Friday - October 22, 2010

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Blogger’s block? Could be. I don’t know. Just experiencing a short period of not feeling up to it I guess.

The Juan Williams thing? Eye roll. Total. Duh, NPR is so far off to the left that even being black can’t save a medium-leftist liberal when he does his other job on Fox News and speaks a bit of truth. That seeing muslims on airplanes in full-on muslim dress frightens him, even though he knows that such fear is unfounded and he’s working to get over it. So they fire him. Asshats. And Fox, along with a huge chunk of the VRWC, is all over the story, and now Jim DeMint has introduced a bill to strip that bunch of commies of their public funding. Hey, great idea, 20 years late. But watching and hearing the non-stop hoo-ha on Fox is getting under my skin.  Because poor little Juan just landed a 3 year, $2 million contract from Fox. Specifically because of this dust up. So he profits immensely for stating his viewpoint while being on a discussion/opinion show.

Hey, remember E.D. Hill? Smart, brassy, a bit loud, had lots of opinions of her own? A Democrat too, by the way. Did an on-air teaser for an upcoming Fox body language segment during the 2008 campaign, and wondered out loud (or read from a teleprompter) about that high dap thing the Obamas were doing that was getting them magazine covers. “A fist bump, a pound, a [sarcastic face] terrorist fist jab?[/sarcastic face] The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We’ll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.” Within a week she was off the air, and stuck in a closet somewhere until her contract expired. Gone. Woosh. These days she’s doing internet radio in Sandy Springs Georgia. And at least one other journalist has traced the roots of that gesture back to the Black Panthers, who arguably are a terrorist group.

So it looks to me rather like a case of the old pot calling the kettle black for Fox News to go calling NPR a bunch of hypocrites for firing a news person for some insignificant remark they didn’t agree with, aired during a viewpoint/opinion segment. And that’s all I have to say about the war in Viet Nam that.

Hey, I can even connect paragraph 1 with paragraph 2:

‘Michelle Obama, you know, she’s got this Stokely-Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going… Her instinct is to start with this ‘Blame America,’ you know, ‘I’m the victim,”’ Williams said, according to an account by NPR’s Ombudsman Alicia Shepard.

Wow ... and he’s a liberal folks. [ note to young readers: Stokely Carmichael was a driving force behind the Black Panthers back in the 60s ]

To quote Juan hisself: “political correctness can lead to some sort of paralysis that can get in the way of reality.”




Meanwhile in Haiti, people are dying left and right - the count is at 140+ and still climbing - due to an outbreak of cholera, the first large scale outbreak in the western hemisphere in a century. Because they are all living in the mud, and the mud is saturated with sewage. With another 1500 or so sickened with the disease ... expect the death toll to climb into the thousands soon. Because they don’t even have clean water to drink, much less any sanitation, clean food, dry shelter, et cetera. The whole country is living under plastic tarps. Even though the world has sent in loads and loads of supplies, food, cash relief, and even Sean Penn, it’s not enough. It will never be enough. I think they have gone past the tipping point and will never be able to get back up even to the level of horrendous poverty and suffering. Can’t somebody find them a new island to destroy somewhere? Some other corner of the world they can turn into a horrid pismire? Gotta be somewhere. Anywhere. Bangladesh. Burma. Even Zimbabwe is better. But the island of Haiti is done. Move the people and let it lie fallow for a few hundred years.

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