March 23, 2010 13:38 ET
The crescendo of bigotry by the left-wing media against the Tea Party movement reached a disgusting pinnacle yesterday with MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann indicting the entire movement as being homophobic racists based on the actions of a few fringe protestors. After describing reports of the “n” word being shouted at Rep. John Lewis Olbermann looked straight into the camera and exploded:
“In a backwards, sick-to-my-stomach way, I would like to thank whoever shouted at Mr. Lewis and Mr. Carson for proving my previous point. If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered, self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of Democracy, or of the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.”
Spoken like a true tyrant Olberman. And seriously, do you really want to talk about which party refuses to accept the outcomes of elections? Al Gore still thinks he is a former president, and so do most liberals. But for Olberman, anecdotal evidence - citing one shouted statement - is proof enough to cast a label of racism on a large and widely varied group of people. They all share the same beliefs regarding limited government, therefore they are ALL as racist as their most racist member. Eureka! They got us by the balls now.
The media coverage from other networks the past few days has followed suit, attributing to the millions of Americans who fiercely oppose ObamaCare the disgraceful outbursts of a few.
Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center, issued the following statement:
“What an exercise in hypocrisy. Some of you in the left-wing so-called ‘news’ media have actively participated in insulting conservatives with vulgar ‘tea bagging’ jokes. You’ve done it on live national television, snickering at your own snarky gay sense of humor. And if you haven’t done that, you have been a coward, doing nothing to condemn your colleagues for their disgusting behavior.
“Don’t you dare give us any more lectures on civility. You hypocrites disgust me.”
That's good stuff , and right on the money too. These people have no shame. They have carried the weight for Obama on every decision made. They ignore his campaign promises, because he breaks them all. They run hour long human interest stories about why we need Obama's reform, and then claim with self-assured authority that anyone against reform is a selfish, hatefull-racist. They labeled the tea party movement these things for no other reason then to change the focus of the argument. This is what liberals do.
Liberals can't debate the truth on any issue, so they focus instead on the character of their opposition (which is unbelievable considering the liberal character record). They focus on any sliver of fault, even if its a fault they themselves posess, and use it to discredit the entirety of an unrelated argument. I personally don't give two craps if the Tea Party Movement is racist. They are still right about limiting government. But the Liberal media dismisses any contradictory material to their cause. They don't want you to listen to the Tea Party people, they only want you to listen to the Tea Party racist. They are trying to discredit the opposition message by presenting it as: "The Beliefs of a Racist". They potray this bill as a vote for or against the ideas that gave us slavery. It is a total hack job. A way to change the focus. They blur the lines of the common sense, and lump every issue in with the racial slur of one person. Then, they have their moral authority, and the character assasinations begin. It is almost as if they believe that one person screaming one racial slur were proof that Obama's healthcare policy is going to work.
The American Media is a disgrace to all Americans.
Here are some groundbreaking story's from our media regarding how racist the tea party is, along with all their half-brained reasons why you should't listen to common sense:
ABC – Anti-ObamaCare Protest “Turned Very Ugly” with “Racial and Homophobic Slurs”
ABC – Diane Sawyer: “Protesters Roaming” DC, “Increasingly Emotional, Yelling Slurs and Epithets”
CBS – “Tea Bagger Protests” Outside Capitol Hill
CBS – “Mean from the Start” Health Debate “Turned Even Nastier Yesterday’ with “Racial Epithets” ‘ and "Sexual Slurs”
MSNBC – Olbermann Crudely Cheers 'Teabagger' as Word of the Year Finalist
MSBNC – Olbermann Renews 'Teabagging' Attack on Scott Brown, Cuts His Victory Speech
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THIS MOMENTOUS DAY!
ReplyDeleteNot one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down's syndrome child.
Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example.
Each smallest act of kindness - even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile - reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will.
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined - those dead, those living, those generations yet to come - that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength - the very survival - of the human tapestry.
Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in THIS MOMENTOUS DAY!
