Letter to Garofalo
You’re recent interview with Olbermann was brought to my attention by a blog that I read daily. With all due respect, the things you said were idiotic. I did not attend a tea party, but I would have, had circumstances allowed me to do so. That means you think I am a racist. Let me tell you a little about myself. For the first four or five years of my life, my white family lived with the Wrights, a black family of six. At that time, and for many years since, I considered Mr. & Mrs. Wright’s four sons to be like brothers. The only reason I do not consider them so now is because we now live in different states and I have not seen them in several years. In that time, my white family has adopted an Indian (as in, from the subcontinent of India). I have two close friends, Sofo & Brian, who were born in Africa. In addition to them, I regularly interact on a 100% friendly basis with several blacks (including several coworkers) native both to America and Africa. My brother dates a black girl, whose kid brother is a “friend” of mine (he’s about twelve years younger than me – I taught him for a few months in the Children’s Ministry at our church).
I live in North Carolina. What this means is that the Republican primaries were pretty much a foregone conclusion when the NC primary came around. So, since my first choice of Huckabee was a goner by that time, I voted for Alan Keyes, who is, as you may or may not know, a black man. In addition to all this, I have friends who are both natives and descendents of natives from China, Japan, multiple Latin American nations, multiple nations from the India area in Asia, and, of course, Africa.
The fact that you must make up such blatant slander against people who disagree with your political views is appalling. I do not like President Obama. I hate his pro-abortion & pro-killing-of-live-babies stance. I am firmly opposed to his entitlement mentality of Stalin-, Mao- or Hitler-like governments. I think he lacks the experience to be President. I do not like the fact that many people voted for this man because he is black, just as I am disgusted by those who voted against him because he is so. I think this man is very phony, to be known as a great orator while requiring constant instructions on what to say in the vast, overwhelming majority of his public speeches and interviews. I think it is absolutely revolting that he has not addressed the fact that some of his supporters call him the Messiah. I know of a man who was eaten by worms for a similar offense. On some of these issues and others, I may indeed be wrong and you are welcome to duel myself or any other conservative on any political issue, but please keep a civil and logical tongue when doing so. I really could not care less about the skin color of the White House’s residents, and neither could the majority of folks on both sides of the aisle.
There was a second part of that interview that set my “oversized limbic brain” ablaze. You said that tens of people attended these Tea Parties. This is as inaccurate a slander as the racist one was. The FOX reporter may well have exaggerated or even lied about the attendance at that Tea Party, but at least he was in the ballpark (thousands). Your accusation doesn’t even make sense. You can probably see a hundred or so people in the CNN fiasco at the Chicago Tea Party alone. That, in and of itself, disproves your “tens of people” comment.
Now, in case I have any of the other usual anti-Republican slanders coming my way, let me say a few more things. First, although I am a registered Republican, I am no blind follower of the party. If a Democrat is actually more conservative than a Republican, I’ll vote for him in a heartbeat. Second, I am not a rich man. My parents make so little that, between that and them having four children, I am attending college funded solely by need-based FAFSA money. I myself work at a fast-food restaurant, and so am in no danger of being considered rich, at least not in America. I am not a warmonger, since I would rather be incarcerated than join the military (no disrespect intended towards those who do join, but I have a different belief system; I wish them all the best of luck and do support them in their endeavors, but I myself will not join). I am obviously not a racist. I am not uneducated. I graduated high school with a 4.3 GPA and my current GPA in college is holding at about 3.0. I listen to Rush Limbaugh once in a while, but I do not think I am in danger of being a “follower” of him, as I do indeed disagree with him from time to time, if only slightly. I am no blind follower of FOX news either, since my family does not own a TV and I don’t watch TV news anyway. From what I hear of FOX, I’d probably agree with their take on most things, but because I’ve judged the issue myself, not because FOX, Limbaugh, Levin, Bush, or anyone else has told me what to think. That said, my impression of you from that Olbermann interview is that you’re even more biased than ANY of them, with the possible exception of Limbaugh, depending on your definition of biased.
And one more thing, Ms. Garofalo (though you will probably never see this letter). You said that Tea Partiers do not know what the Boston Tea Party was about. As I recall (and I do not recall ever getting less than an A in any history class except World Civilizations in school), Britain put a tax on a variety of things, tea being among them, against the will and without the representation of the colonies. To protest these new taxes, several men dressed up as Indians (this time, as in Native Americans) and threw a great deal of tea overboard in the Boston Harbor. So why do these Tea Partiers not know there history? True, they are protesting spending, not taxing. However, spending is a form of taxing if you think it through. When the government spends more than it takes in (which it is; quite thoroughly, too) in taxes, one of two things will happen. Either taxes will go up to pay for the expenditure (in which case the Tea Parties are totally appropriate) or inflation will occur (the end result of which on the average consumer is the same as that of taxes). Or possibly, the government may borrow money or something, but that’s only a delay tactic. Now, the other part of the Boston Tea Party was the issue of representation. And, as Bob Basso has pointed out repeatedly in the Thomas Paine YouTube videos, representation is indeed an issue here. The outrageous spending is taking place against the stated will of the people. Despite the majority of their constituency sending massive amounts of mail or placing massive numbers of calls, Congressmen and women continue to approve spending beyond anything this country has ever seen. When the will of the people is ignored, people are well within their rights to question whether they are actually being represented.
My Sincerest Apologies For Your Undersized Limbic Brain,
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