Did you Know I am Evil?
On Thursday I promised the Ron Paul for President supporters I would blog about them. So here it goes. On six separate occasions I had a Ron Paul supporter call me, “Evil” just because I am a member of the “main stream media.” I told them there is nothing “main stream” about NBC5! They didn’t buy it.
They accused me of being part of the “rich establishment, with no morals.” Again I told them I work for NBC! But the worst defamation of my character was when they said I don’t care about man-kind. I told them I sell used cars on the weekends, I am studying to be a Lawyer and I work nights as corporate lobbyist calling on Washington insiders. Not realizing I was joking one Ron Paul supporter said, “Maybe your not so rich if you have to work all those jobs!”
Here the Clinton Supporters appeared to be having more fun. But they were beating a similar drum about the so called “Rich Establishment.”
They told me the “Rich” don’t pay enough taxes. Obama said in the debate America needs to increase taxes on the “Rich” in order to get the country back on its feet. So that got me thinking about the Stinchfield “Ten Step Plan” to a perfect country:
1. Health Care: Every rich person must add one poor person to the family health care plan.
2. Uninsured Drivers: Every rich person must add one poor person’s car to the Family car insurance plan.
3. Drugs in America: We force the Rich to buy up all the drugs from every drug dealer at top dollar prices. The Government then confiscates all the drugs. Nothing left to sell.
4. Infrastructure: To fill up any car worth more then 35-thousand dollars we add a 25 cents per gallon gas tax. That money goes to build roads.
5. Mortgage Crisis: We immediately take 25 percent from the 401k plans of every Rich American. That money then goes to pay off any home that is close to being foreclosed on.
6. Immigration: Every Rich American family must give 5 percent of it’s yearly income to 5 Mexican Families (25%) so they have plenty of money in Mexico and no need to come to America.
7. War in Iraq: Every Rich American Family must buy one soldier a first class ticket home. Then give each terrorist 25 thousand dollars not to bother us anymore.
8. Economy: Every Rich American must buy $10,000 worth of Fortune 500 stocks each time the Federal Reserve asks them too.
9. Education: Every Rich American must sponsor one underprivileged student and pay for his/her college tuition.
10. Steroids in Baseball: Any MLB player who feels he needs to take HGH or steroids to compete must announce to the commissioner of baseball he intends to take steroids. The commissioner will then pick a Rich family to subsidize the Players Salary to the average pay of a current MLB All-Star.
(Only a Presidential Candidate can Determine the exact Definition of “Rich.”)
Note to reader: The above is satire! And if you couldn’t figure that out you are wayyyyyy to
serious.
July 9, 2008 at 7:30 am
No comment on the content of your post - but comments about your spelling.
Great Googly-Moogly, you call yourself a journalist? Anybody who got more than a “C” in English Composition knows the difference between “to” and “too”.
“Too” is a synonym for “also.” As in, “I’m going to the baseball game, too.” Not as in your number 8 above, “Economy: Every Rich American must buy $10,000 worth of Fortune 500 stocks each time the Federal Reserve asks them too.” Asks them too? After asking whom?
“To” means “in the direction of.” Like in my example above, “I’m going to the baseball game, too.” Imagine how ridiculous that would look if you wrote it as, “I’m going too the baseball game, to.”
But then, that makes about as much sense as a news reporter anchoring sports. I worked in small-market TV news for 10 years, and we pulled that stuff a lot, but only because we didn’t have the personnel (heck, I was the Executive Producer and I anchored sports!). Unless you secretly want to be a sports guy, I can’t imagine a large organization like NBC, in the fifth-largest TV market in the country, allowing something like this (and Randy McIlwain, too) to happen. You don’t see Kristine Kahanek doing sports, or Dale Hansen doing weather, do you?
July 9, 2008 at 10:15 am
Thanks for the human spell check Dan. And thanks for watching me do sports! In fact we beat Mr. Hansen Last Sunday. As a former college athlete, I love doing sports, no secret about it. It’s called being relevant in a news business that is changing by the day. A “utlility man” is the most valuable man in the news room, especially in a day and age when budgets are being slashed.
As for the “You call yourself a journalist” comment, I have four Emmys to my name and over two dozen nominations. Plus I’m a TV journalist, I never thought I would have to spell!
The best part about your email is that you knew I do sports, it means for some reason who decided to watch me! So thanks again.