| Nov072008 | The Ugly |
You think I’m sick of talking about politics yet? Nope. I need to empty all these thoughts in my head.
Over the course of this election campaign, some pretty awful things were said. The thought bounced around my head while I listened to McCain’s concession speech and Obama’s acceptance speech. They were very gracious and sporting about the outcome of the election and they offered a very different sentiment than the ones in their attack ads. If you ever believed any of the attack ads, it can be difficult to reconcile the two disparate ideas.
I am guilty of buying into the negative hype and even reselling that special brand of schoolyard taunting that cuts deep. The kind of ugly shit that sick minds dream up in order to inflict as much hurt and pain as possible. Both campaigns showed some restraint and integrity but there was always someone on the attack, whether it was a low-level staffer, a regular attack dog, some crazy cable news anchor or a candidate gone rogue.
The ugliest yet comes from the freshly-defeated McCain camp that’s happy to air all sorts of crap about Sarah Palin. Let’s not forget who was supposed to have vetted her. The high ground would be to fire whomever thought she’d make a good Vice President and get over it. It’s as if the banks came on TV and started talking shit about all the poor people that can’t pay off their houses.
Finally, as if we needed a new reason to stop watching Fox News, Bill O’Reilly had the nerve to suggest that the Katie Couric interview was delivered in a snarky and sexist way by the liberal media. In that same breath, he discusses the juicy allegations of Palin’s shopping, wearing a towel and throwing “tantrums”. Evidently, he’s nailed the art of being incendiary because nothing annoys me more than an angry hypocrite.
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