Skittles, Iced Tea, and Stupidity

For two months now, all we’ve heard is how an evil white guy in Florida gunned down a poor, innocent black kid in cold blood, and I’m sick of it.

I’ve spoken out on this on Facebook and message boards quite a bit, but it’s time to lay everything out, both in terms of understanding the situation, the law behind it, the people involved, and the fluff on both sides of the argument.  If you don’t agree with me, feel free to start your own blog on the matter.

Here’s the facts that we actually know at this point:

• On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch guy and concealed weapon license holder that lived in a neighborhood with rising crime rates, saw a person he thought was behaving suspiciously.  He phoned it in to the non-emergency number at the Sanford, FL police department at 7:09 PM.  At around 7:11-7:12, Martin begins running and Zimmerman begins to chase him.  The operator tells him “We don’t need you to do that”.  Zimmerman says “OK” and gives his best address location to the operator.  At 7:13, he hangs up.
• Martin’s girlfriend was on the phone with him around 7:12 and was told that someone was following him.  She reported that there was a verbal confrontation at some point during the phone call.
• At about 7:25, there is a physical altercation during which Zimmerman pulls a Kel-Tec PF9 pistol and fires a single shot at very close range.  The slug hits Martin in the chest.  At 7:26, support personnel arrive and perform lifesaving measures on Martin, who is declared dead at 7:30 PM.  Zimmerman tells the police officer on site that he had shot Martin.
• According to witnesses, there was a physical altercation that involved Martin on top of Zimmerman, hitting him with his fists.  Medical reports released after the event show that Zimmerman had wounds to his face, nose, and back of head, and the back of his jacket was wet and covered with grass, consistent with him lying on his back in the wet grass.  Zimmerman’s hands were not bruised (indicating that he did not hit Martin).  Martin’s autopsy report showed that his hands were bruised, as if he’d been hitting someone.  The autopsy report also showed that Martin had THC (a byproduct of marijuana) in his system at the time of his death, but the quantity as of today is not known.
• Zimmerman was placed into police custody and taken downtown where he was photographed, interviewed, and investigated.  The state attorney’s office called it self-defense and declined to pursue charges against him at the time.
• After protests by the victim’s family and rising national pressure, Florida Governor Rick Scott assigned a different state prosecutor to the case.  On April 11, 2012, the new prosecutor charged Zimmerman with 2nd Degree Murder.

Here’s where we have to start talking about legal specifics.  I am not a lawyer, so please consult a legal professional if you have questions about this:

• Self-defense law in the United States is simple and is accepted nationwide.  If a reasonable person believes they or someone else is at risk of loss of life, serious bodily injury, or serious sexual assault, then they have the right to use deadly force in defense.
• There are two doctrines that are tied to self-defense.  The first is called “duty to retreat” and it states that a defendant who is claiming self defense must prove to the court that they attempted to avoid the conflict and took reasonable steps to attempt to retreat before they used deadly force.  19 states use this doctrine.
• The second doctrine is called “stand your ground”.  This doctrine states that if you are in a conflict that you did not provoke and you have to use deadly force to defend yourself, you are under no duty to retreat.  31 states use some form of this doctrine that varies from an absolute stand-your-ground law (24 states) to a limited version that only applies to home, business, car, etc. (7 states)
• Massad Ayoob nicely covers stand-your-ground laws here.  You should pay attention to what he says.
• Under Florida Law, Second Degree Murder in Florida is defined as “The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated by any act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind regardless of human life, although without any premeditated design to effect the death of any particular individual, is murder in the second degree”. (FL State Code 782.04 (2)).  In other words, it is an unlawful killing of a human being with malice, but without premeditation.  A classic description of 2nd Degree Murder is if a person became angry, grabbed his usual self-defense gun, and then shot the person he was angry at.

This is what we know so far.  Unfortunately, there’s so much stupid heat over this tragedy that we’ve forgotten the real facts of this case:

• A young man is dead, possibly because of his own actions.
• Another young man’s life is ruined, possibly because he defended his life against an aggressor.

Such a shame that both of these young men are being dragged through the mud by race-baiters, political hacks, media vultures deliberately editing material to poison public opinion, and politicians running for re-election.

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The Irrational War on Tea

Sometimes, you just can’t help laughing at the state of affairs in the world.  Laughter helps the world go ’round.  It also distracts my brain from its deep-seeded desire to eat its way out of the back of my skull for having been exposed to the ongoing theater of the absurd that is the war on the Tea Parties.

