After the tragedy of the Arizona shooting - President Obama called for civility.
Most media venues listened to his plea.
Low-rated MSNBC "opinionists" did not.
From "Morning Joe" to the night-time line-up ... they proceeded ahead, "Business as usual."
The liberal media talk-show "opinionists" resort to race baiting and name calling when losing a debate. Especially when they are also losing their time slot viewer-ship to the #1 FOX network.
Who's next?
Rachel Maddow name calls, then coyly smiles in hopes it is "okay."
Lawrence O'Donnell blatantly calls people names as does cherubic Chris Matthews.
PLEASE NOTE:
Ed Schultz has been suspended from MSNBC for calling conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a "right wing slut" on his syndicated radio show.
Schultz opened his primetime MSNBC show on Wednesday apologizing to Ingraham, MSNBC, his family and viewers.
"It doesn't matter that I was on radio ad-libbing," Schultz said of his comments the day before. "What I said was terribly vile."
Schultz met with MSNBC management earlier in the day on Wednesday, and said he offered to take himself off the air indefinitely and without pay. The network said the suspension would be one week.
"I have embarrassed my family," he added, before turning the show over to substitute host Thomas Roberts. "I have embarrassed this company. The only way I can prove my sincerity in all of this is if I never use those words again. You have my word I won't."
Schultz said that he tried--unsuccessfully--to reach Ingraham to apologize personally. Network brass released this statement before Schultz went on the air: "MSNBC management met with Ed Schultz this afternoon and accepted his offer to take one week of unpaid leave for the remarks he made yesterday on his radio program. Ed will address these remarks on his show tonight, and immediately following begin his leave. Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."
The "Ed Show" host joined MSNBC in 2009, taking over the 10 p.m. slot after Keith Olbermann--no stranger to network suspensions--left the cable channel earlier this year, shuffling the prime-time lineup.
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss
My beloved little cat - from kitten with me in NYC to Texas, 2 years after 9/11. Unconditional love - given and received. Such joy. Such love, with love. I smile through the tears, but mostly smile. She was my friend. 24th May 2011.
The comedian hosts of their "opinionist" show lineup consists almost totally of extremely overweight white men.
Or is it coincidence?
Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Ed Schultz, Cenk Uygur, Dylan Ratigan ...
EXCEPTION:
Self-proclaimed practical European socialist stand-up comedian:
Lawrence O'Donnell - who is slim.
O'Donnell is a part-time actor (un)-known for his cameo on the TV show "Monk."
However, he is internationally known for his "racist" remark:
"Michael Steele is dancing as fast as he can, trying to charm independent voters and Tea Partiers while never losing sight of his real master and paycheck provider, the Republican National Committee".
After drawing criticism from Steele and talk-radio host Larry Elder, O'Donnell apologized for his remark.
Just because you apologize doesn't mean you're not a racist ... it means if you don't apologize - you will lose your job like Keith Olbermann, whom O'Donnell replaced. Go figure.
Maybe just a little bit racist?
You decide by counting the overweight white men who have hosting gigs as opposed to hosting gigs by people of colour ...
Rachel Maddow & Bill O'Reilly are profoundly alike!
In a world where there is no longer a Walter Cronkite or Edward R. Murrow ... ... in a reality of un-real reality TV shows ... in a broadcast media that is now always biased.
Gone are the days of real fair and balanced reporting.
The news is no longer news. Reporters no longer report.
CNN, MSNBC, FOX - are opinionists -
Some claim to be reporters - but alas, they seem to be unsure or unaware what a reporter actually is or was ...
A reporter does just that - reports the news. Unbiased - straight facts - and in simple terms - lets the viewer decide.
When you used to see the news - you saw just that. It was "happening now" it was filmed footage. There was no commentary, no opinions.
Now, cable TV has brought us opinion shows. Just because you say you are fair and balanced doesn't make it so.
