Loud, Crass and Instantaneous (and Liberal, don't forget Gobsmackingly Liberal)
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. -- In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her eyes and realizes that her president is still George W. Bush. The sun has yet to rise and her family is asleep, but no matter; as soon as the realization kicks in, O'Connor, 37, is out of bed and heading toward her computer.
Out there, awaiting her building fury: the Angry Left, where O'Connor's reputation is as one of the angriest of all. "One long, sustained scream" is how she describes the writing she does for various Web logs, as she wonders what she should scream about this day.
She smokes a cigarette. Should it be about Bush, whom she considers "malevolent," a "sociopath" and "the Antichrist"? She smokes another cigarette. Should it be about Vice President Cheney, whom she thinks of as "Satan," or about Karl Rove, "the devil"? Should it be about the "evil" Republican Party, or the "weaselly, capitulating, self-aggrandizing, self-serving" Democrats, or the Catholic Church, for which she says "I have a special place in my heart . . . a burning, sizzling, putrescent place where the guilty suffer the tortures of the damned"?
Any Mary is just the SOUL of tolerance, with pithy sayings like: "Bush Must Be HIV Positive By Now (you can't [expletive] 500 million people and not get infected)." She even screams, yes screams, at her six year old son to get angry! ANGRY!
The front door opens and in comes her 6-year-old son, Terry, home from school, who starts batting around a blue balloon at the other end of the living room, batting it closer to her, closer, closer. She searches through her iTunes library until she finds one of her favorite downloads -- not music, but a speech by a character named Howard Beale in the movie "Network." She presses "play" and turns up the volume. "I want you to get mad!" Beale shouts at one point. "I want you to get mad!" she shouts along, startling Terry. "What?" he says, backing away with his balloon.
What's going to happen to her if Democrats get trounced in 2006? Or if a Republican wins the White House in 2008? My advice to her neighbors, "arm yourselves."
2 comments:
She looks like a real joy to live with. I bet her husband has left her or is planning to leave her.
Mastercard needs to run a "priceless" ad on that pic! The copy should read:
The reaction of a liberal to President Bush's re-election....PRICELESS!!
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