> [the item immediately following the Che report on Page Six]
>
> RIGHT WING'S HIP IMAGE
>
> HUEY Lewis may have been right when he sang that it was "Hip to Be
> Square." Gavin McInnes, the co-founder of Vice magazine, a hipster bible
> that caters to the too-cool-for-school Williamsburg set, has proclaimed
> it cool to be conservative. Writing in the new issue of Pat Buchanan and
> Taki Theodoracopulos' American Conservative, McInnes says its "become
> fashionable to link liberalism with weakness and conservatism with
> honesty. Underground film iconoclast Vincent Gallo ("Buffalo 66,"
> "Palookaville," "GoodFellas") is now quoting Nixon and Reagan as if they
> were Wordsworth and Yeats. Fashion photographer Terry Richardson (Gucci,
> Sisley, Levi's) is showing up at conservative book launches and publicly
> trashing Clinton. Even high school students are getting in on the act,
> like the southern California artist collective called Sofia that made
> T-shirts and panties with the illegal-immigrant-crossing logo on them."
> McInnes says conservatives still have much work to do. "I would estimate
> that only 12 percent of our readers would dare call themselves
> conservatives - but that is at least twice what it was five years ago."
Looks like the American Enterprise Institute is really spreading the money around these days. If "hipness" can't be purchased, at least the neocon extremists can throw some money around and create a demand for their coolness.
Chuck0