Allow me to define my terms:
Ignorance - knowing a fact yet stubbornly refusing to acknowledge it, sometimes to the point where you say the opposite of what you know to be true.
Rudeness - bad manners. If you don't know what "manners" are, you're not ready to read this post. Come back after you have m-w.com'd "manners".
Ignorance and rudeness are now commonplace. Flailin' Palin's use of the phrase 'death panels' is an excellent example of ignorance. Joe "I'm Running for Governor of South Carolina, You Wait and See!" Wilson's shout-out of "You lie!" during the President's address is an excellent example of rudeness. Clearly my winky-girl Sarah can't read. We've known that for a while, though, haven't we? And Joe is ... well ... a-standin' up fer Amurikens, right? Right? Or did he have a flashback to 3rd grade when Sue Whitford told the teacher he copied off her spelling test? Hmmm...
In the past, ignorance and rudeness earned ostracism. Now, they earn campaign contributions (I can't wait for Flailin' Pa1in to run for something besides the bathroom!) and publicity. Seriously? Can't we do better than this?
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