THE REPUBLICAN CONCEPT OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY-- BLAMING THE VICTIMS
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If "Beck" rings a bell in most consciousnesses these days, it's probably not guitarist Jeff Beck anymore but rather, just plain Beck ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey"). But if you type in "Beck" on google, after "Beck" and "Jeff Beck," up pops "Glenn Beck." And it turns out that this Beck is a talk show host and one whose vitriolic right-wing message of hatred and lies is pumped by the Bush propaganda network, Clear Channel, into the heads of 3 million Americans each and every week (via 160 radio stations controlled by the conglomerate). Media Matters had a shocking story last week about Glenn Beck's response to the Katrina catastrophe. At a time when most Americans are asking what they can do to help the victims, this uber-Bush supporter called the survivors "scumbags" and gratuitously added-- this being the season-- that he "hates" the 9-11 Families!
Glenn Beck inadvertently acknowledged, what many observers of his pro-Bush, hate-filled screeds have long understood-- that he is mentally ill-- by saying that "nobody in their right mind is going to say this out loud, and then proceeded to say it out loud and on the radio. Yesterday, when I saw the ATM cards being handed out, the $2,000 ATM cards, and they were being handed out at the Astrodome. And they actually had to close the Astrodome and seal it off for a while because there was a near-riot trying to get to these ATM cards. My first thought was, it's not like they're going to run out of the $2,000 ATM cards."
Glenn Beck has never lost his home and has never starved and watched his children starve and Glenn Beck, apparently isn't as savvy as the people scrambling to get the $2,000 ATM cards, which they knew and now we ALL know-- despite Glenn Beck's scornful prediction-- did indeed run out, in a matter of hours, leaving most people still desperate and destitute, refugees in their own country.
"You can wait!" Beck continued to mock. "You know, stand in line. Maybe it's because I'm the kind of guy, when I go to a buffet, I either have to be first in line, or I'm the very last. Because I know there's going to be extra food, and I just won't stand in the line. I'll wait until all the suckers go get their food, and then I'll go get mine. Or if I'm really hungry, I hate to admit this -- and really, I don't even have to be really hungry. If I'm really being a pig, I will kind of, like, hang out around the buffet table before the line is -- you know, chat with people right around the table: 'Oh, they just opened the line! Let's go!' And then you're first in line."
Maybe Ken Mehlman should hire him to revise the Republican Party website so that everyone can understand what being part of the GOP really means. He certainly expresses that correctly. It's all about Selfishness, Greed-- "I'll get mine and FUCK YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE!"
Addressing the problem as though it concerned people trying to get into a tractor pull of a Clint Black concert, Glenn Beck continued mock-addressing the desperate survivors: "When you are rioting for these tickets, or these ATM cards, the second thing that came to mind was -- and this is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year. And I had such compassion for them, and I really wanted to help them, and I was behind, you know, 'Let's give them money, let's get this started.' All of this stuff. And I really didn't -- of the 3,000 victims' families, I don't hate all of them. Probably about 10 of them. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them. And, again, it's only about 10. But the second thought I had when I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims. These guys -- you know it's really sad. We're not hearing anything about Mississippi. We're not hearing anything about Alabama. We're hearing about the victims in New Orleans. This is a 90,000-square-mile disaster site, New Orleans is 181 square miles. A hundred and -- 0.2 percent of the disaster area is New Orleans!"
Yes, there was a horrible natural catastrophe all along the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina and its winds blew furiously all over Louisiana and Mississippi and, to a lesser extent, Alabama. But the tragedy in New Orleans-- one Republicans like George Bush and Glenn Beck seem to still be having a problem grasping-- was not just about bad winds and rain. The catastrophe in New Orleans was about the Federal government failing-- due to right wing ideology-- to heed ceaseless pleas for the funds to maintain and repair the levees that keep water out of low-lying regions like New Orleans (or Holland). Bush thought the money would be better spent in Iraq and that's where he put his bet. So now it will cost taxpayers 10 times, 20 times, 100 times what it would have cost and the price in human lives is incalculable (something else that people like Bush and Beck with no ability to empathize will other folks don't grasp).
