I get all sorts of weird phone calls. Some of them, like the occasional drunk dialer, are unintentionally hilarious. Some are sad, such as when the voice on the other end of the line belongs to a mentally ill person I know we can't help. The angry phone calls, with someone I've never met spewing profanity, calling me names, telling me I'm going to hell -- eh.
This one, though, I've been thinking about since September.
I'd just written a column about John McCain and Sarah Palin's rally in Lee's Summit. When I got to work one morning, a message light was blinking on my phone. When I heard the time-stamp -- the message had been left at 1:30 a.m. -- I knew what the caller was going to say.
If this man had any guts, he would have called during business hours. But nah, he had to leave an anonymous message in the middle of the night. I wish I would have recorded it and posted an MP3 so you could hear the sneer in his voice. But you probably can anyway:
What you don't understand is that this country ain't ready to elect a know-nothing...
He paused for a moment, maybe for effect, maybe to build up his own pathetic momentum. But I knew what he was going to say next.
... nigger.
Mr. Coward, I'm not going to gloat about how today, Inauguration Day, is a monumental rebuke of you and your ilk. Instead, I'll just pray for your tormented soul.
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Sara, what if the person that makes your life non-better is actually now the commander in chief?
Maybe I, like CJ, should simply wait for a future time many months later when it is convenient to drop a �told-you-so�?
The problem with that is methinks when you consider hindsight foresight that your head must be screwed on backwards or something.
"Mr. Coward, I'm not going to gloat about how today, Inauguration Day, is a monumental rebuke of you and your ilk. Instead, I'll just pray for your tormented soul."
Fabulous rebuke I must say.
However, I really wouldn't waste my time thinking about him or praying for him. It's just wasted energy.
The truth is... is your life better with him in it? Then don't waste your energy, spirituality, or smarts on thinking of him or people like him... you have a great paper & write great columns, so be proud of yourself!
What was this loser thinking? Doesn�t he know that folks at The Pitch have already established that if you print some nonsense, no matter how ill-thought or whacky it is, as long as you put your name on it, that it is freedom of speech and you don�t ever have to respond to it? Sheesh�I have no idea what he could have been thinking.
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