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The disgruntled have mistaken themselves for the disenfranchised.
Thursday, 26 August 2010 05:47 pmConservatives shake their heads about the Islamic cultural center (not a mosque and not at Ground Zero) which is less about desecrating an area that includes a McDonalds and more about Manhattan being a lot smaller than Midwesterners think it is. "They have the right to do it, but it's extremely disrespectful!"
Who's being disrespected by building a community center across the street from a strip club blocks away from Ground Zero? Who's being disrespected, when the dead included Muslims, and the families come forward to stand behind the building of the cultural center? And why weren't Conservatives worried about respecting the dead when Ann Coulter was attacking their families?
It doesn't disrespect the dead, because like the strip club and the McDonalds, it doesn't have anything to do with them.
Liberals shake their heads about Beck's non-political rally that looks political, but which is just a shamelessly tacky way to shill his new book to hyper-political followers who suspend disbelief like pros in ignoring both his background as a shock jock and his own statements about his untrustworthiness. The whole event is therefore not so much politics as it is cannibalism. "They have a right to do it, but it's extremely disrespectful!"
Who's being disrespected by this megalomaniac's brazen attempt to fleece the faithful? The faithful are, along with the revolution to which Beck pays lip service when he's not telling his followers that it's their own damn fault if they can't find a job. People wave their tea bags and ignore the message between the lines, that it's natural and American to actively screw people over, and that's why we can't hold people or banks or corporations responsible when they do it--we can only point the blame elsewhere and try to hurt someone worse off when it happens to us.
Regardless of what day the Disgruntled White Folks Rally takes place, or where the flock gathers to shake their bags of Chinese tea and listen to Beck's sales pitch, or how Beck primes the pump with snide allusions and insults masquerading as compliments, it doesn't disrespect MLK or his legacy, because it has not a damn thing to do with either of them.
Who's being disrespected by building a community center across the street from a strip club blocks away from Ground Zero? Who's being disrespected, when the dead included Muslims, and the families come forward to stand behind the building of the cultural center? And why weren't Conservatives worried about respecting the dead when Ann Coulter was attacking their families?
It doesn't disrespect the dead, because like the strip club and the McDonalds, it doesn't have anything to do with them.
Liberals shake their heads about Beck's non-political rally that looks political, but which is just a shamelessly tacky way to shill his new book to hyper-political followers who suspend disbelief like pros in ignoring both his background as a shock jock and his own statements about his untrustworthiness. The whole event is therefore not so much politics as it is cannibalism. "They have a right to do it, but it's extremely disrespectful!"
Who's being disrespected by this megalomaniac's brazen attempt to fleece the faithful? The faithful are, along with the revolution to which Beck pays lip service when he's not telling his followers that it's their own damn fault if they can't find a job. People wave their tea bags and ignore the message between the lines, that it's natural and American to actively screw people over, and that's why we can't hold people or banks or corporations responsible when they do it--we can only point the blame elsewhere and try to hurt someone worse off when it happens to us.
Regardless of what day the Disgruntled White Folks Rally takes place, or where the flock gathers to shake their bags of Chinese tea and listen to Beck's sales pitch, or how Beck primes the pump with snide allusions and insults masquerading as compliments, it doesn't disrespect MLK or his legacy, because it has not a damn thing to do with either of them.
