Free Speech Obama Style… Disinvite Palin or he’ll sic the IRS on you…

This is long, sorry, please bear with me. I just posted this to Fox News and other news outlets. In response to a “news” report (I use the term lightly these days) on recent polls and the “concern” that Barack Obama might lose votes simply because he’s part African American. Sorry, but this has become ridiculous. And I’m called a liberal by my loyal opposition friends. Here it is. I’d send it to the Times (NY and LA) but it would never see the light of day.

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I thought journalists were supposed to check what they’re told, check sources, talk to the people about whom things are said to see if they have a reaction, to check out the story. Used to be that way. Now, it seems, with the Internet and instant communication, everybody is stumbling over themselves to get it out as fast as they can. It’s led to “What They Said” journalism. We report what somebody said because….. well, because they said it. The fact that they said it make it news.

Well, not really.

Why is no news organization in the United States, this grand and open nation, afraid of nothing, particularly the truth, unable to utter the word “racism” with their finger pointed at black people. It’s absolutely astounding. Are you afraid of being called something? That’s what turned many black people in the past to shucking and jiving, the fear of being called something, being slurred and labeled. Is that what’s turning you people, who call yourselves professional journalists, into frightened children, mouthpieces who merely spit out whatever somebody tells you?

We’re not doing polls to ask if non-black people are not voting for Barack Obama because he’s black? And we’re doing analysis to determine if this might affect the election and prevent the first legitimate (and I use that term lightly — I can give you several names of black leaders in a number of areas, military, political and business, who are far more qualified to hold the office of President of the United States than is this man) black candidate for President of the US?

I have a big new flash for all you news people. Something over 93% of black voters are, according to the best polling, voting for Barack Obama. In a number of states, this tidal wave level of support can make the difference for him. It’s a significant factor in his having gotten the nomination in the first place.

How many polls have been taken to determine if any of those 93% are voting for Barack Obama because he’s half African American? You won’t even ask the question because you’re afraid the Obama police will come to your station, harass you and your readers, call your editors, clog your phone lines, blog about you in the most vile terms imaginable. I’d hope it’s for those reasons and other like them. To think that you just never thought of it. That would be disturbing.

This is insane behavior.

It’s as if the entire “intellectual” mass (a fallacy, trust me — all the smart people aren’t as freaked out as you seem to be by the truth) is engaged in The Final Reparation. The culmination of the “pay us back” mentality that seems to plague this country.

I often wonder what would have happened if people had just come to America from Nairobi, or Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, Chad, and other regions of the world, as have people from Korea, Japan, Romania, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, and others, without having come here as slaves. It’s as if it’s created some special status for black people, some notion that everybody has to make up for this historical fact. I’ve never enslaved anyone, nor would I. My ancestors never owned slaves or knew anyone who did. Believe it or not, everyone in the South was not a plantation owner. You wouldn’t think so, today.

I know. The more I raise these issues, the more reflexive responses I’ll get, calling me who knows what. As the volume goes up, the reason goes down. It’s always been true of mobs, and it remains true today (there are exceptions — Poland — those mobs were right — the demonstration in the square in China — those people were right — but they were asking for freedom — of what — of opportunity — who thinks that we don’t have that in this country — you’re fooling yourself — guess what, if you flunk classes in high school, you aren’t going to be president). Okay, enough out of me.

But, you see what’s going on out here. I’m one of the reasonable, normal, middle-of-the road people. In fact, my staunch Republican friend calls me an “apologist” liberal. I wouldn’t go that far but I’m definitely a democrat-leaning voter (until this year — the democratic party has been hijacked by a bin of loonies — whoever thought it was a good idea to turn the party over to the man who set his own campaign on fire until it went up in flames, the shrieking Howard Dean, I can’t imagine — that’s one for the DNC record books of shooting yourself in the foot).

And look at what I think. You can imagine how other people are reacting to this blatant, concerted bend-over-backwards please-take-the-presidency-and-forgive-us-for-our-sins, look-at-me-I’m-enlightened-enough-to-vote-for-a-black-president national exorcism.

Bottom line. You actually think Barack Obama might lose this election because he’s part African American (or black, I can’t keep up with the PC in this area)?

The truth is (and I know, this makes me a total racist for saying it — even though it’s a fact), Barack Obama wouldn’t even be the nominee for president if he weren’t part African American and he surely wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance (I know showballs are white, an obvious racial subliminal message from me, no doubt) of being elected.

Does anybody out there have the courage to print that headline?

Across the ocean, they know it. The rest of the world knows it. To use a plantation analogy, are you all descendants of Scarlett: “I’ll worry about that (think about that) tomorrow.”

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