The End Of The Snit
By Mitch Berg
NPR continues its endless hagiography with this episode of This American Life, entitled the “Inauguration Issue”, which should be called “White Liberals Vent Their Anger Over Having To Put Up With Cognitive Dissonance”.
Audibly-granola-chomping environmentalist:
“All of a sudden, it seemed like the kind of world where people and countries can work together again!”
It’s the kind of thing that’s worth putting in a time capsule for people to understand the madness of this era.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
“All of a sudden, it seemed like the kind of world where people and countries can work together again!”
Collective action to fight collective problems.
Like how big a house I choose to live in, how I choose to spend the money I earn, and how often I check my tire pressure.
January 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
In November, 1992, a woman in our office declared to all who would listen that Bill Clinton would ruin our country and that she would not do anything to help this country if ‘Slick Willy’ was going to get the credit. I thought then, as a Bush 41 voter myself, to base life choices – how hard you work to improve your own circumstances, causes or charities you support, how you treat the people in your life, etc., on who the president is or what party they are from was just silly and childish in a nation with our bounty of opportunities. Over the last eight years, I have often thought about what that woman said when someone on the other side claimed they would move out of the country, or were in a deep depression, or were just sitting out on what life had to offer, because of who the president was. Why media people, whether they are from NPR or Fox, don’t ask people – who say what the granola chomper said – “Why are you so selfish to your fellows? – To deprive them of your charity, your work or whatever you have to contribute, because of who the president is?” Yet this granola chomper is held up as being with it and hip because he thinks that some bureaucrat in Belgium – a country where the native population is to depressed to even fu, er, have sex anymore – now likes the U.S. again, he can start to contribute again (if he ever did). As a person who travels and works a fair amount abroad, my overwhelming impression is that people around the world admire and revere the U.S. regardless of who the president is.