Six-degrees to Keith Olbermann

I admit that lately I have been angry. I have been angry that both campaigns have had to get ugly. I have been angry that McCain has decided that close to 100% of his budget would now go towards attack ads that held little credibility (Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright = all been done. We've heard, we've looked into it, we've concluded minimal damage). Of course, being an Obama supporter I have wanted to shout out how crazy it was to play six-degrees-of-barack-obama when you only have to play two-degrees-of-sarah-palin or one-degree-of-john-mccain. But I was mostly just extremely frustrated that McCain-Palin supporters could care less about how ridiculous it was because they were so desperate for something, anything to attack Obama with. You see, I hadn't realized how attacked they had personally been feeling. I hadn't realized that when the 'biased liberal news media' reported all the dirt on McCain and Palin, many people that support her felt the media was attacking them, questioning their intelligence, and otherwise 'shit talking' about someone they admired. I guess I didn't get it because less than five weeks ago most people had never heard of Sarah Palin so I'm not sure how they've become so attached (knowing nothing but the fact she was a woman, mom, had high approval ratings and could tell a joke about lipstick).

When Sarah Palin winks at the TV, she is NOT winking at you. She doesn't know you, she doesn't even know you exist, she is just banking on the likelihood that you're out there and you have become so attached to this six-degrees type theory that you will actually feel like she is winking at you. She is hoping you'll feel that way because as long as you feel that connection, you will feel attacked when you hear all the negative facts about her, because when someone calls your friend a liar you error on the side of your friend. She is hoping that you will feel that connected to her so when she tells you that Obama is a terrorist (in such an informal way she could have followed with, "hey didja know that people love my glasses?!) you'll just believe her because, hey! she winked right at you and only a friend would do that so she must be telling the truth...why would she lie?

Anyway, back to my original point. I was feeling angry but didn't know how to release that anger so I could get back to not feeling angry. Well thanks to my new friend Keith Olbermann (he said "Sarah" so we're friends right?) I feel better and I didn't have to yell at anybody.