Archive for July 31st, 2011
How do you debate people who seek to attack Governor Sarah Palin?
Our good friend Patricia sent in the following email exchange that recently transpired between a neighbor, Anne, and herself, with Anne engaging in attacks on Governor Sarah Palin that seem oddly familiar…because they’re almost word-for-word lifted from the media’s usual talking points.
Patricia is no shrinking violet and didn’t take any gruff from Anne. She defended Governor Palin and debated Anne in a calm and reasoned way, which drove Anne into emotional territory where she stooped to expletives and other irrationality that just made her look foolish (more so than usual, according to Patricia).
I’ve reprinted the exchange below to give you an idea how YOU too can counter these tired and familiar attacks on Governor Palin, whether they come to you in email exchanges or happen in the grocery store, at the park, or in the coffee room at the office.
You’re going to keep seeing this same garbage recycled repeatedly for the next year…so it’s important to get in your own mindset to refudiate it.
Wink.
Hillbuzz Open Thread: Sunday, July 31, 2011
1992: Georgia joins the United Nations. Meanwhile, somewhere in Alabama, jealousy simmers.
1971: Apollo 15 astronauts use a moon rover for the first time in human history. Glorified golf carts will never be cooler.
1790: First US patent issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process, proving unequivocably how wild about potassium mining the Founding Fathers really were.
1588: Spanish Armada first spotted off the coast of England. Further south, at least 101 dogs spotted on coastline of Dalmatia.
1201: Attempted assassination of John Komnenos the Fat (a Byzantine noble with an ignoble name).
How different our world would be if people had no last names and were still described the way they were in 1201. Just imagine how fun it would be following politics, and the misadventures of Nancy the Stupid or Harry the Foolish in Congress…or Michelle the Ridiculously-Attired in the East Wing…or Barack the Unicorn-Riding in the Oval Office.
What are some names you’d give members of Congress you know and love tolerate? Keep it clean…lest you forever be known as So-and-So the Potty-mouthed from here on out!
