The hate is so strong they just can't help themselves
"I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you." [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
I'm nostalgic for the day when you had to scroll down to the Huffington Post comments section to find something so beyond the pale. Today this appears from an actual official H-Post blogger, a California radio host by the name of Charles Karel Bouley:
CNN has decided this week to be the Cancer News Network. Just as it was wrapping up its wall-to-wall coverage of Elizabeth Edwards and the return of her cancer, the ethics of staying in the campaign and then every pundit in the free world weighing in on the issue they have now moved on to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and the return of his cancer.
I admit my bias shows with these stories. I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot? I know, it's terrible. I admit it. I don't wish anyone harm, even Tony Snow. And I do hope he recovers or at least does what he feels is best and surrounds himself with friends and family for his journey. But in the back of my head there's Justin Timberlake's "What goes around, goes around, comes around, comes all the way back around, ya.."
So how do I explain Elizabeth? See, there's my bias. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. And no, I am NOT going to weigh in on their family decisions in regards to his campaign. My late husband, Andrew Howard, had AIDS. Neither he, nor I, sat around each day doting on his illness. When things got bad, we dealt, and then got back to life. We lived, we worked, did major market radio, all while he had AIDS. Working through these things, keeping life as normal as possible, is often the best path. I know from experience. And yes, he died. Not of AIDS, of malpractice, but I was on radio seven days later, on TV eight days later and haven't stopped since. You go on. John Edwards will. And hopefully, so will Elizabeth.
Now, I've been brutally honest above, and may have offended some, and for that I'm sorry. Again, I don't want Tony Snow to suffer and die of cancer. But like many this morning, I had the thought. Cancer is an insidious bastard, starting small, growing, turning your body against itself.
And if Cancer News Network wants to do some good, they'll talk about the real cancers in this country, and there are plenty; no, not the tumors growing in Elizabeth or the lesions in Tony Snow, but the terminal cancers festering in the political system, in the heartland of America, and on the news networks...
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