AND just because you are on TV or cable does not make you smarter than your audience. Or, maybe it does. You are getting money to express your opinions.
O'Reilly looks down at his guests and holds court ...
Maddow ... talks down to her viewing audience - think as I do - or be damned sort of attitude.
She tries to be cute and coy - but those deliberate and over-rehearsed attempts come across as phony.
BOTH are arrogant beyond words.
BOTH are opinionists.
BOTH are keeping their jobs by expressing the beliefs of their corporate employers.
They are politicians, too.
As politicians are keeping their jobs by enacting laws and regulations to "pay-back" their benefactors.
Politicians get "donations" from special interests, therefore, the tit-for-tat is so profoundly like all the opinionists on TV it is surreal.
TV opinionists swipe at certain political parties - political parties swipe at certain opinionists.
There is no doubt and no dispute that many of their opinions are valid and they are shared and supported by their viewers ...
BUT - the truly wise men on this earth - past and present, historically, philosophically, spiritually - NEVER, never talked down to their followers, their readers, their believers -
for the wise man teaches, shares their opinions, expresses their values - and if they ring true - then others to will start to believe. Others will start to examine what has been said and heard and will formulate their own opinion, their own hypothesis.
But arrogant opinionists usually find themselves being dismissed.
The audience is wise.
By a student a teacher is taught.
Arrogant leaders, opinionists are so wrapped up in what they are saying, so taken in by their own cleverness - they lose sight of their own values, their own truths ...
Being clever, making sure they are always right or insisting to others they are right become their main focus and objective.
Maddow and O'Reilly are so much alike.
And some of the time - they are uncannily right on the pulse of the American.
American people are just that. All striving for that dream, the piece of that pie in the sky.
People are not put into groups or maybe they are.
Republicans and Democrats still eat , sleep, drink ... as do lesbians, thespians, scholars, priests, Mothers, Dads, Nuns, daughters, sons ....
Opinionists enjoy dividing people into camps.
They put down one group to elevate another ...
Instead of realizing that life is a compromise.
Opinions are just that.
Opinion sometimes are fact base intertwined with emotion, rationality and irrational thoughts, speculation, fear and anger ....
They are opinions. No one person has an opinion that is more valid, less valid, more true, less true ...
o·pin·ion [uh-pin-yuhn] –noun 1. a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. 2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
And just because you are on TV ... and no matter how many times you say it, or how loud you say it ... are how clever or cute ...
It is just your opinion. It does not make it true.
My late pal Miss Lillian Gish once said: "If you say your faux pearl necklace is real long enough to yourself and to your friends - then it becomes real. But in the end, the truth is no one really cares and it didn't matter after all."
And if you always believe your opinion is right - well, that seems to be arrogance.
And arrogance tends to erase relevance and validity.
Opinions are cool.
WE all have opinions.
But journalism and journalists are profoundly different than opinionists.
Journalists tell a story as it it - opinionists tell their side of the story, as they believe it should be, could, ought to be ... it is clouded by their own beliefs.
Journalist: The damn has broken. I am standing in 3 feet of water.
Opinionist: The damn has broken. I am standing in what looks like 3 to 4 feet of sludge that most likely was caused by the pollution from an oil company.
FACT: Damn has broken - there is 3 feet of water.
Opinion: Damn has broken - but I'm more important than the story - so here is my opinion ....
Everyone has an opinion.
Everyone has a story to tell.
Just because you are on TV - doesn't make you right.
And sometimes - your righteousness turns to arrogance ...
and everyone can be replaced.
Keith Olbermann, Glenn Beck ....
soon, people will forget they ever were on TV.
But real journalists - Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Barbara Walters - remain forever in the history books and are mentioned frequently in college courses and dissertations ... of a reminder of days when there was a higher standard that current television is missing and sorely in need of ....
O'Reilly and Maddow are never mentioned. Like Jersey Shore ... they are just passing through the airwaves and hopefully they will be replaced with journalists.
