Reaping What You Sew

She Said…He Said…And Other Miscellaneous PC Crap


Ok, my head is spinning around at orbital rotational velocity again this morning.

This time I have another problem with politically correct media induced bullshit, but this time I’m siding WITH the media and AGAINST the currently fashionable knee jerk political correctness crowd.

In the past month a couple of private E-mails from ABC Good Morning America producer John Green were leaked to the Drudge report and the New York Post.

In one of these E-mails, written during the first presidential debate in 2004, Mr. Green made clear his personal dislike of Republican President George Bush.

"Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke."

In the second, in slightly more inflammatory language, he made disparaging comments about former Democratic Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

In that note, Green wrote that Albright should not be booked on the show because "Albright has Jew shame."

Albright, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, acknowledged her Jewish heritage in 1997 after it was discovered by Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs in the course of researching a book.

Green wrote in that note that "she hates us anyway because she says we promised her five minutes and only gave her two . . . I do not like her." An ABC insider said Green was reacting to a heated dispute between Albright and a network producer.

It would seem that John Green is an equal opportunity offender of both sides of the political isle, but come on folks—when and where is this crap ever going to end?

I ask you, are we all doomed to live in 6th grade, with 6th grade mentalities, for the rest of our existences?

Let’s face the facts ladies and gentlemen, neither of these E-mails was intended to be released for public consumption, although I recognize the need to carefully pick your words in correspondence on corporate computers and internal snail mail systems.

For instance, writing on the company E-mail system that your boss is a moronic cross dressing, transvestite, pedophile could be considered potential grounds for discipline or dismissal from your employment, even if it were true, BUT…

If everything that you had ever written in the past ten years in your own E-mail correspondence were printed out in the newspapers or otherwise revealed to your friends, family, and the general public, isn’t it possible that you could manage to cause some hurt feelings and outrage.

Could there be some real and/or imagined slights in there somewhere, issued in haste or in the heat of the moment?

I suspect that no one would be immune, so why is ABC forced to place John Green on a months suspension for speaking his mind in a private context?

I've said it before here in this blog, and I'll say it again:

It is impossible for the government or the political correctness crowd to control the actual thoughts and feelings of human beings, but that is where they are trying to go with this PC crap.

Hate crime laws punish you based on what you were THINKING at the time you did something that was usually already against the law at the time the act was committed. It's not enough that you are convicted of killing someone, now they give you extra penalties based on what was going on in your brain's neurons at the time of the murder.

Historically there have been different standards or thresholds of tolerance expected by the politicians and the media from Democrats or Republicans, and particularly for blacks and whites when it comes to racially charged issues.

Trent Lott lost his Senate leadership position for comments made at a private birthday celebration for Strom Thurman—a South Carolina DEMOCRAT. All Trent said, and I’m paraphrasing, is that the US might have been a better place had Senator Thurman won the 1948 presidential election over Truman and Dewey.

Since Thurman was running at the time under the banner of the “States Rights Democratic” party with heavy segregationist rhetoric (he carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina), the media soiled their underwear and somber faced Democrats, lilly-livered Republicans, and “black leaders” demanded his outright resignation from the Senate.

They settled for his departure as ranking Senate Majority leader.

Meanwhile, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Lewis Farrakhan can run around in front of TV cameras and microphones saying that the government intentionally broke the levees in New Orleans and no one bats an eye. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagen and the Democratic hag of a Louisiana Governor can leave a thousand empty buses sitting in parking lots while at the same time claim that the racism of the Bush Administration and FEMA caused their problems.

Likewise, Hollywood can produce movies with titles like “White men can’t jump” while me and all my evil white male buddies are expected to remain silent.

But do you know what?

It’s true.

By NBA standards, white men really can’t jump.

You know what else is true?

By the standards of the TV show “Soul Train”, white men can’t do much in the way of dancing, either.

I’m not losing much sleep if P-Diddy, Eminem, or Michael Jackson wrote a book or made a movie letting that secret out of the bag for public consumption.

I just had another thought, and this one might just piss a few people off, but it’s true.

White men are better than blacks and Hispanics at driving cars around in circles at 190 mph on Sunday afternoon.

We call it NASCAR.

But if you watch CNN or FOX news, based on the number of high speed chases on California freeways, you’d think that NASCAR would be overflowing with “Brothers” and “Hombres” chomping at the bit to get into the sport.

(OOPS, I just said "chomping at the bit..." I didn't mean anything by it, I promise...)

Instead of saying “Gentlemen—Start Your Engines” while the drivers sat in the cars on pit row, someone would yell “Cops” or “da fuzz” and the drivers would run to the closest car (a grand prix style start), hotwire the ignition, and dash off in a cloud of smoke and squealing tires.

Or maybe NASCAR could start a new “Escalade” truck series featuring highly tinted windows and 22" spinner rims as a concession to the minority drivers and white Hip Hop fans.

Instead of in-car TV cameras showing the driver's view of the racetrack, the cars would be "pimped out" with giant in-car subwoofers, flat screen plasma TV's, and DJ mixing board setups.

Instead of a Corvette or Mustang for a pace care, they could have a Ford Crown Vic police car, complete with blue lights and siren, and instead of following the pace car, in the Escalade event the pace car would CHASE the race participants.

One rule change would be there would be no slowing down or stopping for yellow flags and no pit stops.

If you had a wreck or a flat tire, the driver would be required to keep running with parts and sparks flying off. The race would end only when all of the vehicles had run out of gas or been otherwise disabled.

To add a measure of realism to each event for the drivers, the last ten laps would feature the top three drivers running the opposite direction, AGAINST the other traffic.

Talk about a thrilling change to a otherwise sometimes boring event. It would also give a whole new meaning to the Dale and Michael Waltrip's UPS commercials about "racing the truck."

Seriously, I think that I'm on to something here, but I probably got a few narrow minded liberals boxers in a bunch in the process...

Does anyone remember what my original point was?