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I just love a good debate, especially the kind often found on radio and TV talk show like the one Glenn Beck does on Fox News Channel. On one of his recent shows, Beck caused a flap by saying that he believes President Barack Hussein Obama is a racist. Many are calling for his firing and, depending on who you listen to, it appears he has either been suspended or is on a "forced vacation" for a week. Keep in mind, he merely said he thinks Obama is a racist. He didn't go Don Imus on us and call the First Lady a nappy headed ho or anything like that. This is what he said; “This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people … this guy is, I believe, a racist.”
Yet, as if he had pulled an Imus or something similarly egregious, many of the advertisers on his show and on the network as a whole have dropped him and Fox like a hot rock. Cowards. Every last one of them. Just because they advertise on his or any other show doesn't automatically mean people will assume they agree with everything he says or does. It means that they are, or were at one time, smart enough to advertise on a very highly rated program. Apparently they have all taken leave of their senses and have let political correctness rule the day. And all of it over one man's opinion. An opinion that may very well have some factaulity to it too.
These gutless, spineless advertisers don't deserve our business and are only hurting themselves. So, let's help them along the masochistic path they have chosen for themselves. Lets increase their pain just a little by not giving them one dime of our money ever again! The lily-livered cowards I am referring to are; AT&T, Campbell Soup Company, Colorox, Farmers Insurance Group, Johnson & Johnson, NutriSystem, Sprint, The UPS Store, and Verizon Wireless. Such giants of the corporate world reduced to whining, sniveling little cowards all because of one man's opinion. Such a shame. Makes me wonder how if they are that fearful of one man with the guts to say what he believes, how have they been so successful in the face of fierce, cut-throat competitors?
I am not necessarily rushing to the defense of Glenn Beck. He is a big boy and take care of himself and doesn't need a lowly blogger like me to take up for him. What I am rushing to the defense of is free speech. The God given, constitutionally protected right to form, hold, and freely express any opinion we choose to form, hold, or express. These rights are under attack in the Glenn Beck contorversy.
I can't speak for Beck, for Fox News Channel, or for anyone else, but I can say that I will not be bullied into allowing my rights to be subjigated by a bunch of cowardly morons afraid of getting the facts before the general public. And, like it or not, some of Obama's associates, both past and present, are clear and obvious racists. If you think he can associate with guys of this ilk and not be affected by their racist poison you're either very unintelligent or so blinded by your own racial and political bigotry that you refuse to see the facts before you. There was most likely a lot of truth to Beck's statement.
The truthopohibc advertisers and those calling for Beck's head on a platter are clearly trying to create an atmosphere where a person can say whatever they like as long it doesn't offend someone else and as long the advertisers are comfortable with it. That my friends is not freedom. It is the exact opposite. That mentality is not what has made America the greatest nation on the planet. That mentality is what will destroy us as a nation.
So, with that, I hope these gutless advertisers lose billions because of their stupidity and I hope Glenn Beck's and Fox News Channel's ratings soar to the stratosphere as a result of all of this mess. Now that is justice. That is the American way. To Glenn Beck and Fox News, keep up the good work and don't relent to the uneducated, uniformed, un-American dolts out there who are trying to silence you. I know they WILL NOT silence me!!
Jim L. Chitty
Writer/Columnist/Blogger
"There are American and there are Liberals. Which one are you?"
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