M***** TRIVIA

To Glenn Beck et al. To be politically correct I have used asterisks to refer to your descent into low humor when, this last Friday on your radio show, you conducted another "moron trivia." When I was in grade school the nuns taught us that humor is ‘laughing with people’ not ‘at people.’ Their educational tools for reinforcing this lesson were the yardstick and pointer which were applied to the slow learners’ heads like a metronome beating out the cadence of a polka.

Unfortunately you and your staff have either never benefitted from such a lesson or have ignored it. Too bad. Your ‘game’ of ridiculing convenience store clerks is laughing at people not with them. Yet they are usually gracious enough (through innocence) to try to agree with your clever, demeaning repartee. You degrade yourself and your audience when you humiliate sincere, honest and open people (morons and imbeciles to you and your catchy game tune) in vulnerable positions for the amusement of yourself and your listeners. Think about this. Have any of the butts of your ridicule ever responded in kind? Have any of them ever shown hostility to being made fun of? Even worse is the case to be made for your shameful behavior. How many of these simple folk even know you are trying to humiliate them?

I quit listening to you as of Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. My wedding anniversary. No connection between the two events other than the fact that I and my husband have celebrated years of happiness independent of any smug satisfaction that we are so much better than others and have the right to - and practice it - make fun of our inferiors to their faces. Your baiting of the simple soul from Tampa who said Christmas was about Jesus, was too much. She walked the talk. You just talk the talk. The Nigerian woman was sincere in her statements about her faith but was left shamed and disoriented. Not only did the message of the ‘teaching’ nuns escape you, but also the message of Christian living itself.

America is awash in liberal elites whose profession is to mock and ridicule the common folk and then ask them for votes. We certainly do not need conservative elites like you piling it on.