Let's Just Fast-Forward, Shall We?

Last week (April 15th), AMERICANS from all over the country got together in certain cities to protest the large amount of taxes being snared by our government. These "tea parties" have been occurring every year on Tax Day since- well possibly since the very first Tea Party! These protests are more symbolic in nature than anything else- I mean who likes taxes?- but they are NOT the protests of one party over another. However, based on the news coverage, one would think that Newt Gingrich and Bill O'Reilly went door-to-door recruiting people to attend these protests. First of all, Newt could no longer organize a tupperware party, but to think this was a Conservative movement as opposed to what it was- an AMERICAN movement- is lunacy. So it should come as no surprise that the failed and out-of-work Air America crowd- Garafalo, Maher, CNN, MSNBC and others of their ilk- made comments denouncing these movements as "rednecks and racists" getting together as encouraged by FOX to protest NOT taxes, but "our first African American President". Furthermore, through these news reports they managed to call these participants "tea baggers" instead of tea party participants (if you do not know what is meant by the phrase "tea bagging", ask your daughters). When did it become socially acceptable to use porn terms on national TV? Trust me, if Howard Stern used that term, he'd be fined another million dollars. The hipocracy and the double-standards of media coverage of our political parties is unbelievable and maddening. Just to enlighten some of you who missed this last week, the tea party movements crossed all political parties, all color lines, all religions, all cities, all social status and included both sexes. It included any and all who shared the opinion that WE pay too many taxes and what is worse- we have NO SAY as to where these taxes go (bail-outs, hand-outs, etc.). The people never really expected to change the government's philosophy on this; they just wanted to be heard. Here in LA, the tea party was organized by two liberal-leaning radio talk show hosts. They love Obama, voted for him, hate Arnold, hated Bush, but feel that our taxes shouldn't be going to AIG or FORD or any bail-outs or company failing in this economy. That's it! No racist statements, no "right wing conspiracy". One pundit put it perfectly when he was asked about Garafalo's comments about "tea baggers protesting Obama, not taxes. They are just rednecks and racists". He stated that Garafalo was "as unintelligent as she is untalented and unattractive. She hasn't had an intelligent thing to say since her last good movie, which according to most movie people was- NEVER!" So, liberals out there- enough! You lose credibility everyday when people like Garafalo, Al "Stuart Smalley" Franken, and Paul Begalo and Harry Reid make statements to represent your points of view. If these viewpoints are accurate and you support comments like calling conservatives "rednecks and racists" because they exercised their First Amendment rights to free speech and protested something they feel very passionate about, then you are CLEARLY out of touch with America and it will cost you in the future.Secondly, the ACLU and other leftists organizations, have years of lawsuits and commentary against Bush for not revealing various "secrets" that he deemed to be National Security (the ACLU HATES this!). Now, with Obama in office, they filed the same writs and lawsuits expecting a different reaction. Imagine the shock when HIS response was the same- National Security. What did these leftists organizations do in response? Did they hold news conferences announcing an Executive cover-up? Did they go on the talk show circuit slamming the Administration as a cover-up artist, lying to the American people? No. They simply said "Ok, thanks! See ya' later"...hipocrites, all...So, let's just fast-forward, shall we? Let's go to 2012, where amidst various investigations (Harry Reid among them) high-level Obama team members resign or are kkicked out in shame, yet Obama gets re-elected, but no longer has the House or Senate to back him, as the Republican make great strides in these areas (Americans are sick and tired of being broke, out of work and treated to nothing but sound byte pablum). I like Obama- he's charming, I love his kids, and I want him to succeed (not necessarily his policies though)...let's also fast forward these NBA play-offs- Lakers take Utah in 5, Portland in 7, and meet Cleveland in the Finals. They beat LeBron in 6...by the way, I'm never wrong...:)