Up front, let me say that if any comments come in claiming to take offense at the title, the only thing I'll be surprised about is the fact that any comments come in at all, such a rare occurance that it has yet to happen once. And I won't apologize. Because it's true.
While perusing Yahoo!'s most viewed photos (most of which were amazingly dull, for being the most viewed photos and all) I came upon a photo which was so dull that I wondered what it was doing there. Twas a picture of a ketchup bottle. Then I noticed something funny about it: The big 'W' on it, so I clicked on it to see a bigger picture.
I'm almost sorry I did.
Apparently, some freedom-fry-enjoying people were upset at the prospect of dipping their fries into ketchup connected with Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry. Hmm...Heinz...sound familiar? So they created a new ketchup, manufactured entirely in the US, called W. Yes, W, which they claim stands for Washington, as in George, whose picture adorns the front of the bottle.
"You don't support Democrats. Why should your ketchup?" Says the website for W ketchup.
It took me about half of the article to be able to believe it wasn't actually a farce. Had I wondered onto The Onion by accident? Sadly, no. Although by the time I got to the end, I was wavering again, when I read about another company launched last year to provide a conservative alternative food-wise, this one for ice cream. It's called Star Spangled Ice Cream. Among their flavors: "I Hate the French Vanilla (Real American Vanilla, NOT the French Vanilla)".
I hate it when people do things so stupid I can actually feel my brain shriveling up when I hear about it.
Well, there goes my first politically themed post which may cause some people to curse me. Chances are slim, as hardly anyone reads this blog, and the ones I know who do are probably in as much awe as I am. For once, I ain't gonna be politically correct. This is my place to say what I feel.
Saturday, July 10, 2004
You people are STUPID BEYOND BELIEF
Posted by Karen at 8:49 PM
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1 comments:
Hear, hear.
I've no earthly idea how we've gotten to this level of political discourse (or lack thereof, actually), but it makes me crazy, too. Is it because we're really so stupid that we now *buy* the jingoistic claptrap that poses for political advertising? Are we ultimately going to tear this nation in two because the morons offered by both parties as "leaders" are so unqualified they must demonize their opponent instead? If so, we're headed in the right direction, and we'll have earned what we get when we get it.
Dubya Ketchup indeed. Feh.
Thanks for bringing this to light.
Tom
(AKA Prosaic Penguin 'Ungruntled' :)
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