Slang Editorial: The Difference between Ferraro & Rev Wright....

The media is going into overdrive on both comments made by Geraldine Ferraro & Rev Wright, the pastor at Barack Obama’s church...but that’s to be expected considering Obama’s run for the presidency based .. in the status quo in the way the United States conducts bizness...

Not only are lifetime politicians with 20-30 years in Washington fearing REAL CHANGE, but also corporate America that owns the radio and tv stations that controls what we hear and see.

Keep in mind, most tv and radio stations in the United States are owned by a handful of conglomerates and their routinely biased, one sided self serving coverage of the issues (and even more so of non issues) is purposeful, intended to spark a particular reaction in viewers without telling "the other side" of the story.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the media’s coverage of controversial statements made by Geraldine Ferraro and Rev Wright....despite the fact that there are major differences between the two.

First, Geraldine Ferraroo made public comments in the media and repeated them over and over again to anyone who would give her print, radio or airtime on behalf of the Clinton campaign. Rev Wright made his comments in the privacy of his own church. Ferraro’s comments were made in recent days, Wright’s were made years ago.

Second, Geraldine’s comments attempted to belittle Obama’s accomplishments and to imply that he is where he is because of Affrimative action....and in an attempt to give more credence to such remarks, she also stated she was put on the ticket to serve as Walter Mondale’s running mate because she was a woman.  

Now, as a former democrat (now independent) I have a problem with that for a coupla reasons, for one because in making such comments, she’s giving Republicans permission to use affirmative action as a wedge for any non white male democratic running for office for years to come....and second, it simply isn’t true.

Opportunists use affirmative action as a wedge time and time again, as to imply that it is not needed, that we are all truly equal and get equal opportunity, which of course is something else that simply isn’t true.

We’re not all given equal opportunity...women still get paid far less than men for equal work. Blacks are forced to overcome obstacles such as dysfunctional schools, lack of resources in our community and a society that spends more money incarcerating non whites than educating them....no to mention a society that continuously overlooks the correlation between crime and lack of education opportunities...

I could go on and on, David Dante Troutt’s Theater of the Patently Absurd or "Bitch Is the New Black" on Huffintonpost.com breaks it down better than I ever could.

From the comments I’ve seen by Rev Wright on television, his remarks weren’t all that different from views expressed in Michael Moore’s OSCAR WINNNING DOCUMENTARY Farhenheit 911...translation...when a white man says it, give him an award, when a black man says basicially the same thing he’s villified.

Even when you factor in religion, the villification of Barack Obama’s pastor is still a case of "villifying a black man for making similar statements as a white man"... Revs Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have made similar "chickens coming home to roost" statements shortly after 911.

Jerry Falwell said God allowed 911 to happen because of moral decay, the ACLU, abortionists, feminists and gays. Pat Robertson made similar statements and no one claimed either was anti American. No one in the media scrutinized all their sermons for controversial statements...even with their records of making controversial statements PUBLICIALLY separate from PRIVATE sermons in their churches.

Last I heard, no one in the media has asked any white politician who supports either to speak against them...or any of the other white evangalists that serve as spiritual advisors to white politicians.

There is a big difference in how both Clinton and Obama dealt with these statements and similar controversies in their campaigns...

If you remember the last debate, Hillary stated rejecting these types of statements wasn’t enough, they must be denounced. She never denounced Geraldine ferrario personally, instead allowing her to step down from her supposed non existant position within Hillary’s campaign and to continue to "speak for herself", meaning she would continue to attack Obama, but without Hillary’s official blessing.

Obama on the other hand, opened himself up to criticism from the main stream media in interviews about Rev wright, rejected and denounced his statments publicially and I have yet to see Rev Wright making the rounds on the news shows adding more fuel to the fire.

But that doesn’t tell the half...

There’s a bigger story in how these campaigns dealt with controversy and transperency...just this week, Obama opened himself with his hometown newspapers to answer any question posed to his about Rezco...and he did to the satisfaction of Chicago journalists who have been covering Rezco since day one and have more knowledge than mainstream media pundits who don’t know
the whole story outside of quick soundbites and ziners.

The conclusion they came to...

"When we endorsed Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination Jan. 27, we said we had formed our opinions of him during 12 years of scrutiny. We concluded that the professional judgment and personal decency with which he has managed himself and his ambition distinguish him. Nothing Obama said in our editorial board room Friday diminishes that verdict... Barack Obama now has spoken about his ties to Tony Rezko in uncommon detail. That’s a standard for candor by which other presidential candidates facing serious inquiries now can be judged." - The Chicago Tribune

To this day Hillary has’t even acknowledged HER connection to Rezco.

Obama opened himself to more scrutinty in keepin with his pledge for transparency in government by releasing his tax returns (Hillary has yet to do so...and surprisingly, has not PUBLICIALLY releasf any tax returns since she’s been in elected office)....

Furthermore Obama has releasef his earmarks, Clingon and McCain have not...and probably won’t....hell McCain won’t even release his health records, which is a major issue for voters who want to make sure he’s healthy enuff to make it through a 4 year term.

When asked by a New Hampshire high schooler whenter he was too old to run, given the likelihood that a man in his 70s could possibley die in office, McCain’s response was "Thanks for the question, you little jerk. ... You’re drafted."

-b
"I’m outspoken, my language is broken into a slang, but that’s just a dialect that I select when I hang" - Special Ed, I GOT IT MADE