Am I the only one who giggled about that when I read it in the news? It was, of course, the first thing that popped into my head when I read the headline yesterday morning. Such is the life of the woman raised by cable television. I later tried to find the video, came across the transcript, and FINALLY found the video. I sent it to a few people, including my roomie, who, as I predicted, quite enjoyed it. When I got home, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams was on, and who do you think they pick to do the retrospective on Gerald Ford? Why, Tom Brokaw, of course. We sat watching and hoping...just hoping that he would say "Gerald Ford, dead today at the senseless age of 93," but no such luck.
Ok, so I don't know HTML well enough to make it look pretty yet, but here's the link.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-89770458144460734&q=SNL+Gerald+Ford
I was clever enough to remember it myself, but apparently not clever enough to be the first person to post it on Fark.com, sometime in the middle of the night before his death was announced.
So now that I've run that one into the ground...
Has there always been some unwritten rule that old people get to say whatever it is that they want, even if it's completely ignorant and bigoted? Do we let them get away with it because they're on death's door? Or is it to feign "respect for elders"? I was recently told by a coworker, who is easily in his sixties, that I looked better as a brunette. I also sit next to another woman who is in her late sixties, who pretty much says whatever she wants, including things like, "What an ugly couple". She's been at the company for many more years than I, so I just smile and nod.
I've also been present at a meal where my grandmother tried to explain the proper marital arrangement by comparing it to "a chief and an indian"...and yes, we were in public. It was lovely. When I explained how ridiculous this was to Connie, she, of course, didn't get it, because that is how she was raised. For fuck's sake.
No worries about the old guy though. Punk. I got my revenge when I announced in his presence that Rommy, governor of Massachusetts, was a fascist, because of his plans to run his presidential campaign including a national ban on gay marriage. I noticed his face contort and picked up the "old-school conservative" vibe pretty fast. Hehe.
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