Sympathy for the devil
Posted By Ing on March 9, 2008
Found this great little article online today…
Sympathy for the Devil: Whew! That was close.
A friend of mine wrote it for “The Skinny,” an opinion column in the Provo, UT, Daily Herald that features a rotating slate of writers.
It took me so long to find the article that it’s now a little out of date, as it’s about Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, which, for better or worse, is now defunct. I’m reminded of the old “Born-on Date” campaign Budweiser used to have. Bad idea for beer – I don’t care when it was born, I just want to know it’s not stale before I open it – but not necessarily a bad thing for satire.
This article may have a born-on date, but the goodness in it isn’t likely to expire before you pop it open.
(Psst…hey! Pop it open now! Then after you’ve downed your born-on dated satire, you can chase it with a shot of Blog Ing.)
The inspiration behind my friend’s installment of “The Skinny” is a website owned by a guy named Bill Keller, who has his own little media empire (websites, daily devotional emails, a TV show, and a radio show), and would have it that his activism played a big part in ousting Romney from the presidential race.
My favorite example of Keller’s trademark subtlety is the banner at the top of his anti-Romney website:
The purpose of this website is to educate the public on the Mormon cult. It is in no way meant to tell people who to, or who not to vote for.
I’m not sure which is more effective: the picture of Mitt Romney or the picture of the devil mask. Both very scary. (But wait…don’t forget the small print.)
Still, after the snowy winter we’ve had, I’m thinking those flames in Keller’s banner look pretty inviting.
I want to go someplace warm.
Problem is, I didn’t vote for Mitt Romney in the primaries. In fact, I had no chance to; Washington’s primary comes so late in the process that Romney was already out of it. I’ve thought for a long time that I was headed to hell anyway, but now that the Romney/Satan ticket is finished, I’m kinda bummed out. I had a free ride to a very warm place in a mighty spacious handbasket, and didn’t even know I’d lost it.
Keller says he has torpedoed the devil’s anointed candidate. I say Satan is too wily to put all his eggs in one basket. Somebody has to be in the devil’s pocket…but who? Keller hasn’t put up a new banner yet, so I guess there’s no way to know.
I’ll just have to vote Democrat and hope that’s good enough to get me there.
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