Fox News viewers turn on Juan Williams and you thought NPR was bad!!!

“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?”

~ Samuel Johnson

The folks on the left already thought Juan Williams was suspect and now they are clowning him on the right.  Williams fancied himself as a black man that couldn’t be pegged into a neat little circle.  He wasn’t too far right and he wasn’t too far left.  But when NPR gave him the boot, Fox News scooped him up with the quickness.  NPR known by the far right as a “Bastion of Liberalism” and Fox News known by the left (notice I just said the “Left”) as the “Epicenter of “Conservative Thought.”  Williams worked for both organizations at the same time before NPR ditched him.  And I think he thought that it gave him “Street Cred” in the “I can’t be pigeonholed” category.  But it was an act that he was ill prepared to pull off.  His views angered black folks and liberals alike.  That made him sort of like a “Black Best Friend” to the Right.  Or at least that was until he moderated the Republican Primary Debate in South Carolina. 

After the Debate, a Newt Gingrich supporter thanked him for “putting Williams in his place.”  Uh Oh!!  Where have we heard that before?  In just about every movie that ever featured a racist person or old video footage of racist southerners talking about the Civil Rights Movement.  But by today’s standards she wouldn’t be a racist….she would be called a “Concerned American Citizen.”  In this “New” America, racism doesn’t exist and there are only “Those that work” and “Those that beg”!!!  Or as those crazy hippie kids camping outside say: the 1% and the 99%. 

So what was it that Williams said to upset the good folks of South Carolina?  What were the questions that he asked that made Republican voters want to break off a piece of leather in Williams John Brown hind parts?? 

- Governor Romney, your father was born in Mexico. You still havefamily there, yet you have taken the hardest line of anyone on this stage on immigration reform, including opposition to key parts of the DREAM Act, which is supported by 80 percent of Latinos in this country. Are you alienating Latino voters that Republicans will need to win the general election?

- Senator Santorum, the Obama administration has not specifically addressed high levels of joblessness and a 25 percent poverty rate in blackAmerica. They say they want to fix the economy for all, but given the crisis situation among a group of historically disadvantaged Americans, do you feel the time has come to take special steps to deal with the extraordinary level of poverty afflicting one race of America?

- Speaker Gingrich, you recently said black Americans should demand jobs, not food stamps. You also said poor kids lack a strong work ethic and proposed having them work as janitors in their schools. Can’t you see that this is viewed, at a minimum, as insulting to all Americans, but particularly to black Americans?

So instead of Juan Williams playing his role, he wanted to show that “he couldn’t be pigeonholed.” Too bad it didn’t work out for him that way.  Although he may think he can’t be labeled, a Gingrich supporter let him know exactly who he was.  And based on the cheers that she received when making the statement, a lot of people feel the same way.

The United Kingdom beat Chris Brown worse than Rihanna ever could.

The U.K. is putting the brakes on Chris Brown’s European Tour by denying him entry. To an Entertainer, this is the cruelest cut of all. Not only is he not performing but he is losing out on money. The reason for the denied entry is due to his criminal record. When you beat out rappers for most criminal behavior you are really doing something. Ole Dirty Bastard, from the Wu Tang Clan, wasn’t ever kicked out of a country. Mystikal just got out of jail and I bet he could catch a plane to London. Concert promoters would probably say that Brown got caught up in “unforeseen circumstances." I say not really!! I believe Brown should have apologized and went straight to rehab from the jump. I know he wants people to forgive and to forget. But he needs to realize that people won’t forget on the timeline he has set up. It’s going to be when they are good and ready.

The Incredulous Credentials of Roland W. Burris

“Members of the media, my name is Roland Burris, the junior senator from the State of Illinois.” – (Would Be/Could Be) Senator Roland Burris

I wonder what would make a man want to take a job where he has to hustle backwards from the beginning. I have heard of black folks getting banned from the job but not on the first day.

