My husband listens to a stupid radio show every morning on his way to work. There are a bunch of rednecks who discuss current events and spew their hateful bigoted opinions onto the public. This is how my husband finds out about current events and forms opinions about politics. I cannot believe I am married to someone who is so different from me. He gets a kick out of repeating this crap to me at the dinner table and we end up having a fun little debate and I end up using a lot of bad language. He then reminds me not to use bad language in front of the kids. Better to hear some bad language than to hear the evil that comes out of his mouth.
An example: Yesterday's topic was Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16 year old sister of Britney Spears who is pregnant. The boys on the radio reported that she was fired from her TV show due to her pregnancy, but after the show went up in ratings due to her pregnancy Nickelodeon decided to renew her contract and do another season of her show. The boys on the radio were outraged at the corporate greed allowing this sinner to work.
Can you really fire someone for being pregnant? How is she supposed to buy diapers? When I was in school girls who got pregnant were expelled, is that still going on? I think I should call my daughter's school and find out.
I personally don't feel that being pregnant is morally wrong. I don't feel that it will cause young girls to follow along and get pregnant themselves. My 16 year old daughter doesn't decide her morality based on the girls on TV, does yours?
The boys on the radio went on to say that any girl in Louisiana (where the Spears girls hail) who is not pregnant by 16 is thought to have something wrong with her. They then went on to say that the only reason that Jamie Lynn got pregnant was to hold on to her boyfriend who was losing interest. They wanted to impart to her the message that she is so cute she could have her pick on penises, that boys would be throwing their penises at her like Zorro swords. It only got worse from there. Maybe the humor has been lost in translation but my husband was laughing at this point in the telling of the tale. I was using bad language and talking over him so I may have missed the punch line.
People wonder why women vote for Clinton. The male reporters who refer to every political candidate from the beginning of time by that person's last name, and all call Hillary by her first name. They all speculated about the NH victory say that the only reason anyone voted for Clinton is because she cried. She didn't cry by the way that is the grossest exaggeration I have ever heard. I believe the female bashing is only going to get worse. My friend Lorelei believes I am overreacting and that my perception of how the reporters are discussing HILLARY is way off. My husband totally agrees with Lorelei.
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those guys your husbands listens to are IDIOTS.
jaime-lynn spears had already completed shooting the final season for the show AND the good-bye movie. everything was already over and done with before she announced she was pregnant. and no, they haven't re-upped it even though it did get really good ratings.
good thing you have such a strong head on you to blast your husband's horrible taste in talk radio.
It sounds like he loves to get your dander up by repeating what these good ole boys talk about.
I cannot stand the (I like to call them) Rushbots. My husband was a Libertarian but slowly turned to a Dem leaning independent once I got him to stop listening to Rush and even Paul Harvey is good at spin. I could not believe the huge uproar over this (ie. should Nickelodeon air a special on Jamie Lynn's pregancy for girls?)... Ummm, I think most parents do a good job of talking these things over with their children and don't need a cable station to guide them. And, yes, at least in our school district, they have removed girls from school for being pregnant. They send them to the "special school" (read, the school for troublemakers and pregnant girls) and it irritates the heck out of me.
On Hillary-I agree with you,except I tend to use Hillary to differentiate which Clinton I am talking about. But it ticks me off to hear the media say, "Hillary, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Obama..." Just as much as it irked me that three times last year, when a Republican got into a "family values" scandal, Fox News "accidentally" put a (D) next to their name. The media is out of control.
i haven't heard a lot of the pundits' opinions this time around, but i tell ya, when i thought of hillary actually losing the nomination, i got way behind her. i like obama, i like him a lot, but i've been waiting to go off and join the hillary campaign circus for a long long time. she can absolutely do the job, and do it well.
You may not be overreacting. I'm just speculating that another reason for the first-name basis is familiarity (we've all known her for ages and calling her "Clinton" seems strange), as well as Sheila's idea that it could be to differentiate her from good ol' Bill.
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