We’ve taken political correctness to ridiculous extremes in this country, and I’ve ranted about it before. These days you can scarcely say or do anything without offending someone. It just depends on who observes your actions and whether they opt to play the PC card (and these days we have far too much playing of … Continue reading Offending the uninvited
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas stirred up a hornet’s nest yesterday when he said Americans today are too sensitive. Speaking to college students at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Fla., the court’s second black justice said: “My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference-conscious than I was in … Continue reading Clarence Thomas: We’re too sensitive
When you finish saying/thinking “WTF!,” Huffington Post has the story on this. KTVU, a San Francisco TV station, aired this information, supposedly confirmed by the NTSB. It was. But the NTSB employee who confirmed it was a summer intern. Both KTVU and the NTSB have apologized. How that woman read those names with a straight face is … Continue reading Oblivious TV anchor airs racist joke as Asiana pilots’ names
(Updated June 6, 2012, at 9:20 am MDT) Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a new report entitled “Partisan Polarization Surges in Bush, Obama Years.” The Pew study, as widely reported by the media, shows that the partisan divide in this country has grown to a chasm of 18 percentage points, up from 10 points … Continue reading Political partisanship and the Big Bang
Sounds like “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger pulled a Helen Thomas on her radio show yesterday. She used the “N word” at least 10 times on the air while talking to a black woman who had called for advice. She belittled the woman for being too sensitive about her white husband’s friends making racist remarks in her … Continue reading Dr. Laura pulls a Helen Thomas
The Shirley Sherrod case is a tragic example of how nasty our nation’s politics have become. A woman loses her job because some commentator wants to make a point about racism and does so with a piece of very selectively edited video. It was a hatchet chop, pure and simple. The truth has come out; … Continue reading The Sherrod debacle
