Setting: Medical office waiting room, Las Vegas, Nevada at 9 am on a Friday morning in early May, 2011.
[A group of mentally handicapped people enter the waiting room with a guardian. They take seats in front of the wall-mounted television, which is showing “CNN NEWSROOM.” The guardian is a Mexican girl in her early twenties wearing black scrubs and a plastic ID badge. She takes a seat and begins scrolling through screens on her smart phone. The group begins to comment on the current events being shown on the TV screen. One of the most vocal in the group is a tall man in his forties who is sucking his thumb.]
CNN NEWSROOM WEATHERMAN: “The intense flooding is being blamed on a larger than normal snowpack.”
THUMBSUCKING GENTLEMAN: “That’s what they ALWAYS say!”
CNN ANCHORLADY: “Was the killing of Osama bin Laden legal?”
THUMBSUCKING GENTLEMAN: “Yes! Of course it was!” [Goes back to sucking his thumb.]
[The televisions shows video of President Obama stepping off an airplane and waving.]
THUMBSUCKING GENTLEMAN: “Not this guy again!”