Sue
2008-04-16 15:32:11
Read this NYT interview with Fowler. The offense to these remarks aren’t ALL manufactured; Fowler herself was offended them:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/us/politics/14web-seelye.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
Ms. Fowler said she found his response “professorial” and judgmental toward blue-collar voters and that even though she supports him, she was “taken aback” by them.
“I’m a religious person, and I grew up poor in a very wealthy family — sometimes we didn’t have enough to eat, but my larger family was rich,” she said. Her father was a hunter. “Immediately, the remarks just really bothered me. For the first time, I realized he is an elitist.”
She also knew they could hurt him, so at first, she didn’t tell anybody about them.
