Fey again.
I have had a little blowback from my recent post on Tina Fey, so I watched 30 Rock earlier this evening. Eh. But what a melon on that Alec Baldwin. What’s NBC’s steroids policy?
Friday, October 31, 2008
Liddy Dole goes there.
Elizabeth Dole, in serious jeopardy of losing her Senate seat in North Carolina, is airing a remarkably vile and dishonest ad about her opponent, Democratic State Senator Kay Hagan. In brief, the ad accuses Hagan of being an atheist, or of being beholden to atheists, or of being shamefully sympathetic to atheism (you decide). But the falsity of the ad’s insinuated charge, by our lights here at UniBrow, is considerably the lesser of its evils. The ground of the whole filthy enterprise is the primitive slander that atheism is a non-negotiable disqualification for office, and I’m sorry to say that Hagan, in her otherwise very effective response, conspires with Dole in reinforcing it. That she is not, in fact, an atheist but a Christian who has taught Sunday school Hagan has every right to proclaim, but it would have been nice–though I know it’s far too much to ask in the backwards early 21st century–if she had followed it up with a plug for the equal citizenship of non-believers, the prohibition against religious tests for public office–you know, all that Enlightenment eyewash. Of course if I worked for Hagan I would never advise her to do this, because that particular tack would be a sure loser nearly anywhere in these United States and most definitely in North Carolina. Even I know that. I’m just bitching.