Now, it seems that our beloved Teleprompter has joined in with the self-appointed clowns of the left in referring to those who disagree with Obama, Communism, and the general flushing of our Constitution, principles, and nation down the toilet…   by vulgar sexual slang.  Honestly, if it were just him as a private citizen, we could almost laugh it off.  Especially the whole hypocrisy part, where he calls for civility while at the same time calling people names like any good 6-year-old bully would do.  But A) he’s the President; and B) it’s a pattern of behavior by members of the left.

From unapologetic vulgar sexual slang to bizarre theories of assistance based on political voting patterns to false accusations of racist comments to conspiracy theories that would normally get one committed to an asylum, the left’s war on the right – and common sense – continues, unstopped by any of those pesky “facts” or “opposition in the media”.

And they wonder why the latest polls show a butt-whoopin’ coming this November.

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Steven Crowder video-Islāmic Terrorism

Again, another very well done video by Steven Crowder on our current administration’s dealing with Islāmic Terrorism.

It comes complete with a disclaimer at the end, it’s humorous, but also very factual and blunt. 

The video to the original YouTube post doesn’t seem to work.  So, see this while you can.  I guess?

If you understand that we are facing religious extremist, and that they are in fact terrorists, and we are ingaged in a war against terrorists and those who harbor them,  you may watch this video and get a chuckle, and find the mountains of truth exclaimed in it. 

If you believe these things: terrorists should be called “enemy combatants”,  we are not involved in a war on terror, we should have a civilian court hearing for an accused terrorist, you should still by all means watch the video.  And then come to your conclusion that “all” who claim to be conservatives are just like “Character Willy” , racists and intolerant.  Racist Willie, and the disclaimer at the end, should be all that is needed to get it through some of the thicker skulls out there that what liberals presuppose about normal non psychotic conservatives  are wrong.   We really don’t use the word terrorists and the like because that is what these killers really are.  Our purpose is never that we want to keep our families and country safe, it is always, let me stress always what liberal’s and progressive’s think.  (The last few sentences are filled with sarcasm. Noted for the thicker skulls)  What do people on the left think?  Go read the Huffington post and find out.  Listen to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN.  Unless you have been living under a rock, you know what the left thinks.  All that is needed to be enlightened is to turn on the news.

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It’s 2010, and Racism Still Sucks

Compare and Contrast:

In 2006, Senator George Allen, running for his re-election in Virgina, used the term “macaca” to refer to a young man of Indian heritage who was filming him.  Despite the fact that no one in the country had ever heard of this term before, suddenly, “macaca” was traced to a French-speaking insult of African tribesmen from back in the 19th century, and obviously, it means something to a guy who couldn’t remember another guy’s name.  His penalty: Allen’s sure victory became a loss, and a Presidential contender’s hopes went down in flames.

In the same year, Senator Joe Biden, running for President, insulted all persons of Indian heritage by saying “You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”  He wasn’t joking.  Later on, he referred to his opponent in the Democrat nomination for President, Barack Hussein Obama, as being a clean, well-spoken black man (apparently in contrast to all the other black men, who are dirty and can’t complete a grammatically correct sentence).  His penalty: he was nominated by the Democrat Party and currently serves as Vice President of the United States.

In 1990, white Southern Senator Jesse Helms ran against African-American Harvey Gantt for the North Carolina Senate.  A man who was fervently opposed to movements and collectivism – and many people mistook his opposition to the Civil Rights Movement as being based in racism, when in reality, Helms believed in constitutionalism, anti-communism, and individual achievement – employing Civil Rights leader and assassination attempt victim James Meredith as an adviser to him in the Senate.  His opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act was based on his belief that it should apply to everyone or no one.  Still, he ran against a black man whose campaign was built on supporting racial quotas.  When Helms pointed this out, his penalty was an endless stream of caricatures of him as a rabid, racist, extremist.

In 1944, Exalted Cyclops and Kleagle of the Klan, Robert Byrd wrote concerning his service in the United States military, “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side… Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”  He worked to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act along with other Democrats, based on the fact that it helped black people.  He apologized for being a Klan member, but still felt comfortable enough with the n-word to repeatedly use it in a nationally televised interview.  His penalty?  He currently serves as President Pro Tem of the United States Senate and is referred to by fellow Democrats as “The Constitutional Conscience” of the US Senate.

