A caller on the radio this morning.....

[PfNJ]

While making a delivery in the Princeton area this morning, I began to lose reception of my NY Public Radio station. No problem, says I, I shall tune in to WHYY Philadelphia, and listen to (Radio Times?). The discussion was about what issue concerned people most, what issue would be a main contributing factor in deciding who to vote for. Most calls were anti-Bush, as I guess one would expect from a public radio station, although there were a few morAns (like the self-proclaimed "Democrat" or two, who will be voting for Miserable W. Failure). The one that got to me, though, was the caller at about 10:45 who called in to say something like this:

"These anybody-but-Bush people are scary. Why don't they like him? Is it because he's a man of conviction, because he has morals, because he's courageous, blah, blah, blah....." When asked by the host if there was anything she would fault the Bush MisAdministration for, the caller says "No", and then goes on another Bush-worshipping rant, after about 10 seconds of which, I had to turn the radio off.

I'm a calm person by nature, I don't get upset easily, but for some reason, that idiot really set me off, put me in a shitty mood for about 30 seconds. Are there actually real people, in the real world, who still cannot see anything, anything at all, wrong with this Son-Of-A-Bush?

[tabasco]

1. There's a lot of stupid people out there.

That's why democracy ain't easy.

[PfNJ]

3. Yes, but it's amazing.....

there are still people who see absolutely nothing wrong with the guy, like he is the Second-fu**ing-coming, or something.

I can (sort of) understand Repubs who wouldn't vote for a Democrat no matter what, but it's still tough for me to imagine anybody still sees Miserable W. Failure as this infallible super-man figure, it sickens me. These morAns really need to get a brain.....

[Philostopher]

2. Yeah, there are, actually.

I just thought most of them lived within 70 miles of me, here in SW Ohio. They're people who only listen to hate radio, only watch Faux News channel or CNN, and never read the newspaper unless they've sent a hate-riddled editorial letter about how the commies/terraists are ruining this great republic of ourn. They live in a constant state of denial, peppered with occasional periods of extreme, keening cognitive dissonance that they drown out with their Toby Keith albums.

[laura888]

5. I know several who fit this bill, too

You nailed it: their only sources of "news" are hate radio and Fox News.

Its like they WANT a constant state of war, fear, terror, chaos - so they can prove....WHAT??

Funny - most of them are white males, between 25 and 45. Why are these guys so f***ing angry?

[Philostopher]

9. Strangely enough, though,

Most of the Republican men I know are kind of iffy on the Dim Son. It's middle-aged, so-called Christian women I deal with who seem to be in a swoon. Of course, their genders don't keep them from being culturally illiterate and getting all their news spoon-fed from the lie factory in DC. And I'm sure their white, Republican husbands just tell them what to think so they don't have to worry their 'pretty little heads' about complicated things like politics.

Never understood how any woman who wasn't a fundie religious nut of some kind could possibly ever bring herself to vote for a Republican, at least the kind of Republican that's the run of the mill here in Ohio, but there you go. They most likely let their hubbies tell them what they think, that's my guess.

[radiclib]

4. Ever heard of Sean Hannity?

Then again, he isn't in the "real world"...
come to think of it, he probably isn't a "real person", either.
Probably a pod person. Or a Stepford Mouth.
Yup. Lost of aliens out there.

[PfNJ]

6. yeah.....

that's what I meant by the real people, real world thing.....

I'm obviously not counting limbaugh, weiner, hannity and them ;-)


My 100th post! (pats self on back)

:beer:

:toast:

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. Too many too count. *sigh*

[Erika]

8. They've identified with the phony Bush

His supporters listen to his words rather than observe his actions. They think the W is conservative, Christian, kind and will protect them from anyone who would hurt them. The silly twits.

[SharonAnn]

10. Yes. Yesterday I was talking to a woman in our neighborhood

and she was asking me about the appeal of an emissions permit that our group has filed to try to stop a plant expansion here (of a plant that already pollutes greatly).

I gave her an update and she commented that things will probably be better after the election. Thinking she was probably a Republican, I asked her what she was looking for after the election.

She said (I kid you not), that after the election, when * no longer has to kowtow to the corporations to get the campaign money, he'll straighten out all these problems. It's just that he has to play up to the corporations now to get re-elected and when he wins a second term he doesn't have to worry about that. So then, he'll be able to devote his full attention to things like tightening the emissions laws and making sure that the EPA starts doing their job instead of letting all these polluters slide.

I just commented that it would be great and ended the conversation.

I'm still shaking my head.