Like Louis Prima: Just a gigolo
the seattle times has a pretty shoddy article about kennewick, bush country, but that fact that it’s poorly written doesn’t make me any less sympathetic to the people portrayed in it. i lived in the tri-cities! with people that said stuff like this!
Character is what they like about George Bush. “He’s honest and forthright,” she said. “My word for Kerry is that he’s a gigolo. He’s got this suave demeanor like he can look you in the eye and lie.”
kerry is a gigolo! kerry is a fucking gigolo! what the hell is that supposed to mean?! honesty and forthrightedness, man, this article is just making people look damned ignorant.
At the Ennis home, traditional values mean that Rick Ennis, a millwright at the Hanford nuclear reservation, is head of the household. And this household is voting for George Bush…
The Ennises are Christians, regularly attending the Cathedral of Joy, a nondenominational church in nearby Richland. Rick Ennis likes Bush’s stands on abortion and gay marriage. He believes in hard work, having no time for people begging on street corners.
no time to beg on street corners, but plenty of time to hate gays and tell women what they should and shouldn’t be doing. oh, the joys of “traditional” households.
Brower pays attention to the headlines. He thinks Iraq should have been invaded sooner. He doesn’t trust Kerry because “Kerry is going to trust the French, the Germans, everybody who doesn’t like us.”…
“Kids today, they don’t work for anything. They have $80 shoes, driving new cars, a cellphone, pager, computers,” said Brower. “What’s a kid doing with that kind of stuff?”
if you had a cellphone, why would you need a pager, especially when your $80 shoes are walking you to your brand new car with a computer in it that just does “bad” stuff all day long. you don’t need that stuff, why do you have it?! here, play with this stick so you can grow up to believe that everything new is anathema to our society, including foreign countries! i don’t care if we invaded iraq already, invade iraq again! put those kids and their fancy gadgets in tikrit so they can do something useful for a change, like killing foreigners!
how bloody infuriating.