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Moving description of gross injustice and a wholesome expression of American values in the Wall Street Journal. It’s Rush Limbaugh, about the slanderous attacks and discriminatory treatment he faced when he tried to exercise his right as an American to engage in a lawful business venture. It would be fun to watch him sue the NFL, Sharpton, Jackson and his erstwhile partners for discrimination and defamation. But that would be lowering himself to their level. Hey, where’s the ACLU on this, anyway?
Ha! Life imitiates mockery. Sharpton threatens to sue Limbaugh.
A more constructive way of addressing it might be for the post-racial president to invite Rush, the NFL commissioner and owners, and the revs Sharpton and Jackson, to backyard beers. Maybe Rahm Emanuel, too. Not just to try to end the scourge of foul racism as demonstrated by the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, but also to try to bring to an end to, or at least moderate some of the most vile and divisive partisanship currently distressing our nation. The White House would be a good place to start, seeing as that is where a lot of it is coming from.
Sure, the last Beer Summit was an empty political gesture, something Obama was forced into after he stepped in it.* This one could actually be meaningful, if everyone behaves, sincerely tries to become a better person … which is asking a lot, I know. Likelihood of it happening? Zip. But maybe the White House Press Corps, which initiated the last Beer Summit, could try to prompt this one. By asking the president about it, like they did last time. Checking Google news, not seeing that has happened.
* Boston Herald, take a bow. Fired the twin rockets of Sgt. Crowley’s distinctly unracist past and his position as a police academy racial profiling instructor that blew up that race thing in Gates’ and Obama’s faces. I remember watching Gates on CNN that afternoon, and the president at his press conference that night, thinking, “Have a good time, guys. Rockets impact in the a.m.” If Skip had just returned our calls …
Topics: Obama, beer, bigotry, media
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 3:50 pm on Saturday, October 17, 2009
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