So Republican Senator Jeff Flake's 15-year-old son tweets hate, which forces Daddy to issue abject apologies and indicate that idiot son also apologizes, and so on, and so forth.
The first thing we cats want to know is, Who names their son "Tanner"? But, anyway.
We've seen a bunch of political writers bending over backward to say, oh, gosh, the children of politicians are usually off-limits, and we're so sorry to be bringing this up, and of course you know this is not Senator Flake's or Mrs. Senator Flake's fault.
We cats respectfully disagree on both points. The little Tanner twit took to what we old fogies used to call the airwaves, and posted his racist and homophobic rants for all the world to see. Therefore, he is what Karl Rove would call fair game. Also, every time we've read about young people straying in life, invariably we're told, "Look no farther than the parents." So there.
But most of all, our heads are spinning at what the reaction would have been had Sasha or Malia Obama tweeted something about obnoxious about whites, straights or Christians. The whackjobs over at Free Republic would be screaming for impeachment and the death penalty. No kidding: The right-wing firestorm would make Colorado's current scourge look like a single lonely candle on a winter's night.
Of course, it would never happen. Because Sasha and Malia are head and shoulders above the little Flake bigot. But we cats HISS nevertheless.
2 comments:
Allow me to speculate on the Flake's choice of the name Tanner for their son. During the days before emancipation, slaves who disobeyed were tanned, another word for being whipped or flogged with a cord, strap or rope. Therefore a tanner is probably someone the Flakes respect and admire and, after all, they couldn't call their son Whip.
Great idea, but we also love the idea of a son named "Whip." It would go nicely with the names of his brothers, Dip, Bip, Chip and Zip.
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