In 2002, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott praised Senator Strom Thurmond at Strom’s 100th birthday party, saying, “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either.”  The interesting thing is that “we” didn’t vote for Strom.  In fact, “he” didn’t vote for Strom (unless Mississippi had extended the vote to 7-year-olds for the 1948 election).  Unfortunately, Strom had run on a platform of racial segregation and Lott had stuck his foot squarely and deeply down his throat.  Calls for his resignation from Senate leadership came from all over, including from such sources as then-State Senator from Illinois’ 13th District Barack Hussein Obama.  Lott apologized, but the calls for his resignation continued.  The Penalty: Lott resigned 15 days after the statement was made.

In 2010, it was revealed in early releases from an upcoming book that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid referred to Presidential Candidate Barack Hussein Obama as  “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”  He was joined by Former President William Jefferson Clinton, who said that “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee”.  Calls came in for Reid’s resignation.  The response?  Forgiveness from Al Sharpton.  Apology accepted by Barack Hussein Obama.  And silence from the rest of the left.

Speaking of Barack Hussein Obama…  this is a man who was a member of Trinity United Church of Christ, a church where the pastor (whom Obama referred to as being “like family” before tossing him under the bus) taught a theology that if God wasn’t in line with Black Theology’s goals of the destruction of the White Enemy, they won’t worship him.  Take THAT, God!  He referred to his grandmother as a “typical white woman” and referred to cops who investigated a potential break-in at a home in Harvard, MA as “acting stupidly”.  His penalty?  Near silence from the media and a sit-down photo op with one of the cops.

Look, I’ll say it: racism sucks.  Allen’s comments are questionable, but Jesse’s positions on race were, to put it best, inconsistent and complicated, and Lott should’ve watched his mouth.  Biden should’ve been tossed on his fanny for his repeated remarks, Robert Byrd is a joke of a fossil, and Reid is as much of a nightmare as Slick Willy – and they all need to be put out to pasture.  Barack Hussein Obama is a racist, period.

But they aren’t.

The double-standard that has existed for years is never better illustrated than when it comes to the way the media and the parties respond to racism.  The simple truth is that conservatives and Republicans are held to higher standards of behavior – and they should be.  The problem is that Democrats should be held to the exact same high standards – and they aren’t.  They’re given a free pass by the media lapdogs, and the party machinery cranks away to ensure that those who commit sins of commission are forgiven without question by those within the party.

It’s all simply a continuation of the same mindset behind racism, which is that one group of people deserve a pass while another group of people don’t deserve it.  It sucks and it’s up to us to call our political leaders (aka “our employees”) to the carpet over it.  If they won’t change, then it’s up to us to send them packing.

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False Crimes and Real Victims

Today’s latest stupidity connected to the Obama Administration comes via one Malik Shabbaz, current leader of the New Black Panther Party that Eric Holder’s Justice Department gave the blithe wave to when it was accused of using intimidation tactics in the election of B. Hussein Obama.

The stupidity?  False accusations of rape.

Seven people pleaded guilty for their part in abusing Megan Williams — but now Williams says that abuse never happened.

She will hold a press conference Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, to recant her claims of abuse, attorney Byron L. Potts, who represents Williams, told The Charleston Gazette on Tuesday night.

“She has decided she has been living this lie for approximately two years and she has decided to tell the truth,” Potts said. “She fabricated the story and she did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship with one of them.”

…

At the time of the plea deals, Megan Williams, her adopted mother Carmen Williams, and her adviser Malik Shabazz criticized the plea agreements, claiming they were too light a punishment. Shabazz, co-founder of Black Lawyers for Justice and a member of the New Black Panther Party, gave Williams and her family legal counsel.

And it’s not the first time this idiot’s been involved with falsely pushing prosecutors in regards to a falsely reported sex crime.

Taking the blatant race-baiting and racism out of the equation – as we should, although I guaran-frickin-tee you that the left won’t do the same, this kind of thing should make our nation collectively vomit.

In my life, I’ve known several rape victims.  There are real victims of this unbelievably monstrous crime out there.  Unfortunately, there are also those who will heartlessly minimize this despicable act for political gain, and it’s those types of folks that are at the center of these cases.

This is too good for these monsters.

