And in a different country, no less. My wife's cousin owns a dog that he totally adores, but when he was in Cambodia and Thailand last summer, but you'd better believe he had him some dog meat, and still talks about it unprompted. Doesn't mean he's a danger to his dog over here, it just means he tried something different when he visited another country with different dietary customs.
What this plays to more than anything is reminding bigots in America that Obama has lived abroad, and you just can't trust anyone who has left their country and done things that are different from the way we do things here, don'tcha know?
Andrew Zimmern must be Hitler to these idiots. To continue the tangent, I completely agree with Zimmern on durian being untouchable. That stuff is horrid.
I would suspect the travel channel is not one often watched by social conservatives.
Some study I read some time ago broke up TV by political affiliation, conservatives were more likely to watch some subset of popular shows, crime shows, and reality tv shows that feature blue collar professions. (swamp loggers, deadliest catch et al).
Actually this all reminds me of when I was in 7th grade and they did a mock election at our school for Bush v. Gore. Most of us voted Bush because our parents were all Republicans and that's all we knew about politics. One of my friends voted for Gore and when we asked get why, chee said it was because Gore supported education.
Essentially, there are voting adults that use the same sort of logic we used in 7th grade to pick who to vote for. Sad.
Romney actually scored some points with me recently. Sean Hannity tried to bring up the passage of Obama's book where he mentioned eating grasshoppers and dog meat in Kenya, and Romney was "haha no, let's talk about something actually relevant".
If he had chosen to respond, what on Atheismo's Earth was Hannity expecting him to say? How is that even a passage that you could comment on/make fun of?
What really gets me about people like Bork is that they seem to have an idea of freedom that means, "I have the right to be as big of an asshole as I can possibly get away with being, and anyone looking to make me do things like hold back my disdain and disgust for women, minorities and the disabled can kiss my wrinkled ass. If people don't like it, the Market will show me the error of my ways." Because there would never be a market in the South for a whites-only hotel, and the lack of business would force something like that to fold in a week. Right.
The State exists exactly for this reason: To reign in the massive assholes who would gobble up everything and leave nothing for the weak and poor. Also, to keep the weak and poor from caving in the skulls of those massive assholes, so everybody wins. If the assholes are going to insist on doing the gobbling thing, it's only a matter of time before the skull caving gets put back on the table.
The State exists exactly for this reason: To reign in the massive assholes who would gobble up everything and leave nothing for the weak and poor. Also, to keep the weak and poor from caving in the skulls of those massive assholes, so everybody wins. If the assholes are going to insist on doing the gobbling thing, it's only a matter of time before the skull caving gets put back on the table.
