Tuesday, August 05, 2008

It's Like I Care Too Much


Classic Grandpa once described me as offering golden word juices for the world to love. Or something like that. Whatever he precisely said, it was a beautiful image appropriate to the mission of my lame online diary. But this mission doesn't only include making my life-giving mind drippings available, it also involves pointing out where else one may find vital language fluids. Here is one example. It is especially helpful if you, as the author suggests, are confused about why you ought to be afraid of Obama. "Is he a radical Islamist terrorist, or a reverse-racist Christian fanatic? Is he a fist-bumping ghetto gangsta, or an arugula-munching metrosexual elitist? Is he too black, or not black enough?"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It doesn't matter to the people who believe crazy email forwards if those email forwards are contradictory; and since apparently those people make up 51% of the voting public get ready for president MacSenile.

Skybalon said...

Well when you put it that way, I do look forward to it. MacSenile sounds fun in a wacky way- like wherever he goes, antics are sure to ensue.

Also, I think you're right, it doesn't matter to most people, crazy rumors and emails are enough. Which makes me wonder, why something like The Obama Nation exists.

It's by the same hack that wrote the Swiftboat attacks on Kerry. One of the Amazon reviews actually said it was the most researched book they had ever read when it is demonstrated that the guy actually footnoted factual errors and rumours.

Is something like this just meant to give a veneer of factuality to people's biases, or a way to deceptively soothe one's conscience?