Real rape is a horror.  It’s a personal violation that I can’t even begin – nor do I want – to imagine having to recover from.  A person’s sense of individualism, peace, security, and power is stripped away from them in an act of bloody, hateful power-tripping and control.  Rarely is there a full recovery from it, as it invades the mental, spiritual, sexual, marital, and physical health of the victim.  They used to execute people for it, and I’m not overly opposed to the idea of restoring that particular aspect of the death penalty.  To call it an absolute horror is, in my opinion, nowhere close to a fair description.

And yet – more horrible still is the thought that not only would someone falsely accuse an innocent person of committing such a heinous and horrible act, but would do so for something as petty and stupid as political gain.  Beyond the utter depravity of such a false accusation, such an accusation violates more than those falsely accused whose lives will never be restored and who will spend the rest of their lives defending against a crime they never committed.

When a real rape victim comes forward, there’s always doubt – in their own mind, in the mind of those taking the report.  Did the victim “ask for it”?  Did the victim “deserve it”?  Are they really just covering up their late-game change of mind.  In the case of rape, the answer to all of these questions is “no”.  But the simple doubt over whether the victim could actually get justice means that many rapes go unreported, many rapists walk freely among us, and many victims never receive the justice they need and deserve.

And do you think false accusations and politicizing rape encourages the real victims…   or discourages them?

If you’re a victim of rape, there are people who will listen.  Don’t let stupid politics get in the way.  Know that there is both healing and justice for you.  You are loved.  There are people who will listen, believe, cry with, and counsel you.

Most importantly, remember that there is Someone who can heal your pain.

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Not-So-Subtle Threats: The Chicago Way

Let’s let Obama cronies David Axelrod and Rham Emanuel speak for themselves:

“A lot of their news programming, it’s really not news. It’s pushing a point of view,” senior adviser David Axelrod said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“The way we — the president looks at it and we look at it, is, it is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel added on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“The bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way.”

Did you catch that?  On one hand, ol’ Dave is calling Fox News “not news”.  Mostly, I’m guessing, because of their rabid, slobbering, mindless hatred of Glenn Beck and anyone else who disagrees with the Obama agenda.  But that last comment, to me, anyway, sounds like both a set of orders (“don’t you other news organizations treat them like a news organization”) and a not-so-veiled threat (“this is what happens when you act like Fox News”) – something I’d expect from Rahm “Ram It Through” Emanuel.

Remember all the hubbub about the Bush Admin’s supposed fascism, all because they wanted to enable law enforcement agencies to work together to defend our nation from terrorists and people who want to detonate nukes in the middle of America?  Well…   where’s the outrage when the White House is unleashing similar attacks against a news channel it doesn’t control?

Well – to be truthful, even the left-wing media’s catching the threat and demanding that the White House stop its crusade against Fox News.

And yes, kids – it’s about control.  Anita Dunn – when she wasn’t praising mass murderers – was on foreign news channels admitting that the whole Media hearts Obama thing was indeed an exercise in controlling the airwaves.

Now, some people are calling the Obama Administration foolish, childish, and rash.  The one thing I’m going to call them is calculated.  This whole thing smacks of Saul Alinski’s Rules for Radicals.  Specifically:

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Ever hear an Obama Official talk about Fox News as a reliable source?  Ever heard a liberal talk about Faux News?  Ever wonder why?

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

Watch liberal voters’ response to the Obama White House’s actions against Fox.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose.

Have they ever let up?  Every day, there’s a new game being played.

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself.

Seriously – what would happen if there were TWO channels like Fox News out there?  Is a single news station really that important?

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

Glenn Beck?  Bill O’Reilly?  Etc.

Yes, I think they’re doing it deliberately, and yes – I think it’s yet another dangerous precedent set down by a White House that’s looking more and more like an exercise in Liberal Fascism every day.  Karl Rove (aka “The Most Evil Man in the World In the Eyes of Liberals, Socialists, Communists, and Other Assorted Enemies of Freedom”) says that he believes that the Obama Administration is compiling an enemies list, and I think he’s 100% right.

And I don’t think they’re doing all their work by themselves.  Look at the recent Rush Limbaugh stupidity that NCMike commented on last week.  They accused Rush of racism by using quotes pulled out of a book that had pulled them off of Wikipedia.  Rush never said anything remotely like what was attributed to him.  Frankly, I hope Rush sues the pants off of the responsible individuals.

