Fine. I have nothing to say about that.
I bring this up to point to a short segment that The Daily Show did about this topic on yesterday's show and how it relates to my co-bloggers list of strongly held convictions:
1) Republicans/conservatives are unable and/or unwilling to "put themselves in someone's shoes" (so to speak).
2) College QBs operating in the spread take longer to adapt to the NFL (if they can at all).
3) Laundry is woman's work.
For this post, we are only dealing with #1.
And so I thought of that belief when Jon Stewart showed the soundbyte of Ken Mehlman responding to ABC News as to whether he regretted being part of Karl Rove's politics of divisiveness (i.e. courting votes using an anti-gay agenda):
"What I regret is the fact that I had not come to terms with this part of my life and, therefore, I was not able to do what I was able to do in other areas and work for a more inclusive and broader party."
Jon Stewart's comment:
"Right! You can't expect him to fight for the rights of a group that he didn't know he was a part of! I'm sure if he ever found out he was black, he'd be 100% against segregation too. It's like that old poem:
First they came for the gays
But I didn't know I was gay... so who gives a shit!"
Okay, so maybe Elijah Moon is on to something. And I share his opinion on #2 (I'm looking at you Bradford, McCoy, and Tebow). I am still not convinced that #3 is true though. No matter how much he rants about how only a woman should do laundry... I think he's wrong and I am not afaid to say it.
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