Posted on 11/06/2008 11:35:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Just how strange has this week been?
Real strange.
Thursday morning, I appeared on Fox & Friends, the morning talk show on Fox News Channel. I was to “debate” Lanny Davis, the longtime Clinton loyalist.
Obviously, the show wanted a reaction to this week's election from a liberal like Lanny and a conservative like me. I thought I'd have some fun and at the last minute, affixed black duct tape to my right arm.
The way the week turned out for the GOP, I figured wearing a black armband on TV would be pretty appropriate.
Poor Lanny didn't seem to get the joke. “It's pretty silly to be listening to someone give advice to the incoming Obama administration while wearing a black armband”, he sputtered.
Liberals never seem to have much of a sense of humor, even in victory.
Besides, Lanny, I wasn't giving any advice, I was just expressing an opinion. Unless you guys get your wish and the return of the Fairness Doctrine knocks people like me off the airwaves for good, I think I'm still allowed to express some views, aren't I? But things really took a turn when I got to my radio studio office after the TV appearance and found a bunch of angry emails waiting for me.
The nature of the complaints? That I was a racist because I wore a BLACK armband as a way to express my dissatisfaction with the election.
I'm not kidding.
Here's a sample:
“Gallagher, you racist pig. How dare you wear a black armband on Fox? Do you not know what that means to black people? I'm glad your bigertery (sic) is finally on display for the world to see.
Cedric
Houston, TX”
And another: “I'm a little surprised you didn't wear a white hood on TV this morning, Gallager (sic). You are a big, fat, racist m***** *****r who needs to have his butt whipped.
Tonya
Los Angeles”
And one more gem:
“Watching you wear a black armband, which everyone knows insults black people, made me immediately wish for your painful death. I'd like to think that will happen, but it probably won't. I'm a pessimist by nature.
Bill L.
Orlando”
Wow. And I thought Lanny Davis was grumpy.
These angry people even motivated me to try and Google references to black armbands somehow being offensive to Black people.
All I found was precisely what I thought, that it's a symbol of mourning, a sign of grieving or sadness. Nothing at all about race.
Then again, there are people who manage to find racial turmoil everywhere they turn.
The great Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution wrote a terrific piece after the election about how President-elect Obama managed to tap into the stigma that many White Americans feel about race. He opined that many people have been looking for something -- anything -- to relieve the burden felt by years of being blamed for racism.
What better solution than to elect a Black man president?
Naturally, race played a significant factor in this year's election. Finally, there is an answer to the rhetorical question, “Is America able to elect a Black president?”
And I expect that there is a pretty simple response to those who wonder if we can finally retire the Jesse Jacksons and Al Sharptons of the world and move beyond arguing about race relations incessantly.
Yes we can.
And we should.
Over and over, we were told that a vote for Barack Obama would be a way to “pay the debt” owed to millions of Black people. We would right the wrongs of the past; we would show the world how progressive we are.
I trust the debt has been paid.
Personally, I've always longed for the day when a Black person would be elected president.
Just not this Black person.
But by six percentage points, Americans elected Sen. Obama. Those of us who are the loyal opposition know that now, the battle begins.
We will do everything we can to encourage the Republican Party to rebuild itself. As Sen. Jim Demint (R, SC) told me, we need to find GOP leaders who are willing to adhere to the Reagan-era values that made many of us become Republicans in the first place.
We will challenge every crazy and wrong-headed move the Democrats come up with; we will follow the D.C. leaders closely and be sure to alert our readers, listeners and viewers to every misstep, every blunder, each and every attempt to run this country into the ground.
But for now, we will simply congratulate the other side for their victory. Sure, the mainstream media helped make it happen.
And of course the deck was stacked against Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin. But there's no sense crying in our soup. Come inauguration day, we just need to be prepared to take on the Democrat establishment.
As many parents have taught their children: never start a fight, but be sure to finish it. We shall do our best.
Just how strange has this week been?
Check this out: a listener to my radio show emailed me and claimed that the day after the election, the Illinois Lottery featured a creepy winning number and that I should check it out.
Sure enough, I confirmed the bizarre claim. On the day after the election, in the Evening Pick Three lottery drawing in Obama's home state of Illinois, the winning number was 666.
Don't believe me? See for yourself. www.IllinoisLottery.com Click on the “numbers/ jackpots” tab and look up Nov. 5, 2008.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence. I certainly don't believe those who fear that Obama is the actual anti-Christ.
Then again, what are the odds of the mark of the beast being Illinois' winning lottery number the day after the election?
I think I'll go back to wearing my armband. For a long, long time...
