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Who?s listening to this All-American jerk?

Posted on 06/19/2003 6:40:52 AM PDT by left field

I was flipping around the radio dial one afternoon when I heard a familiar voice. The last time I heard that voice was to the accompaniment of a leering grin and towels snapping in a locker room.

"Gotcha!" the voice had been saying. Snap! "Gotcha good, didn't I, queer?" Snap! "That'll teach you to mess with Mike."

Mike was the terror of my high school locker room. Snapping towels at young boys' private parts. Getting freshmen in a headlock and rubbing their faces in his armpits. Calling all the boys "queers!" and "wimps!" He was a class act then. Now he's the voice of America.

". . . another thing these limousine liberals who are perverting America want you to believe," he was telling his talk radio audience.

I remember Mike. I remember the time he dropped trou at the senior prom. I remember when he told the principal he was a "*#(@#)$ queer." I remember teachers shaking their heads and wondering what would become of him.

". . . the only thing that'll save this country is to take all the liberal perverts and drop trou right in their faces. That'll teach 'em to mess with ol' Mike."

Mike was an ugly guy. Weird hair that seemed to grow on all visible parts of his body. Acne to make you cringe. We always wondered if that mossy growth on his teeth made him so angry. Or was it his Dad? We only saw the old man once at a football game. He kept standing and screaming at the ref while his son looked embarrassed. Someone behind me actually said, "Poor Mike," and the rest of us laughed. But we wondered what would become of this simmering pot of testosterone with bad teeth.

We couldn't imagine that anyone outside of Mike's small circle of fellow losers would listen to him. His friends were guys in tight jeans and white T-shirts, guys who stood on street corners flipping the bird at passing cars and laughing hysterically. They all thought Mike was "The Dude." Everyone else thought he was a) psycho; b) creepy; c) pathetic, or d) all of the above.

There was Mike again, giving a wedgie to another hapless freshman. There he was sneaking out of the girl's bathroom with a grin on his ravaged face. There he was revving his Camaro and screeching past some VW, shouting "queer!" When would he grow up? Thank God we'd never have to see him again after high school.

Now Mike has millions of listeners nationwide. People tune in to hear him rant about liberals and "wimps" and immigrants and "other scum that are dragging this great nation down." Patriotism works in strange ways.

"... listen to me, America. I'm right and you know it. We gotta get all the @#*$&$ "

Listening to Mike, it all came back. The infantile comments. The snapping towels. The rage in its purest form. Why would anyone pay attention to him? I wondered. If my high school knew he was an All-American jerk, couldn't everyone else tell? Or has America become a giant high school, a cauldron of angst and anger, interested only in clothes, music, this week's big game, and who's sleeping with whom. "Attention students! The Army recruiter will be in the cafeteria at 3 p.m."

Maybe we were wrong about Mike. Or maybe we were wrong in choosing to grow up. Mike's success - his book is a best seller! - suggests that the future belongs to the perpetual adolescent, the one who can still muster that locker-room rage and that simple, soothing worldview in which everyone is either for or against you, all wimps and queers and liberals except on Mike's street corner.

Now I no longer wonder what became of Mike. I wonder what will become of American High. Snap!


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To: AnAmericanMother
I love that pic!!
81 posted on 06/19/2003 7:44:25 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Japanese drain pipe is so tiny, please don't flush too much toilet papers.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
*Zavien slowly carves a slice of a tender Medium Rare cut of Prime Rib for AnAmericanMother*

Care for any Sauce?

82 posted on 06/19/2003 7:47:40 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (If the method to fix something is easy, there must be something wrong! Start a commitee!)
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To: 4mycountry
Thank you. That's my personal Viking Kitty.

He's a 14-pound Attack Siamese. ("We did do the helmet" (duh), it's authentic, from the Gothenberg hoard.) He really is a gentle lamb . . . unless you irritate him by not feeding him promptly, disturbing his rest, or coming into the ham shack with a camera while he is reclining on the shoulders of the operator (one of his favorite resting spots.)

83 posted on 06/19/2003 7:48:10 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Zavien Doombringer
Thanks! I prefer au jus, but Finn the Celtic-Viking Kitty would like a chiffonade of mushrooms if there's any handy.

