Oklahoma starts sharing the crazy
I always like to say that 50% of the country's crazy belongs to Texas. Oklahoma is making its contribution this year, however, with a Senate candidate who thinks the government has put a chip in her head.
At least she's trying to do something about it. I'm sure that chip-removal is part of the Senate's generous health-care plan.
posted by Amanda Marcotte at
7.9.04
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I used to watch the C-SPAN morning call-in show, whatever it's called, a few years back. And they always identified where the caller was from, before they put them on the air.
I learned, via some kind of Skinner/Pavlov conditioning thing, to cringe in advance of hearing the callers, when the callers were identified as being from North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma.
I know some perfectly nice people in TX and NC, and I've had bad experiences with people in, or from, lots of other states, so I feel bad for saying this. But there's something special about the kinds of crazy you find in those four. Or maybe something about those four states leads the crazies to think they have something to contribute to political discussions, whereas in other parts of the country they don't. I dunno.
Best of luck to the lady, though. We need someone colorful in Congress now that Jim Traficant's gone.
9/08/2004
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