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Evar's JournalBing.com Poll on Clinton and Trump
Please vote on the Bing.com poll. Right now, Trump is polling 16 points above Clinton. We know that's not accurate, so someone or some groups are voting multiple times. It may be a bogus poll, but the public will still see it, so head on over there and cast your vote.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick's Racist Slur of President Obama
On Chris Hayes' show, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, taking issue with the president's support for transgender students to choose the bathroom that fits their gender identity, called Barack Obama, President of the United States, "a black male with 30 pieces of silver." I find that overt racism the most offensive statement by a public official in Texas I've ever heard. We Texas residents knew that Patrick was a religious zealot, but his disrespect of our president is so extreme, I find him totally unfit for office. This right wing extremist language, fostered by the fringe elements of media, has got to be called out. It's had a corrosive, destructive effect on our democracy, and the proof is the candidacy of Donald Trump. The only way I know to combat it is to speak out against it. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
Texting and Tweeting While America Burns
I heard two pundits spinning Trump on MSNBC, talking about how Trump is the voice of the common man, expressing the rage of the people, yada yada. It made me gag. The fact that Trump won the vote in NY reinforced my belief that this country has lost its way. One in five children is hungry in America, the bees are dying, the glaciers are melting, the courts are a farce, the media are shills for the super rich and Americans are voting for a reality show host to be the president of the United States. The reality is that we're okay with it. We're texting and tweeting while America burns.
Time to Turn Off Trump Media--All of It!
This morning, on Huffington Post, there were 7 stories about Trump on the front page. Every network, every media site is saturated with Trump. I'm sick to death of this demagogue dominating American news, littering our lives with his self-promoting garbage. Maybe it's time to disconnect and turn off from any and all news. Maybe it's time to boycott in any way we can. Les Moonves, the head of CBS made this statement in speaking of his network's obsession with Trump, "It may not be good for America, but it's good for CBS." Non-stop Trump is distorting our culture. It's making America sick. Time for us to turn away and turn off. After all, baseball season is about to begin, Aljazeera America, the finest journalism I've seen in decades, still has one month left before it disappears, and Free Speech TV broadcasts every day. We are the audience, and we have the power to shape the news. It's time we used it.
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