Scratching My Head

I've never been a particularly politics driven person. American politics never made me sit up in anger and scream at my laptop screen. That is, until recently.

I mostly ignored and mocked the initial Tea Party protests on Tax Day. It was transparent to me that Fox News had sponsored, arranged and heavily advertised these protests. That is MAKING the news, not covering it, not reporting it; they were CREATING something to report. There was nothing 'grassroots' about those protests.

grass-roots [gras- roots] - n. - the common people, especially the rural people.

What exactly defines these protests as 'grassroots' movements? Nothing. That's just what they, being the Right Wing media outlets, say to make it seem all, 'Aww, shucks, normal.' Common, rural people didn't set these protests up. Common, rural people didn't hire the television pundits to speak at these events. Common, rural people didn't pay Ted Nugent to spew ignorance at these events. FOX NEWS EXECUTIVES did all of that. Common, rural people might have DONATED to these protests. I know for a fact that these 'common, normal' people paid to get on crowded busses to attend the disgrace that was the 9/12 protest on Washington.

It's so funny to me that during the election campaigns Liberals were called 'sheep' who would follow and vote for ANY Democrat. Who's a 'sheep' now? The people who watch, listen and agree with Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, etc. are the real sheep. These people listened to Sarah Palin and many others who propagated the 'death panel' B.S. and even displayed signs about this ABSOLUTELY FALSE idea at the 9/12 protests. Umm, I'm pretty sure that rumor was debunked very quickly after it was set loose to instill fear into the uneducated masses. Whoops, it worked. Try READING the bill and think for YOURSELF. They even took the 'End of Life' counseling OUT of the bill because of the crazy shit-storm that Republicans started. I agree with 'End of Life' counseling. People who have advanced directives at the time of their incapacitation are less of a financial burden on their families and are cared for by THEIR standards.

I read on a blog, http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com , today that President Obama's speeches are almost all at a 9th-10th grade reading level. You know why? Because some Americans are STUPID and the only way that they can understand what he's saying is by using small words and short sentences. That's sad. No wonder some Republican politicians have it easy when they misinterpret things to scare their moronic constituents, they can't read well or understand big words.

The thing that frustrates me the most is this outcry of denouncing racism. I've been shaking my head for MONTHS at the blatant racism pouring from the mouths of these highly-paid, talking, bobble-head, so-called 'reporters'. Glenn Beck doesn't know why people are calling him a racist? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he said he thinks that Obama, '...has a deep seeded hatred for white people...' Hmm. Maybe? Or, it could have something to do with the 'warning' he issued to 'Jews' that another Holocaust was coming; because, in his words, "...when things go bad, Jews become scapegoats. Jews, it's coming again." That made me so angry I had to take my dog for a walk and chain smoke for a few minutes. Who the hell does he think he is saying something like that? That is just disgusting to me.

Rush Limbaugh called for segregated busses on his radio show because a white kid got hit by a black kid. That's not racist at ALL! No way, no how! I don't know where Rush grew up, but that shit has been going on for YEARS! It's not black kids vs. white kids it's stupid kids beating up other stupid kids because their parents are too busy watching the news, listening to Rush and foaming at the mouth about 'socialism' to raise them properly.

How about that club in New Hampshire that kicked all the black kids out of the pool because it's basically a 'white's only' club/pool? What about the man who just beat the hell out of a black woman in front of her seven year old daughter outside of a Cracker Barrel while screaming racial slurs at her? Yeah, I'm sure all this passive aggressive racism on television has NOTHING to do with these empowered racists. Ask yourself: Who is making them feel empowered? I'd bet anyone $100 that the man who beat that lady outside of Cracker Barrel is a Rush Limbaugh listener. Garun-fucking-tee it.

The Republicans can bash Jimmy Carter for calling it like he saw it, but he was correct. A portion of the people who are opposing President Obama are only doing so because they are racist. That doesn't mean EVERYONE who is against Obama is a racist, it just means that SOME of them are. Unfortunately, their voices are the loudest and the angriest and THOSE are the voices that are pissing off the civilized, educated citizens of this country.

The Stupid Is Too Good To Make Up

I heard a quote that I thought was funny during all my reading about President Obama's school speeches, "There's 300,000,000 people in this country, there's bound to be a lot of stupid people."

I couldn't agree more.

In 1988 former President Reagan gave a speech to students nationwide on C-SPAN, and everyone was fine with that. He included political issues in his speech. No one called it indoctrination or brainwashing.

In 1991 former President Bush spoke to students nationally. He addressed politics and promoted his own administrations education policies. No one bashed him for it and demanded their children be removed from school.

President Obama gave a completely non-political, educational speech to students about working hard in school and taking personal responsibility for their educational goals.

What a horrible thing to do! He must be the worst President ever! To the parents who pulled their children out of school because of the speech: way to teach your kids to respect the President. Way to set a good example for the future generations of this country. I fear for them because they have parents as stupid and gullible as you are. You took every bit of bullshit that the crumbling Republican party fed you.

Go ahead and keep watching Glen Beck. As you agree with him and nod your head with outrage at the lies and completely ridiculous conspiracy theories him and his producers concoct to get better ratings from the sheepish public; your brains are being literally sucked right out of your heads.

It's embarrassing to think that there are so many utterly ignorant people in this country.