You had me until you started spewing your trumped up BS story mutilated to make your situation appear to be the ‘perfect example’ of why someone should support a specific position.
This, my friends, is what I feel like saying to all of the folks who take ordinary or even extraordinary stories and chop and butcher them to fit a specific agenda.
Insert whatever heated topic you want…go ahead, print out a listing of highly volatile topics in the news, tack them up on a dart board and throw a dart and I guarantee that once you have, you’ll be able to find some story, mutilated beyond recognition, which skews the facts to make them fit some sort of agenda (either way, pro or con) on the topic in question.
I don’t understand this and I don’t think I will ever be able to understand this. Doing this, in my opinion, totally negates the argument for whatever side is doing it. It makes me question what other stuff they’re being less than honest about. It makes me wonder why they have to do this…this…creative and often in the end, almost completely fictional story telling – is it because there really are no real stories to tell that support their position?
It makes you wonder.
Maybe it’s the common sense side of me that makes this type of thing tweak out my BS-Meter, I don’t know. What I do know is that I get really frustrated when someone misrepresents their experience in order to garner support for something (and I mean anything – I’m not talking about one specific topic).
I know the timing is bad for this post – with all the current abortion stuff in the media and the ‘big bad Super Bowl ad’ everyone is talking about – rest assured, this isn’t a post in response to that specific circus.
I am miffed about a lot of things right now…but most notably, the need to take creative license with ones personal experience in order to tailor it to fit a specific agenda – this is a rampant practice and it just pisses me off.
Ok – now back to your regularly scheduled programing – which is likely the Super Bowl for a lot of you – and is sitting in the corner of my comfy couch reading a good Lee Child book for me 
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[FWIW - the title of this post is about as close as I get to making Football commentary - I'm not a sports fan, nor do I play one on TV. Take it for what it's worth, even if it totally doesn't make sense - k?]
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