Can you imagine the uproar if a Republican had used the word “negro” in any context related to President Obama? I know, the Internet is full of posts decrying the inexcusable bias of the main stream media. You’re aware of it, and either you care or you pretend it doesn’t exist.
Still, this one gets to me. Because it was a shot at the Untouchable One. Because it involved a variation of the Unspeakable N-Word. Because the same media that made a maelstrom over a non-issue with Rush Limbaugh’s supposedly racist comments overlooks a truly racist remark when it suits their agenda. Because it is such a brazen double standard. Because they’ve given up even the pretense of impartiality. It merits one more mention.
The rich, bigoted elitists who control the media don’t care about you. They don’t care about racism or poverty or fairness or any of the other things that they want you to think are important to them. They care about controlling the system and getting even richer. They care about embarrassing the Republicans at every opportunity, simply because they hate the Republicans. They probably don’t even know why, they just do.
I’m sick of it. I’m swearing off the major news networks. I’ll get my information from the web and my local paper (until the death of print takes that option away). I’m tired of the Obama Age already. I’m tired of the Fairness Doctrine and runaway spending (which, I’ll admit, was alive and well during the Bush Presidency). I’m tired of a government that is no longer for the people or by the people. Year after year we choose the lesser of two evils, and we feel powerless to do anything about it.
Harry Reid makes an utterly inexcusable racist comment. A year and a half later, we find out about it. Now, we’re supposed to just ‘get over it’ and move on.
Then again, this is the same Harry Reid who once rejoiced in the fact that he was far enough removed from the people that he no longer had to ‘smell the tourists’. Maybe he’s not a racist. Maybe he just hates us all equally.