Maybe/I think/Pretty Sure Senator Roland Burris was rejected from entering the first session of the 111th Congress. It was all due to his paperwork not having the proper signature from the Illinois secretary of state. The secretary of state Jesse White, who is a black man, will not sign because of the Governor Blagojevich investigation. Burris looked as lost as the Obama children on their first day of school. This act to ban him has been in the works for awhile. His real concern should be if Blagojevich signed off on his direct deposit.

Burris appears to have a very high opinion of himself and feels that he is more than qualified for the job. I saw pictures of his future memorial in Oak Woods Cemetery on Chicago's South Side. I was hoping this was a joke but it appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times. This guy’s tombstone is huge!!!! It looks like something the Pharaohs would have built. Looking at the monstrosity I am wondering how many Egyptian slaves died in making this thing. When you watch Burris work the cameras, you have to admit he is enjoying the national spotlight. During the past decade, Burris has lost 5 races for Mayor, Governor’s office, and the State Senate. His key selling point is that he was never beat by a Republican. That essentially means that he never made it out of the primary race. So he was not capable of making it out of the primary and was blown out by Richard Daley for Mayor. Is this really the right guy to replace President Elect Barack Obama? Citizen Wifey said that people shouldn’t be so hard on the man. She said you should never tell someone that they can’t win. She then started quoting Aliya’s song “Try Again”. Well I’m a half glass kind of person so I am looking at his track record. HE CAN”T WIN RE-ELECTION.

I don’t have any personal issues with Burris. He reminds me of the guy that stumbles into a taping of a game show and then becomes a contestant. If you had lost 5 consecutive races for political office, and someone hands you this GEM….you would take it too!!! We all know what Blago’s roll in this is but he is not the only Schemer involved.

Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald started all of this by acting like McNulty on “The Wire”. He was working Blago’s phones mining for nuggets of information and got the mother load.

He has two major problems with his case.

1) He did not set a trap for Blago with bait. Everyone from Miami Vice to Mike Hammer knows that you have to set a trap for the bad guys.
2) He did not wait for Blago to take the trap with the bait. He was too quick when he pounced on this. He should have let Blago meet a person (i.e. informant) and then transact business. He probably never watched the Marion Berry tape. Marion Berry was in the hotel to meet an acquaintance (i.e. informant) and a transaction took place. The transaction was really just him smoking a crack pipe but you get the point.

Now Fitzgerald is saying he needs time to put his case together. What??? He needs to go watch some old episodes of Perry Mason asap!!!

The Democrats don’t have clean hands either. The verdict is still out on Senator Harry Reid. Maybe he does or doesn’t want a black person in Obama’s old seat. He had a conversation with Blago and I want to know what was discussed. I believe the seat should go to a qualified (as much as you can be these days) person regardless of color. But if Reid was against a black person becoming Senator PERIOD, we have got issues.

I am currently in the process of changing my political party from Democrat to Independent. It took me all of 34 years (yeah I’m slow) to figure out that Democrats are just as racist as Republicans. Democrats in Appalachia and Manhattan don’t have a problem with a black being congressmen or mayor of a majority black city. But if they want to be the President of the United States, that’s when black folks want too much. This is the same party that played dumb during the Bush Reign and let him walk all over the constitution. Congressman Bobby “I’m back in Black Panther mode” Rush is the worst. He basically called Obama a “Tom” when they were previously running against each other in Chicago. Now he is the poster child for Black Brotherhood? I guess we just pick and chose what black folks we want to support. What a clown!!!! Burris is not going to become the next martyr for civil rights. They tried to give that to the Jena 6 kids and that is turning out badly. If Rush wants to weed out the racists, he needs to start with the people that were involved in the Clinton Presidential Campaign.

I’m not a legal expert so I don’t know if Burris will ever be seated. I do know one thing. His journey here has been paved with a lot of foolishness. I’m sure he will relish his time in the spotlight. Also he will eventually become a footnote in the pages of history. Before all of this happens though, I want him to do one thing. Check to see if Blagojevich signed off on his direct deposit. It’s not his fault they won’t let him work but a Brother still has to get paid.