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May. 18th, 2010 11:54 amI know I haven't exactly been helping this affliction over the last week or so, but if you're sick of the UK election by now, here's a small glimpse into how politics work over here. This attack advert on somebody called Bradley Byrne running for the Governor of Alabama has been going around recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJG-7s1e5eM
American political/news laugher-atter Jon Stewart recently made fun of the UK debates because one of the more serious and weighty accusations discussed was the taking away of bus passes. By comparison, this advert instead focuses on the way that someone dares to suggest that evolution is really quite a plausible theory for how life might have come about and demonizes any hint at rationality. I love the question intonation - "evolution best explains the origin of life?" Yes, because a tale about the first of us being moulded from clay and having the essence of life blown up through his nostrils is much more plausible.
Perhaps the saddest part of it is that rather than sticking to what it would seem he actually believes, Bradley has now responded reassuring people that he does honestly think that the earth sprang into existence six thousand years ago and was engineered in about a week by a big man with a beard, because the good citizens there just don't trust people who question the Bible and demonstrate any particles of independent thought - the whole thing is a sort of stupidity arms race in which candidates have to prove that they're the one least suited to life in the real world.
I really do think Obama's doing his best, but it must be difficult to get a country into shape when it contains anything approaching this hailstorm of imbeciles.
And in case you're thinking I'm being a bit unfair about all this - which I'm not - here's an example of what political interviews are like in Britain. We don't debate evolution, because no rational design could have produced Boris Johnson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJG-7s1e5eM
American political/news laugher-atter Jon Stewart recently made fun of the UK debates because one of the more serious and weighty accusations discussed was the taking away of bus passes. By comparison, this advert instead focuses on the way that someone dares to suggest that evolution is really quite a plausible theory for how life might have come about and demonizes any hint at rationality. I love the question intonation - "evolution best explains the origin of life?" Yes, because a tale about the first of us being moulded from clay and having the essence of life blown up through his nostrils is much more plausible.
Perhaps the saddest part of it is that rather than sticking to what it would seem he actually believes, Bradley has now responded reassuring people that he does honestly think that the earth sprang into existence six thousand years ago and was engineered in about a week by a big man with a beard, because the good citizens there just don't trust people who question the Bible and demonstrate any particles of independent thought - the whole thing is a sort of stupidity arms race in which candidates have to prove that they're the one least suited to life in the real world.
I really do think Obama's doing his best, but it must be difficult to get a country into shape when it contains anything approaching this hailstorm of imbeciles.
And in case you're thinking I'm being a bit unfair about all this - which I'm not - here's an example of what political interviews are like in Britain. We don't debate evolution, because no rational design could have produced Boris Johnson.
