Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Rudeness, and possible reasons therefore

Perfidy Attacks

In a Huffington Post blog entry (via the last item in today’s WSJ Best of the Web, after a bit of work, because BOTW referred to it, in error, I’m certain, as the “Puffington Host"), we find this dispatch from the cultural battleground, describing an encounter at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner:

In his attempt to dismiss us, Mr. Rove turned to head toward his table, but as soon as he did so, Sheryl reached out to touch his arm. Karl swung around and spat, “Don’t touch me.” How hardened and removed from reality must a person be to refuse to be touched by Sheryl Crow? Unfazed, Sheryl abruptly responded, “You can’t speak to us like that, you work for us.” Karl then quipped, “I don’t work for you, I work for the American people.” To which Sheryl promptly reminded him, “We are the American people.”

While I don’t doubt for a second that Karl Rove is capable of random rudeness to songstresses and Hollywood types who make fake documentaries, I figured there had to be a better reason, and that James Taranto, of Opinion Journal, was too polite to tell the rest of the story.  It turns out that there’s an excellent chance Rove just doesn’t know where Sheryl Crow’s hand had recently been.

The answer was found in another entry at the Huffington Post site, Sheryl Crow’s wisdom on how to help stop the ravages of our future global warming overlords.  This excerpt summarizes both her deep, deep thinking on the matter and the reason for Rove’s apprehension at her attempted laying on of hands:

I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming.

Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating. One of my favorites is in the area of forest conservation which we heavily rely on for oxygen. I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. When presenting this idea to my younger brother, whose judgment I trust implicitly, he proposed taking it one step further. I believe his quote was, “how bout just washing the one square out.”

See also (first four found via links from Huffington Post):

[Wik] Possibly related, regarding Sheryl Crow: She’s well intended, and I don’t mean this with any disrespect, but she’s dumber than a road lizard.


Posted by Patton on 04/24/07 at 01:05 AM
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