From Drudge: “SHARPTON VOWS MORE: ‘It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms the airwaves’.”
How about this? How about we don’t allow on our airwaves self-serving racist blowhards in three-piece suits who had anything to do with the Tawana Brawley case?
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But, Roger, how do you *really* feel?
You change one (the last) word in that comment and you immediately hear another reverend Al.
Or was it Tipper?
‘It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the air(waves)…’
The Alarmist Al’s – Sharpton and Gore.
There are some interesting parallels behind the politics of man made global warming and race.
Frankly, we are fast becoming the epitome of a Jerry Springer society. It seems to have become more important to have an audience and notoriety when confronting conflict than it is to attain resolve and mutual respect. That model seems to serve the needs of the exploited and those who seek to exploit; reinforcing all that relegates objectivity to the outhouse while making the frailty and imperfection of the human condition a spectacle that harkens back to the Coliseum.
This situation isn’t and shouldn’t be about whether liberals or conservatives, this race or that race, hip hop or honky-tonk, one group or another, are more offensive and therefore more responsible for all that is wrong with America. I am not capable of judging the whole of Don Imus nor am I capable of crafting a recipe to fix all of America…and neither are the countless pundits and partisans who have sought to frame it so.
I’m not a religious person…but I often find kinship with the imagery surrounding the portrayal of one called Jesus and his teachings of understanding and forgiveness. For all the banter I hear about the Bible and Christian values, it certainly seems to me that we are fast abandoning what many view as the sacred “tablets” in favor of the sacrosanct tabloids. If I’m right, all I can say is heaven help us.
Read more about the dynamics that lead a situation to become larger than the sum of its parts…here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
One things for sure, establishment figures, whether liberal or conservative, will not take Sharpton on. We are a terrorized society.
“We are a terrorized society”
For a radio/television personality, I supposed in terms of proximity, they have more to fear from the Als than from Os
Most people don’t even pay attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, thank God.
Hmm… you’re right, Roger. I never thought of things that way before. The campus PC wave in the late ’80s through today, the Al Sharpton portion of the racial movements, the Duke rape case and the “Group of (fill-in-the-blank with their latest count)”, the UW Law School Hmong isssue… all these come across as the second coming of the Inquisition. Except the trials are websites with their deliberations being comments on angry blogsites (Kos? Marcone’s site? FDL? etc.) and the torture is belittlement, condescension, and hectoring.
Granted, I’m not going to carry the analogy too far… there’s not been any burnings at stakes yet, but there have been Auto-de-fe’s of sorts (remember, the Auto-de-fe wasn’t the torture and burning of heretics itself, it was the public display/humilitation where the sentences were read and the condemned persons reactions were witnessed). Recall the antics of the Group of 88 in the Duke case as an example.
Modern day racial or political “activism” may not rival the Inquisition in effect, but in spirit it’s pretty durn close. Damn all the heretics and all that. Nice analysis, Rodger; I never thought of things in those terms before.
Er… Roger’s right in invoking Torquemada. Sorry that I didn’t make that clear.
There you go again, Roger, thinking rationally. Don’t you know it’s now a world prone to irrationality? My own theory is that excess CO2 emissions have no effect whatsoever on global warming, but have a deleterious effect on human thought processes thus producing an environment conducive to such irrational phenomena as Imus, Anna Nicol Smith, Al Gore preaching the eschatology of global warming, and a cheap demagogue like Al Sharpton morphing into a form of moral arbiter.
Tom Wolfe had this one nailed years ago.
‘The New Inquisition’ has been around for awhile. Robert Anton Wilson wrote a book by that title in the early-mid eighties. He was also one of the first to realize the potential impact of PC and the feminist movement of the 70′s.
Did you know that the US government, has, on occasion, burned books because they didn’t like the subject matter or the information?
Did you know that the US government has made statements that do not agree with facts, in order to further policy? Better yet, did you know that the GAO has made a ruling which stated that it was OK to lie to the public in order to further policy?
Did you know that some areas of research were banned and much of the existing documented work on the topic was destroyed? Worse yet, that happened at the behest of the Gipper himself.
America has been fighting between freedom and opression for quite some time.
Sorry, not “at the behest of the Gipper”, but rather “under his administration”. I don’t know that he was personally involved (Sorry, caught the mistype on rereading it)
The hayday of race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson may be almost over, judging from Michigan’s vote against affirmative action last fall. Opposed by both parties and every newspaper, church and state organization, Ward Connerly’s amendment to the state constitution prevailed nevertheless by about 2-to-1. Not only that, his ballot language had been watered down by an unfriendly judge, so the voters saw “end affirmative action” instead of “end racial preferences,” which opponents thought was going to be a poison pill. Mrs. O’Connor was totally reversed, and Michigan took a long step toward the creation of a colorblind society.
“Most people don’t even pay attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, thank God.”
They should. What happened in Crown Heights could happen anywhere.
However loathsome it was, to my knowledge nothing Don Imus has said has ever gotten anyone killed.
For those who think nobody pays attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, I would beg to differ with your. A couple of years ago I was up in the Bronx to see a doctor and get a special test. On the bus going home a black guy got on and started passing out handbills advertising a special appearance by Al Sharpton. I was amazed to see how many people took the handbills and commented on how much they supported Sharpton and how he took it to the man. They admired him so much.
Based on the demographics I just kept my mouth shut but I could not believe all the people who bought this POS guy. He strikes me as the perfect role model for that minister with his rent-a-riot crews in Bonfire of the Vanities and he has been pushing this crap for a long time.