Gary Hubbell is standing up and being read and heard. His article has made it on Rush Limbaugh’s show, read in full. Mr. Hubbell is “Mad As Hell and He’s Not Going To Take It Anymore.” Move over Howard Beale.
Mr. Hubbell writes in the Aspen Times Weekly:
There is a great amount of interest in this year’s presidential elections, as everybody seems to recognize that our next president has to be a lot better than George Bush. The Democrats are riding high with two groundbreaking candidates — a woman and an African-American — while the conservative Republicans are in a quandary about their party’s nod to a quasi-liberal maverick, John McCain.
Each candidate is carefully pandering to a smorgasbord of special-interest groups, ranging from gay, lesbian and transgender people to children of illegal immigrants to working mothers to evangelical Christians.
There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from urban sophisticate to rural redneck, deep South to mountain West, left Coast to Eastern Seaboard.
His common traits are that he isn’t looking for anything from anyone — just the promise to be able to make his own way on a level playing field. In many cases, he is an independent businessman and employs several people. He pays more than his share of taxes and works hard.
The victimhood syndrome buzzwords — “disenfranchised,” “marginalized” and “voiceless” — don’t resonate with him. “Press ‘one’ for English” is a curse-word to him. He’s used to picking up the tab, whether it’s the company Christmas party, three sets of braces, three college educations or a beautiful wedding.
He believes the Constitution is to be interpreted literally, not as a “living document” open to the whims and vagaries of a panel of judges who have never worked an honest day in their lives.
The Angry White Man owns firearms, and he’s willing to pick up a gun to defend his home and his country. He is willing to lay down his life to defend the freedom and safety of others, and the thought of killing someone who needs killing really doesn’t bother him.
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves, often as a police officer, a National Guard soldier or a volunteer firefighter.
His last name and religion don’t matter. His background might be Italian, English, Polish, German, Slavic, Irish, or Russian, and he might have Cherokee, Mexican, or Puerto Rican mixed in, but he considers himself a white American.
He’s a man’s man, the kind of guy who likes to play poker, watch football, hunt white-tailed deer, call turkeys, play golf, spend a few bucks at a strip club once in a blue moon, change his own oil and build things. He coaches baseball, soccer and football teams and doesn’t ask for a penny. He’s the kind of guy who can put an addition on his house with a couple of friends, drill an oil well, weld a new bumper for his truck, design a factory and publish books. He can fill a train with 100,000 tons of coal and get it to the power plant on time so that you keep the lights on and never know what it took to flip that light switch.
Women either love him or hate him, but they know he’s a man, not a dishrag. If they’re looking for someone to walk all over, they’ve got the wrong guy. He stands up straight, opens doors for women and says “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am.”
He might be a Republican and he might be a Democrat; he might be a Libertarian or a Green. He knows that his wife is more emotional than rational, and he guides the family in a rational manner.
He’s not a racist, but he is annoyed and disappointed when people of certain backgrounds exhibit behavior that typifies the worst stereotypes of their race. He’s willing to give everybody a fair chance if they work hard, play by the rules and learn English.
Most important, the Angry White Man is pissed off. When his job site becomes flooded with illegal workers who don’t pay taxes and his wages drop like a stone, he gets righteously angry. When his job gets shipped overseas, and he has to speak to some incomprehensible idiot in India for tech support, he simmers. When Al Sharpton comes on TV, leading some rally for reparations for slavery or some such nonsense, he bites his tongue and he remembers. When a child gets charged with carrying a concealed weapon for mistakenly bringing a penknife to school, he takes note of who the local idiots are in education and law enforcement.
He also votes, and the Angry White Man loathes Hillary Clinton. Her voice reminds him of a shovel scraping a rock. He recoils at the mere sight of her on television. Her very image disgusts him, and he cannot fathom why anyone would want her as their leader. It’s not that she is a woman. It’s that she is who she is. It’s the liberal victim groups she panders to, the “poor me” attitude that she represents, her inability to give a straight answer to an honest question, his tax dollars that she wants to give to people who refuse to do anything for themselves.
There are many millions of Angry White Men. Four million Angry White Men are members of the National Rifle Association, and all of them will vote against Hillary Clinton, just as the great majority of them voted for George Bush.
He hopes that she will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, and he will make sure that she gets beaten like a drum.
Howard Beale suggested shouting from your windows during a lighting storm in the movie “Network.” It seems Mr. Hubbell is creating his very own lighting storm. Indeed!
