Supposedly, this is a post-ironic world. Irony was killed by a song full of coincidences, I’m told.
I’m here to tell you this is not true. Irony remains with us.
Read this story about a woman arrested for a drunk driving one-car accident on her way to Bible study.
The last paragraph is important because it makes the irony all the more poignant.
You couldn’t get away with such awesomeness in a fiction story, but real life is full of surprises.
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P.S. I almost forgot. This isn’t irony, but it’s in that territory. I was over on a blog called TalkLeft, which is essentially a Hillary website these days. Anyway, they are talking about how unfair it is that Sen. Clinton’s story about a woman and her unborn baby both died because they were without health insurance and couldn’t pony up $100 for a hospital that spurned her. Not exactly the truth exactly the way Sen. Clinton told the story, but not so far off, either, it’s just more complicated than that. Anyways, all these Hillary supporters are talking about how unfairly the NY Sen. is treated in comparison to Sen. Obama and they come up with the theory that it’s the fault of the media, just like what the media did to Al Gore and Kerry and how useless the media was in the runup to the war. I’m pretty confused at this point. It’s the Left Wing media that’s hard on Hillary but it was the Right Wing media that was hard on Gore and Kerry and President and First Lady Clinton. But it’s the Left Wing Media because it’s the bloggers at Talking Points Memo (Josh Marshall) and Daily Kos (Markos Moulatis) and … Matthews and Olbermann and Pat Buchanan (?) … and … watch this YouTube video called Mad as Hell, it’s gone viral and it’s all about how unfair they are being to Hillary, who is only fighting for all of us true and real Democrats who will vote for McCain before Obama.
I’m glad I’m not a blind partisan or anything.
laocoon
Is it McCaining with you?
That’s the only way you’d get me to Bible study.
As for the ‘Mad As Hell’ video – if it had stuck to Chris Matthews, Bill Kristol, Joe Scarborough and the like, it would have been on the money. But to include Keith Olbermann’s scrupulously non-sexist ‘Special Comment’ tends to put the whole video in the realm of ‘any criticism of Clinton is sexist.’
The thing that disturbs me most about the Clinton campaign is the sense of entitlement it seems to have – as if Clinton is ‘owed’ the presidency.
I saw a blog somewhere this week discussing the Clinton campaign and Bush’s still-plummeting approval ratings and the general wreck of the economy. The writer suggested that this is the year Democrats finally realize why Repuiblicans hated the Clintons and Republicans finally realize why Democrats always hated Bush.
Flibbertigibbit linked to this article
http://nymag.com/news/imperialcity/45783/
yesterday. Could that be the one that says Dems now know why Repugs hated Clinton and Rethugs now know why Dems hate Bush?
we bloggers are SO incestuous!
Yep. That’s the one.
It now says the video is “no longer available.”
?
A Left Wing conspiracy?
bah! must’ve been really good…as it’s (the video) “no longer available”
It was a McCain Girls cover of “Here Comes the Rain (McCain) Again.”
Maybe Annie Lennox did us all a favor and complained to YouTube.
It wasn’t as good as the first one, except for the part where the little floating McCain cutout appears to be peeking though the lead singer’s bedroom window. That was suitable creepy.