Liz Winstead: The Real Stooge of the Night, Part II

Liz Winstead, creator of some television program called, The Daily Show, heard that a tornado had touched down in Oklahoma and promptly tweeted (‘cause the world just doesn’t sit right until it has her spontaneous comment on—well—everything):  “This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives.” 

Like all tornadoes, this one didn’t care who was in its path.  The death toll screams as loud as its winds.  Whole communities have been razed and no one’s life will ever be the same. 

In the mean time, Ms. Winstead, deciding to go into damage control when her heartless comment became broadcast, compounded the whole thing with the following, half-assed apology:  “Made a political joke, Twas before devastation revealed. In hindsight, had I understood, I would have refrained. Beyond sorry.” 

First of all, notice the light-hearted use of the archaic word, “Twas.”  She isn’t contrite, she is playing word games.  Second, she would have, “refrained.”  She wouldn’t have felt differently, she just wouldn’t have said anything.  Finally, instead of a real apology, she is building her defense (sounds waaaaaaay too familiar) by saying she made the comment, “…before devastation revealed.”

What devastation was she referring to?  The real time tragedy that reduced professional reporters to tears when they tried to relate the story?  The houses leveled by an EF4, the speed of which might be 200 mph, and force of which will be the square of that number (Liz, the square of a number is the number times itself, in this case 200 x 200—just so you know).  The property lost?  The lives permanently and cruelly changed?  In other words, how much devastation in Oklahoma is acceptable to this woman, and how much prompts a lukewarm apology?

            To this woman, a tornado in Oklahoma was originally cause for mirth.  Her attitude comes from equal parts of ignorance, stupidity and a spoiled sense of entitlement. 

Ignorance is a conditioned which can be cured.  It is simple lack of education.  Liz needs more education and she needs it fast.  I don’t care what college degrees she might have bought, she didn’t study all that much.  Tornados are violent, unforgiving storms against which there is no defense and precious little protection.  Stupidity, on the other hand is a life long condition.  You can’t put in what God left out and if Liz has a double digit I.Q. there is a limit to what she can digest.  For this I offer up my mother’s admonition, “Don’t be caught standing up talking when you should have been sitting down listening.”  Finally, there is the sense of entitlement.  For too many coastal people, the interior of the country is terra incognita.  [Liz, that is a Latin term meaning, “unknown land” first used on maps in 1611 to signify uncharted territory.]  These snooty little fools think of the vast Midwest as a comic book of caricature.  They would be hard pressed to know that Indianapolis is in Indiana (Liz, the first is a city and the second is a state).   All she knows is that Oklahoma is a red state, and therefore worthy of her derision.  Actually, 33% of Oklahomans (Liz, that is one out of every three voters) voted for President Obama.  I wonder if she was hoping that those homes, like the marked doorways of the Hebrews at the first Passover, would be spared?

Her apology is not sincere.  Her real attitude toward those not of her ilk is laid bare.  She deserves contempt. 

Pray for healing in Oklahoma and keep the faith.