Today I had lunch with my cousin for her birthday. She made me drive to the suburbs to go to TGI Fridays. Trust me, you're not missing anything. Gross food. But free dessert. The point is, her husband is a right wing Republican, mainly because they like country music and have a camper. And he lives in a suburb/small town where all the streets start with "K." Kreepy!
She was telling me how she's sick of her husband turning the channel to Fox News every morning while getting ready for work and how she doesn't really think it's *fair and balanced.* So, I gently offered her the suggestion of watching MSNBC. It's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Florida congressman. But Mika and Harold Ford and Willie provide some liberal slant and Pat Buchanan is there to hang with Joe. It really is quite balanced. Not like my lover Keith Olberman. But a good morning politics show, indisputably.
And to my suggestion, my cousin asked if her husband would think it was just another "crazy Communist Kristina" idea. It's weird how your cousins in suburbia see you. How somehow living within city limits, voting Democrat, believing in civil rights for all people, attending/legal observing a protest here and there, and adhering to the Bill of Rights somehow makes one a radical?
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I know! Part of the reason I can't embrace even "liberal" or "progressive"... since I am pretty sure I think what mainstream America SHOULD think. Instead they think they should let God decide how many kids they have or, in the alternative, just submit to their husbands and have however many he wants. Not very Christlike, if you ask me. And I am an expert.
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