As the only atheist Democrat in my five-sibling very Catholic Republican family, I get a good portion of “faith-based” conservative bilge and birther items email forwarded to me. 'Not sure why, I don't send any their way. But that's OK. What I don't understand is the tendency for that mindset to mindlessly forward photos of Obama, and Mrs. Obama, doing things improperly. Today it was the “Mr. and Mrs. Clueless” photo, showing the Obamas standing outside the White House, ostensibly listening to the national anthem, with their hand over their hearts. Well, in this photoshopped version, they have their LEFT hands over their right lung, basically. For those of you who missed basic military training, that's not how it is done.
Hence the headline “Mr. and Mrs. Clueless”.
There are some clues, but I find that my senders ignore them always. Michelle has her hair parted on the opposite side from that of the photo that's taped to our fridge. And there's something about wedding rings on fingers not used when I married in the Immaculate Conception Church, back in the Triassic eon.
Are you similarly afflicted? Are we Democrats also sending poorly photoshopped images of Romney, Ryan et al to our Republican brethren? Or is this an ideological trait that follows the conservative bent?
I politely point out, in email “reply all”, that perhaps one should insert the headline into a Google search, just to check authenticity, before sending this out to the entire conservative DNA spectrum. And I have never gotten a reply.
I have to admit it is entertaining, in a cretinous fashion. I'm glad the last family reunion I will attend was a year ago.
Are you similarly afflicted? Are we Democrats also sending poorly flipped and flopped images of Romney, Ryan et al to our Republican brethren? Or is this an ideological trait that follows the conservative bent?
What's your reply when you receive these things?
Hence the headline “Mr. and Mrs. Clueless”.
There are some clues, but I find that my senders ignore them always. Michelle has her hair parted on the opposite side from that of the photo that's taped to our fridge. And there's something about wedding rings on fingers not used when I married in the Immaculate Conception Church, back in the Triassic eon.
Are you similarly afflicted? Are we Democrats also sending poorly photoshopped images of Romney, Ryan et al to our Republican brethren? Or is this an ideological trait that follows the conservative bent?
I politely point out, in email “reply all”, that perhaps one should insert the headline into a Google search, just to check authenticity, before sending this out to the entire conservative DNA spectrum. And I have never gotten a reply.
I have to admit it is entertaining, in a cretinous fashion. I'm glad the last family reunion I will attend was a year ago.
Are you similarly afflicted? Are we Democrats also sending poorly flipped and flopped images of Romney, Ryan et al to our Republican brethren? Or is this an ideological trait that follows the conservative bent?
What's your reply when you receive these things?