(Yum! I'm making me hungry!)

84 posted on 06/19/2003 7:49:32 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
We have a cat but she's too *prissy* to be a Viking.

*hides head in shame*
85 posted on 06/19/2003 7:50:45 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Japanese drain pipe is so tiny, please don't flush too much toilet papers.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
I usually braise butter, throw in mushrooms, button type, then soak them in red wine, keep braising until a glaze appears then gently spoon/with glazed butter, on my Prime rib *smack*
86 posted on 06/19/2003 7:53:13 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (If the method to fix something is easy, there must be something wrong! Start a commitee!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

Her e you go! You'll have to fix them yourself, though.

87 posted on 06/19/2003 7:57:39 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Japanese drain pipe is so tiny, please don't flush too much toilet papers.)
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To: Zavien Doombringer
Stop it, you're making me reeeeeeaaaaallllly hungry!!
88 posted on 06/19/2003 7:58:43 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Japanese drain pipe is so tiny, please don't flush too much toilet papers.)
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To: 4mycountry
To add, a Caesar Salad with a mustard Dressing... Side of Asperagus with onion, and a Rice pilaf...Hmmmm,

Dinner anyone? My treat!

89 posted on 06/19/2003 8:01:39 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (If the method to fix something is easy, there must be something wrong! Start a commitee!)
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To: Zavien Doombringer
Keep your salad, I want the steak! That sounds awesome!

Your place, mine, or the VK diner?
90 posted on 06/19/2003 8:04:30 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Japanese drain pipe is so tiny, please don't flush too much toilet papers.)
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To: left field
"Mike was an ugly guy. Weird hair that seemed to grow on all visible parts of his body. Acne to make you cringe. We always wondered if that mossy growth on his teeth made him so angry."

As usual, instead of articulating or defending a point of view, start criticizing a person's looks.

91 posted on 06/19/2003 8:07:53 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: 4mycountry
I have a prissy one too.

We call her "The Princess". She walks into the kitchen and immediately demands, in her Siamese voice, that all and sundry drop what they're doing and serve Her Highness instanter. My son yesterday was making a sandwich, and the cat got up on the counter, took her paw, and STRUCK his hand away from the sandwich. "Out of Our way, scum! We are the Princess Royal!"

My third cat is a strange little Siamese who sleeps in the dog's crate. But whenever the dog noses her, she plops down and washes the spot thoroughly.

92 posted on 06/19/2003 8:11:25 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: 4mycountry
VK Diner, that way everyone can enjoy!
93 posted on 06/19/2003 8:13:15 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (If the method to fix something is easy, there must be something wrong! Start a commitee!)
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To: Zavien Doombringer
Here is a little traveling music for the departed/diseased DUer, who posted this pos.

Hit The Road Jack!

94 posted on 06/19/2003 8:17:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Evil Old White Devil Californian Grampa for big Al Sharpton and Nader in primaries!)
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To: AnAmericanMother
We call ours "Ms. Priss".
95 posted on 06/19/2003 8:25:17 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Japanese drain pipe is so tiny, please don't flush too much toilet papers.)
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To: left field
Hey big guy.

Its time to get over high school. There is a process in life, called growing up, that you obviously decided to ignore. Its time for you to investigate that possibility.
96 posted on 06/19/2003 10:07:34 AM PDT by Andy Roark
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To: dighton
I noticed he's in the "Lifestyles" section. Shouldn't that be "Alternate Lifestyles"?
97 posted on 06/19/2003 11:16:32 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: dighton
Here's the perp.

You're kidding-- "Bruthie King" wrote this too?

98 posted on 06/19/2003 3:35:55 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: Mid-MI Student
I am assuming "Mike" is Michael Savage.

I was thinking Michael Reagan, with the references to his father ....

What a pathetic piece though .. makes one just shiver to make sure there are no "left leaning" DNA on one's shoulder .... thank God I was born with Conservative genes!!! ;-)

99 posted on 06/20/2003 9:01:39 AM PDT by AgThorn (Go go Bush!!)
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To: Jonah Hex
I like this one:


100 posted on 06/20/2003 1:29:56 PM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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