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Giving Jindal the finger |
As you may recall from a past post, during Iraq’s first election earlier this year, Congressman Bobby Jindal sent an email out to his fellow Republican lawmakers: paint your fingers purple in solidarity with the Iraqis. It was a great political stunt. Now it seems that some bratty little ten year old girl from Montana has stolen Jindal’s idea and gone national with the Purple Finger for Freedom campaign:
If Shelby Dangerfield were an adult in Iraq today, she would risk her life for the chance to vote.
Because she is a 10-year-old Billings girl, Shelby won’t be going to the polls. But she will be will be showing her support by wearing ink on her finger - just like those Iraqis who have voted.
“It will symbolize our support if we wear ink on our fingers,” Shelby said. “We’re not forcing them to vote, but they have a chance to do it and they should take that chance.”Shelby said Saturday afternoon she hoped to set up a stand at Rimrock Mall today where people could sign their names and roll their fingers on a stamp pad, but her plans were not yet inked.
She’d love to wake up Monday morning and see people around the United States with blue index fingers.
“Do you have your blue ink?” she asked. “It’s food for thought.” [Link]
Well isn’t that precious? It makes me sick! How can ideas just be stolen in a law-fearing and God-fearing country like the U.S.? Does this little girl have no shame? Has anyone seen people with purple fingers over the last three days? The only fingers I see in L.A. are while I am driving, and none of them have been purple. There are some folks participating I’m sure. I wonder what it would take to get a “Sepia finger” campaign going. I’d need a good cause of course.
Meanwhile, the Renegade of Junk offers a possible scenario that could have played out in Washington yesterday, if only reality was different:
Bobby Jindal, the Republican congressman from Louisiana was today advised by party members that his purple finger routine was getting old and that he needed to come up with some new material…Mr Jindal was understandably upset with the change of fortune of his finger, which then went into hiding for a while but then appeared to have obtained a new lease of life with yesterday’s elections in Iraq. Mr Jindal immediately circulated an email to party colleagues, requesting a re-purplification of their fingers, but was disappointed by refusals from members of Congress who believed that the idea had outlived it’s shelf life.
“It’s getting old”, said Tom DeLay (R-Texas) , former house whip and future criminal. “People want something new to be unreasonably jingoistic about. Purple fingers don’t do it anymore”. “He should get that finger looked at”, said Bill Frist (R-Tennessee), current Senate majority leader and future Tom Delay cellmate. “It might be purple due to a lack of blood circulation. In fact, based on the video footage I’ve seen of his finger, I believe it needs to be chopped off…” [Link]
