I don't know what is more sad, that these words were even uttered, or that someone listened. Perhaps it's more sad that I'm even bothering to relay them to you? Bottom line--it's a sad situation all around.
Today on Glenn Beck's radio show (hat tip to my fiancee for letting me know, as she heard it in her car) he took on the topic of Specter's defection to the Democratic Party. So far so good. Then, he started talking about chicken...
Let me describe it as this. I believe our system has become Kentucky Fried Chicken and Popeye's.
...go on....
Now, I personally like Popeye's. I like the service at Kentucky Fried Chicken. So there are times that I can't take the people just throwing the food at me and yelling at me. So I'm going to go to Kentucky Fried Chicken. But there are other times that I'm like, I don't like the chicken as much. It's better chicken at Popeye's.
OK....we get it, you eat a lot of fast food...but what does that have to do with anything?....
And this is the argument that we have. We have two choices between Kentucky Fried Chicken and Popeye's. What a lot of Americans want is a hamburger.
Hmm...not sure where you are going still...
Kentucky Fried Chicken, if you will, took the hamburger choice away. They started calling themselves Kentucky Fried Hamburgers and so now people are saying, you want a hamburger? Well, you should be over here having chicken. No, no, no, you're eating chicken, too. "No, I'm not. I'm eating a hamburger, and we make the best hamburgers ever." And then pretty soon Popeye says, "We're making hamburgers as well." No, that's chicken, too. That's just called a chicken tender. "Nope, it's a hamburger and ours is flame broiled." No, it's not. You put it in oil. This is clearly fried. "No, that's Kentucky Fried Chicken." No. Neither of you guys are serving hamburgers! I just want a hamburger, please. This is what's happening.
So....Kentucky Fried Chicken and Popeyes are serving chicken tenders and calling them hamburgers and that's what's happening?...Wait no, I have questions before you contin----
We're arguing about chicken places. When the real moment of revelation is when America steps back and goes, "Wait a minute. My gosh, it is chicken. Soylent Green! It's chicken! As soon as somebody stands at the counter and says, "Where's the beef!" Then we'll be able to have an honest conversation in America about Arlen Specter. But you can't have an honest conversation about Arlen Specter because he is the quintessential example of chicken in both houses. He was serving people chicken who wanted steak, but they were convinced that it was either chicken or that, you don't really want steak. I mean, we can't we may not even eat. If we don't take this chicken, we may not ever eat. No, really, there is another choice. We can stop by the hamburger store on the way. "No, no, only chicken. We must have this chicken and pretend that it's beef." I don't think so. That's a waste of your food choice. You get to choose three times a day. "Chicken. Chicken and pretend that it's beef."
Dude...I give up...you are bat-shit crazy
