Posted on 06/27/2015 1:56:41 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
Oh please, Br'er Fox, don't throw me into the briar-patch.”
So goes the line from the old American and long ago Disney-ized folk tale Song of the South by Joel Chandler Harris. The rabbit pleads with the fox not to throw him into the briar patch. The fox does just what he is asked not to do - and thus tossed into the thicket where rabbits thrive, the rabbit escapes. Laughing all the way.
The scene comes to mind with the news that Univision has abruptly told Donald Trump that they will no longer carry the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant. Why? It seems that the network is displeased that in his announcement speech The Donald said:
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
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If you consider FR a small minority on the right then you are gravely mistaken. You refuse to comment on whom you support.
Do us all a favor and go away. Cowards in the face of attack are not needed.
No, you go away. Trump is a joke. A bad joke.
Very true, there was no policy, no direction, no goal.
Yes, that is the theme of ‘House of Cards’, but eventually one’s limitations are exposed.
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