Here’s a wonderful article written by a very well-informed gentleman.
On April 15, thousands of citizens assembled across the country to let their voices be heard. This is the right of every American. Their being able to gather should be cause for celebration, not ridicule. We are still free to gather peacefully and express our opinions.
Well, he’s got one thing right. There were only thousands of people. Hell, even if we grant the quarter million that’s still only .08 percent of the population. At least he didn’t claim to be part of a majority. But seriously, people protest taxes and all sorts of other things on April 15th. If it wasn’t for Fox News nobody would have even given a shit about this pointless right-wing hackery. Besides, we already learn about the Skokie case in U.S. History classes and quite frankly, that’s a bigger cause for celebrating free speech around.
The first 10 amendments to our Constitution are known as The Bill of Rights. Here is Amendment 1:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Gee, I think we know this one. Just one small problem. See that first part, you know, where it says “Congress?” Yeah, that part, I bet you’re not going to go on a tyrant about how Congress was passing laws to screw with your teabagging.
CNN and the networks, especially MSNBC, saw fit to ridicule these people. As usual, they spouted the party line and denounced all unbelievers as ridiculous, racists and hate mongers while throwing in obscene references. But when you think about it, who is spreading hate here?
Turns out I was right. You know, when your slogan starts out with “tea-bagging” you probably shouldn’t be surprised when people take to ridicule. Also, I don’t think there was anything about believers mentioned. Reality isn’t so much a belief as, well, the truth. Sure, they have their biases, especially MSNBC, but to be fair, have you read the signs at these teabag fests? Racist, hate mongering, and obscene references would aptly describe a lot of them. That, and there seemed to continue to be an awful problem with the difference between socialism, communism, fascism, and the poorly designed congressional rush job that has resulted from decades of bad policy on both sides of the aisle. But massive military spending is still okay, am I right? There’s also kind of a difference between ridiculing ignorance and stupidity and, well, this.
Only Fox News covered the events, as reporters of the news should when thousands of people are protesting.
By hyping the shit out of them and then personally headlining the events with their big name stars. Of course, silly me, I thought that reporters were supposed to remain neutral and not personally involve themselves in the protest. I guess that’s why the other networks don’t count when all they did was send reporters to ask questions.
Their reporters were sent to report what was happening, what the people there were trying to address.
And we’re still not really sure what that was.
For this, Fox is being denounced and accused of being a “facilitator” of a “publicity stunt.”
Well, you know, it kind of was. Did you watch any of Comrade Beck’s show?
What a disservice the media are doing to our country when they tell only one side: their “politically correct” version.
Or the “news in accordance to Boss Limbaugh” version. You know, perspective on the bias here.
They are brainwashing their viewers with the propaganda they spew, their half-truths, their portrayal of those with opposing views as being stupid, hateful and even unpatriotic. They erroneously claimed the protesters were disgruntled Republicans; in fact, party politics was not an issue as people of all parties were represented and came together in a common cause.
Okay, so the Ron Paul supporters showed up too. That doesn’t really make the Obama is a fascist, socialist, Muslim, communist, marxist, dictator signs any less non-partisan. So no, it wasn’t just disgruntled Republicans, there were also retarded and ignorant Republicans as well. Besides, wasn’t it Fox that taught us that protesting/disagreeing with the president in a time of war was treason? Iraq and Afghanistan are still going on, so well, yeah. Traitors.
The preamble to the Constitution begins with “We the People of the United States . . . ” The Constitution was ordained and established by and for the people. The federal government was set up to serve us, not to make us its servants.
And Lincoln clarified that as “Of the people, for the people, by the people.” So you know, it’s still our fault for our government. Plus, given how incompetent, ignorant, and manipulable a large swath of people are it’s no wonder our government reflects that same level of incompetence.
Mr. Bond seems to be under the delusion that our representatives in Washington actually represent us.
Well, you know, a majority of us voted for them.
If only it were so, there would be little or no need for protest. Our letters, calls and e-mail are ignored as Congress passes bill after bill sending us further and further into debt that our grandchildren will be paying interest on and taking us further and further away from what the Constitution declared for us: justice, domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.
Or maybe they’re ignored because a vast majority of us realize that your ideas don’t work. Just saying, tax cuts for the rich, well, we tried those before. Also, you know, socialism would do a good job of justice, domestic tranquility, providing for the common defense (which, well, is the most socialist thing this country is running), promoting the general welfare (universal healthcare would sure do that), and securing the blessings of liberty. Oddly enough, there’s nothing in there that says anything about debt payment plans. Perhaps we should ask Reagan about that whole debt thing.
“There is none so blind as he who will not see.” It would behoove us all to check out the “facts,” hard as this may be, for ourselves, rather than listen to television anchors passing off their biased remarks as facts. Our republic can only survive when its citizens are informed and involved.
So, we is can stop watching Fox News now please?