Of course he's not kidding. I've spoken to many Obama supporters (and a few McCain ones), and there is one thing I have to admit, that I wish I could deny:
Most voters are stupid.
So when more voters go for Obama...well, you can figure out the rest.
Once I was at a supermarket’s checkout and the cashier rang up the total: $6.66.
She freaked! It was a couple minutes before I calmed her down enough to hand me change for ten bucks.
Sad but my experience too
And the idiots who emailed him don’t realize that he still is literally in mourning, due to the death from cancer of his wife Denise.
As for me, I have swung the pendulum from sadness to near apoplectic rage. Good thing I’m not David Banner...
By the way...I was watching the Lakers play the Portland Trailblazers last week at Staples Center in Los Angeles. I noticed that the players were wearing a black patch, in honor of former Blazer player Kevin Duckworth, who died this summer.
Last I checked, most of the Blazer players are black. Hmmmph...bunch of racists.../liberal group”think”
PEO may not be THE AntiChrist, but for sure he is AN antiChrist.The way lefties worship this man, it is literally a religion!
666 in the Illinois lottery the day fter election. So creepy.
Denise died?! :*(
I hadn’t heard that! My condolences to him. I know they both fought so hard against the cancer. :*(
What would also be creepy would be the Dow numbers tomorrow also being negative 666!
I really don’t know how much longer God is going to put up with all this liberal crap!
if they are such crybabies because of an armband then perhaps I will also wear a black armband.
“Most voters are stupid.”
Stupid would be an upgrade.
By mistake, I fumbled in the dark because my son was sleeping and picked out a black shirt to wear to work on Wednesday.
Normally I wear a blue one.
I guess I picked the right shirt without knowing it.
i’m up for it, the black arm band i mean...i’m also thinking of flying a black flag for the next four years...would that be “inappropriate”?(politically incorrect)...the black flag will represent my statement that i will never surrender to liberalism
He fits the anti Christ profile. Too scary.
I have become a more committed Christian since Clinton.
Now I really cling to the Bible.
Actually, it is absolutely a time of mourning that many of us are going through since Tuesday night’s shocker. I followed every poll — every media bias — every attack to undermine Palin and McCain — to marginize conservatives over these last months prior to the election. And I’ll be honest — I was completely unprepared on every level, for the reality that Obama could actually get elected. Call me naive — I don’t care. Many of my friends are feeling the same way — total shock at what our country just did — that most do not have one clue of what the implications really are.
Will we overcome and unite in deeper, more creative ways as the Republican conservative party? I believe we will. And I believe this because WE are the ones who will save this country from itself, once Insane Hussein Osama is exposed for the Trojan Horse that he is. Actually, we deserve exactly what we are going to get, over these next four years of the Democrats showing us how compassionate and peace-loving they are toward the world.
Electing Osama bin Biden has appeased & pleased our enemies, and has sent a clear message to the world that the United States of America would rather be your friend than protect its own people from those who seek to destroy us. We now will have a President that, God forbid, should we again be attacked by the evil muslim extremists, will surely wet his pants at the realization of the enormity of his responsibility to protect us. AND he will NEVER EVER have the respect of our precious military troops, who are fighting and dying for our right to elect the greatest unknown, unqualified, and elusive President this country has ever had before.
We will prevail, through the grace of God, and the prayers of many. The battle has begun.
Please note: The following items are racist.
Black Jelly Beans
Black Eye
Black Adder
Blackberry (the electonic device)
Blackberry (the fruit) (this is also homophobic)
Black paint on anything
Black Russian
Black Sabbath (must now be referred to as “African-American Saturday of Gaia Worship”)
Black Plague (the disease that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages shall now be referred to as “The Blessing of Allah”)
More to come...
But the key is - they have their elected officials in place and will not hesitate to cry out. Conservatives best get off their behinds and begin to organize as never before. Unless they believe like one told me one time...I’m a Conservative I can do this on my own. Yeah, doing this individually has really brought about sweeping results but not for Conservatives.
Fight like HeLL to get into HEAVEN.....not sure about America.
Ann, you're more of an old-timer than I am, but I've been around a while, and you know I don't comment much about abortion ( which I believe is a great evil ) or the gay stuff ( leave the kids out of it, and keep it private ) but...
But, in those "silence of my soul" moments ( when it's eternally 4:00 O'clock in the morning, and you can't get back to sleep, and you can't quit remembering all the things you wished you'd done differently ) I really do wonder-
Is the blood of those 50,000,000 babies so heavy on our hands, that we've lost God's grace? Is there no way back?
Is Obama really the Abyss...
staring back at us?
These are the people who think “niggardly” is a racial slur.
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