Best of the Web from yesterday reproduces this letter from Salon. Taranto says it needs no comment. I disagree; it’s so stupid that it MUST be commented on.
Wow. I thought there was no good news anymore until I read your article about the McDonald’s bombings. If extremists–or even just people with healthy taste buds–could torch every McDonald’s in existence without hurting any personnel, and blow up all the KFCs to boot, the world could only become a better place.
I agree about the world being a better place without fast food, but only from the standpoint that I can’t stand Mcdonalds’ food and KFC, while tasty, is a bit on the greasy side for me. Perhaps that’s why I withhold my trade from McDonalds and rarely eat KFC. But I see no particular reason to torch McDonalds because I don’t like their food, or blow up KFC because I get a tummyache after I eat their chicken. That seems a bit, well, extreme.
Oh, wait. That’s not what this moron is on about! He doesn’t like the fact that McDonalds and KFC are huge capitalist corporate entities that represent him to the rest of the world!
The only thing that irks me, as an American, is that McDonald’s and Americanism are considered synonymous.
Not in my neck of the woods. Steak n Shake, on the other hand…
I’ve lived in America all my 47 years,
Making you an expert on what constitutes “America”, I’m sure, at least in your own mind, even though you probably haven’t got a clue what the Constitution or the Declaration or any of our most important founding documents say about what this country is supposed to be about,
and I never gave that corporation permission to represent my culture.
I didn’t either…but the fact is that it doesn’t represent my culture. And I doubt it does yours.
I haven’t even eaten at a McDonald’s since I became old enough to know better.
Know better what? Know better than to be an America-bashing left wing moron, or know better than not to eat McDonalds every day of your worthless life like…well…these two fatties?
Let the world know that many of us Americans
Unproven assertion.
consider corporations like McDonald’s oppressive alien entities.
Hmm. Older McDonalds restaurants do look a bit like alien spacecraft, but I don’t see exactly how you can call a corporation “American” in one breath and “alien” in another. And I also can’t see how you can call a corporation “oppressive” since you admit that you are not forced to patronize its restaurants or eat its food. Whom, exactly, does McDonalds “oppress”?
And now for the money quote:
And pass the gasoline!
Refined from oil imported from terrorist Arab nations by a huge repressive capitalist corporate entity that hoovers the wallets of the poor and prods our President to fight wars to keep its tanks full — right?
Oh. You mean you didn’t think that far ahead when you were doing this bit of free-associative writing?
Lefties. Morons. Same difference.