I get a little optimistic

Of all the countries that I have lived in, the USA is the most tolerant when it comes to race.  It is also the most virulent when it comes to race. OK, so I have lived in just two countries, so the above sample says nothing about the entire world in general, it is just anecdotal experience.

Continuing with the paradoxical theme, I'd say that when it comes to matters of speech, the USA is the freest nation in the world. No where is free speech as sacred as it is here, even if you find enough get louder to bully others into not exercising theirs. So much so that at times, they bully the opposition into compliance.

The mainstream media is a prime example of this. As you can find by sifting through this blog, there are enough examples of the mainstream media—and I am not talking about FOX News—where the bias is obvious against liberalism.

Heck the liberals have kowtowed to pressure and call themselves progressives. Yet, the news is decidedly conservative-leaning. Yes, even on supposedly liberal news networks like NBC. Don't believe me? Watch "Meet the Press" or as it should be known "The John McCain Hour featuring Chuck Todd."

The conservative media, at least since a melanin-heavy human was elected President, has been relentless in staging crescendos of racist overtones. Of course, it is disguised well with bombast under the umbrella of patriotism and objectivity, but it is brazen bullying.

For the large part they have succeeded. The opposition is basically sheep.

And yet in the last couple of weeks, the sheep have shown spine.  This is encouraging.  I would normally explain this, but since few read this blog, it is probably best to leave a few links, and see if anyone else shares my optimism.

1. This is eviscerating Giuliani.
2. This is not letting Bill O'Reilly get off with an anger fit.

"An armed society is a polite society"

Indeed. So when Shannon Watts the head of Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America uses words to protest gun violence, those of this "armed society" have polite responses. Some of them are:

Raging Rob is just a nice man who never threatened me and doesn't want my address: http://t.co/FGJRuNOouX #gunsense pic.twitter.com/YceHhst4TZ
— Shannon (@shannonrwatts) January 29, 2015

"Cliven Bundy is a racist, BUT..."

“However, I also want to say this. The ranch standoff that took place out in Nevada was not about a man named Cliven Bundy. At the heart of this issue was my belief that our government is simply out of control. Now, to me, this was about a federal agency’s dangerous response to a situation that could have resulted in a catastrophe, and that means people dying and people being shot, kind of comparable to what we saw in Waco, Texas.”

Thus spake Sean Hannity trying to treat The Unraveling as a Christian buffet. Sadly, this will work. There was never a question that his fans would forget (there is nothing to forgive as far as they are concerned) how eagerly Hannity had supported the welfare queen with the cowboy hat the days preceding that racist tirade.

Ari Fucktard

Question to @gov: how come @BarackObama 's last tweet was more than 140 characters? Does he play by different rules???

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) September 24, 2013

"Moderate" declares end of race

Remember Bobby Jindal? Sorry, didn't mean to, I'll keep this short. Someone ghost-wrote his thoughts on Politico wherein he expresses great sadness that there is racism race.

In 2003, I decided to run for governor of Louisiana, a state where David Duke got 44 percent of the statewide vote in 1990. The pundits said I was insane to even try. Friends worried about my mental stability and begged me not to run. I narrowly lost that first race, but I’ve won every race since then. I wish I had a nickel for every time East Coast political journalists have asked me about discrimination, and I wish I had a dime for every Louisiana voter who has broken those journalists’ ugly stereotypes.
Here’s what I’ve found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.

So David Duke got 44 percent of the vote because those Louisiana voters didn't care that he was a self-avowed racist? How does that work?

Wingnuts do not think before they speak

Steve King said this of global warming:

"It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science"

Therefore it stands to reason that Steve King holds science in higher regard than religion. Christianity then, has to be even more of a religion than global warming as far as King is concerned.

Yet, not many in the inept media will corner him on this wingnuttery.

Kenyan Muslin Socialism in two graphs

Public Sector Kenyan Muslin Socialism

Private Sector Kenyan Muslin Socialism