Excuse me, but I'm taking a pole....
OK, first off, I promise, this will be the last political post unless I run into another stupid white person.
I was at the Saddle Room last night saying goodbye to Matt and enjoying crappy, cold bottles of Budweiser. Chris (who is full of all sorts of great ideas and I really hope I get to work on the Bakersfield SWAT game with him some day) was just at the end of telling us about monkeys going crazy at a Bakersfield party when this guy who wasn't part of our group butted in.
"I'm taking a poll guys and I wondered whether you guys would answer a couple of questions. One. Do you think McCain should attend the debates on Friday and, two, who are you voting for?"
Aw crap. I took a look at the guy and saw all sorts of things that reminded me of the other jackass I had to deal with a couple of months ago: older white guy, baseball cap, not particularly intelligent sounding, etc. I seem to attract these guys for some reason. With our conversation interrupted, some of us pretended to ignore him by watching the football game while the rest of us answered unanimously: "Yes he should attend the debate and we're voting for Obama."
Let down by his fellow white men, the guy took the opportunity to update us on some news that might sway our collective opinions, "Did you guys know that Joe Biden has a terminal disease that's going to kill him in a couple of months and then Hillary Clinton is all set to step in and be Obama's vice president?"
"WHAT?!" we all voiced simultaneously. "Where did you hear that?!"
"The bloggers are all talking about it," he said. BLOGGERS?!
"Dude, I have a blog," I said. "I'm a blogger. My blog is full of all sorts of bullshit."
At the gym today, I was reading Entertainment Weekly which has a great interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Jon Stewart says something that really struck a chord with me, "...the take on Al Gore was he's too smart. Even if you're satirizing how wonderful they are, that hyperbole is setting them up for an expectation to fail, especially within the American political system now where authenticity - and apparently mediocrity - are the manna that the populace feeds upon. To set somebody up as if they're above us, and elitist... my God, you couldn't do anything worse."
I was at the Saddle Room last night saying goodbye to Matt and enjoying crappy, cold bottles of Budweiser. Chris (who is full of all sorts of great ideas and I really hope I get to work on the Bakersfield SWAT game with him some day) was just at the end of telling us about monkeys going crazy at a Bakersfield party when this guy who wasn't part of our group butted in.
"I'm taking a poll guys and I wondered whether you guys would answer a couple of questions. One. Do you think McCain should attend the debates on Friday and, two, who are you voting for?"
Aw crap. I took a look at the guy and saw all sorts of things that reminded me of the other jackass I had to deal with a couple of months ago: older white guy, baseball cap, not particularly intelligent sounding, etc. I seem to attract these guys for some reason. With our conversation interrupted, some of us pretended to ignore him by watching the football game while the rest of us answered unanimously: "Yes he should attend the debate and we're voting for Obama."
Let down by his fellow white men, the guy took the opportunity to update us on some news that might sway our collective opinions, "Did you guys know that Joe Biden has a terminal disease that's going to kill him in a couple of months and then Hillary Clinton is all set to step in and be Obama's vice president?"
"WHAT?!" we all voiced simultaneously. "Where did you hear that?!"
"The bloggers are all talking about it," he said. BLOGGERS?!
"Dude, I have a blog," I said. "I'm a blogger. My blog is full of all sorts of bullshit."
At the gym today, I was reading Entertainment Weekly which has a great interview with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Jon Stewart says something that really struck a chord with me, "...the take on Al Gore was he's too smart. Even if you're satirizing how wonderful they are, that hyperbole is setting them up for an expectation to fail, especially within the American political system now where authenticity - and apparently mediocrity - are the manna that the populace feeds upon. To set somebody up as if they're above us, and elitist... my God, you couldn't do anything worse."
posted by weezie at
11:46 AM
1 Comments:
excellent recounting of that evening. that guy really seemed as if he was suddenly realizing his own inevitable obsolescence.
I also like your spelling of 'poll' in this context. Even if it wasn't deliberate, I say leave it.
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