Excerpt from Dean Koontz's book, "From the Corner of His Eye".
It embodies the idea of how the smallest of acts can have such a profound effect on each of our lives.
I would agree that the smallest events can, and do, have profound effects on each of our lives.
ReplyDeleteBut I would disagree with an implication that criticism of a poor decision is an act of meanness. (I don't know if your implying that or not, I'm just giving you my thoughts on this, in relation to the post)
At some point, a child needs discipline. He probably will view this as an unfriendly act. Similarly with a teenager, they may find a parents discipline not only mean, but cruel and unjust (in fact probably every teenager thinks that). But the cruel injustice that they see, is absolutely necessary for their development into adulthood. The discipline is the nice thing to pass on to the teenager, even though they don’t see it yet. If we strive throughout our lives to expand our moments of niceness without defining what that really means, we will pave a road to hell with good intentions. That is how we got into this mess in the first place ---“wouldn’t it be nice if everyone had healthcare insurance”? Yes, it would be. But not at the cost of our quality of care, availability of care, or individual rights as US citizens.
In politics especially, the line between what seems nice and what seems mean is even more skewed then in most other areas. A politician can promise his constituents a free lunch, and point to the free lunch as evidence of what has been done. He can stand up, point to the lunch and say: “To those who are in need, come take some of what I have provided. Come share in this free lunch, that would not otherwise be here if not for me”.
But he can never know what the resources that were used to provide that lunch would have produced in the private sector. The private sector is much more efficient in distributing resources, and they are motivated by profits. Being motivated by profits might not seem nice,. You might say their motivation should be to help others. But by focusing on profits they are doing far more good for far more people because they are efficient and productive. This keeps costs down, produces far more goods per dollar, and rations resources so they are used in the most productive way. They can charge less for goods and services, and provide an affordable item based on the supply and demand. This gets the most resources to the most amount of people. It may not seem nice, but any other way always results in a lack of supply, rising price, and finally outside rationing
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There are reasons why I respond this way to a general statement about passing on acts of kindness. For one, people trying to do the right thing – without properly deducing what the right thing is to do – have created havoc in our political. We embrace ideas in the modern welfare state that have enslaved the needy into a life of comfortable poverty. We embrace cultural diversity at the cost of what works. America was a melting pot because immigrants came from all over the world and assimilated to America. They were all Americans, and they were productive and contributded on their merits. Now, the nice thing to do is convince them that their country of origin is more important than assimilation. People may have the best intentions when they lobby for drivers exams in to be given in Spanish, but they are doing the immigrant a massive disservice by keeping them dependant on the assistance of others. The best thing for that person to do would be learn to read English, even if it makes a drivers exam more difficult. At the end of the day they will be better for it. The nice thing to do is help them learn English, not change the rules.
ReplyDeleteOlberman may think that a shouted slur is an act of quantitative hate, but I would classify it more as an act of emotion, and unintelligence. It’s stupid to discriminate agianst other groups of people, I don’t need a hatefilled journalist to tell me that. Nor do I want his hateful anecdotes to be accepted. He is as guilty of discrimination as the person who shouted down the Senators. He labeled an judged an group of people for the verbal outburst of one person, and then went on to explain why we should all discriminate against them.
A is A, regardless of whether the truth is nice or mean. I call the media a disgrace because they are a disgrace. I call Olberman a hateful hypocrite because he is one. These may not be nice, but they are true. Olberman may be one of the nicest guys you ever meet when he agrees with you, but he is a tyrrant to those who don’t suport his views.
Again, I don’t know that your implication was that we should all just be nice. I am just giving a gutshot reaction to a subject that I have found to be a huge hindrince on people who strive to moral. There is a difference between being nice and doing whats right. Often the hardest things to say to loved ones are the most important, but that doesn’t mean they are nice things to say. Christianity is especially susseptible to this way of thinking, and it is taking the majority of the religion to place that will not long be recognized as the faith of our grandparents. It is disturbing to me, and that’s why I respond the way I do to the Excerpt from Koonz.