Posted on 06/24/2015 5:48:00 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
For the past couple of days I’ve been ashamed and disappointed that RedState has decided to enter into the feeding frenzy over the Confederate flag (note: the flag in question is actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, but for sake of brevity I will refer to it as the Confederate flag) and have cooperated in tying that flag to the shootings in Charleston, SC. As humans we are, at the core, herd animals and we like to be liked. That is understandable and, from an evolutionary point of view, essential to survival. There is a line, however, between wanting to be liked and toadying. It it here that I fear we, as a site, have crossed the line and descended from the status of opinion leaders to catchfarts for all the worst impulses of the progressive left.
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thanks for posting this
Using the term "Red State" to describe conservatives is simply buying into the Liberal propaganda first implemented in 1992 to keep people from realizing that Bill Clinton was a communist sonofabitch.
Reagan was Blue. George HW. Was Blue in his first election, but in 1992, the media was pulling out all the stops to help Billy Bastard Blowjob Clinton get elected, and by coloring Republicans as "Red" they prevented people from associating the color with that F***ing Communist.
So Erick Erickson has simply adopted the Liberal propaganda and embraced it.
Like I said, I have no respect for "Red State" or Pompous Erick Erickson.
So they don’t like the Confederate battle flag. Raise the Jolly Roger then.
NEXT!
That flag is clearly meant to be offensive to Asians by indicating they are “yellow men.” Another microaggression!
The day the government openly squashes an expression of free speech is the EXACT day to proclaim loudly that the Government is WRONG and we will not be squelched.
True but the effin RNC has never pushed back and their website looks like it was designed by Chairman Mao.
We’ll know which candidate is ready to fight the domestic marxists when he announces that RED IS FOR COMMIES and Republicans will no longer be allowing the communist american media to paint them so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Origins of the color scheme[edit]
Before the 2000 presidential election, the traditional color-coding scheme was “Blue for Republican, Red for Democrat,”[3] in line with European associations (red is used for left-leaning parties).[4] The colors red and blue also are part of the colors of the U.S. flag. Traditional political mapmakers, at least throughout the 20th century, have used blue to represent the modern-day Republicans, and the Federalists who preceded them. Perhaps this was a holdover from the days of the Civil War when the predominantly Republican North was “Blue”.[3] However, at that time a maker of widely sold maps accompanied them with blue pencils to mark Confederate force movements and red pencils to mark Union force movements.[5]
Contemporary use[edit]
The advent of color television prompted television news reporters to rely on color-coded electoral maps, though sources conflict as to the conventions they followed. One source claims that in the six elections prior to 2000 every Democrat but one had been coded red. It further claims that from 1976 to 2004, the broadcast networks, in an attempt to avoid favoritism in color-coding, standardized on the convention of alternating every four years between blue and red the color used for the incumbent party.[9][10]
According to another source, in 1976, John Chancellor, the anchorman for NBC Nightly News, asked his network’s engineers to construct a large illuminated map of the United States. The map was placed in the network’s election-night news studio. If Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate that year, won a state, it would light up in red; if Gerald Ford, the incumbent Republican president, carried a state, it would light up in blue. The feature proved to be so popular that, four years later, all three major television networks would use colors to designate the states won by the presidential candidates on Election Night, though not all using the same color scheme. NBC continued to use the color scheme employed in 1976 for several years. NBC newsman David Brinkley famously referred to the 1980 election map outcome as showing Republican Ronald Reagan’s 44-state landslide as resembling a “suburban swimming pool”.[11]
Retarded Plutocrat scum.
Just a question; If society must accomadate a minority
consisting of 2% (gays) or a minority of About 2% (black
rasists)why can’t society tolerate a group promoting the ideals of freedom and individualism?
racists.
Next time I will use the tools I am given.
Priebus is a degenerate dishonorable scumbag who should have RESIGNED AFTER HUSSEIN BARAKA WAS REELECTED!
Instead he continues to piss on REAL AMERICANS and advance the CORPORATIST COC AGENDA!
A storm is coming, blue bloods and country clubbers beware.
WASHINGTON – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus and Co-Chairman Sharon Day released the following statement in celebration of the 150th Juneteenth Anniversary:
“Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States and the beginning of independence for those who suffered terrible injustices,” said Chairman Priebus. “We must remember the joy of liberation afforded to those who previously had none and celebrate the triumph over unjust enslavement.”
“Although President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 demanded freedom for those enslaved, many did not learn of their liberation until 1865, when troops arrived in Galveston, Texas with the long-awaited news. Today, Americans from different backgrounds celebrate the joyous and historic occasion of slavery officially coming to an end.“
“Whether you’re celebrating Juneteenth at a community event or with family and friends, it is important for us to reflect upon how far we have come and the people who made it possible,” said Co-Chairman Day. “Our past is a reminder of the necessity of fighting for equal opportunity and valuing our nation’s efforts to ensure freedom for all Americans.”
This is not Ericson’s first screw up. He really messed up today.
This article was EXCELLENT!!!!!
What’s your problem with that statement?
(giggle) Did he really just say that or is it a typo? I tried to google it, but it only got funnier (mental image of someone Glenn Beck shaped leaping around, toes pointed, with a butterfly net.)
It’s bullshit?
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