Saturday, March 03, 2012

1803- A MONKEY- A BLOGGER- AND- WELL- A ‘SLUT’.

Okay- once again we have spent a news week- with some very important stories to cover [Syria- etc] and some stupid stuff.

So what was the stupid/silly stuff?

Well- as a 70’s generation kid- sure- I liked the Monkees [Hey- Hey with the Monkees- …].

You remember?

Its Saturday morning- can you just hear the song in your mind as you read the above line?

If so- then you- and me- are actual nerds.

Big deal- Yeah- I watched the thing- and even walked to school with a Beatles lunchbox- you know- the metal kind- hey- it beat having a Brady Bunch one.

Davy Jones- the lead singer- seemed to be a nice guy- he passed away- and it was sad to see him go- I prayed for his wife and kids.

Then we had the passing of the right wing blogger- Andrew Brietbart.

He was known for his bold- in your face style.

Famous for bringing down Tony Weiner- the N.Y. Dem who liked texting his genitals to unknown women on his Facebook sight.

He was also famous for posting a video of Shirley Sherrod- a Black woman who worked for the govt. - she handled loans for farmers.

This dept. has been sued in the past for discriminating against Black farmers and they settled a big lawsuit a few years back.

Anyway- Shirley gave a speech at some Lib/Dem thing- and in part of the speech she said how when White farmers came in for loans- she thought to herself ‘why should I help this white guy- it’s now his turn to get the bad end of the stick’.

Later in the speech- she said she now knows these thoughts were wrong- and she said how God rebuked her for it.

Okay- when the short clip got out- only showing the first part- there was a firestorm and Obama fired the lady.

Later we found out about the whole clip- and he offered to rehire her- she said forget it.

So- the media- all over- every day- accused Brietbart of only showing the bad part of the clip- and not the good part.

‘You SOB’.

Actually- in his original post- he showed both the good and the bad.

It was Glenn Beck and a few others who only showed the bad part.

But the media- who all feed off of each other- kept going with the fake story that he only posted the bad stuff.

Till this day- they still believe it.

So just this last week Brietbart was on a progressive [liberal] show- Cenk Ugyr- Young Turks- and Cenk accused him once again of the false accusation.

For the first time on TV- Brietbart corrected the accusation and rebuked Cenk on air- Brietbart revealed the false charge that the media kept reporting- that he only showed the bad stuff.

Then a few days later I noticed he was invited on a number of more liberal news shows- to sit as a commentator on the election.

I think some of these news guys [Piers Morgan- CNN] might have double checked the story and found out that yes indeed- they all ran with the fake story- even till this day.

So- what do you know- Brietbart dies at the age of 43- and Andrea Mitchell- Shep Smith- and a few other news reporters once again repeated the charge- the false one- that he was famous for railroading Sherrod by only posting the racist part of the video- not the repentant part.

Ah- what can he do to defend himself- he’s dead- Yippee!!

Sad.

And last- but not least- we had the uproar over the Rush comments about Sandra Fluke- the Georgetown University student who testified before congress about her having to pay for her own birth control- which cost a lot- damn you!

Yes- Rush made fun of the girl- and said she was ‘a slut’- and he wanted her to post her ‘extra curricula’ actives on line for all to see- because she wants the tax payer to pay for her birth control.

So the media thought this important enough to bill as a top story- right up there with the deaths of the Syrians in Homs.

They are asking all the Repub candidates to make Rush apologize- on and on.

Now- was Rush wrong?

Of course- I mean no one should be using this type of language.

But to hammer the Repubs on it- like they are responsible- heck- they don’t control the guy.

Then yesterday as I was musing on the thing- I thought ‘Tomorrow I’ll write on it- and I’ll use Bill Maher as the counter argument’.

Sure enough- as the day went on- all the shows already got to him.

Maher is the Dem supporter- who just this last week donated 1 million to Obama- he has had his show ‘politically incorrect’ [or Correct?] on HBO for years.

I really don’t like the guy- for a bunch of reasons- but he often uses real off color language when referring to Repubs.

Okay- WARNING- this part will get rough.

A few weeks ago when Tebow lost the game- Maher tweeted ‘Jesus f—ked Tebow’.

As you know- Tebow is the Christian Quarterback that is outspoken for the faith.

Sarah Palin- a book came out that said she once slept with a famous Black NBA player.

Maher made a comment- about a woman who ran for office- a politically active Repub- former Alaska Governor- who has kids- ‘she would have f—cked him too- if he was Black’.

He was referring to some White guy.

Speaking about a Repub ‘he can suck my d—k’.

Now- all these things- and more – were said on national TV.

This guy just made a 1 million dollar donation to Obama- as he made the rounds on the news shows- not one time was he- or Obama- or any other Dem asked ‘do you think you/he should apologize for these remarks’.

What if Rush spoke about Michele Obama like this?

That she would ‘f—k’ some guy if he were White.

Do you think that story would get covered?

The whole point is the media plays selective outrage- sure- all of this language is wrong- but Limbaugh does his thing- Maher his- and if you want to go down the road of making political figures responsible for what others say- then that’s a long road to walk.

This week I read Jeremiah chapter 33.

This chapter has some great promises in it- the famous verse ‘call unto me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things you know not’.

But the bulk of the chapter is God reassuring his people Israel that he will indeed keep the promise that he made to them years before.

A while back we covered the Old Testament and I said how you can almost sum up the whole O.T. by saying it’s the story of one man and his family.

That man was Abraham.

In Genesis chapters 12 and 15 we read about the promise God made to him- that if he left his home town and went on a journey to the promised land- then God would make him into a great nation- he would have kings sitting on the throne for generations to come- and they would be a great people.

Yet- at the time of Jeremiah the people were divided- they were captive- and things looked really bad.

In chapter 33 God tells them ‘do you think my promise will fail? If you can break my promise to the day and night- that day and night will happen every 24 hours- then you can break my promise to you’.

God was telling his people that even though things looked bad- yet he would fulfill his word- and bless them like he said.

One of the verses in the chapter even speaks to the divided nation accusation ‘some say these 2 nations will never be a great people’ and God rebukes that accusation.

As I look out over the terrain of our nation- and all the stuff ‘all of the above’ it does look at times hopeless- a whole week on some commentator calling a girl a slut- please!

Yet I still see some light at the end of the tunnel- congress and the President actually passed some stuff these past few weeks- stuff that seemed like was never going to get done- so yeah- maybe we can see the light right now.

But if a huge donor to the Obama campaign can get away with saying ‘Palin would have f—ked him if he were Black’ on national TV- and not one reporter asks Obama if he should ask Maher to apologize- then maybe we should dial down the rhetoric on the ‘slut comment’ a little- you think?

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