Lately, shock jocks, wingnuts, freepers and dittoheads everywhere have been eager to express their concern for minorities, the disabled, and the underprivileged. Rush Limbaugh has spoken up in support for Special Olympians. Who will be next?
Well, here is my personal experience with "compassionate conservatives." Follow me below the fold.
The other day I was at a neighborhood bar where literally everybody knows my name. A few of us were gathered around the TV, watching a Spurs game. As George Hill was preparing for a free throw, the camera angle emphasized the fact that he's been to the gym. I said to the lady sitting next to me, "Look at that boy's arms!"
Immediately the McCain voters (with the bumper stickers to prove it) behind me went, "I can't believe you said that! 'Boy' is the worst thing you can call a black person! I thought you liberals are supposed to be so politically correct!"
Now these are people who have piled any racist slur they can come up with on our President and First Lady. They have told "jokes" about the Dresden bombing to my face (I'm German, and my grandmother's house got literally flattened in WWII). One of them uses a wheelchair, which hasn't stopped his buddies from "joking" about disabled people. But now they are all sensitive, trying to prove what hypocrites we libruls are.
I turned around and replied, "I meant 'boy' as in 'kid' since he's half my age. And you knew that! YOU call forty-year-olds 'kid' or 'boy'. So just watch the game."
After all the crap that has come out of Republicans' mouth -- all in good fun, mind you -- now their sensitivity meter has been finely tuned. Gotta love it.