When will it be enough? Politicians are destroying America!
Over 5,000 American lives - our beloved soldiers - over 10 years - trillions of dollars ...
When will it be enough?
There will always be terrorists.
Maybe if we put our money into our own Country to secure borders - to screen incoming visitors - and -
NO more foreign aid to Dictators. This aid comes directly out of the the future of our children.
When the U.S. sends foreign aid - it takes money directly out of the pockets of Americans.
It takes the hope and future out of minds and hearts of American children who will never achieve the American dream.
When financial solvency and job stability in America is in question - how can Americans feel safe or secure when we read, hear, see the Government waste - MONEY America doesn't have going to other countries to re-build them, to educate them, to build their roads ....
I think America needs that too.
How can America help others when we can't even sustain ourselves?
If Americans as individuals want to help other countries because there is a disaster or a crisis - then solely as individuals - Americans can and will contribute whatever they can afford.
However - the President and the Politicians are using their political office to send blank checks to Countries that Americans - we the People did not authorize.
The Politicians are not using judgment. They are not using checks and balances.
If the single head of a family spent money foolishly - where would the family be?
For the common good of America - government spending must stop.
The Politicians opened the box of social security that We the People contributed to. EVERY pay check we legally earned - Social Security was and is being taken out ....
Now the money is gone.
Those who took it, stole it - should put it back.
Instead - WE the PEOPLE must suffer because the Politicians stole the social security monies.
They spent these monies on other ventures that were no authorized by WE the PEOPLE.
They stole from the people.
They should put the money back. THEY should be in jail. They should be held accountable.
Time to take America back.
Corruption in politics is profound.
A revolution comes by an evolution - an evolving of thoughts and facts.
America has to change in order to survive.
Perhaps an American Revolution is needed.
History repeats itself.
We cannot continue down the same path.
If Washington is ignoring we the people -
maybe the corruption is in the core and foundation -
and when the infection is in the core and foundation of current politicians - it is time to re-evaluate and change.
The politicians are destroying America.
The politicians are working in reverse of what the founding leaders intended - fought for and died for.
OBAMA was born in America but he is not for Americans or America!
But you can be for whomever you want - after all this IS America - and in theory, the land of the free and the home of ...
Obama on his re-election campaign trail stopped in Texas yesterday to pander ...
BUT please note: Obama outright lied to Texans & the Nation re: Border Control.
Immigrants do make America great. Immigrants who came to this Country, America - have made this Country unique and profoundly unlike any Country on earth.
These immigrants, however, came here legally.
Obama says to make immigration easier. "We need to provide them the chance."
The chance does not mean amnesty.
"Splitting families apart." Obama says about immigration.
No Obama. They are split apart because most have entered either legally or illegally and they want the balance of their families to be with them.
CORRECT: If they entered legally, then the balance of their family can proceed following the same process.
If they entered illegally, by the term illegal - they have no citizenship rights - therefore, why bring more illegals, family or not - to live in America?
OBAMA - you make no sense.
What you are doing OBAMA is pandering to the lowest denominator in your bid for re-election.
You are playing every despicable card in your hand to ensure you win.
You are purposely dividing this country by economic status, race, ethnicity. YOU are an opportunist - thinking not of America - but of your own political agenda.
Shame on you.
This is not a race issue - this is an American issue - and true Americans have no race, creed ... they are Americans. LEGAL Americans .... And you do not have to be born in this great Country to be legal.
Like the immigrants of yore - stand in line, pass the test ... and you will always be welcome.
By breaking the rules at the onset, concludes only one thing ...
Think about it!
Obama does not care about America - his concern is only his political career.
FACT: See who Obama is surrounding himself with. His past & present co-horts.
Ask not what your Country can do for you - but what you can do for your Country.
Obama is thinking only what the Country can do for him ~ to further his political agenda.
America and Americans MUST come first.