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February 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
I agree with Mr. Hubbell, but besides voting in the coming election, what is a white man to do? I pay my taxes, but SSN will not be there when I come of age. I pay my taxes and see those that do not obtain a hand out they do not need if they were willing to work. I pay for my health insurance and see those that do not obtain free health care. Just what is an angry white man to do?
February 29th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Gary Hubbell you have my thanks for your column. I would hope one day that the men you have described will stand up together as Americans with a strong voice. So I asked also,…. what can a angry white man do?
February 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Don’t continue to be the “silent majority” because even white male politicians won’t help you.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
As an answer to the critics of Gary Hubbell, author of the short essay, the “Angry White Man,” I offer the following opinions. First, even though he does not accurately describe me personally, since I am at times a dish-rag; I even wash and fold them for the woman I love and our family, Hubbell does describe my father, my great uncles, and almost all of the men that had a formidable effect on my thinking. And by “thinking” I mean my existence, my being, the why and how of my daily efforts. He describes men to whose attributes I aspire. He his describing the men that built this country; he is depicting the men of the United States of America; the men who get it done. He is describing men that I love and admire.
Now I don’t believe that the word “angry” or “white” really belongs in the title of this description. We are not always angry and certainly we are not entirely white; we do not walk around looking for fights or exchanging arguments with the idiots who make these sissy rules. Most of the time we just take it, knowing deep down that these stupidities that the intelligentsia seems to be able to license as truths and knowledge will soon pass. We have lived most of ours lives believing that there could not be so many fools in the world, yet now, it seems that there are, and they seem to be running the world. They are everywhere; they are our neighbors, our customers, our second cousins and co-workers; they have become our local governing bodies, they might even be our brothers. Our Brothers! Raised in the same environment as ourselves, but taken by some forbidding force on some implausible tangent into absurdity.
Now I want to ask these critics of our “angry white men” a few questions. If your community was devastated by some disaster, natural or otherwise and civil disorder was rampant, looting and thuggery became the order of the day. Who would you look to for guidance, protection and leadership? Would it be the environmentally responsible Prius owner or the quiet guy at the end of the block, who is always messing around with his teenagers ATV, and happens to keep a 1976 Jeep and several extra gallons of gasoline in the garage? When the cold winds come, would you knock on the door of the tree hugger next door or the “angry white man” with the slightly disheveled yard and over-abundant wood-pile beside the shed that contains a back-up generator? Who would you ask to help you to feed your family; the veggan, whose refrigerator now holds nothing but wilted lettuce, tofu and soy beans, or the NRA member who bags a buck just about every year, then butchers, cooks and eats the deer? And if events get really bad and gangs are roaming your neighborhood, raping and looting; would you run to your neighbor the socially responsible multicultural studies professor who also heads the local anti-gun group, who will undoubtedly be cowering in his basement, waiting for someone to rescue him or the “angry white man” who lives in the original one hundred year old farm-house, now surrounded by cookie cutter homes, who owns several handguns and knows how to use them?
In most cases, you would not have to look for “the angry white man,” he will be there, giving you guidance and help, without thinking about it, without wanting or expecting gratitude. It’s what he is. It’s who he is. His thanks will be in seeing you and your children live.
If you happen to be on an airplane, in another Flight 93 situation; who do you want on the plane with you? Would you prefer a delegation of the American Civil Liberties Union heading to San Francisco for a conference or a group of elk hunters on their way to a hunting expedition in Wyoming?
If, we ever find ourselves in a struggle to rebuild a civil society, who would you want as a leader? Would it be the local mayor, who took his oath of office on the Bible and believes in the constitution and all that it represents and maintains absolute understanding of its literal interpretation; or the semi-educated, misguided and idealistic college student who has spent several semesters with Karl Marx, learning and believing the devastating ruse of communism’s disproved theories?
Now some of you critics out there may believe that the “angry white man” wishes for the scenarios described, and there probably are a few out there. However, the vast majority of us want nothing but to be left alone to do for ourselves, our families and our friends. We know that we can do it. Please stop telling us how to do it. Please stop making new laws that confuse and contort the meanings of right and wrong; legal and illegal. We want to and will proceed with our lives in methods that are logical, sensible and reasonable and we certainly resent that you, you who have nothing to offer, nothing to bargain, nothing to improve, insist on naming us as backward and stupid. We are educated, maybe not in the great halls of Princeton or Harvard, but educated none the less, by our fathers, our mothers, our aunts and uncles, our high school coaches, by the mountain trails we hike and the streams we fish, our buddies at the lunch counter and our local bar, and in very many cases at Penn State or Michigan State, and perhaps most importantly by our own lives and the consequences of our decisions.
