In a recent appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Roseanne Barr unintentionally proved the validity of Forrest Gump’s maxim, “stupid is as stupid does.”
She did so initially by accusing Sarah Palin of being “a traitor to this country.” This ridiculous statement caught my attention not because it had any foundation in facts, but because it was being made by Barr: a woman who made headlines in 1990 for mocking America by grabbing her crotch and spitting while singing the National Anthem for a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Cincinnati Reds.
Barr next accused Palin of being “a dupe” and an opportunist who’s capitalizing on the “anti-intellectualism” of Americans. And while there’s something inherently laughable about Barr speaking derisively of “anti-intellectualism,” it’s somewhat offensive that she doesn’t guard against throwing the word “dupe” around so recklessly. After all, she is the dupe who once donned a Nazi uniform and wore it in pictures that showed her taking “burnt Jew cookies” out of an oven.
Yet as stupid as all these things were, perhaps Barr’s most stupid statement was her assertion that Dick Cheney has never “[earned] one damn thing. [The] guy’s never worked an honest day in his life.” Where has she been for the last 10 years? A period of time in which Cheney was relentlessly criticized for his ties to Big Oil, via his past working relationship with Halliburton. To this day, Cheney continues to be vilified for his work with that company.
Thus while Barr tried to paint Cheney as elitist and out of touch, the truth is Halliburton has been a convenient political noose that real elites tighten around Cheney’s neck every chance they get. By “real elites” I mean people who’ve never had to work a day in their lives because they either married wealthy women or were born into families with enormous wealth: people like Senator John Kerry or the late Ted Kennedy. (Such elites have been so successful at tying Cheney to Big Oil that even the all knowing, all seeing Robert Redford was fooled into blaming him for the April 2010 Gulf Oil Spill.)
That Cheney was (and is) one of the most hardworking, decent human beings to ever hold the office of Vice President is lost on Roseanne because she is swallowed up in a world of self-loathing and bitterness, much akin to Cher and Janeane Garofalo. And for this same reason, she can only look on Palin with contempt and spew vitriol toward her because the former Governor dares to be comfortable in her own skin.
Barr is so hate-filled and so non-intellectually stimulating that I may even owe Garofalo an apology for mentioning her in this post (and that’s saying a lot).
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