I just watched Steven Colbert interview Tea Party Express chairperson Amy Kremer on Hulu. The Tea Party "Express" are the ones who go around on buses. I have to admit, I only watched it to see him make her look silly on national television. It's a guilty pleasure; I'm not proud.
But he didn't break her. She was pretty sharp. He even ended the interview by saying her name once more, followed by the words "a tough nut to crack!"
Because he was trying to crack her, but she didn't let him. She stood her ground and really did well. I really liked her because she was honest and firm in her convictions.
I like those kinds of people. The ones who actually understand their own beliefs-- which is sadly rare-- and are firm enough in their convictions to be interviewed by a liberal-minded comedian. I respect her much more than a bumbling Sarah Palin who needs to write her OWN IDEAS on her hand.
He got in a couple of good barbs though.
He told her he never liked the judicial branch of our government and he felt that the Supreme Court was just "filler government-- like sawdust in our sausage."
She didn't get the joke.
He was referring to the fact that in the days of our forefathers, butchers and meat packers used to put sawdust in sausages as "filler." They used to do all kinds of horrible stuff. A candy maker admitted that he substituted shredded bone for shredded coconut right in the halls of congress-- on record, no less.
Thanks to liberal author Upton Sinclair (The Jungle, 19-oh-Something), a movement started that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Under FDR, the FDA eventually came into being.
Of course, conservatives fought it all the way. If they had their way, big government was not going to tell American businessman how to make sausage! Socialism, they cried!
(Sound familiar?)
So I am really curious, because when people say that they want to go back to the values of our forefathers, do they mean all of them, or just the values that they pick and choose? For example, do they like the idea of getting rid of the FDA? The USDA? Medicare?
Do you?
Sort of like just going to church on holidays, ain't it Doc? You can't really take on somebody's value's "partially." Because, when you only take a few "values" of our forefathers, then you really aren't taking the values of our forefathers at all!
Thomas Jefferson, by all Christian standards, was an Athiest. He made a mockery of the bible and he did it in print. Get yourself a copy of The Jefferson Bible, written by Thomas Jefferson (forefather) on Amazon today.
I don't know a SINGLE politician who would support a political figure making a mockery of the New Testament-- right, left or otherwise-- but they pretty much all throw the old forefathers "argument" in the ring whenever we are getting down and dirty. And, every single time, I quiz them on how well they actually understand American history and guess what?
It's not the conservative viewpoint that bothers me. People are entitled to their opinions, and I respect that. However, I have watched conservative friends and conservative talk show hosts blatantly and openly lie about history.
I heard Glenn Beck talk about Thomas Paine for a whole hour one day, and I couldn't help but laughed at how badly he got it wrong. Again, not based on my opinion, but based on Thomas Paine's own words.
Words which I've read, studied, and written scholarly articles about, by the way.
Watch out for my next post, entitled: Thomas Paine Loved Estate Taxes and Welfare.
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