Unfortunately, mature and adult political debate has disappeared a long time ago. Instead, we are stuck with a version of political divisiveness that was first explained by George Orwell in his novel, 1984:
"This is not to say that either the conduct of war, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious."
This was the original quote. It does not take too much imagination to get from this Orwell view of oppression to today's divisive political environment to get to the following edited version by simply changing just a few words:
"This is not to say that either the conduct of politics, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. On the contrary, politics is continuous and universal in all parts of the country, and such acts as name calling, personal degradation, accusations of unpatriotism, sexual degradation, verbal assaults, the reduction of whole groups of fellow citizens with opposing views to idiocy and reprisals against common Americans with opposing views, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious."
Rather than lead and fix the problems facing the country, today's politicians only know a scorched earth approach to life and serving the country, worried only about their own careers and self enrichment, the good of the country and the citizens be damned. It does not matter if you have good ideas and principles, the only thing that matters is to eviscerate your opponents with lies, deceptions, innuendos, and nasty trash talking.
As a result, we never resolve any of the major issues in this country. Political dialog is venomous and divides Americans into separate camps and tribes, shutting down all hope of compromise and progress. And this is exactly what the political class wants. We fight each other while they continue to enrich themselves and their political donors, destroying our economy, freedoms, and civility in the process.
So for the next week or so we are going to call out the haters, both the political ones and their respective allies in the media who are all too eager to join in the slander, mudslinging, and hate. Until we stop yelling at each other and start holding politicians accountable for adult behavior and adult leadership, we will continue to be stuck with the sad state of the nation that we have allowed the political class to create where it seems that they are the only ones who are doing well.
This is our fourth post in this hate series. The first post can be accessed at:
1) Today we begin with another doozy of hate from the worst watched cable news network, MSNBC. Before going to their latest insanity, let’s review just two of their epic political hate presentations that we have previously covered:
- During the 2012 Presidential campaign, the network put together a series of video clips of buses catching on fire. Interspersed within those bus on fire clips were short video clips of the Romney campaign bus. The obvious implication is that MSNBC, which is supposed to be an unbiased news organization, was clearly rooting for Obama to win by fantasizing that the Romney bus would blow up, killing all of those inside.
Yes, that is what the media has become, rooting for people to die to get their political favorites elected. I cannot imagine the outrage that would have occurred from MSNBC if Fox News had done the same video collage but used the Obama campaign bus instead.
That news report/fantasy can be viewed at:
- Another time, an MSNBC news caster fantasized that someone should defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth to shut her up, simply because she had a different opinion than his and his network’s. Yes, if we cannot burn them alive in a bus fire, let’s at least defecate in their mouth. Pathetically hateful and disgusting thoughts, in any human context, but obviously standard fare at MSNBC.
That broadcast clip can be see at:
Which gets us to the latest insanity and stupidity from MSNBC. Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas and Republican Presidential candidate, was recently interviewed where he said he became a fan of country music after the 9-11 attacks. He basically said that country, vs. rock and roll, captured the patriotic spirit of American better than rock music did in the time following attacks and since then has been a fan of country music. Simple enough, free country, enjoy the music you like.
As a follow up MSNBC discussion to the Cruz interview, Ebony magazine’s Jamilah Lemieux made an incredible idiotic and hate filled statement: “Nothing says let’s go kill some Muslims like country music.” Huh? Country music says kill Muslims? Idiotic.
I have plenty of country music on my iPod and I have listened to alot of country music since 9-11. And I have never come across ANY country song that advocated killing Muslims, never mind condemning the entire music genre for the genres supposed focus on killing Muslims. How can one get from “I like country music” to country music stands for and advocates killing Muslims? The way you get their is to take any strand and thread and refocus it on hate for political gain. In this case trying to smear Cruz with the implicaiotn that he advocates killing Muslims.
A follow up statement by MSNBC host Ari Melber, dug this hate hole deeper: “There’s plenty of country music that doesn’t have that message, right?” That stupid question implies that a good chunk of country music lyrics concern that specific killing Muslims subject, which is also idiotic.
If Obama or Biden had been interviewed and said they like country music, you can bet that MSNBC would have viewed that as a positive aspect of their embracing of diversity, not that country music advocates for killing Muslims.
Obviously the MSNBC switchboard lit up immediately with calls since near the end of the broadcast, Melber apologized. “We have a programming note. A few minutes ago on this show, a guest made a comment about country music. That comment was not appropriate, and we want to be clear that this network does not condone it.”
Given that I bet very few country music fans are watching MSNBC news broadcasts (in fact, given the latest ratings results, very few of ANYONE is watching MSNBC news broadcasts), you know that the hard core liberal and Democratic viewers of MSNBC even found the hate over the top and over the line.
You can view the insanity at the following link:
2) Democrat Harry Reid was the Senate Majority Leader for the first six years of the Obama Presidency. Thus, he had a biased view of supporting a current President from his political party, I have no problem with that. But during the 2012 Presidential election, he blatantly lied when he said that Mitt Romney had not paid Federal income taxes for ten years. Not that he suspected, not that he had heard,he stated as fact that Romney had not paid income taxes. Unfortunately, the sound bite made for good PR for Obama and bad PR for Romney and possibly had a major impact on the Romney loss.
Recently when asked about the accusation he made and whether it was true, Reid simply said that Romney lost the election, didn’t he? Not that what Reid said was true, only that it achieved its purpose, to help defeat Romney. Rather than debate the issues and potential solutions, rather than have some degree of integrity and dignity, Reid took the low road and had so much hate that leveraged Americans’ hared of tax evaders to direct that hatred towards an innocent American. Pathetic leadership and a potentially significant shortchanging of Americas, all based on a lie.
3) Let’s stay with Mr. Reid. When recently interviewed by CNBC and asked what he thought of the current crop of Republicans vying for the Republican nomination for President. Now keep in mind that many of those candidates, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio, are also members of the U.S. Senate and peers of Harry Reid.
Rather than give them the respect they deserve, and the voters that voted them into office, Reid did not hesitate when asked and simply called them “losers.” If they are losers, than the tens of millions of American voters that voted them into office are also losers. Harry Reid is a very small man, in both physical height and respect for others. Any wonder why the U.S. Senate has been so dysfunctional since Reid became Majority Leader when he publicly views his peers as losers.
So what did we learn from the haters today:
- MSNBC is not an unbiased, non-hate filled new organization given their public wish that political opponents die in a fiery crash, political opponents choke after being defecated into their mouth, and that they will go to any extreme to paint political opponents as radicals even if it means inanely equating country music with the desire to kill Muslims.
- Harry Reid hates his political opponents to much that he is willing to issue outrageous lies, not to benefit the country and its citizens, but to simply win an election at the cost of all integrity.
- Reid is the number contributor to Senate dysfunction with his hatred and disrespect of anyone who dares to think differently than him, naming losers in a public forum.
Any wonder why nothing ever gets accomplished with this kind of poisoned political rhetoric going on? Still more hate tomorrow.
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