Good Answer, Good Answer!!!

I watched Family Feud tonight. It's one of those mindless game shows that I like to play along with. Tonight I realized a peculiar phenomenon about Family Feud. When the host asks each family member a question, the family member has three seconds to answer. Sometimes the pressure of the game is too much for the contestant and they end up saying the first dumb thing that comes to their minds regardless of how horribly nonsensical it is. Tonight for example, the host asked on of the members of the Johnson family (actual name changed to protect the idiotic) "Top 5 answers on the board, name something a bald person doesn't need." Suzi Johnson, nervous and under a lot of pressure considering her family already had two strikes, answers..."Hair." Really Suzy? You think that one thing a bald person doesn't need is hair?

What makes this even more hysterical, or pathetic depending on how you look at it, is that after Suzy said "hair" her family clapped for her and kindly said, "Good answer, good answer" the way all families do when another family member on family feud gives a dumb answer. In order to say that a dumb answer is a "good answer" the supportive family members must temporarily suspend everything they know about logic, reason, language, culture, history, and reality in order to sincerely say "Good answer" and actually mean it!

A few hours later, I listened to the Rudy Giuliani speech at the Republican National Convention. I don't really know why I do this to myself. Maybe I needed a blog topic, or maybe I needed to abuse myself for 15 minutes, I don't know. Either way, I felt like I was watching the Family Feud all over again. Except this time Rudy took Suzy's place, and 70,000 Republicans became the all accepting family members who proverbially, and literally said, "GOOD ANSWER, GOOD ANSWER" to every dumb thing that came out of Giuliani's stupid mouth. Between his support of trickle down economics to his fear based critique of ISLAMIC terrorists (thanks for the Islamic emphasis Rude) the whole fam damily cheered in support, because they temporarily suspended everything they knew about logic, reason, language, culture, history, AND reality all in the name of politics.

All I kept thinking to myself is, "Are these people for real????" Are they seriously clapping because Rudy Giuliani AGAIN inserted the phrase "NINE ELEVEN"??? I swear this is the stuff Family Guy is made of.

People of America, stop saying "GOOD ANSWER, GOOD ANSWER!" to politicians who don't make any sense! Trickle down economics has never worked, and 9-11 has nothing to do with the war in Iraq. These are the only two issues I remember from Giuliani's speech because my brain will not allow me to recall any thing else. I believe it is a defense mechanism that prevents me from going into convulsions over this madness.