One of the problems of being a really lazy blogger is that by the time I get around to posting about something, it's already all over the web. Which makes my posts to this blog irrelevant. In fact, in my day-to-day life, every person I've talked to about the aggravating film clip I've linked below has already seen it...
http://www.gayrightswatch.com/misc/bushbrokebackmountain.wmv
(Thanks to www.gayrightswatch.com.)
A lot of people, however, have only read about it without seeing the clip. If you're actually uninitiated and the link above doesn't work, President Bush was asked at the pro-wiretapping town hall meeting in Kansas whether or not, as a rancher, he'd seen Brokeback Mountain yet. He answers twice that he hasn't seen it but that he would want to talk about ranching. I've been told by people that there was nothing wrong with that answer. But it's not what he said it's how he said it...
Embarrased grimaces, eyes rolling, his jaw buckling around as if he can't get his tongue far enough into his cheek to imply how insane he thinks the idea of seeing a gay-romance movie would be. The build-up is so long that it's met with riotous laughter when he finally chokes out his answer.
Our President is ten years old.
Hell, our President is Eric Cartman. And that's what drives me insane. He's supposed to be every American's president, not just the straight Evangelical ones. And that's something he's never grasped. Hell, he can't grasp the basic tenets of the Constitution, sure, but even Reagan and his father realized that you're not supposed to summarily dismiss parts of the population. Bush 41 wouldn't have acted like Butthead when the subject of gay people came up.
It reminds me of the moment in the Bush/Kerry debates where George responded to an Kerry by saying a liberal from Massachusetts might feel the way Kerry did. As if he weren't also running to be the President of the citizens of Massachusetts. Dumbass.
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