We resent that you do not understand the nature of our enemy, an enemy that attacked us; an enemy whose face you refuse to see. We resent that against all logic, you insist that all cultures are equal. And that a culture that will strap a bomb on their children gains more respect from you than a culture that feeds the world. We resent the faces of Hollywood you worship, which are the source of the hatred that the enemy feels towards us, directing disdain at us. Modern Hollywood is what our enemies know of us, and we are not modern Hollywood. We resent that you think we are the human dredges that appear on Jerry Springer, yet we detest the way that the human debris of your convoluted morality is paraded for your entertainment. We resent that you refuse to understand that the free flow and affordability of oil is as important to you and the entire world as the air and water that you claim to regard as so precious. We cannot fathom a mind that refuses to understand that without oil, the world would be in a state of catastrophic chaos. Dependence on clean water and air are divine, yet to you, dependence on affordable oil is evil. We resent that you believe that we care nothing about the environment, when it is we who know that the current dependency on oil is a temporary affair in the history of man. The mind of man will find eventually find an alternative. We know, by our walks through the wilderness that in a very short time nature will recapture any ground we have moved and correct any mistakes that we have made. It always does and always will. We know that to believe, as you do, that the impact of man is more powerful than the laws of nature is insufferable arrogance.
We resent that while labeling us racists and, you hold Condoleeza Rice in abject contempt. To us, it does not matter if her ethnic background were white, Asian, Hispanic or American Indian. To us; she is “our girl.” And I believe most of us would be proud to be known as her “men.” Without doubt she clearly represents what is so very great about this country. And most of us look forward to the prospect she or a person like her runs for President. We resent that while you continue to present disagreement as disrespect, perform dissent as disloyalty, you always claim your intentions are misunderstood.
We resent the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama selling snake oil to those that you and they have managed to dumb-down, confuse and bamboozle. We know that if they are successful with the sales pitch and enough of the population drinks the poison, we and our children will be stuck with the bill. We know it and feel trapped by the prospect. We know that you will still depend on us, and demand of us that we carry your load as well as our own. We resent this state of affairs even as we continue to be a slave to it. That it seems, is what we do. For how long is the eventual question.
Atlas twitched and soon will shrug.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Hats off to Gary Santimyer! Brother, you certainly tell it like it is. I am 50 years old, white,
middle class, married to the same woman for 19 years, have one son who is studying welding, I am
constantly fixing my 55+ year old house, or working on the family vehicles including my 27 year
old motorcycle. I support gun ownership for upstanding, responsible , law-abiding citizens.
Don’t forget bows and arrows: they can kill rioting hostile punks and gangstas just as well.
My goal is to move out of New Jersey. There are more and more yuppies moving into the area
building (my estimate) $1,000,000 houses, driving up the taxes. Erstwhile, my town (it’s a college town)
is attracting more slumlords who are buying up houses and renting them to low-life scum who don’t
care whether or not they are bad neighbors. I am sick and fed up of working my ass off and getting
the filthy end of the stick. I fear that my property value will only go don’t if the slumlords
keep buying in my neighborhood. I’m sick of the loud jungle music that makes the walls of
my house shake when some punk with big sub-woofers in his car drives by. The Police do nothing
about this. I want an old farmhouse way off any road where I don’t have to deal with the vermin
that our multicultural society has bred. There will be a no trespassing sign at the entrance of
my long dirt road out to my house. If some jerk dares appraoch my house I’ll greet them with
a shotgun at ready.
February 28th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I agree with most of what has been said. I too am angry with all that is going on. I have found many websites where the man is being done wrong, not just the white man, but mostly the white man. It seems the movie “White man’s burden” is becoming a reality. Also, the non-custodal dads out there that has tried to do right and follow the law, only to get the shaft. When our truth is being made into lies, the courts ruling in favour of the criminal. Everything is getting turned upside down. Children nolonger respect their parents, calling them names, making threats and even killing their parents because they didn’t get their way. Our world is really messed up. It is getting to the point that the only true justice is if we take matters into our own hands. We have been silent too long.