Gahh!
Oh great, I gotta pre-empt my Budweiser post because The New Yorker is being stupid.
You know what? I know The New Yorker’s cover is supposed to be satirical and all that, but they are not taking into account all of the people who will see the cover and not understand the satire. (”Satire? Is that one of them half-man/half-beast thingies?” No, that’s a satyr. “Satyr? Is that one of them Jew parties?” No, that’s a seder. “Seder? Is that one of them jokes that goes over my head ever’ damn time?”) These are people who would never buy The New Yorker. Instead they’ll just see the cover and say, “See? I told ya. I’ma write a email and send it to all my friends.”
Recently, I expressed to an in-law that I really like that Michelle Obama and he replied, “Well, she doesn’t like you cuz yer a white lady.” Yup, that’s what people think. Smart, powerful black lady is out to get all us white people. Scary! Read smarter people talk about it better here. And other places, but I don’t have time to link every-damn-where.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I thought thats how rednecks quickly say, “It’s that tire” You know-that one over there that rolled off the big pile that there fixin light on fire with some gas o line!
July 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
That’s the problem with those kind of folks. They truly do not get satire/irony. I was reading the Radar magazine with the nekkid Hillary/Obama/Rudy cover and a certain person who shares DNA with my children asked me what I was reading because she thought it was some sort of weird porn that I read while my kids are sitting next to me. When I explained that it was a pop culture/political satire magazine she said “Oh. I can see Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama taking that photo, but I would have been surprised if Rudy Giuliani did.”
I was too emotionally exhausted to reply.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Politicians should all move to the moon. Mickey Mouse for Pres ‘08!
July 14th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
OMG LMAO.
Yep, I know people who think like that. But they don’t talk like that. And they aren’t even from Oklahoma! So there. And they get all their info from mass emails. And when we question that, we’re just being “stupid liberals.” Yup.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
@Kristen That’s a common misconception; it takes an amateur linguist (or fellow hillbillly) to decipher the difference.
@Erin I don’t agree with Mickey Mouse’s views on consumerism, so I’m voting for Wall-E.
@Alissa I simultaneously love the mass e-mail arguments and fear them because there are so many people who believe them. The internets are powerful tools for Tools.
@Carol LMAO
July 15th, 2008 at 4:50 am
So, are you saying that Michelle Obama is not a terrorist? Wow.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:51 am
But he’s for sure a Muslim, right?
July 15th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Because that fist thing, that is totally terrorist all the way. I heard that somewhere.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:35 am
@Kathi D Yeah, she’s totally a terrorist. I’m just saying she doesn’t hate all white people. Just the infidels. And, of course he’s a muslim: if it rhymes with Osama and has the same skin tone as Osama, it must be Osama. Right?
July 15th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Well, thank goodness. I thought you had gone off the deep end there.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:37 am
I showed my small baby how to fist bump. He thinks it is hilarious. I guess we’re both terrorists.