From Best of the Web Today under “That
Boy Ain’t Right, I Tell You What“
[In the New York Times Magazine
this week, Matt] Bai interviews Gov. Mike Easley of North Carolina, who
is “is so obsessed with the show that he instructs his pollster to
separate the state’s voters into those who watch ‘King of the Hill’ and
those who don’t so he can find out whether his arguments on social and
economic issues are making sense to the sitcom’s fans.” Easley has a
whole theory of main character Hank Hill’s political philosophy:
Easley told me that Hank would never support a budget
like the one North Carolina’s Senate recently passed, which would drop
some 65,000 mostly elderly citizens from the Medicaid rolls; Hank,
after all, has pitched in to support his own father, a brutish war
veteran, and he would never condone a community’s walking away from its
ailing parents. Similarly, Hank may be a lover of the environment–he
was furious when kids trashed the local campground–but he resents
self-righteous environmentalists like the ones who forced Arlen to
install those annoying low-flow toilets. Voters like Hank, if they had
heard about it on the evening news, would have supported Easley’s
”Clean Smokestacks” law, which forced North Carolina’s coal-powered
electric plants to burn cleaner, but only because industry was a
partner in the final bill, rather than its target.
The article says that Easley can do all the voices, including Boomhauer.
