posters were in other languages. These poor guys think the posters are ads for a Village People concert.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-09-29 19:39  

#10  They've British, American and Spanish-language Vogues, too, mcsegeek1.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-09-29 18:59  

#9  Vogue is a hairdresser publication

Yeah, and in F*cking French at that.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2007-09-29 15:49  

#8  My dad retired last year as from 37 years of teaching at a an extremely liberal prep school in the Mid West. Last year 5 outof 128 seniors matriculated to service academies. That is pretty typical and puts the lie to the two class argument. Note - Other classmates may go ROTC but I think that would be the exception for my Dad's school. Most of the students that are called to military service at WRA and I speculate other boarding prep schools attend the academies. I think this comes from the fact that four ears at a boarding prep school makes four years at Williams or Bowdoin or Princeton look like more of the same.


http://www.wra.net/academics/matriculation.cfm
Posted by: Super Hose   2007-09-29 13:26  

#7  Oh my Gawd!
It's worse than Zimbabwe and I never realized it!
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2007-09-29 11:20  

#6  We've lost Vouge?
God help us all...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-29 09:42  

#5  All wars are not WWII. That's the Hollyweird mindset. The problem is that WWII was the 'exception' not the rule on who fought and who did the dying. Maybe we could back to those 'quaint' idyllic times of racial segregation and internments, too. BTW Maggie twit, nothing stops the upper class privileged from signing on the dotted line than their own self interest. Take it up with them.

One of the big differences from before when young men not of privilege carried the burden, was that some were able to make a name for themselves which would then be the platform to attain high office. Now that liberal blue MSM is churning out the propaganda, that venue is reserved for the exclusivity of those 'upper socioeconomic stratosphere' zip codes. How's about opening that up. Limit the number of 'rich', new or old, who can garner the fruits of power. Consider it 'forced busing' or 'quotas' for past discrimination. Or is this another on of those liberal mantras of 'one set of rules for us and another set of rules for you'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-09-29 09:08  

#4  No War For Liposuction!
Posted by: SteveS   2007-09-29 08:39  

#3  Vogue is a hairdresser publication -- keep your rhinoplasty out of the war, ladies.
Posted by: regular joe   2007-09-29 07:46  

#2  Instead of "calling for the draft" or for using a magic wand to "end the war" Vogue should call for shaming Blue Staters into joining the military and helping to provide for the common defense. The problem is not the patriotism of flyover country. It is the sedition of establishment publications like Vogue clinging like a tick to the body of America.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-09-29 07:42  

#1  Vogue? Who reads Vogue? It's a picture book.

And since when do "journalists" give a rat's ass about po' white folk from flyover territory?
Posted by: gromky   2007-09-29 03:22  

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