When someone wants to offer arguments on a political subject, how does the St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlight his reasoning? Hah! Trick question. It doesn’t; it highlights how he looks! The headline: A boy-next-door is fighting affirmative action. The lead:
Tim Asher sat calmly and appeared unfazed moments before he was to address a roomful of Latino leaders, some of whom were likely to be hostile to his message — that Missouri should end affirmative action programs based on race and gender.
In the last couple of months, Asher, 45, has become accustomed to speaking before skeptical crowds like this one at Hispanic Day at the Capitol.
Asher, with his boy-next-door looks, has become the face of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative.
Well, played, Post-Dispatch journalist and editor, well, played.
Content of his character and/or intellect? Nah, that might be too convincing; let’s diminish him by calling him a pretty boy.
