At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Dr. James McHenry, a Maryland delegate, followed Benjamin Franklin from Independence Hall. He recorded a question asked by a lady, directed at Dr. Franklin.

The lady asked, "Well Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?"

"A republic," replied Dr. Franklin, "if you can keep it."

IN DEFENSE OF MINORITIES!

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Old White Men

The theme of mainstream media's criticism of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor Rally a week ago now was that nobody among the half-a-million people that crowded the Capitol Mall mattered because they were generally white and generally older.

Change the demographic a tiny bit and ask yourself what they would have said of 500,000 black people. Would the mainstream media have said that they didn't matter because they were black?

And this is my point: There is nothing wrong with being white. There is nothing shameful about being white. There is nothing wrong with assembling with other people from diverse states and locations who also happen to be predominantly white. However, there is a mood in the United States that there is. The Tea Party Movement is made up - at least 65% - of women. It's not a 'woman's movement', but if you go to a Tea Party gathering, you'll find that mothers and grandmothers constitute a majority.

Is MOTHER a dirty word? Everyone alive has one, even homosexuals. However if you're a mother with kids, who works and struggles with all of the things that women deal with -- and admire Sarah Palin for doing the same, you're labeled by the mainstream media as a nazi, hatemonger. When did Sarah Palin say ANYTHING hateful?

The mainstream media would have people believe that if you're over 40 years of age, that your opinion somehow needs to be discounted in favor of younger (more naive) people, who haven't earned their stripes. Whatever happened to, "Honor thy father and thy mother?" Do journalists have naturally stupid parents whose opinions are destructive to America? It makes me wonder. Maybe. Clearly that's the assumption that can be fairly made if you listen to the news outlets discount any gathering of people who can be categorized as parents.

The mainstream media has increasingly difficult times maintaining ratings -- because they've made themselves irrelevant. They don't report the news, they strive hard to MAKE the news. And they do it (apparently) by pandering to special interest groups by discounting "White People", "Women with Children", "Working Americans", "Legal Citizens", "People over 40", and so forth.

I'm fed up with the mainstream media.

11 comments:

dakotas5 said...

Not sure of exact demographics but isn't most of America WHITE and boomers? Just sayin'.

sig94 said...

Idiots all. Remember Jerry Rubin's "Don't trust anyone over 30" screed? Then they hit 40 and everything changes. Let the media continue in it's death spiral into irrelevancy. There must always be a segment of the population that continually is buffeted by lying fools. Jesus said that the poor will always be with us. Dito for idiots.

w6pea said...

Very well put interesting read.

LL said...

I think that dakotas5 is correct - the majority of the VOTING population is white and in the baby boom generation. They're not loved by the Democrats and thus by the mainstream media -- but they vote.

Sig94 - There are a LOT of idiots in Washington DC.

w6pea said...

That's why I said that the real Bozo the Clown would probably roll around is his grave @90mph.

Quite Rightly said...

Well said.

If the Left succeeds in discounting everyone who disagrees with them, they win.

LL said...

Quite Rightly -- I think the Left might have flogged that horse once too often. All of their "tags" are starting to wear thin because for the most part, they're untrue. Everyone who disagrees with barack hussein obama is not a racist, not a nazi, not a bigot. Though the people who disagree with him are likely also not communists.

WoFat said...

The VAST majority of the media are white. Whoops.

Opus #6 said...

I hear the left crying that more and more youth consider themselves something OTHER than Democrat. HA!

PatriotUSA said...

Tis' the Lame Stream Media, folks, and the America we grew up with is rapidly changing for the worse.
The three toxic stews of the west
are causing serious damage to our Republic. Political Correctness,
excessive diversity and multiculturalism are tools of socialism and the demosocialistacrats.
I am white, was raised
in a VERY liberal
family, so progressive it made
me ill to grow up under such falsehoods and delusional tripe.

I am 57, disabled, armed all the time(licensed, thank you)have
worked most of my life, injuries
aside in some of the most dangerous
occupations there are. Oh yeah, and
I am a guy and white. I have alot
of friends that are black,
mexican, etc who feel the same
as I do, marginalized at times.
The LSM can try their damndest to
minimalize us but it ain't gonna
happen. These are not libtarded
minorities I know. They see what
is happening just like I do.
Ya know what? NOvember is coming
and we will be heard. I promise
you, we will be heard!

LL said...

PatriotUSA - I hear you.

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