The American election
19 October 2004 @ 22:49 in Life
Radio 4 is currently airing some vox pop type affair
on the elections which features what it describes as
'quintessentially small-town Americans' in Oregon.
Terrifyingly, one woman has just criticised Bush's
handling of the war in Eye-rak, describing it
as not harsh enough. The dialogue ran like this, as
accurately as I can remember:
Hick*: I'd have been in there on 9/14; blasted them all off the face of the Earth. They declared war on us first!
BBC reporter: They didn't declare war on anyone; that was Al-Qaeda.
Hick: [genuinely uncaring] I don't care. They're from around there.
Little more needs said. The only possible postscript is to point those who have not yet seen it to the Guardian's recent experiment.
* She wasn't really a hick; she sounded otherwise fairly intelligent. This might well be the most worrying part.
Hick*: I'd have been in there on 9/14; blasted them all off the face of the Earth. They declared war on us first!
BBC reporter: They didn't declare war on anyone; that was Al-Qaeda.
Hick: [genuinely uncaring] I don't care. They're from around there.
Little more needs said. The only possible postscript is to point those who have not yet seen it to the Guardian's recent experiment.
* She wasn't really a hick; she sounded otherwise fairly intelligent. This might well be the most worrying part.
