August 7, 2011, on this blog: Bossypants and The Og Story
If you’re wondering why working-class Delco remains a Republican stronghold, get to know Don Fey and to understand what his daughter describes as his “pre-Norman Lear racial attitudes.”
Which brings me to The Og Story.
This has nothing to do with Tina Fey’s book, except that Og — I have no idea how my friends’ dad acquired that nickname, or what it meant, but that’s what everyone called him — raised his daughters in Upper Darby, just a few blocks from where Don Fey was raising his. And if Tina Fey’s dad had “pre-Norman Lear” attitudes, Og’s attitudes were pre-Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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