Now This Is How You Do It
March 20th, 2009 - 1:03 pm
A snarky blog gets serious for a moment:
I work with special needs kids every day. During the fall we go bowling on Fridays. There is no doubt in my mind that many of these kids would destroy Barack in this sport. There is one difference though between these kids and the President. They wouldn’t laugh at him. They wouldn’t make fun of him. As a matter of fact, they would cheer for him every time he was lucky enough to knock down a pin, and pat him on the back when he didn’t knock down any at all.
Read the rest here.
Yes that is how it should be said.
It’s too bad the ONE is cold and hollow.
I agree with the blog you linked to. WE SHOULD CALL ON HIM TO RESIGN.
So when did rightwingers become so PC? Oh yeah, when it became convenient.
Clark –
Yes, I’m sure he started working with the disabled no earlier than Jan 20, 2009, in hopes that just such a useful moment would arise.
I’m talking about you and a million other rightwingers.
I’ve seen this on several blogs now, and, for the first time ever, I’m going to defend our President. I think that his meaning was that, in the Special Olympics, everybody wins, so that somebody who bowled a 129 would be called a winner. I don’t think that he had any intention of making fun of any participant in the Special Olympics or of anybody who would qualify for them. Yes, he could have chosen a better line, but I think that he’s simply an empty suit who happens to have a talent for running for office and who was lucky enough not to have had a good opponent last autumn.
Clark –
You’re talking about me and on my blog, so put up or shut up. Find where I’ve made fun of the handicapped, please. Or I’ll ban your account on general principle of calling me a liar while being one yourself.
Come to think of it, Clark, the only person I know of who regularly makes jokes about the handicapped is Dana Gould.* Although as a stand-up comedian and former writer/producer for The Simpson, he should be suspected as a right-winger.
Shall I have Smithers release the hounds?
*Confession: I know this because I’m a huge fan of Gould’s, and have been for almost 20 years. And, yes, even his worst-taste jokes make me laugh, maybe the hardest.