{"id":30,"date":"2008-10-31T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-11-04T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T15:10:19","slug":"elderism-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Elderism #19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the website <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretandhelen.wordpress.com\/ \">Margaret and Helen<\/a>, which claims to be written by a politics-obsessed 82 year-old named Helen Philpot and her best friend since college, the fiery Helen has been training her eye on the election and on <em>The View:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I love my Whoopi Goldberg. And that Joy Behar makes me laugh. But, now there is that other one&#8230;I don&#8217;t remember her name&#8230;Yesterday she announced that she was still undecided. OK, that&#8217;s it. She&#8217;s a jackass. I mean this woman is on a show called <em>The View<\/em>. What exactly is it that she can&#8217;t see? She has met, in person, all the big players in this little card game. Talk about being spoon fed. And as a fellow plus-size gal I know that she has had more than her share from that spoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The interface between politics and television brings out all of Helen&#8217;s passions. After one of the presidential debates, she offered,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, I thought it was a good debate. My hats off to Bob Shieffer&#8230;and my blouse too if he plays his cards right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Is this Helen for real? To me, the wonderfully ad-hominem and petty quality of some of her posts does not say &#8220;scooter-riding octogenarian,&#8221; but, rather, &#8220;homosexual shut-in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are lots of idiots out there who aren&#8217;t running for office, but don&#8217;t get me started on that shit for brains Elisabeth from <em>The View<\/em>.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the website Margaret and Helen, which claims to be written by a politics-obsessed 82 year-old named Helen Philpot and her best friend since college, the fiery Helen has been training her eye on the election and on The View: So I love my Whoopi Goldberg. And that Joy Behar makes me laugh. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}