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 be absolutely certain about this, but I’m guessing that watching either show counts 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 would have suffered enough.
I was in the middle of collecting my heaven points the other night when a lady called into whatever program I was watching to tell the host how much she admired Dick Cheney. I looked up from my computer. Wait, what? Is this a prank call? But no, the caller went on to say that Dick has “stuck to his guns” and she loves how he “is who he is”. This lady, who clearly shouldn’t have TV privileges in the nuthouse, likes that Dick refuses to change his rhetoric regardless of current events.
I shouldn’t be surprised though because I’ve heard a few other stupid people express a similar opinion lately. 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. Anyway, so after my head exploded, I started wondering what might be wrong with this caller. What exactly is there to admire about someone who continues to say, believe, and do the same thing when they are proven wrong every single time, about almost everything?
Just as an example, does anyone believe I would 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? Wouldn’t you’d start to believe that I wasn’t the right guy for the job?
