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How Confederate Flag Controversy Shows We’ve Gone Nuts as a Culture
http://www.mediaite.com ^ | June 24, 2015 | John Ziegler

Posted on 06/25/2015 7:54:21 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

For quite a while now, especially in the realm of race, this country has left the gravitational pull of the rational earth. Insanity and mob rule seem to reign supreme, with only very limited opposition. How else could you explain an obvious lie like “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” causing black people, spurred on by the news media, to protest (occasionally violently) for weeks in a nation where our president is a black man?

What we have seen over the past week since the horrific tragedy in South Carolina, specifically with regard to the “Confederate flag” is a yet another prime example of how our national conversation is now completely dictated by emotion and ignorance rather than reason and facts.

There are many layers of lunacy which have resulted in the various symbols connected to the Confederacy being taken down in South Carolina (which will happen), Kentucky (which will likely happen), and Alabama (which has happened) and being banned from sale (even Lynyrd Skynyrd and “Dukes of Hazzard” merchandise!) at almost all national outlets. I will try to examine at least a few of them here.

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To: NKP_Vet

American culture has become a putrid sewer of deviancy and insanity.

And it has rotted the population to the point where people have become easily manipulated... cowering and cringing, and running around like pathetic lemmings, whenever some new fascist-PC dictate comes down the pike.


21 posted on 06/25/2015 8:36:54 AM PDT by greene66
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To: I want the USA back

so true. Ask these dopes who is the secretary of state or who is Putin and they have no idea. Now mention Bruce Jenner or who Tom Cruise is dating and they will know.

We have about three quarters of the population who have their head up where the sun does not shine. The media and this administration takes advantage of these fools to further their socialist radical agenda.

I know most down here are fed up of this crap about the flag and on June 28th there is a fly the battle flag day.


22 posted on 06/25/2015 8:38:25 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Despot of the Delta
This is another great no holds barred article.

It would be if the author hadn't often stooped to using the F-word as an adjective.

23 posted on 06/25/2015 8:42:23 AM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016? If you have a 24-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good!)
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To: I want the USA back

“bruce jenner chopping off his weewee is the most important thing to talk about”

Bruce Jenner has no desire to chop anything off. That’s what makes the Jenner story so perverse. He has specifically stated he has no desire to have sex with a man, only women. Jenner is a drag queen and the new term for drag queen is transgender, and we are expected to treat drag queens (men that like to dress up like women) as normal behavior, and call them by their new female name.


24 posted on 06/25/2015 8:47:42 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: CedarDave

To me it’s showing people are getting fed the f%#*@ up


25 posted on 06/25/2015 8:50:41 AM PDT by Despot of the Delta
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To: NKP_Vet

No doubt Chinese manufacturers are gearing up to fill the void with Chinese copies.


26 posted on 06/25/2015 8:53:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: NKP_Vet

Very soon this country will physically come apart at the seams also. We are too divided to heal. As far as I’m concerned the sooner the better. I see nothing happening on any front to delay CWII.


27 posted on 06/25/2015 8:58:02 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: DBrow

You are 100% correct. It is a cultural purge.


28 posted on 06/25/2015 9:16:08 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: DBrow

....Except online.


29 posted on 06/25/2015 9:58:38 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I see this country coming apart at the seams down the road.


30 posted on 06/25/2015 10:00:47 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

Info can be purged from the internet. There was once an article describing how Abbie Hoffmann visited the Carter White House while he was still on the FBI list. It’s not findable now.

If NYT changed facts in their archived articles, unless you had made a reference copy, you’d never know.

THis is an aside, but how about when progs seal up a time capsule “for the future”? They could be burying a made-up history like Zinn’s history of the USA.


31 posted on 06/25/2015 10:58:07 AM PDT by DBrow
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