A Maine newspaper responded to the New York Post for publishing ‘the worst Maine travel piece of the year’

A Maine newspaper is criticizing the New York Submit for publishing an “abysmal” journey column earlier this week, calling it “the worst Maine journey piece of the yr.”

New York Submit columnist Cindy Adams, in her column “My summer season trip in ‘well mannered,’ ‘pleasant,’ ‘cheap’ Maine,” known as Maine well mannered and pleasant earlier than describing its individuals as follows: “Locals whose behinds overlap the state of Texas all stuffed into shorts. Realtors might set up a complete campsite on the common ass.”

Adams additionally wrote that Mainers think about flannel formal put on, noting: “There’s not sufficient material on NYC’s Seventh Avenue to cowl any native behind.”

The Bangor Every day Information Editorial Board responded in a bit known as “The worst Maine journey piece of the yr has arrived,” calling the New York Submit‘s column “a very abysmal tackle the Pine Tree State and the individuals right here.”

“This column checks all of the incorrect bins: Adams judges different individuals’s our bodies and trend, she makes factual errors, and she or he even makes up a supposed Maine phrase,” the newspaper’s Editorial Board wrote.

Whereas the board gave Adams a cross for creating the phrase “downcoast” and incorrectly stating that President George Bush is from there, “she actually misplaced us when she wouldn’t cease criticizing the dimensions of individuals’s butts. Severely,” the board wrote.

“Ignoring the truth that Adams wasn’t the one vacationer in Maine on the time, and a few of these derrieres and outfits might have been imports like her, it’s really baffling to see somebody assume this can be a official commentary a few state or its individuals,” the Editorial Board wrote. “Who cares about what different individuals appear like, or what they’re sporting? It’s condescension heaped on high of stigma.”

It appears Maine couldn’t please the New York author, wrote Bangor Every day Information author Christopher Burns within the article “Maine isn’t civilized sufficient for New York Submit columnist.”

“Even Maine’s dizzying array of craft beer, which attracts sudseekers from throughout the nation to this state, is seemingly lower than snuff,” Burns wrote.

On the subject of beer, Adams wrote in her column: “All people does beer. They most likely bathe with it.”

“Adams concluded her piece by pointedly saying she was returning to New York, and to civilization,” the Editorial Board wrote. “We hope she enjoys town. The place we’re from, being civilized means respecting individuals’s appearances slightly than treating them like a punchline.”