The Black (conservative) Sheep of the 'Hood

[benevolent anarchist]

I am having quite an impact on my neighbors here in suburban Northern Virginia since I moved in a couple of weeks ago. Just about everyone--no, EVERYONE here subscribes to the Wash Post and has a nice little white tube out front next to the mailbox to receive it. So what does the new neighbor do? I take down the Post tube and subscribe to the Wash Times, the conservative alternative, which has a bright orange tube.

I am also the only one I've noticed reading the Times on the metro in the morning too. I wonder how that paper survives. It is a good one though.

Same here bro. It’s cracks me up how that bright orange bag stands out among all the other clear Washington Post bags on every one of my neighbors’ doorsteps. I’m sure my neighbors are probably thinking; ‘stay away from that guy. he must me a gun toting member of the vast right-wing conspiracy.’ lol!

It is an excellent paper. You see it more in certain neighborhoods, but I can’t find any sort of pattern. When I go out jogging it gives me a chance to see how many other people in my hood are getting the Times.

What’s funny is when I'm up real early in the morning and it’s so quiet that I can hear the delivery guy driving through my neighborhood, take 3 or 4 turns and finally turning onto my street, just to deliver my ONE newspaper. lol! All that gas and time for one 35 cent newspaper. lol!

 

[Y_lifter]

 

[Longhorn85]

Re: Re: The Black (conservative) Sheep of the 'Hood

I can hear the delivery guy driving through my neighborhood, take 3 or 4 turns and finally turning onto my street, just to deliver my ONE newspaper. lol! All that gas and time for one 35 cent newspaper. lol!

I didn't get my paper when it snowed Sunday am. The dude probably said, "f--- this, I ain't going into the hood for one stinking paper!"

Nature Boy, the Times is a great paper, regardless of how you judge it's looks. Especially on Saturdays, they devote an entire page to Civil War history. Besides, it is good to get a different perspective once in a while. They also do all the community papers (Great Falls, Reston, Centreville, etc).

I must admit, if you want quantity, such as classifieds or coupons, go with the post.

Overhead, I think you're right, many NOVAnites are conservative, they just don't have the balls to have that orange wrapper delivered to their doorstep.

 

[benevolent anarchist]

I agree. Actually, I switch back and forth between the two. I used to get both papers. It’s interesting to read what one paper will print that the other won’t and vice versa. Finally I got sick of recycling all that paper, so one of them had to go. I axed the Post.

 

[FreeballinDC]

I axed the Post.

What did you axe them?

Why was Jeffersons involvement with a black woman such a big deal when you know ole Georgie boy had to be hitting it too. They haven't found proof yet?

 

[benevolent anarchist]

Well if you don’t get it, then you just don’t get it. But if you must know; I axed them how come I got it, but still didn’t get it. This was followed by a very uncomfortable moment of silence. Shortly thereafter, my paperperson stopped delivering my paper to my doorstep—instead callously dropping it at the bottom of my long ass driveway. I axed my paperperson, “WTF?” and the next day it was in my bushes. <j/k>

 

[BO-DEN]

I am having quite an impact on my neighbors here in suburban Northern Virginia since I moved in a couple of weeks ago. Just about everyone--no, EVERYONE here subscribes to the Wash Post and has a nice little white tube out front next to the mailbox to receive it. So what does the new neighbor do? I take down the Post tube and subscribe to the Wash Times, the conservative alternative, which has a bright orange tube.

I am also the only one I've noticed reading the Times on the metro in the morning too. I wonder how that paper survives. It is a good one though.

its all propaganda

news is now filled with opinions and slants

its all a joke citizens dont know anything about our country and whats happening

 

[Longhorn85]

Re: Re: The Black (conservative) Sheep of the 'Hood

its all a joke citizens dont know anything about our country and whats happening

Thinking Americans can discern between straight news and editorializing. That's why the free media is great, we have many sources of news with differents slants. We are more informed about what our country is doing and what is happening in the world than any other nation. In fact, we inform the world too.

 

[benevolent anarchist]

The Wash Post is good for the weekend and sports sections, but it’s repulsive that a national newspaper would present editorials as front page news as often as they do. YES they DO put the title analysis in bold print above the story, but you have to wonder how many thousands if not millions of sheople read those stories as fact.

 

[IvanOffelitch]

Beware when the power goes out and anarchy prevails in your neighborhood and your neighbors wanting to seek revenge will wire your eyeballs to a battery powered defibrillator; set the voltage to Kill, and smile as you go flying around the flashing coop like a beheaded multicolored, fire-farting chicken before collapsing conveniently at their feet so they can piss-out the flames and feed the remains of your fried gimp carcass to their potbellied pigs!

There's a lotta love in this post.

Can you feel it?

I can feel it