Yes, it is time to announce where the Flying, Fickle Finger of Fate--the reincarnation of the old "Laugh In" statuette symbolizing conspicious stuupidity, or worse--pointed this week. Yet again, the coveted statuette (of an INDEX finger) did not poont at a single winner, but osciallated back and forth between two deserving winners (one being a group of people, which required the judges to correctly interpret some weird gyratons of the finger as different member of that group surfaced in various places, but the judges have become expert at interpreting the way "the Finger" points).
"The Finger" clearly pointed out Senator Charles Schumer of New York for his willingness to say anything, no matter how stupid, to advance his political agenda. This was illustrated by not one, but THREE statements:
1. The astonishing, and absurd, statement that the bottom 90% of income earners are in a recession, while the top 10% are not. This statement may qualify Schumer for the Nobel Prize in economics, since this idea that a RECESSION (dealing with the broad measure of economic activity known as the Gross Demestic Product) can be segregated by income group is an idea that has never occurred to any actual economist. Either that, or economists will tell Schumer jokes forever after. I know which way I am betting.
2. The equally astonishing statement that 1,000,000 additioinal barrels of oil from Anwar, which we do not have but would have had if Democrats had not blocked drilling in Anwar since 1994, would only lower gasoline prices ONE PENNY. This ridiculous assertion is as novel to oil/gasoline analysts as the assertion on "recession" is to economists. Such analysts suggested that McCain's idea of stopping the purchase of 70,000 barrels a day for the Strategic Oil Reserve would probably reduce gasoline prices "only" 4 cents or so a gallon (1,000,000 being more than 10 times 70,000).
3. Schumer's amazing indictment of SCHUMER, as he talked about how lack of CONSUMER COFIDENCE was destroying the economy (as Schumer did his level best to LOWER consumer confidence with his ridiculous statements.
However, even though "the Finter" kept returning to Schumer, it refused to settle on Schumer alone. Every time a leftist appeared on a cable TV network DEFENDING Reverend Wright, "the Finger" went crazy as it tried to point at all such people, while still pointingat Senator Schumer. Montel Williams has been chosen to be the representative accepting the award for this group.
Nope. This is NOT best illustrated by defenders of Reverend Wright's comments that finally were too much for Barack Obama (at the press club), although there was no defense for that. In fact, a special award should probably be invented for people like Alan Colmes (merely, as usual, picking up the "talking points" of other leftists), who were willing to TRASH the memory of Martin Luthor King Jr. to try to defend Reverend Wright (quoting some outrageous statements of Drl King).
I saw Reverend Wright's speech to the NAACP, the day before his news conference at the Press Club, as it was carried LIVE by both CNN and Fox News.
The reacton of Soledad O'Brien, and others at CNN, was that it was a GREAT speech that showed how great a man Reverend Wright really is. Geraldo Rivera had Motel Williams on to comment on Fox News, and Williams called it a GREAT SPEECH--justifying his choice as the proper representative to accept "the Finger" for leftists everywhere of the same mindset.
So help me, Wright's speech (remember, I listened to every word, and did NOT hear "sound bites") could have been given by a grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to justify segregation (with very few changes in words). It was one of the most obviously RACIST speeches I have ever heard--confirming my repeated asserition (in combination with the reaction of leftists like Soledad O'Brien and Montel Williams calling this a "great" speech) that the primary racists in our society today are leftists (much more numberous than the white racists still left).
Reverend Wright said that "whites" and African-Americans THINK DIFFERENTLY, LEARN DIFFERENTLY, and HAVE DIFFERENT BRAINS, because "European" brains developed differently from African brains. Africans developed as "right brain" people (creative and intuitive), while Europeans developed as "left brain" people (attracted to logic, and developing the kind of mind that can more readily do things like mathematics and the hard sciences--something like the suggestion Larry Summers, of Harvard, made, with more jusitification, as to men and woment thinking differently). Wirght even went so far as to say that this DIFFERNCE between "Africans" and "Europeans" explains why Africans can't behave in class, but jump all over the room and the teacher. Now if Wright had suggested that we are FEMINIZING education, such that MALE children are smacked down too hard for being normal BOYS, he might have had a point. As it is, this was racist junk.
This idea that the brains of "Africans" are FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT from the brains of "Europeans" is simply racist. Further, there is little to support it. It is something upon which the KKK and Wright would AGREE, because they both are use the language and assumptions of HATE.
Yet, Montel Willimams had NO problem with this. Soledad O'Brien had NO problem with this. Geraldo Rivera only had a MNOR problem with this (choking a little on the "black english" rhetoric of Wright, and his apparent suggestion that different standards of learning be applied to black and white students). Numerous other leftists had NO problem with what Wright said before the NAACP. He was appluaded wildly. It was only when Wright went totally off the beam the next day, at that press conference, that SOME leftists (including Obama) backed off. Others, like Alan Colmes, continues to defend Wright.
HOW can leftists not see a problem with this idea that African-Americans and "Europeans" think DIFFERENTLY? It is because, at their core, they ARE racist. This is what they expect people like Reverend Wright to say, and they refuse to find anything wrong with it because blacks are VICTIMS of the "white race" (a racist concept in itself, as blacks have been the victims--slavery and discrimination--of INDIVIDUAL RACISTS, and not of a "race", just as black criminals do NOT make the whole race criminal).
Nope. Montel Williams. Soledad O'Brien, virtually all of CNN, Alan Colmes, and all of the rest who think like them, ARE deserving winners of "the Finger".
Award ceremony (virtual ceremony, without vide):
Here you need to imagine Dick Martin thrusting the "Finger" statuette into the camera and saying: Montel Williams and Senator Schumer, this is for YOU. You DESERVE it."
"The Finger" has again shown its uncanny ability to point out those deserving of this recognitions each week.
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