Take the Country Back from the Right Wing Racists

[Indigo Blue]

September 18, 2009

Take the Country Back from the Right Wing Racists

You know, I have to be honest here. I really can't imagine most of the loudest members of the Republican right wing fart machine, like Beck, Limbaugh or Hannity, lynching a black man. It's unlikely someone like Tom Tancredo or Representative Joe Wilson (not to be confused with Valerie Plame's husband, of course) would ever run their cars over a group of undocumented immigrants selling oranges on Santa Monica Boulevard. In other words, on the racism scale, they're not at the top. I guess that's a good thing. They're definitely not mass murderers. But has our society become so coarse that not being a mass murderer is a badge of honor?

But while I can't imagine Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or any of the rest of the gang of right wing idiots polluting our media actually burning a cross on the front lawn of the White House, I have no doubt that, if they were walking down Pennsylvania Avenue and saw one already burning, they’d be more inclined to toast a marshmallow or grill a steak than to actually call the police or fire departments. Careful guys, you shouldn’t eat food cooked over a gasoline fire.

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Republicans and right wing media are all about money and power, so they have no choice to be racist, because their key demographic is ignorant and racist. And they can no longer excuse themselves. Even if a Republican politician wouldn't treat a member of a minority badly, personally speaking, the fact that they are more than willing to openly play to racists, and give them a wink and a nod in order to get votes and support makes them racists themselves. When you play to scumbags to gain power, you yourself become a scumbag. When John McCain, who is not personally racist -- and by that I mean, he has probably never treated a minority badly himself -- embraced the racist wing of the Republican Party in order to try to win the presidency, he demonstrated racist tendencies, whether he meant to or not. That made him a racist. When the Republican Party talks about illegal immigration, they invariably invoke images of brown people swimming across the Rio Grande, or tunneling under the border fence. This, despite the fact that MOST of the undocumented immigrants in this country come here legally and just stay beyond their visa, and more than half are not from Mexico or points south. But there is no political advantage to be gained by discussing the actual facts with regard to illegal immigration. Because of the makeup of their “base,” they are required, politically, to scare the idiots with the image of a swarm of brown people who talk funny and take their jobs

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The right wing fart machine is stoking these people, and it really has to stop. These people need to be driven back to the fringes where they belong, not placed on a pedestal, as if they have something to say that is worth hearing. And it's time that those in the media and in politics who cater to these idiots are pushed back into the fringes with them.

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We as a society must stop allowing this crap to continue. When are we going to take steps to stop it? Yes, of course Rush Limbaugh has the right to be as racist as he wants. He can start a blog, or publish a newsletter, or rent a hall and make a speech, anywhere he wants to, where he can call for segregated school buses and proclaim certain types of racism "justified" to his heart’s content. But he doesn't have the right to do so on OUR airwaves. The stations that carry him have a license, which is a contract with the people who actually OWN the airwaves (that's us!) to operate in the public interest. Sorry, but spewing racism and lies to keep a tiny fraction of the public motivated to continue voting Republican is not "in the public interest." Stoking the fires of racism and motivating dangerous people into thinking "the Negroes" have taken over our wonderful "white" country in no way constitutes "the public interest." We need to go after the advertisers, and we need to blanket the local stations and let them know this kind of crap will no longer be tolerated. And we have to contact our members of Congress to demand a return to oversight, and start filing complaints with the FCC (http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm). Send letters to your local station, and let them know you're filing the complaint, and to local advertisers, and let them know you'll stop supporting them unless they start putting these people on notice, that stoking the fires of racism and violence will no longer be tolerated.

Stop waiting for Congress and the FCC to do something; WE have to power to stop this crap. Hit them in the wallet; that's where it hurts most.


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[Democrats_win]

1. "Hit them in the wallet...." I figure that's all that's left for we the people to do.

I've decided to stop watching local TV.

[tblue]

2. K&R'd with 2 snaps in a circle!!! nt

[timeforpeace]

3. Maybe we should take over the presidency, the Congress and most of the states!