But Glenn Beck was on an attack roll and he continued: "And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we're seeing on television are the scumbags -- and again, it's not all the people in New Orleans. Most of the people in New Orleans got out!"
Yeah, only the desperately poor didn't-- enough proof for anyone practicing the satanic Republican religion that their gawd doesn't value them.
"It's just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they're getting all the attention. It's exactly like the 9-11 victims' families. There's about 10 of them that are spoiling it for everybody." I'd rather leave the reader to reach his or her own conclusions than for me to start ranting, so I'll just leave it there.
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Today, we see the grilling of Judge Roberts in front of the Congressional hearings on confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts.
President Bush claims, in fact, that he is responsible personally, for the lack of response to Louisiana and its tragedy, the people and their safety, and the lack of professionalism that his hand picked people demonstrated with regard to Hurricane Katrina.
Damage Control.
The republicans are on defense now, not offense. Half-time is over and the republican majority seems to understand that their days are numbered. The economy is failing, housing starts are falling, racial tensions are growing again, Iraq is a failure, the CIA and FBI have turned on the administration, Karl Rove is still under investigation for fraud, fuel prices are choking wallet s and purses to the point of dust molecules and its becoming more clear everyday that Bush has appointed some of the most incapable people in America to their positions of leadership.
If nothing else, Republican spinsters find it " noble" that finally Bush admits to being wrong. It's the only Christian thing to do in this time of dire straights before a 2006 election year.
Impeachment is growing closer. Criminal investigations are mounting. Foes of the Republican party are growing in numbers.
To the Republicans, this is a red flashing light signifying an eminent threat to their safety and re-election. If the moral majority is going to prove they are indeed moral, they have to make sure to take the fall now, or risk the losses in November of 2006.
Enter Judge Roberts.
Roberts is already famous. He is being promoted before he ever gets confirmed for his initial job.
Sounds a lot like the outgoing FEMA Director, Michael Brown or the NY Cop who was to be put into the position of Homeland Security!
Roberts, as a young man, was a vile republican defending, Reagan follower. Indeed a true republican, his history is fraught with defending a man and an administration convicted of illegally selling arms to Iran and the Contras in Central America. If that's not significant, you should understand that Judge Roberts refuses to talk about his past using the Ruth Ginsberg precedent that speaking before a trial that may appear before the Supreme Court would be inappropriate. However, when he feels it appropriate he usurps the ideology and is forthright with his answers. Naturally, where he invokes his "Ginsberg rights" by not answering questions when the question is about Abortion rights, racial inequality, women's rights, and all of the right wing propaganda agenda he can avoid.
The manner in which this man defended the Reagan administration against the precedent of race, religion and women's rights amounts to nothing less than KKK management. In several briefs and personal notes, Judge Roberts wrote time and again his displeasure regarding the rights of these individuals. He now defends those ideas by saying he was only reflecting what the Supreme Court ruling and the Reagan administration was clearly saying at that time.
If you want a translation, what he means is, " when I am a political appointee and serve at the pleasure of another person, or when I owe them favors I defend those people without regard to my personal moral value."
Its the same reason attorneys, as he says, defend murders who may be clearly guilty upon the surface. Sometimes, one has to look past the moral value of not defending a man or woman who was found with blood of the victim on their hands and admitted to being the killer, and defend them in court simply because that's the duty of an attorney.
Oddly, I must agree that is true. However, because I am not morally corrupt or opportunistic in that manner, I would never choose to do such a thing nor would I want someone who is to run our MOST IMPORTANT SUPREME BODY in charge of the HUMAN RIGHTS of a FREE PEOPLE!
The Republican Party: Simply KKK under new management.
In God, We Trust.
C3
Thursday September 15, 2005
On the September 13 broadcast of The Radio Factor, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed that "many of the poor in New Orleans" did not evacuate the city before Hurricane Katrina because "[t]hey were drug-addicted" and "weren't going to get turned off from their source." O'Reilly added, "They were thugs."
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