The premier of Katie Couric’s new webcast show, @katiecouric, begins Tuesday, September 22 at 7 pm. Her first guest will be none other than this week’s Time cover feature, Glenn ‘the Rodeo Clown’ Beck. The preview video captures Glenn sayings some rather astounding things. For instance, he confesses that he would have voted for Hillary Clinton and that he believes Obama is better for the country than McCain would have been.
Huh? After all the railing against Obama on his 5 pm show, this man now says Obama is better for the country than McCain would have been. I give up. I simply don’t understand the angry thundering masses. I feel very much like I am watching LaLa Land Revisited.
Fox New’s Chris Wallace (biololgical son of Mike Wallace) commiserates that Obama did not include Fox News in his Sunday rounds. Well…DUH! Does anyone blame him? Every time Chris Wallace opens his mouth he takes a swipe at the President. What President would deliberately walk into a den of snakes? Maybe Wallace needs to stop whining and look at why the President feels a Sunday morning trip to Fox might just be counter-productive.
Most impressive is O’Reilly puffing up and informing all that Fox News and talk radio are the only credible news sources now. Nothing could be further from the truth. If they keep saying it enough, maybe it will come true.
Un- Fair and Un-balanced, unless of course they are saying what you want to hear. Maybe we should rename them the Boo Hoo Network.
Heaven help us all if O’Reilly is right. I truly fear for the country. Fox and talk radio.
Reprint of The Pointlessness of the Racism Debate by Lincoln Mitchell
Huffington Post
The question of whether or not some of the attacks on President Obama are racist is not likely to end anytime soon. There is little that can be done to persuade some supporters of President Obama that comparing the African American president to a witch doctor is not racist, or that the disrespect shown to Obama during his address to congress on health care would not have been on display if the president had been white. Similarly, critics of the president will continue to insist that this is simply all about the issues and that race has nothing to do with it.
Part of the difficulty is that on issues of race, there is a deep, but usually unspoken disagreement which runs through most of America. A substantial proportion of Americans see racism as something that is firmly in the past. This originates both from justifiable pride in how far we have come in this area, but unfortunately also prevents many people from recognizing or confronting the racism that still persists. Another large group of Americans sees racism as an ongoing problem which is less acute than a generation or two ago, but has certainly not gone away. The tension between these two views is apparent whenever a racial incident occurs; and it seems like half the country cries racism while the other half accuses the first half of playing the race card.
Henry Gasparian must have reached his boiling point. He got into a shoving match with LaRouche supporters who had the infamous idiot pictures of President Obama sporting a Hitler mustache.
Mr. Gasparian, an Armenian, has family who were killed or maimed by Hitler. He doesn’t feel someone so evil should be used for political gain, so he attempted to take the papers. People need to think about other’s feelings when hurling around careless rhetoric.
As a child in Armenia, Henry Gasparian witnessed firsthand the horrors of Nazi Germany. Two uncles were killed, his father wounded and a brother starved to death during the German invasion and occupation of the Soviet Union. So when Gasparian, 70, of Edmonds, saw a poster of President Obama with a Hitler mustache near the entrance to the Edmonds Farmers Market on Sept. 5, he admits that his reaction was “personal and emotional.””>Seattle Times:
As a child in Armenia, Henry Gasparian witnessed firsthand the horrors of Nazi Germany. Two uncles were killed, his father wounded and a brother starved to death during the German invasion and occupation of the Soviet Union. So when Gasparian, 70, of Edmonds, saw a poster of President Obama with a Hitler mustache near the entrance to the Edmonds Farmers Market on Sept. 5, he admits that his reaction was “personal and emotional.”
He tried to grab the fliers being passed out by supporters of Lyndon LaRouche, a perennial presidential candidate who has likened Obama’s health-care proposals to the Nazi extermination of Jews and other “undesirables.”
Two young LaRouche supporters told police that Gasparian repeatedly pushed them and grabbed one of their arms. Gasparian said it was they who first pushed him.
Now Gasparian is charged with two counts of fourth-degree assault in Edmonds Municipal Court for what he describes as an attempt by “an old man to say you cannot insult the president with this outrageous campaign.”
