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So Mitt Romney used to strap his dog to the roof on family car trips, and doesn’t like it that some people (by which he means liberals) find this a terrible thing to subject a dog to. His response:
“Well at least I don’t eat dogs unlike some presidents named Obama that I could mention.”
(BTW, is it just me, or does Romney’s default response to criticism of him or the GOP seem to be, “Oh that’s nothing, the Democrats are way worse than we are”?)
So now we have this whole meme about who’s the bigger dog-hater: Romney (puts his dog in a box on top of a vehicle doing 75mph on the Interstate for 12 hours until it shits itself) or Obama (EATS DOGS).
It’s a stupid argument, for my money. I’m probably not the first person to point this out, but Mitt (and the anti-Obama constituency) is comparing something Obama did as a kid eating what was served to him for a meal in a foreign Third World country to something Mitt did as a grown man who knew what he was doing, and who not only has defended it, but doesn’t even seem to understand why it might bother people.
But then that’s not really the point, I know. The point is that OBAMA ATE A DOG and people who already hate him will keep saying that for the rest of their lives as though Obama eats dogs all the time.
To be fair, the Romney Roof-Dog meme serves a similar purpose for Democrats. As scandals go, it’s bush-league stuff. It’s not even new. Neither is the Obama dog-eating revelation, which has been publicly available even longer than the Romney story.
Still, the fact that both stories have legs says a lot about why America elects the people it does.
FUN FACT: Eating dog meat isn’t that common a practice in Indonesia, mainly because the vast majority of the population is Muslim. And Islam doesn’t allow you to eat dogs.
So in theory, people who think Obama is Muslim and believe the Obama Eats Dogs memes have to choose one meme or the other.
In practice, given how little the same people seem to know about actual Islam, the cognitive dissonance is probably not an issue for them.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have never eaten dog meat. I mention that because when people learn I live in Hong Kong, I get a lot of jokes about that, even though no restaurant in Hong Kong offers dog on the menu.
Dog eat dog,
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“Well at least I don’t eat dogs unlike some presidents named Obama that I could mention.”
(BTW, is it just me, or does Romney’s default response to criticism of him or the GOP seem to be, “Oh that’s nothing, the Democrats are way worse than we are”?)
So now we have this whole meme about who’s the bigger dog-hater: Romney (puts his dog in a box on top of a vehicle doing 75mph on the Interstate for 12 hours until it shits itself) or Obama (EATS DOGS).
It’s a stupid argument, for my money. I’m probably not the first person to point this out, but Mitt (and the anti-Obama constituency) is comparing something Obama did as a kid eating what was served to him for a meal in a foreign Third World country to something Mitt did as a grown man who knew what he was doing, and who not only has defended it, but doesn’t even seem to understand why it might bother people.
But then that’s not really the point, I know. The point is that OBAMA ATE A DOG and people who already hate him will keep saying that for the rest of their lives as though Obama eats dogs all the time.
To be fair, the Romney Roof-Dog meme serves a similar purpose for Democrats. As scandals go, it’s bush-league stuff. It’s not even new. Neither is the Obama dog-eating revelation, which has been publicly available even longer than the Romney story.
Still, the fact that both stories have legs says a lot about why America elects the people it does.
FUN FACT: Eating dog meat isn’t that common a practice in Indonesia, mainly because the vast majority of the population is Muslim. And Islam doesn’t allow you to eat dogs.
So in theory, people who think Obama is Muslim and believe the Obama Eats Dogs memes have to choose one meme or the other.
In practice, given how little the same people seem to know about actual Islam, the cognitive dissonance is probably not an issue for them.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have never eaten dog meat. I mention that because when people learn I live in Hong Kong, I get a lot of jokes about that, even though no restaurant in Hong Kong offers dog on the menu.
Dog eat dog,
This is dF
