the man is too dense to understand the irony of AJ's SUV going up in flames. his replacement car, a BMW M3 gets worse gas mileage than the nissan Xterra. yet AJ sees it as a step in the right direction for the environment.

this is called narrative dissonance. something that mr. horrowitz wouldn't understand because he is dumber than a post.

as for the other SUV crushing the head of the gangster at the gas station, i think the size of the car has nothing to do with it. it simply reflects the type of person who in his situation -- a man with a wife and two young kids. last time i checked, that car was a "family car". the writers are just being true to life.

the car was obviously not at fault for the accident, as the wife left the car in drive when she got out of it.

The Sopranos should be the new metric by which we judge whether or not an individual "gets it" or not - and I mean "gets" the world beyond one's idiotic prejudices and obtuse realities. I understand that some people simply are not fans. However, if "Horror Davidowitz" wishes to make some grand winger point about what the show conveys, it might help him to actually, you know, have a background by which to judge the show. To chase, and the show in general, SUV cracks aren't *about* SUVs; they're about how morons like A.J. think about SUVs, coupled with their pop understanding of environmental issues specifically, and social issues generally - i.e. they don't fucking have a clue beyond the world that spins around 5 feet beyond their noses.

It's pretty hilarious that "Horror Davidowitz" pretty much proved that point without even trying.

Don't be too sure of that -- DC electric motors are famous (in certain circles) for their low-end torque.

idlemind said: My Prius would never crush someone's head. I'm not even sure it could crush a beer can.

My Prius wouldn't crush anyone's head either. It COULD, it just WOULDN'T. Smart car, and with a conscience too.

You do know this post was satire, right?

Right?

nitpicker said: HOWEVER...The catalytic convertor, the real villain that nearly killed AJ, is designed to reduce pollution, so...

My God, you're RIGHT! And -- I see it clearly, now -- Phil giving some "head" to his own daughter and grandchildren was a reference to Bill Clinton's pedophilia.

Liberal media, my ass.

Yes. But give it 48 hours, and will cease to be such.

Looks like only 3 posts so far that don't get satire, we'll see how it ends up. Did anyone run the totals on Berube's brilliant piece a while back?

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You do mean one of those "A- ha" Gitlin moments, didn't you?

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Horror Davidowitz = David Horowitz.

As described in Media Matters for America:

David Horowitz is a right-wing writer and political activist. He is the co-founder and president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), a Los Angeles-based right-wing advocacy organization that produces the online journal FrontPage Magazine. The organization also produces DiscovertheNetworks.org, a website that purports to be a "Guide to the Political Left." DHFC's legal arm, the Individual Rights Foundation (IRF), has fought to reestablish the cross in the Los Angeles County seal and defended the right of the Boy Scouts of America to bar homosexuals.

Campus Progress puts it this way:

Campus Progress doesn’t join those who say Horowitz doesn’t have the right to speak. We just think his speech is ill-mannered, ill-considered, and ill-informed. It should be met with rational, firm, strong arguments and real facts.

Horowitz came under fire again for a January 26, 2005, posting on the History News Network website about "Why I Am Not Celebrating" the 90th birthday of the esteemed African-American historian John Hope Franklin. Franklin is the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University and chairman of President Clinton’s Commission on Race. Horowitz launched an attack on Franklin for his response to Horowitz’s anti-reparations ad, denouncing him as "a racial ideologue rather than a historian" and "almost pathological." In the piece, Horowitz tried to defend his claim that "free blacks and the free descendants of blacks … benefited from slavery.”

Through it all, Horowitz has found a smarmy, backhanded way of misrepresenting himself as a defender of civil rights – he baselessly brands his ideological opponents as "racist" to deflect criticism of his own racially inflammatory remarks.

My campus was "blessed" with a Horowitz visit a couple of years back.  But we were lucky.  The Young Republicans brought him only once.  They blessed us with Ann Coulter twice.
aMike

The "anti-SUV bias" was more pronounced a few seasons back in the "Irregular Around the Margins" episode. There, Tony and Adrianna were driving late at night in his SUV when it flipped over.

After the accident, Tony made the knuckleheaded comment about how lucky they were to be traveling in an SUV otherwise they might have died. None of the characters pointed out that they probably would not have flipped over in a different type of vehicle.

I think the accident that led to Christopher's death this season was also in an SUV.

You liberal wussies don't remember, Prez Reagan pointed out the that trees produce the most pollution.

FWIW (at least a nickle) the previous week's episide ("The Blue Comet") featured a Prius running over the motorcyclist who got dumped off his bike in front of da Bing. It was maroon, if you'd care to check it out.

Chase is nothing, if not equal opportunity.