Don’t worry, I’m not veering to the right. I am not calibrating, triangulating or even inching in that direction. I believe that right-wingers, especially American right-wingers, are hovering at a LaGrange point somewhere between delusionally insane and criminally evil. They are not to be
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debated with, compromised with or trusted for even half a second.
That said, I don’t think we need to go overboard. There are plenty of legitimate arguments we can make, plenty of individual character flaws, ethical lapses and downright criminal behavior for us to criticize. We don’t really need to stretch.
Which brings me to the topic of tonight’s blog. In the past couple of days, I have read 3 stories where I feel that heroes of the right (Todd Palin, Michele Bachmann and Pat Robertson)were unfairly maligned.
The Palin’s, fortunately, are out of power and never coming back to it. We could ignore them entirely and I’d be happy. The story was that Todd was paid travel expenses by a court in Tennessee to come and testify. The case was Sarah Palin vs. some hacker guy, who isn’t really even a hacker, he’s just pretty good with computers and managed to guess her password.
I thought it was petty of Caribou Barbie to prosecute the guy in the 1st place (he served 10 months), but once the trial was on, reimbursing witnesses for their travel expenses is, I think, fairly standard procedure. Todd didn’t get a free trip to the Bahamas. There are no tropical beaches in Tennessee.
The second case involves well known crazy person Michele Bachmann. She appeared a couple of days ago on the Jimmy Fallon show (never seen it. I’m not commenting on Jimmy Fallon.) Now, whenever a guest comes on one of these shows, the band plays some appropriate song. Like, they might have chosen “Michele, ma belle” by the Beatles or perhaps “Onward Christian Soldiers.” But the band decided to play a song called “Lyin’ Ass Bitch.” Perhaps an accurate statement, perhaps not. Personally, I think the congresslady from the beautiful state of Minnesota honestly believes the insane bullshit that pours out of her mouth, and the “liar” tag more properly belongs to Mitt Romney but, in any event, it’s no way to treat a guest.
The 3rd case was when TV evangelist Pat Robertson had Condi Rice as a guest on his show. She was interviewed by Robertson’s demographically appealing co-host Kristi Watts, who is everything Robertson is not – female, black and younger than 80 years old – and they talked about their mutual love of macaroni and cheese. Robertson, in response to this, said “Mac and Cheese, is that a black thing?” and the left wing blogosphere erupted.
Why? It was a normal question.
We should be able to talk to each other and ask each other questions about our respective cultures without everybody getting all bent out of shape about it. Pat Robertson may be a senile old fool, but he gets a pass on this one.
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