did i read the entire story? no. do i have all the facts? no. do i need all of the facts? no. because the one fact that i do know is the only one i need to know - rosie o'donnell offered to rehab honey boo boo's house.
how dare she. regardless of how grateful honey boo boo and her family might be (and they are - they have accepted).
re. gard. less. of. an. y. thing. how dare rosie o'donnell make such an offer.
i think one of the hallmarks of many liberals is that they think they know what everybody else needs and wants. they think they know better than everybody else what everybody else should need and want. if we have half a brain. which, of course, we don't.
as contrasted to rosie o'donnell, i have never once watched the honey boo boo show and thought to myself, those folks need a better house. on the con. trary. i have thought to myself, many times, what a good house they have. not fancy. not fine. but good. and not just good........them. it's them! their house seems to suit them just fine. to a "t." (to a "sweet tea.") moreover, i have never once heard them complain about their house. i have never heard them say it's too this or not enough that. the subject of their house has never come up. at least not on t.v. which is the only place rosie o'donnell would (should) know about.
to pre.sume that because the house is next to a railroad track and because the house is white clapboard and because the house is not huge (although, it certainly appears spacious enough. i've never heard the family say it wasn't.)........but to presume that something newer, something hipper, something more. like. what. rosie. o'donnell. would. want. to. live. in is.....
in.sult.ing.
not to mention what should be the most obvious fact of all but apparently isn't......what honey boo boo's house may or may not lack in grandeur, it makes up for in spades in love. i admire the hell out of this family for the love, the connectedness, the roots that they have put down and nurtured. there're no amount of stainless steel upgrades that are gonna trump that.
the fact that the family has jumped at ms. o'donnell's generous (yes - it's generous. horribly misguided, but generous) offer doesn't change my outrage that ms. o'donnell made the offer in the first place. how many people wouldn't jump at such an offer?
my point is not that there is anything wrong with having a big house. nothing wrong whatsoever. nothing wrong with having it be nice, either. nothing wrong with wanting to move on up.
what's wrong is, ms. o'donnell had the audacity (of hope? ha!) to assume what somebody else's "up" should be.