A government for the people - by the people.
WE the PEOPLE ... We are the people. We ARE America!
Obama is a creating a divide in this Country - do NOT ALLOW this divide to become too wide!
VOTE!
If he wants a socio-economic war, a war between ethnicity, diversity, race, creed, religion ...
GIVE HIM ONE!
People - Americans - ALL Americans - VOTE -
But know the facts, in your mind and heart - be an educated VOTER!
Obama has proven he is not a leader.
Unemployment still 9%.
Americans are suffering - yet billions are still being sent to Pakistan, Afghanistan.
VOTE this man out!
Or VOTE this man back in! But now you know who he really is. His true colors are forever changing. His ideology is forever changing ... he will say and do anything to get re-elected. He will pander to whoever he believes will further his political career.
OBAMA was born in America - but he is not for Americans or America!
E-Verify demand it - or FIRE your Govt. Representative!
We cannot turn off the jobs magnet that attracts illegal aliens to America until employers use E-Verify.
Illegal aliens will not remain in the U.S.A. if they cannot find work. This will serve to free up jobs for legal workers and reduce our budget problems.
Those who favor cheap, illicit labor over American workers are working behind the scenes to stop E-Verify because they know it is effective. Ignore these unscrupulous employers.
Demand that your State, local and Federal Representatives vote for E-verify.
TELL THEM -
It is WE the PEOPLE asking - it is your job in jeopardy if you refuse to listen.
As of today - U.S. unemployment is 9%. Among his many promises. President Obama indicated this would never happen. But it did happen - it happened on his watch. His grasp of fixing the economy - his rhetoric and his actions have failed.
The "stimulus" to big corporations and bailouts of banks - well, many, many companies did get billions of tax payer dollars, however, Obama & his Pelosi & Reid...
... NEVER stipulated to those who received bail-outs - "some of the money is to be used for job stimulation or creation of jobs."
Their agenda failed - remember the line - "Sign it now read it later!." a direct quote of Nancy Pelosi regarding Obama-care - the monster healthcare bill.
All of this political incorrectness that went on behind-the-scenes, regardless that Obama promised transparency - has led us to today ....
A profoundly sad truth - if all our beloved heroes, all our beloved soldiers would return to the U.S. TODAY - the majority would be facing unemployment.
I recently had a 22 year old roomate who returned from Iraq after his tour of duty.
He lived. Therefore, he was able to go to College . The U.S. army offers "College" when you sign-up ... they will pay for your college. What they don't state is that they do not expect you to survive your tour of duty.
My friend survived. He returned from his tour of duty. He turned 22. He is currently attending Austin community College to get his degree in business.
He found a part-time job moving furniture. That didn't last. It conflicted with the hours he needed to be in class ...
Remember- he did his 3 year tour in Iraq - in the line of fire - his tour of duty. He DID survive - he lived.
He is going to school. He has a beautiful girlfriend.
He is currently unemployed.
He lived.
BUT - if all the soldiers, all the fighting men and women returned home TODAY - would they be UNEMPLOYED TOMORROW?
If they returned home today - would they be able to pay their rent for an apartment?
Would they be able to find a job and set up house?
When Johnny comes marching home .... will Johnny have a home to return to that hasn't been foreclosed?
In America - this land of opportunity? In this great, great Country ....
It would break my heart to be an employer - to tell a "war vet" -
I'm sorry Mam, we're not hiring.
I'm sorry Sir, I'm sorry Son - we're not hiring.
Oh yes - welcome back. How was Iraq? How was Afghanistan?
Pakistan either stands with America or it should stand alone! No more $
Demand, don't ask - demand Washington stop sending Billions to Pakistan
The U.S. government works for WE the PEOPLE. It is NOT and never has it been the other way around.
Laws were put into place when this country was founded to ensure that the voices of American were heard. READ and re-read the Constitution.
The words are there for all to see, to understand.
