Believing science is a political liability in Alabama. How does this happen in the 21st century?
It doesn’t. It happens in Alabama.
I was going to ask if you had visited Alabama lately…
(I did, last year. Quite a unique place.)
Oooh, burn!
If you want to get really depressed, read the OP’s link, where the “accused” denies everything:
I has a sad.
If I had realized, when I was young, how stupid a sizable chunk of the population is. . . nah, nothing would change, except maybe I’d be even more cynical. And sad.
In b4 “Don’t ignorantly generalize all the fine people of the south!”
I hate these sort of attack ads even more when they are false. Especially the NRA ones that paint a good ol boy hunt-loving Democrat as wanting to take away your guns (because I agree with 90% of the NRA’s position on guns, enough to know that most elected Democrats in rural areas also do, because if they didn’t the NRA would have had a field day with them already so they need to make shit up in order to get donations.)
It’s a sad reminder to me that lying often works.
My faith is so important to me that God has given me the gift of prophesy:
“My grampa’s so old he remembers when the United States wasn’t an insignificant, third-world country.”
“Yeah, but we’re the best insignificant, third-world country! Lick our dust, Nauru! USA! USA! USA!”
out b4 “We’re just misunderstood and misrepresented.”
“By millions of us…”
Right, because everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line is an ignorant rube.
:rolleyes:
People, don’t you know I’m only human-who-did-not-evolve-but-was-created-by-God,
Don’t you know I have faults like any one
But sometimes I find myself alone regretting
Some little thing; some foolish thing
That I have done-or-said-in-a-press-release
I’m just a person-who-is-south-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line-and-an-ignorant-rube,
Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood….
Nah, not nearly as catchy.
Dunno about that, but there are apparently enough ignorant rubes in Alabama that politicians are competing over who’s the most ignorant in order to win votes. Not really any getting around that.
It only takes a majority. And if you don’t think there is one, look at who you elect to represent you.
Exactly, the elected officials are just statistical outliers!
-Joe
I wonder how far this will go. In the next ad, maybe he’ll be accused of accepting germ theory and denying that people get sick because of evil spirits that enter our bodies during sneezes that aren’t immediately followed by a “God bless you”.
Was he also accused of not having a “3” sticker in the back windw of his pick-em-up truck?
I’m beginning to think the country would have been better off if the South won the Civil War, and went their own way. Let them have their lack of health care, their gay-free proms and yearbooks, their megachurches that pick and choose what parts of the New Testament are valid, their cable knife shopping networks, their pronunciation of Gaaw-DUH, and their schools that teach the Baby Jesus created the universe in seven days.
Um, excuse me? Please don’t generalize the south like this. They’re not all like that! The fact that you don’t hear about this stuff happening in New York, Seattle or San Diego is, um, well, a coincidence!
Well, that and they won’t have to pretend the phrase “That’s mighty white of you” has any meaning other than the obvious.
-Joe