ArmaGit-R-Dun!
This nicely sums up what I think of the whole ‘Blue Collar’ comedy movement.
Though Cross, like always, comes off as a little high-falutin’, he addresses the idea that “Larry the Cable Guy tells it like it is” with a clarity and intuitiveness that few have taken to the situation as of yet. This is something that a lot of people that defend him fail to understand: it has more to do with the idea behind what is said than what is actually said. How can someone, whose whole act is dedicated to being a character - essentially a living lie - be the voice of honesty?
From time to time we look towards media for truths, and the argument could be made that it is just the same as listening to something you hear in a song or film as the truth, but I don’t agree with that. There is another factor at large here: that Dan Whitney takes his character and makes him live amongst us, while we KNOW that characters in a film are just that. Because of this people take a greater weight to what he says than if he was just some guy they saw in a Jeff Foxworthy TV show. There is a difference between the way they use language, and sadly, Whitney makes himself out to be a bit of an ass with his half-informative rant.
I would honestly like to see a debate between these two. A real debate, discussing the real ideas that go in to what is written and what they choose to present when they take the stage. Not in some perverse hope that Whitney would make an ass of himself and Cross could be carried off to the Lower East Side on the shoulders of his hipster fanbase, because I don’t want to see that happen. I know for a fact that Whitney is a nice guy. I just think he’s (incredibly) misguided.
Misguided all the way to the bank, but hey, can’t win ‘em all.
