Neighbor still drinks the kool-aid

[ewagner]

I had a conversation with my back-yard neighbor last night...

She and her husband are confirmed "Dominionists" and follow Bush* without question. She "admires" both Laura Bush and Lynne Chaney. We used to work together and share some friends in common but rarely talk politics.

Last night I stepped over the line and related the story about Cheney being told to "go F**k youself!" in Mississippi yesterday....she immediately countered with two "shots"

1. That kind of language is because of "Hollywood", and;
2. She asked if I saw the "idiot" Sean Penn put his boat in the water and the boat sank because "he didn't check to see if it had a hole in it..."

I said, "No I didn't see anything like that" and then excused myself to go put dinner on the table.....

Where do they get this crap?

[Teaser]

1. Hit her.

Really, it's the only way.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. With a blunt object. N/T

[politicat]

6. Might I offer a clueskillet?

And they're attracted to the color....

That type of comment is just spiteful. I might have called her on it, said something to the effect of, "Well, I'm glad you find it so amusing that a boat that could have helped save lives is out of commission." Withering cold stares added as appropriate.

[Oreo]

3. I'm sure she has no clue Cheney said that on the Senate floor

Some people are just hopeless and I agree with the previous post... just hit her.

[tanyev]

4. Because of Hollywood?

I suspect the F*** yourself guy chose his language precisely because it is exactly what potty-mouth Dick himself said on the floor of the Senate.

[BlueJac]

5. Some people are just blind!

[samos1016]

7. She get s her info

from Fox news and right-wing radio. Most of them cannot think for themselves so they allow people like O'Reilly to tell them what to think. They except this b/c it is a part of their world view. You should engage her and challenge her beliefs. Give her the facts, if she still cannot think for herself then she is lost.

[bigbrother05]

8. See how they change the subject?

You got to keep it on point, they can't argue, because they don't know the facts. Go get em.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. What was that bit about Penn's boat sinking?

Ive heard it a couple times, but not on the news, only in the rumor mill. I did hear that he participated in pulling out a couple dozen people, though.

[ewagner]

10. I was wondering

if anybody else had heard it.....

I haven't seen it anywhere else....

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. I just did a search on sean penn boat sink

and came up with an australian 'journalist' for the Herald Sun (Murdoch paper?) claiming that he 'forgot to plug a hole in the boat'. All the RW blogs picked it up and repeated the story, mostly word for word, so they could have a laugh at a guy who ACTUALLY WENT TO NOLA, GOT WET AND FILTHY HELPING RESCUE 40 PEOPLE.

Anyone know anything more?

[ewagner]

12. So the RW blogs had it?

That gives me quite an insight about my neighbor....

I know she spends time at night surfing the net but I always thought it was movie sites....

[Broca]

13. Some of these poor wretchs

listen to 10 hours a day of Limbaugh, Hannity, and the likes. It has a cult-like effect on their mind. It would be inhuman in another context but they do it to themselves.

Penn is not a public servant/representative and what he does is not much of the public's political business. What Cheney does is.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Yeah, afraid so. Every link I looked at was a RW site. nt

[RevCheesehead]

14. Sounds like another ditto-head.

I understand there are a few of them in the state. O8)