John McCain gave his acceptance speech last night so you, dear reader, probably think that i`m gonna talk about that? uhm...no! I`m gonna clean out the closet. Sharply noticed friend! That is a saying. It means something like getting rid of your secrets, coming clean, cleaning house... Sayings often vary per country. Here in Holland we have the saying 'oude koeien uit de sloot halen.' No, don`t try to pronounce that. Roughly translated it would be something like dragging old cows from the ditch, or better yet: bringing up old sh*t.
I don't know what it's like in the east, but here in the west it almost seems to happen on a daily basis when you turn on the news, right? Or am I going mad? Prime example once again: the presidential elections in America. A well known magazine depicted presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife as terrorists. he wore a turban, she had an afro, a machinegun on her back. That was something the networks loved to show over and over.
My favorite - which I mentioned earlier: the fist bump. Senator Obama stopped shaking hands with his wife and colleagues in public. Instead of that they bumped fists. You know: two people make a fist and gently bumping them into each other. The major networks thought it was very interesting and the tapes looped over, and over and over...
And it was just a fist bump. Mrs Obama said the young people on their campaign team did it all the time so they adopted it. Sound harmless right? Not according to a certain anchor who posed the question if it was a 'terrorist greeting'. WhoaWhoaWhoaWhoa! People! I think we're getting carries away here. I know you people have to report on all the things that happen in these campaigns. Bringing us the facts, you guys report, we decide, telling us like it is...
But how come that this particular journalist posed the question that it was - here we go again - a 'terrorist greeting'? Beats me! Come on, it is just what it is. A fistbump. No more no less.
But every medal has two sides. There are two sides to every story. A certain writer wrote a biography on Sen. McCain's life in which he exposed that the good man had an argument with his wife once. He got mad and...what did he do next? Did he hit her? No. Did he kill her? No. He called her a c*nt. I heard this is one of the worst things that you can say to an American woman but still. So once again the the tapes looped over, and over and over.....
REALITY CHECK!
Alright, calling your wife a c*nt is not the most polite thing you can do. I admit that. But be real! Every couple get's in an argument from time to time. The perfect marriage probably doesn`t even exist. Relationships and marriages have ups and downs and many couples deal with it. (Others don`t: they break up but that`s not the point here.) Point is that Sen McCain and his wife dealt with the issue because, if you haven`t noticed, thei`re still together...and married!
Perhaps this tendency to magnify such things comes forth from the urge to create sensationalism or something else but matter of the fact is that it`s getting pretty boring. SO PLEASE: spare me the sensationalistic details and just bring me the news. .
Perhaps you should ignore this completely....it seems i`ve started to bring up old sh*t too... ;)
