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Friday, July 31. 2009
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With all the critters crawling out of the cracks of the Republican Party’s nut wing, thank the gods for Stephen Colbert. And Jon Stewart. If you’re not tuned into Comedy Central from 11 p.m. to midnight, your evening is a waste. Actually, I’m tuned in, but often enough, I’m falling asleep before Colbert is over and sometimes, I’ll miss the end of The Daily Show, happily snoring away in the comfy chair, oblivious to the frivolity and truthiness taking place ten feet away on the TV.Both Stewart and Colbert have had a field day lately with the nut wing of the “conservative” movement. Neo-con and Iraq War architect John Bolton was the guest on The Daily Show and I found myself reminiscing with nostalgic melancholy: “Remember when John Bolton represented the extreme fringe of the Republican Party?”
Now, we have the “Birthers” — Go Lou Dobbs! — the people scaring the citizenry about the “public option” in the health care reform — it’s going to counsel the elderly they are a burden to society and therefore ought to end their lives — Rep. Virginia Foxx — and the race-baiters — “President Obama is a racist!” — Glen Beck.
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina said of the non-existent Republican alternative to the current House health care plan: “… make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.”
Minority Leader John Boehner, no stranger to telling a lie, called the provision “government-encouraged euthanasia.”
The mustard seed at the center of this current talking point from the Republicans is the provision that allows patients and their doctors to talk about living wills, living directives and durable powers-of–attorney. They have decided this provision, first introduced by Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer.
No one is coming to kill the seniors, but that’s what the Republicans are telling us old folks. According to the Republicans, the Democrats are out to kill children and the elderly with this health care reform. The big lie from the Republicans is that this health care reform will do away with Medicare and seniors will be forced into this new system which, according to the Republicans, will ration health care and those now on Medicare will be denied treatment because they are too old and a burden on the system.
But getting back to Beck and the cabal calling the president a racist. Stupidly, the president gave an opinion on the arrest of professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the chair of African-American Studies at Harvard University. The president said the Cambridge police acted stupidly. Now, according to Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and the chattering others, this is proof the president is racist.
Rush Limbaugh has known it all along! He even said so! And according to Beck, President Obama couldn’t sit in the pew listening to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years and not become a racist.
Beck, on Fox and Friends, said the president has a deep-seated hatred of White people. His colleagues on FoxNews challenged Beck, simply on logic, but Beck is standing by his words. To believe Beck, who also said he doesn’t think the president dislikes White people, we would have to believe the president has a deep-seated hatred of his White mother and her parents who helped raise him in Kansas.
So the president has a deep-seated hatred for White people, but he doesn’t dislike White people. Makes you wonder if he’s just putting everyone on.
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“Racism is nothing more than an unpleasant nuisance that is best to ignore, like a fart.” It was one of the funniest segments Colbert has ever aired, he even laughed a few times himself. Classic statements from the segment, including this chestnut: “Like how Beck likes arguing, but has a deep-seated hatred for logic.”
“You have the right to remain silent but deadly.”
Better you watch the segment yourself, a written description does no justice for Stephen Colbert. If you’re not watching Colbert and Stewart four nights a week, you’re missing some of the best political humor ever presented in any venue.
On a lighter note: it was 35 years ago today I entered boot camp for the United States Marine Corps. Before sunrise August 1, 1974, my long hippie hair was gone and the civilian clothes were replaced with olive drab utilities. Unfortunately I’ve lost most of my photos from those years, but the memories linger!Semper Fi.
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