On Endorsements
Quick note about newspapers endorsing candidates:
If I were to endorse anyone in Hoots, I’d get about 15 people outraged, 4,000 that wouldn’t care who I endorsed and the other 19 would give me a hard noogie and a frog on my arm. Maybe four more people might buy me a beer which would have nothing to do with the endorsement, but my sweet and charming smile.
They’d rather talk about anything but politics right now.
And, although this really isn’t safe for work, it still made me laugh this morning.
If you only KNEW how much I love you for posting that photo.
And I am still renowned and reviled for refusing to endorse political candidates when I was a big fat important editor. (I’m now just big fat unimportant me, bwa ha.) My position was that if my paper was doing the job it should be doing in informing the readership, they’d be able to make their own decisions in the voting booth without looking to see who we liked. Besides, we’re supposed to be impartial. One of the people who wanted me to endorse is still in elected office and stlll won’t talk to me. I am bereft. Ha.
I think you should put the “if you have a sh*tty attitude, we charge more” up over your desk when the candidates come in.
Still adoring you and sending good wishes …
I’m loving the onesie in the background that says “My mom puts out.”
I think the only people who care who the newspaper endorses are people who were going to vote for that dude anyway. I’ve never known anyone vote for a Democratic candidate when the local batch of extra-rough TP trumpets him/her.
although the yellow portion doesn’t count, I’m pondering posting this on my door as well as my design/work website – especially the “asking for a discount” part.
I have the strange urge to ask for a discount while expelling gas.
I saw a sign this weekend that said
“Unattended children will be given a double espresso, a free puppy and sent out to the parking lot to play in traffic until you’re ready to go.”
It was in an apple orchard out in the middle of nowhere. Awesome.
i’m with jane, as great as the signs are, “my mom puts out” makes the whole thing!
“Unattended children will be given a double espresso, a free puppy and sent out to the parking lot to play in traffic until you’re ready to go.”
NBC, in doing their local-color pieces before the recent debate, went out amongst the natives to a meat-and-three in Franklin where a sign reads “Unattended children will be deep-fried.”
I SO want to go there and take Baby Fishmouth with me. And when she commences her regularly scheduled meet-and-greet around the room (it’s like campaigning with Obama, y’all; I know why celebrities are hospitalized for exhaustion now, cause she’s a rockstar), I’m gonna read that sign to her.
BWA.