And yet – the attacks ensued and continued.  The Usual Suspects (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) began a chorus on how Rush (aka “The Bully“) was unfriendly to black people (Rush’s primary associate on his show, Bo Snerdly, is black as is his sometimes-replacement Dr. Walter E. Williams) and how his part-ownership of an NFL team would be a sign of the return of slavery, plantations, and separate water fountains.  This, coming from 2 guys – one of whom has never apologized for his role in the infamous Tawana Brawley incident – for which he was sued for slander and has never paid a dime, and one of whom called New York “Hymietown” and has yet to have apologized for his role in the Duke Lacrosse case.

Looking to Sharpton and Jackson for direction on racial reconciliation is like looking to Jenna Jameson for advice on celibacy.

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Civility and Insolence

And hits keep on coming.

This weekend, the Washington Post dedicated a front-page article to how mean, evil, and discourteous conservatives are.

Which conservatives?

Michelle Malkin, for one.  Her crime?  She sent an e-mail to Charise Carney-Nunes regarding the now-infamous video of children singing the “Mmm-mmm-mmm-mmm” song in praise of Barack Hussein Obama.  Her e-mail included such loaded, hateful, and mean questions as “did you write the song”, “did you teach about your book”, and “how well do you know the President”.  In a hateful huff, she concluded with that most hideous of closings, “Thank you for your time”.

Glenn Beck, of course, for his promotion of ideas like “America is good”, “I believe in God”, and “I have a right to disagree with the government when it’s being stupid”.  Obviously, this is just rabble-rousing and hate.

And can we forget the most hateful, mean, and evil of conservatives: Rush Limbaugh, whose eeeeeeeeeevil plans now extend to potential ownership of a National Football League team, which is intuitively obvious to the most casual of observers simply part of a larger plan to take over the world and drown the poor, elderly, and defenseless in giant vats of Alaskan crude while sucking down cigars and chuckling at his collection of racist literature.

Sweet.

Zombie.

L.

Ron.

Hubbard.

OK.  I know I’m just a simple idjut from the backwoods of the Fruited Plain, but I guess it’s time for an education.  Washington Post?  Lefties?  Pull up a chair, pull out your notepads and pencils, and shut the fark up.  Adults are about to speak.

First – calling Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh anything only serves to widen this divide you keep spouting off about.  When people are upset with your side’s ability to completely mismanage the nation, it’s not because they’re mean or divisive – it’s because you’re mismanaging the nation.  These people – myself included – speak out of love.  We love America and what she represents.  We love our families and kids and work and hope for the best future possible for them.  We love our lives and our families and want to make sure that we’re able to support them.

Mooooooooooo.

Second – calling them hateful, mean, etc. is 100% bull, and you damned well know it.  There’s actually a better word for what’s happening here: projection.  If you don’t believe, go to a quick look-up on the history of how liberals have behaved towards conservatives.  How about when Town Hall protester William Rice got his FREAKING FINGER BITTEN OFF?  Or all the hate mail that Michelle receives on a daily basis, usually filled with comments about her race or her gender.

And no – it’s not limited just to charged events or nationally recognized columnists.  How about when the late lefty Steve Gilliard posted his now-infamous Michael Steele photo that he hand-doctored in act that Gilliard himself associated with his “complete and utter contempt” for black conservatives?  Think it’s history?  Think again.  Sorry, kids – there’s a long line of history that says that the attacks by the left on the right are routinely more vicious, hateful, racist, sexist, and any other -ist you want to list than any attack on the left by the right.

Why?  It’s simple: conservatives care about issues.  We care about facts.  We care about things that flow on a logical course from point a to point z.  We care about history.

Liberals, on the other hand, care about feelings.  The thought that someone may use, say, actual numbers to prove that the ideas of the left simply won’t hold water makes the members of the left feel “icky” – and so they project their own hatred, fear, and negativity onto members of the right.  They use terms like “racist” and “sexist” without having any real concept of what those terms are or why it came to be that certain ideas actually are “racist” and “sexist”.  They just see a dark-skinned President, fall in love with him, and then presume that any attack on him must be because of his skin color because, dammit, that’s what made THEM love him in the first place.

