I think assuming the snark is about unemployment numbers is being too generous.

Jesse, I believe that person on NPR was a lady from TX. I swear to dog.

Yeah, I found the piece and they were all from Texas. Nice job by the reporter trying to create some good feelings among the NPR listenership by opening with two little boys baking with their grandmother.

And I remembered this was the other quote that I flipped out over:

Recipients of government assistance need to be looked at as victims who've been entrapped by policies the Democrats have created over the last 40 or 50 years, and it has robbed them of the opportunity to be participants in this fabulous American dream.

Because I am SO OVER people not getting that big companies and rich people generally get an enormous shitload of assistance from the government.

Here's the transcript: [link]

can you link to the piece, I could not find it searching on npr.

I just did! Right up there^^^

Getting my nails done the other day, there were two women fussing about how Obama was going to be sworn in with Lincoln's and Martin Luther King's bibles and how that was hypocritical since Obama doesn't go to church. What?

Luckily I was almost done cause I didn't want to hear what else they had to say.

Bed bug update - still no pest control guy. I know I need to be out for at least 4 hours after his visit, especially with my asthma. GET THIS OVER WITH NOW, please.

That's super annoying, Suzi.

thank you. oh yeah the other thing she said, how no one has come forward who went to college with him. crazymaking. We have entire articles in my alumni magazine dedicated to his time there with all these people quoted about classes with him and being his roomate and yada yada yada.

I think I've follow-backed someone on twitter who's just going to annoy me.