BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Thursday, October 14, 2010

WHOOPI, BEHAR, O'REILLEY



"Seventy percent of Americans don't want that mosque down there."
- O'Reilly -


"It was Muslims who killed us."
- O'Reilly -



And that's suppose to be how freedom works....?

Sounds to me like O'Reilly just wants to be popular.

After all......
$$$
the easiest way to make money is to follow the smell of money.

Wish they would stop flip-flopping between "we have drifted away from the Constitution" and "we are going against the will (vote) of  American public".

The Constitution from the very beginning was never about popular vote.  It was a compromise that gave smaller colonies a bigger voice in government (yet to be) than would have by popular vote alone. Without which, they would not have signed onto the Declaration of Independence; only to be governed without representation......again.

 One also needs to remember,
the American Revolutionary War was almost lost.
Regardless of number of soldiers sent,  material support, or number of battles fought on home soil, the smaller colonies are entitled to fairness regardless of  vote;  however unpopular.

Same go for religion.

To side with O'Reilley, self appointed spokesperson for seventy percent of Americans as well, one becomes the very same people our ancestors came to America trying to escape.  You cannot value freedom of religion and be an oppressor simultaneously without it being about you instead of rights.

The mosque not being being built, by any means not their own initiative, then you might as well burn The Constitution and change the national anthem to "ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT"; til  everyone is of same "opinion".


The Declaration of Independence you can keep.
Hang on to it.
Like knowing when to dump stocks,  you can always buy it back cheap.
 
It is about you.....right?
 
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"Proud to live in a country where one can freely choose which church to attend."
- Mike Ross -

( Dumbass blue dog DEMOCRAT (?) distant cousin of mine.  Don't even need to ask to know he's against building the mosque near 9/11.)

 

3 comments:

jlandjb said...

Take the incident down to the simplest level. Forget what the argument was about. Hosts don't walk off the stage. These two socialistic liberals can't stand anyone to have an opinion that opposes theirs, and I've wondered why guests haven't walked out on them in the past. The are rude and unprofessional. The View should fire them.

Simply Jim said...

Firing them....?

That's Barbara's problem to deal with.

As far as Joy and Whoopi...they took it upon themselves to be spokes persons for American Muslims not represented on the show; full aware an unpopular move. An emotionally charge issue and brave of them to do so. Not a characteristic quality of conservatives (Party of me! me! me!) Down to the simplest level, greater than 50 % vote does not determine rightousness, but people suffer the consequences of those votes. You could say voters walked out on Jesus.

Simply Jim said...

Whether to fire them or not is Walter's problem. That's purely a business decision. But to fire them because ratings went down because 70 % of Americans had a different opinion would be another form of a walkout..... more like walking the plank of a pirate ship.

"One thing I like about the Digital age: having the dictionary at my fingertips, how easy it is to look up unfamiliar words as I go along reading." "At least....... until, I played my first game of SCRABBLE on the internet. Wow! I had no idea you could spell so many words with seven letters every time." "Now I feel pressured to catch up!"