Received opinion
They hated Lincoln, they mocked Van Gogh, they hooted Dylan at Newport, and kicked Elvis off the Grand Ole Opry. They crucified Jesus, and made the entire African-American people sit in the back of the bus. They rioted at the premiere of “Le Sacre du Printemps,” and put Chuck Berry in jail for violating the Mann Act. They remaindered “Moby Dick,” spat at Jackie Robinson, and forced Socrates to swallow poison. They kicked Edgar Allen Poe out of West Point, called U.S. Grant a drunk, and took Whistler to court for “flinging a pot of paint in the face of the public.” They handed over their Jews to the Gestapo, painted over the Stuart Davis mural at Newark Airport and the Diego Rivera mural at Rockefeller Center, and banned Marion Anderson from singing at the D.A.R. Hall. They shot cannons at the Parthenon, tore down Penn Station, and exterminated the Indians.
At the same time, they made “American Idol” the biggest hit on television, welcomed Fidel Castro to the United Nations, allowed Hitler to occupy the Sudetenland, cancelled “Star Trek,” bought 6 billion hamburgers at McDonalds, elected Richard Nixon president twice (once by an enormous landslide), entered World War One cheering and singing, made Thomas Kinkade the most popular painter in history, Stephen King the popular writer in history, and Islam the world’s fastest growing religion.
I don’t think he’s a very good president, but anyone the masses hate this much must be good. received opinion sucks. I’m voting for Bush.
posted by Faze at 10:48 AM PST on July 3
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