‘As a government employee, I'm granted healthcare and I see
first hand that for one to have healthcare, you need to have jobs.’
Note how she pretends a superior position: …I see first hand… Note how the logic of
her statement amounts to: I have a job
and I have healthcare, therefore it must be right that only people with jobs
should be entitled to healthcare.
I wonder whether Ms McCullough knows what a non sequitur is.
Laurel and Hardy did, which is why they used them occasionally in their
scripts. Only they were smart guys, and they knew that a non sequitur is a
joke. Ms McCullough, on the other hand, appears fairly bereft of both
intelligence and a sense of humour, which means that on this occasion, she’s the joke. It also makes a joke of
anybody else – irrespective of their political or social leanings, and
irrespective of how they view the ‘right or privilege’ question – who cannot
see the back-to-front absurdity of the lady’s statement.
I gather the term ‘bimbo’ has now entered the Handbook of
Political Correctness as a forbidden word, and maybe rightly so given its
undoubtedly sexist association. Ms McCullough just ripped it out to wear as a
sash of pride around her moderately attractive body. Thank heaven she isn’t
blonde.
Should I go on to take issue with a small matter of
incorrect English in her statement? Nope. Clumsy English among public figures
has become de rigueur ever since
Trump slithered into the White House by mistake. Ms McCullough’s use of the
language is relatively decent by comparison with what has sadly become the
norm.
And should I go on to talk about the question of ‘Beauty Pageants
and How They Relate to the Definition of Beauty’? Nope. Can’t be bothered.
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