The stereotypes of the sport are unfair - there are lots of plumbers and construction workers windsurfing off Cape Cod and in the lakes of Iowa. (Better put: Who among us doesn't like windsurfing?) "I would have expected it to go over well, the stodgy, overserious guy trying to do something hipper," said Robert J. Thompson, a professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University. "It's not like he was going out having a row with the Harvard crew team."If the Senator got into a row with the Harvard humanities faculty, that would be newsworthy, but I digress. And "crew team" is a redundancy, any Badger could tell you that, but again, I digress.
Betsy's Page, the source for this story, comments, "[The folks at the Times] just don't get it." Indeed not. The barking dog is right there in the middle of the story. But would Senator Kerry still get grief if he did his windsurfing at, say, Shabbona Lake, or his skiing at Alpine Valley (oh, hey, isn't there this town in Vermont that wants to join New Hampshire?)
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