Not That Stupid: Erica Jong's Dear John Letter

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 2:56pm

Dear John McCain:

We're not that stupid. Sure it would be nice if the women of America believed that everyone with breasts and a vagina believed in equality. But it ain't so. Women have differing views -- just like men.

Some like beer; some like c****nay. And some prefer AA. Some like automatic weapons; some don't. Some think every pregnancy is sanctified; some don't. Some think presidents should be qualified for office; some don't care.

But to take the struggle for equal rights that has gone on for two centuries and embody it in the person of Sarah Palin is not just misleading but abusive. Charging rape victims for rape kits is a travesty of equal rights. Insisting that government impose your own views of abortion on others is anti-equality. Cutting funding for black teenage mothers is anti-feminist and racist. Lying to the electorate about your record is insolent. Do you think we're too stupid or indolent to check?

We have checked. You are lying and so is she. But you must think that a big lie repeated over and over becomes the truth. And it seems that many Americans are with you on that.

You are so good at the bold-faced lie that you even seem to believe it yourself. When Barbara Walters and Joy Behar accused you of lying on "The View," you claimed you weren't.

I guess your handlers have decided that after eight years of Cheney-Bush saying one thing and doing another, truth no longer has any meaning. Say it often enough and we'll believe anything -- like the good commercial-watchers we are. So, prep Sarah to sound like Hillary -- and we'll be fooled.

It remains to be seen how many will.

But one thing is clear. You have reached a new low in your regard for the public. You have blown your credibility. Usually politicians wait to be elected to do that.

It's fascinating to watch you and your party try to co-opt the idea of change, the idea of equal rights after eight years of being in total control and trashing the country for women, for workers, for taxpayers and for anyone who earns dollars.

Do you really think we're that stupid? Apparently you do.

Tax cuts for the rich have produced trickle-down unemployment. You want to try that again? We don't. The private sector has not policed itself. Failing banks and mortgage companies prove that. The deficit has swelled. Insurance rates for health care have swelled. Women are joining the ranks of the poor faster than ever.

Play it again, John?

As Sarah Palin said, lying about her lust for earmarks, "Thanks but no thanks."

Sincerely,
Erica Jong

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/not-that-stupid-erica-jon_b_126184.html

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:23pm

c****nay?

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:24pm

Chard*nnay, I suspect.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:26pm

It looks as though "****" was filtered out of the word C****nay.

Fascinatingly . . .

[Mistress Overdone]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:26pm

h@rd0n was filtered out.
Updated On: 9/19/08 at 03:26 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:27pm

Oh, weird! It was filtered out by BWW!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:29pm

"Oh, weird! It was filtered out by BWW!"

They have dirty minds in the BWW administration.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:29pm

C****nay.

Oh my God it was edited out by BWW.

How pathetic.

Updated On: 9/19/08 at 03:29 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:30pm

Was that a test, Roscoe?

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:31pm

It was definitely filtered out...I didn't edit anything.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:31pm

Yes, it was a test. It took out the offending H and the ARDONN and put in some asterisks.

Puhleeze.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:33pm

Getting back to Ms. Jong's letter, well, what can you say? Considering we're posting on a message board that censors objectionable combinations of letters in entirely innocuous words, maybe we are that stupid after all.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:38pm

Hmm.

How about cerectionnay? Does that get through? How about cstiffynnay?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:45pm

As ever, Reginald shows us the way.

[Mamie]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:53pm

Alfred Hitchcock

(When I posted his name under his picture in the "Angels" thread, BWW edited out the last syllable. They've improved.)

Updated On: 9/19/08 at 03:53 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:57pm

Thank god. If I had to type Hitchthrobbingmanhood every time I wanted to discuss "Vertigo," I'd be exhausted.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 3:58pm

So I guess****fighting is out?

Interesting. BWW edits c@ck fighting.

Updated On: 9/19/08 at 03:58 PM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 4:01pm

****cat
****willow
cocktail
penis
vagina
cunnilingus
sodomy

Censorship leads to such interesting Catch-22s, doesn't it?

Updated On: 9/19/08 at 04:01 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 4:42pm

Back to the topic: I LOVE Erica Jong.

And I love Newton Unfiltered Chard-onnay.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 4:46pm

And Pinot Noir. Which I believe is French for "Black C*ck."

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 5:18pm

another board I am on filtered out NighTWATchman.

Updated On: 9/19/08 at 05:18 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 5:20pm

Reggie you are so hilarious.

Anyway, I love Erica Jong as well.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 9/19/08 at 7:16pm

LMAO! Now THIS is the kind of election coverage I can get behind.

(let's see if BWW edits out possible double meanings)