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Go ahead and vote for your Messiah. Just know who’s punching the same chad you are, that’s all I ask.
After all, some of you have been making quite a lot of noise about our bedfellows. It’s only sensible that you put some thought into who’s under your own sheets.
Erica Jong, and some of her comments as translated from an interview she gave to the Italian magazine Corriere della Sera:
Here’s a translation of Jong’s more spirited quotes to the Milan-based Corriere, as selected by [Christian] Rocca.
“The record shows that voting machines in America are rigged.”
“My friends Ken Follett and Susan Cheever are extremely worried. Naomi Wolf calls me every day. Yesterday, Jane Fonda sent me an email to tell me that she cried all night and can’t cure her ailing back for all the stress that has reduces her to a bundle of nerves.”
“My back is also suffering from spasms, so much so that I had to see an acupuncturist and get prescriptions for Valium.”
“After having stolen the last two elections, the Republican Mafia…”
“If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it’s not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets.”
“Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act.”
She also laments that not all of America’s men of letters share her devotion to Obama.
“Tom Wolfe and John Updike are men of the right and Philip Roth is at this point a hermit who leads a monastic life in Connecticut, far from everything and everybody.”
I would also request you watch the first four minutes of Idiocracy (2006), specifically, the part about what happens to the human race once it is free of natural predators. No natural predators. The necessity to think independently, to resist, to defend, to try and try again, to simply string together words that make some sense — all removed. Nothing left to do except to get along with each other…by sharing a conviction to vote for a thoroughly underqualified candidate for U.S. President.
That’s exactly what’s happening.
Think of an entire species of humanoid, isolated in an ecosystem, each specimen of which is so delusional and addle-minded to seriously believe Dick Cheney is pulling troops out of Iraq in case Obama loses and blood starts running in the streets so he can lead them against the citizenry. Think of such a species starting from scratch, with the wheel yet uninvented and fire yet undiscovered. How far would they get? Indoor plumbing? Electric heating? Calculators? Nuclear fusion?
Penicillin? Voting machines?
Sense to come in out of the rain?
We’re thinking of putting — about to put — people in charge who ought rightfully be sat at the far end of the dining hall, at the kiddie table. Seriously.
Hope Ms. Jong’s back gets better.
H/T: Boortz.
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- pcasey | 10/31/2008 @ 10:26I owe Ms. Jong an awful lot, since her “Fear of Flying” got me laid a LOT in the way-back. I probably bought at least six copies of that book and gifted them to women I wanted to share a bed with, and the ploy was more successful than it might sound. It was the ’70s, after all, and we were a lot more gullible then. And “we” were moonbats, too, so that might have had something to do with it… (Yes, I WAS a man-slut. I’m kinda proud of it, too. :))
Now… all that said… I consider my debt paid in full. Ms. Jong is frickin’ certifiably deranged. I owe the woman nothing but contempt now.
- Buck | 10/31/2008 @ 17:11