“Is that your Halloween costume? Scary.”
“No, I do not [plan on voting for McCain].”
“No [I don’t have any friends who are supporting McCain]. If I did know [some such] people, well, they wouldn’t be my friends.”
“I do know some McCain supporters, I wouldn’t say they’re close friends at all.”
Several people who pass by without comment or with a simple “no.”
One kid fakes the comedian out, pretending he’s going to high five him.
“I don’t like McCain. I’m against everything he stands for. I’m absolutely not supporting him… I don’t know anyone around here who likes McCain.”
“You gotta be kidding me. You guys don’t stand a chance.”
“No. I hate Palin.” (Comedian asks, “You hate me?”) “Palin, not you. I don’t hate you. I wish you’d change your politics.”
“I don’t want a t-shirt, thank you though for offering.” (Comedian: Can I change your mind?) “You can not change my mind.”
Comedian asks if people would respond well if the McCain t-shirt were in the window at a clothing store. “Frankly, I don’t think so.”
“You’re in the wrong neighborhood.”
“You gotta go to the East Side for this one.”
Where’s the rude? Where’s the hostile?
(Snide, I’m not entirely sure of the meaning of.)
“You’re in the wrong neighborhood,” when typed out of context, may look like a threat or something. But it wasn’t. The person was communicating a simple fact: McCain canvassing is not going to get much in the way of results in that neighborhood.
The kid who did the fake high five was rude.
The lady who said if someone were a McCain supporter they wouldn’t be her friend could be exhibiting a kind of closed-mindedness. On the other hand she could be saying someone who supports McCain supports values she herself finds unconscionable, and it is of course difficult to be friends with people who have values you find to be repugnant. There’s nothing “elitist” or “stuck up” about that. It’s how most people are.
I’m not seeing it. Where’s the rudeness or the elitism in that video?
-FrL-