Ya know, don’t get me wrong, I normally don’t mind listening to Diane Rehm on my way to work, considering my commute is relatively short and I can endure her usually rather boring topics of conversation and mummy vocals. But damn, every so often I just get so irritated by the way she condescends to some guests she doesn’t agree with, interrupts people, interviews whimsical authors of plays about traveling wicker salesmen (probably), and more recently – well since the ’08 campaign began at least – her constant fellating of Barack Obama. It’s like every single topic, sentence, thought, syllable is directly filtered through some sort of Obama-lens – “How can I relate this discussion about three bean chili to Barack Obama?”
This phenomenon perfectly illustrated itself the other day. I was driving to lunch, listening to her interview a guy about a book he wrote on 40 years of Sesame Street. I said, verbatim, “Awesome! Sesame Street! Finally a topic that isn’t Barack Obama!” I reminisced about some of my favorite Sesame Street bits (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, 11 12!) and generally enjoyed hearing about the good old days of children’s programming, and then she went right ahead and did it: tied it all together with Barack Obama (49:00).
What was Sesame Street’s role, do you believe, in preparing Americans to elect Barack Obama?
Granted the guy responded by saying (paraphrased) “Well it may have been the first time children saw a neighborhood of tolerance with blacks, latinos etc. living together… we really can’t calculate the effect something like that has.” Which is a point, I guess, sort of, well not really I don’t think Sesame Street had anything to do with it AT ALL DIANE GOOD GOD!!
I mean I voted for the guy, I’m excited to see what he’s gonna do, but quit jerking him off so much! GAW!