My mother, on the phone just now, told me she was sick and tired of that Palin woman; that she hated how she talked; and that anyone as dumb as she was shouldn't be given the time of day.
Now, even given that my mother voted for Øbama (something my father would never have done, because he knew snake oil when he saw it), I didn't think she would actually succumb to a case of the lefty stupids.
So I asked her: Where do you get this information?
And as I feared: CNN, MSNBC, "the newspaper", etc. ad nauseum.
I guess it should not really shock me. Mom was my age when there were only three networks, and you had your choice of one of three pretty similar brands of network news. So of course she blindly trusts the MSM and doesn't read under the surface of their reportage the fact that they are themselves blinded -- by fear of someone like Sarah Palin, who like Ronald Reagan, speaks over them directly to the public at large, with a message the public can understand.
Of course the MSM must silence Sarah. They can't afford another Reagan at a time when their credibility with the public is at an all-time low.
The worst part was that it's fairly clear Mom thinks Dad would have thought the same way she does about Sarah Palin.
I doubt it. Dad was a classical liberal who thought well of Kennedy and probably held his nose when he voted for LBJ. He voted for Humphrey in '68 but McGovern was the last straw; he voted for Nixon in '72 and never looked back. I'm convinced he would have held his nose regarding McCain, too, and voted past him for Palin, because he would have seen that Øbama was no good for the country.
Definitely my father's son. Definitely. Oh, and Mom doesn't even seem to get that she's basically calling a woman who was smart enough to get elected Governor of Alaska a redneck shitkicker -- something she supposedly brought me up better than to do.
And the fucking Communist in the White House who's destroying our country? She doesn't like a few of his policies. Otherwise he's just fine.
Jesus wept.
I understand completely. My inlaws are Obama supporters. Every time they say something pro-Obama, I'm tempted to point out my concise opinion about what's wrong with America. That being that 52% of the American people were dumb enough to believe his lies.
Kinda like the old, "my sister's a hooker" joke, only worse.
I've had similar conversations with people who couldn't believe I didn't support Huckabee. "But-but-but he's a Christian! You have to support him or you don't love Jesus!"
Feh. Since when does someone else's religion have anything to do with mine?