I’d put this in an Open Thread if there were one up now. Since I don’t see one, I apologize for the brief note, but just had to share this. It’s too good to keep to myself. Since my spouse and I retired to southern Virginia, we get political ads on TV that are pro-Trump. We get them all the time. We also use closed captioning on the TV because Certain shows — but never ads, of course — are at a volume we can’t hear well.
So I was listening to Chris Matthews on MSNBC when a political ad came on. The ad centered on a woman who identified herself as a former member of the Obama administration, and said she thinks Judge Gorsuch is wonderful and we should all support him too. There was no mention of any specific policy, just a personal recommendation about Gorsuch’s character.
Then I noticed the closed captioning. It read “Tell them to protect Medicare”. What the heck?!?! The caption didn’t change. The voice over was talking about how fair Gorsuch was and what great judgment he has. But the caption read only “Tell them to protect Medicare”. That was the sole caption through out the entire commercial.
This was hilarious. Do we have a subversive caption writer? A dedicated Democrat who has gone rogue? I pictured a woman sitting at her computer wearing a pink hat with ears.
Whoever it was, I now have a new hero.