David Sedaris Explains Undecided Voters With Airline Food Analogy
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.22.08 | 3:32 PM ET
From Shouts & Murmurs in the latest New Yorker: “To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat,” Sedaris writes.
“Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
I mean, really, what’s to be confused about?
Agreed.
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saramu 10.23.08 | 6:32 AM ET
Mr. Sedaris has a way of saying things so I understand.
Undecidedman 10.23.08 | 7:17 AM ET
I love David Sedaris, but in this case he is making the same error as others who take easy shots at we “undecideds,” mistaking thinking about the election (which, by definition, undecideds are still doing) with not thinking about it (which decided voters need to do less of, having already made up their minds). Anyone interested in what a real, live undecided voter is thinking about can visit a blog I created and see if there is still more to talk about than chicken vs. sh*t sandwiches.