The big black President scares Lou Pritchett

[MrScorpio]

Ever heard of Lou Pritchett? I had never heard of the man before Saturday afternoon when my friend, Yvonne, e-mailed me me something he wrote that has been making its way through cyberspace in recent months. The piece, which is called "An Open Letter to President Obama", is so stupidly written that under normal circumstances I would have dismissed it as a hoax - or the type of satire made famous by the late Lenny Bruce. But these are not normal circumstances and these people are anything but "normal". As Tom Lehrer once observed ,"Satire died the day they gave Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize."

According to a google search, he is "an acclaimed author, teacher and speaker." Acclaimed by whom is not made clear. He is also, if I'm to believe what I read, a former executive with Proctor and Gamble, a company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, whose contribution to the American marketplace ranges from Puffs facial tissue to Old Spice aftershave. The twenty-one paragraphs in his letter are mercifully brief. I am presenting the complete text here with my naughty comments sprinkled within. The guy is a laugh riot:

"Dear President Obama: You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me."

The rest: http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com/

[jonnyblitz]

1. well, he scares me with his war escalation and it has nothing

to do with his being big and black.

[Berry Cool]

2. Know what's even scarier? Snopes confirms:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp

Pritchett has acknowledged the letter. No doubt he's proud many Americans are as frightened and ignorant as he is, proven by how viral it's gone.

One error in the blog, though: the company's name is spelled Procter & Gamble, not "Proctor."

[Hepburn]

3. Check it out on Snopes....

...mostly it is full of bullshit.

My best guy pal has a gun nut friend who regular emails him bullshit like this. I have debunked 99% of the screed he gets by linking him to a Snopes article.

[Berry Cool]

4. Oh, his assertions are full of bullshit, yes.

It's just that according to Snopes, he did indeed make them. They're not being misattributed to him.

Scary.