...at the very least, if you keep on saying stuff like this. Personally, I'd be surprised if the liberal intelligentsia doesn't hang Mr. Wolfe from a chandelier the next time he enters a New York drawing room:
TOM Wolfe says a jarring scene he recently witnessed in Tennessee convinced him that writers who live in New York and on the Left Coast are out of touch with the rest of the country.
In the upcoming book, "Telling True Stories," the "Bonfire of the Vanities" novelist says he watched in amazement at a NASCAR race last month as a National Rifle Association honcho got a rousing standing ovation, and was followed by a minister who "asked the Lord to look out for these brave drivers and these loyal fans . . . in the name of Thy Only Son, Christ Jesus."
Writes Wolfe: "Anyone who introduced an event that way in San Francisco or New York would risk arrest for a hate crime. New York writers really must cross the Hudson River, and writers in Los Angeles really must go as far as the San Joaquin Valley. Most of the meaning of America lies in between the coasts, I'm afraid."
Geez, and all this time I thought the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN determined what the "meaning of America" is...
The truth is beautiful - thanks Tom!
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