Thoughts on Wright Thompson?

I feel like every way you described him is accurate. He is very good. But he’s also a little bit of a caricature. I think part of it is that to make any form of living doing what he does, the volume has to be cranked up to 11 on your personality, your viewpoint, etc.

I’d say he’s more of a writer than reporter though.

Bourbon soaked stately oaks paid for by the sins of our fathers

I have lived my entire life in the South, and for him to be some world-renowned writer, the only thing I know about him is the True South series.

I think he tries too hard to be an Old South Mark Twain

Any grown man who faces the world in that stupid hat he always wears has mental problems…..hard pass.

As an Ole Miss alumi, I turn the channel when he’s on.

He ain’t what I call a Southern man

He's the poster boy for Southern White Man Guilt Syndrome. Along with John T Edge.

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Cried on tv because his mother was an alcoholic. It doesn't get anymore low t than him or Thompson.

He is a talented writer who has had remarkable success in his field.

Even though his political leanings/personal worldview get inserted into nearly every story, his articles about international sports and sports stories involving crimes are quite good.

On the other hand, his stories about the South or America (broader themes) can be insufferable. As other posters have said, he panders to coastal liberals who look down upon the South (to be fair, these are his editors/the media gatekeepers). Self-flagellation/abasement is a small price to be paid for temporal success.

I could do without his constant name-dropping/big dicking of the readers. We get it, you run in circles with socially prominent Southerners palatable to the Garden & Gun demographic. I don't know how bragging that you tailgate with John Currence or Curtis Wilkie is supposed to add to your stories.