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"I keep hearing that she’s ”like us.” There’s this idea that people who hunt and have ”good” values..."

By Chuck Ansbacher

Thursday September 25, 2008

“I keep hearing that she’s ”like us.” There’s this idea that people who hunt and have ”good” values are somehow this mythological American; I don’t know who ”this” person is, I’ve never met them. She is no more typical ”us” than I am, than Obama is, than McCain is, than Mr. T is. If there is something quintessentially or authentically American about her, I sort of feel like, you know what? You ”good values people” have had the country for eight years, and done an unbelievably shitty job. Let’s find some bad values people and give them a shot, maybe they’ll have a better take on it.”

- Jon Stewart, on Sarah Palin (via julyshewillfly:robot-heart)