Second Negative

Some people like Dick

I like to spice things up from time to time by watching Fox News. Or that blond jackass on Headline News. I can’t say with 100% certainty, but I’m thinking both networks count towards your “heaven points”. You know that part in Defending Your Life where Albert Brooks has to watch his life on the big TV screen? Well, they’d show me watching Hannity. And then I’d get a free pass, because I will have suffered enough.

So there I was the other night collecting my heaven points when a lady called into whatever program I was watching to tell the host how much she admired Dick Cheney. Wait, what? Is this a prank call? But it wasn’t, because she went on to say that Dick has “stuck to his guns” and she loves how he “is who he is”. This lady, who clearly doesn’t have TV privileges in the nuthouse, likes that Dick refuses to change his rhetoric regardless of current events.

Now, I’ve actually heard a few other stupid people express similar feelings before. And again, feel free to replace “stupid” with “ignorant”. I can think of a few other words, but this site is for the children, so I try to keep it as clean as possible. Fuckin’ right. But anyway, after my head exploded listening to this ignorant woman, I started wondering what the hell might be wrong with her. What exactly is there to admire about someone who continues to say, believe, and do the same old crap when they are WRONG EVERY SINGLE TIME? About almost everything.

I’m wondering, would I be rewarded or admired at work if I “stuck to my guns”, but was consistently proven to be an idiot? Wouldn’t you start thinking I didn’t know what I was doing? Maybe? Wouldn’t you think maybe I wasn’t the right guy for the job?

Just wondering.