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If You're A Dem? Sinner. If You're A Repub.? Saint

From That Minority Thing

If you’re a minority and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates you’re a “token hire.”

If you’re a conservative and you’re selected for a job over more qualified candidates you’re a “game changer.”

 

If you live in an Urban area and you get a girl pregnant you’re a “baby daddy.”

If you’re the same in Alaska you’re a “teen father.” (Actually, according to your own MySpace page you’re an F’n redneck that don’t want any kids, but that’s too long a phrase for the evil liberal media to take out of context and flog morning noon and night).

 

Black teen pregnancies? A “crisis” in black America.
White teen pregnancies? A “blessed event.”

 

If you grow up in Hawaii you’re “exotic.”

Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, you’re the quintessential “American story.”

 

Similarly, if you name you kid Barack you’re “unpatriotic.”

Name your kid Track, you’re “colorful.”

 

If you’re a Democrat and you make a VP pick without fulling vetting the individual you’re “reckless.”

A Republican who doesn’t fully vet is a “maverick.”

 

If you say that for the “first time in my adult lifetime I’m really proud of my country” it makes you “unfit” to be First Lady.

If you are a registered member of a fringe political group that advocates secession that makes you “First Dude.”

 

A DUI from twenty years ago is “old news.”

A speech given without proper citation from twenty years ago is “relevant information.”

 

And, finally, if you’re a man and you decide to run for office despite your wife’s reoccurrence of cancer you’re a “questionable spouse.”

If you’re a woman and you decide to run for office despite having five kids including a newborn with Downs Syndrome…  Well, we don’t know what that is ‘cause THAT’S NOT A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK!



Comments (2)

It's not funny because it's true.

Reminds me big time of a man in Holocaust era Germany who took careful notes and later wrote a book "Language of the Third Reich", Victor Klemperer. The main gist was that they started with the careful and deliberate subversion of language - eventually moving on to mass murder of course.

I saw it via a film on the Sundance Channel, "Language Does Not Lie"


http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=kwsleqxx_SMC&dq=the+language+of+the+third+reich+klemperer&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=HRFTQ-b45a&sig=XY86xwuKEiGF2cAIjFBJtIjDFks&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA1,M1

After the RNC's rant against "Community Organizers" I was sickened and they totally reminded me of the subversive nature of fascism.

It always starts out innocent enough, doesn't it?

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