Hitler use the Bible for his own personal propaganda. Hitler misconstrued purposely the intent and the words to justify what he was doing. People followed like sheep. Germany was in financial, economic and unemployment distress.
The Constitution says what it means and means what it says. The words used were laboriously well thought to define what America is. It defined how America was to be governed.
The billions sent to Pakistan can be better used in America. Those billions can better serve Americans.
Barney Frank (D) is correct on his assessment of this situation.
Time for the Government to reign in the Pentagon.
No longer can Americans tolerate the misuse of money to other Countries. Use that money here - secure the borders, develop security from within to thwart terrorists, to protect the Citizenry of this Country.
Pakistan either stands with America or it should stand alone!
Cut-off U.S. taxpayer dollars to Pakistan. Enough is enough!
Hillary Clinton says Pakistan officials led U.S. to Osama. Leon Panetta says Pakistan did not know about raid. Who's lying? Just cut-off taxpayer dollars to Pakistan.
Were they hiding Osama in plain sight?
They say they were unaware. If they were unaware - on its face - that is proof they are either incompetent or liars. Or perhaps both.
Let OBAMA know America needs the money. America bends over in both directions to kiss those whose only allegiance to America are the dollars they receive.
In good faith, Americans give their tax dollars to support corrupt nations, build nations when OUR own America is in need of repair.
Why don't we invest in America? What about the future of America? Schools? Intra-structure?
Politicians seem to think other Countries are the priority. The welfare of other Countries come first?
The money being used are the tax-payer dollars Americans have entrusted to politicians.
Obama has no right to spend American dollars when America faces bankruptcy. Enough is enough!
3 Billion per year to Pakistan from U.S.A.! Bang for our bucks? Enough is enough?
I somehow cannot wrap my mind around the reasoning for sending money to any Country when the U.S. is teetering on the precipice of economic Depression.
That is not theatrical rhetoric - but it is statistical fact!
The Politicians just returned from a two week vacation.
I cannot remember when I had paid vacations with a job. I know of no one in my large circle of friends who has that now.
All my peers fall over themselves to try and work on holidays.
They work to try and put food on the table, pay for gas ...
And if there is a chance to get time and a half or extra hours - they eagerly forsake their families.
In order to survive - you sometimes have to overlook or turn your head from being with your wife or husband - watching your children grow - parents grow older .... holding hands with your partner ....
WE the PEOPLE need gas in the car, food on the table ... a roof over our head ....
I went to buy some powdered garlic at Walgreens.
The sale price used to be 2 for $1.00 for two 6 oz. little plastic shakers. That ended last week.
NOW - a different brand = 3 ozs, one little shaker for $1.00 (Not even 99 cents).
A can or corn costs about the same - but the can is smaller.
Have you noticed - some things stays the same in price - but the amount you get in the can or jar is so much smaller.
In 3 days - 3 days - ALL cans of cat food at Safeway - Randalls went up exactly 30 cents per can.
However, the Safeway - Randalls generic/store brand of a can of tuna remained 65 cents per can. It is more like shredded tuna or soup - but cats still eat it. People could, but other than mixing it with an egg and scrambling it - it is useless for a salad or sandwich.
MY POINT - our point - WE the PEOPLE make decisions every day ... what we can and cannot do with our money.
When I lived decades in NYC - moved after being a witness to 9/11 - when you were paid -
1. Rent. 2. Subway tokens to get to and from your job 3. Cigarets, coffee and misc.
You ALWAYS have to have rent and utility money. ALWAY food and necessities ....
Sometimes you do, and sometimes you almost don't.
But you choose not to live in a box under a bridge somewhere ....
Elected officials - almost 93 per cent are millionaires.
They love the un-checked spending ... promises made to their "lobbyists ...
WE the PEOPLE somehow gave them a blank check with our hard-earned tax dollars.
As long as thy have jobs - the demands of, the needs of WE the PEOPLE is secondary.
