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"This tea party sham is not about taxes. It is about a Democrat African American sitting in the White House trying to clean up the mess left by Texas' own beloved 'decider-in-son,' George W. Bush," - http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=12916 .I read the above statement in a recent diary entry on OpEdNews.com. After much thought, I took exception to it in the form of my own diary entry. Although the entry is about Texas' threat to secede from the Union, the author felt compelled to link Texas to W and then to the Tea Parties, naturally.
The tea-parties had nothing to do with America electing a black President, and a progressive, liberal, conservative, whatever... that thinks otherwise is doing themselves a disservice to repeat that baseless accusation here. For the record, President Obama would not have been elected to the Executive had he not carried a sizeable percentage of the white vote, which makes up 75.1% of the U.S. population. Black America only makes up 12.3%, according to the last census - click here .
These "racist" talking points were distributed intentionally by liberal sources in advance of the April 15th date to discredit the tax message of the tea parties - click here , click here , and click here .
Most interesting, though, is that not one racist teag party rant was covered by the media. Why? It never happened even though we were told such racist speech would be uttered.
For those who never took the time to learn the tea party origin, the idea formed in mid-February 2009 - click here , and was not a concerted, pre-determined, corporate-funded effort by angry, white (mostly male) Americans. To advance a notion otherwise disgraces the advances made with race relations in America over the past several decades.
But there's even more...
Not only was the "tea party = racist" message spread in advance, the same racist talking points became "reality" on April 17th. Not that the media documented any racist statements by party goers, the lovely and talented Janeane Garofalo ensured that the non-issue became an "issue". After all, those talking points prior to the tea parties can't be dismissed as lies, right? Nope. If they're not real, then you "make" them real.
[Enter Garofalo and Olbermann]
On Olbermann's "Countdown", the poor thing slipped a mental gear as she dumped her abject hatred (again) for "those not like her" to the viewers. The effervescent Keith Olbermann nodded wisely at her... stupidity... and crooned ascent on a few of her medical analyses. If interested, you may view a liberal activist in her native form (intolerance to the nth degree) - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677#30255102 .
In a word, this unchallenged diatribe by Garofalo is "sad" on many levels - the use of sexual innuendo by Olbermann in labeling the party goers as "tea bag suckers", the act of attending a party as "tea bagging", or his admitted obviousness of "franks and beans" as the sequel to tea bagging.
However, there's more sadness. Olbermann turns the subject from silly yet titillating sex talk to the "more serious" subject that Garofalo intends to discuss. "Dr." Garofalo, in an awfully long and painful bout of verbal diarrhea, comes up with this diagnosis of the white, conservative American:
"The limbic brain inside a right-winger or a Republican or conservative or your average white-power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their, in their head space than in a reasonable person and it's pushing against their frontal lobe, so their synapses are misfiring..."
Now, kidding or not, I'd like to point out the forehead of Dr. Garofalo, behind which is located her frontal lobe - click here . Her lobe doesn't even fit in the picture's frame. In the words of Crush from "Finding Nemo", "...[N]oggin, dude." This silliness of one side bashing the other because of their looks, genetics, or whatever is stupid and can continue ad nauseum, if the media encourages it (as Olbermann did).
The woman was nothing more than a liberal mouthpiece to make a non-issue real. And Garofalo permitted herself to be used in a manner that only divided but also pitted Americans against each other along racial lines. That's not just a disservice, that's reckless AND dangerous. Remember, Dr. Garofalo also had this gem to offer up in her sage-like quotes:
"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth."
On that I'll agree with her.
