One thing that’s been driving me crazy lately is all this characterization of Christine O’Donnell as “nice.” Now, I don’t know her personally, but I do believe she is probably personally pleasant and charming. But we seem to have a new definition of “nice.” A “nice” person doesn’t accuse their political opponent of being gay or needing “man pants.” A “nice” person doesn’t lie and say their opponent is a “Marxist.”
Jezebel posts that Christine O’Donnell’s new “Taxman” ad is even nastier than I thought. It’s a riff on an viral internet video of Antoine Dodson. Antoine Dodson’s TV interview after the attempted rape of his sister became an internet sensation (I had never seen it before):
In the video he says “hide your kids, hide your wife.” Apparently the rant got remixed and passed around. Luckily it worked out for the family because he was able to buy the family a new house.
In O’Donnell’s commercial she uses “hide your will, hide your lights.”
I guess pointing out that this is disgusting makes me not nice.