And then conservatives go and use things like “math” and ask unpleasant questions like “how do you intend to pay for this”.  They look at things like “history” and say “you know, the last 57 times socialism was tried, it ended in disaster for the nations that tried it”.  They look at things like “the Constitution” and say “your czars are not behaving in a manner that’s in line with the constitution”

Yeah.  That’s all that “hate” stuff.

You want to “restore” civility to the national political discussion, members of the left?  Then stop being uncivil.  Conservatives have played very nice, so far.  Our rallies have consistently been forums of peaceful, vociferous disagreement with policy.  Yours have consistently been violent, destructive, and costly.  Conservatives have shouted “You Lie” at the President.  Liberals shouted for Bush’s head on a platter.

So the next time you lefties call for conservatives to be more civil in their discourse, why don’t you check your own eye for a plank before talking about the speck in ours?

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Glenn Beck’s Racist Problem

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a small group of whiny little hippies that now have Glenn Beck in their sites.  Aside from being someone who doesn’t toe the line on liberalism to the nth degree, Mr. Beck has also committed the crime of becoming very popular on his TV show.  Honestly, I’ve not watched much of Beck (5PM is usually when I’m driving from work to the house), but the wife enjoys the guy.

Eeeeeeeeeeevillllll!!!!!!

But not everyone does.  Why, the very thought of someone who won’t bow before the altar of liberal groupthink just sends some of our hippified friends into an absolute slobbering tizzy, and the latest is his comments that he believes Barack Obama is a racist.  And now, a group of said hippies are busily trying to line up advertisers to boycott Beck’s show.

Of course, like so many things, liberals can’t tell the whole truth on the matter, and like the communists of Soviet Unions past, they’ll happily claim things that aren’t theirs.  For instance, they claimed that Best Buy, CVS, and Wal-Mart all immediately yanked their advertising upon learning of this heinous crime, and these three companies now stand, hand-in-hand, with their new socialist friends singing “We Shall Overcome”, awaiting the final demise of the Glenn Beck Show on Fox.

Except…  it’s not true.

Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com and others have done the footwork for us and have learned the truth: these three haven’t joined any boycott.  Best Buy only advertises on FoxNews in the 6-9 AM block filled by “Fox and Friends”.  They never authorized advertising during Beck.  CVS?  They never directly asked for the Beck show, and although they did request that their ads appear elsewhere on the schedule, they have not reduced advertising.  Wal-Mart is yanking advertising from not only Glenn Beck, but from from all talking heads – from all commentarians – but I doubt you’ll hear the boycotters talk about victory over liberal talking heads like Anderson “The Mole” Cooper, Lou “Birther” Dobbs, and Keith “Bwaaaaahhhhleralawlaslwawahhhh” Olberman.

But back to Beck’s statement…  let’s look at it very carefully: “I believe this guy is a racist”.

Gee.  Whatever.  Gave.  You.  That.  Idea?

Let me be clear: racism suck, period.  The tolerance of racism is the single worst thing this country has ever done to its own people.  As a card-carrying white guy, I have no concept of what it’s like to come from a culture that was built up around being slaves, freed from slavery, and then beaten, oppressed, silenced, and lynched over the course of the next 100 years by a bunch of brain-dead morons.  I didn’t come from that culture, and as much as I appreiate it, I cannot call myself, in any way, a member of that culture.

Oh – neither can Barack Hussein Obama.  He doesn’t have a drop of Black American blood in his body.  In fact, he descended from Arab African slave traders – the same folks who sold Black Americans into slavery 400 years ago.

Mooooooooo.....

But we’re not supposed to talk about that.  We’re not supposed to talk about racism in any form unless it’s in hushed, apologetic terms.  And we’re certainly not supposed to talk about how people who’ve claimed a particular racial status on their own or who have been granted that status are associating themselves with people who bitterrly hate people because of their national origin, cultural heritage, or color of skin.

Well, I call bullplop.  Glenn Beck called it 100%: B. Hussein Obama is a racist.  He’s associated himself with racists like Gates and Wright.  He’s nominated racists like Sotomayor to the highest court in the land.  He’s been a 20-year member of a church whose theology teaches that God loves black people more than white people.  He called his grandmother a “typical white person” (I’m curious to know what a typical white person is, Mr. President).

Oh – and there was that little thing where he sided with a professor who hates white people who screamed racism when cops came by his home one night to make sure that no one was illegally entering said professor’s house.

Mr. Obama is a racist, and my wife’s choice in talking head commentators is fantastic.

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