And no, I am not referring to Tuesday’s elections. I am referring to an ad on the radio I just heard about 20 minutes while taking out the trash. (How appropriate that I mention Oprah and trash in the same post).

The ad starts out with a mother telling her young child to wash his hands over and over, before he eats, when he plays outside and probably after he diddles himself, for all I know.

This is a commercial for Flintstones Vitamins, with extra vitamin C, which, according to the ad “boosts the immune system”, due to the extra vitamin C in each tablet.

How, may I ask, have we gotten to the point that a children’s vitamin is pushing a product that “boosts the immune system”? Well, it is mainly because of all the liberal Oprah-watching soccer moms who would call for a Constitutional Convention to outlaw germs before any of these pesky bugs came within a nautical mile of their “precious”. These are the same people who buy Clorox wipes by the case, drive SUVS even though most of them cannot even see over the streering wheel and get aroused when Bill the Zipper comes on TV. (no pun intended).

God help us.

• 
• 
• 
• 

You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.