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link MSNBC yanks Baldwin show for two weeks over gay slur.

MSNBC, which by they way actually stands for Misogynists Spewing Nonsense and Buffoonery Channel, have found a line over which even they won’t dare cross.  For over a decade and most recently with increasing venom,  the uber left network’s business model was to disparage in the most unhinged terms,  conservatives of all types and particularly conservative women.  In the case of Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman, it was a two-fer as the puerile minds at that network spewed their taunts like pimply drunk frat boys hurling at their first college party.

Martin Bashir, soon to be fitted for the same suit with the long arms that tie at the back once worn by the deposed Keith Olbermann, was forced to retract and apologize for a particularly vile comment against Sarah Palin recently.  We won’t repeat the comment here, but here’s some free advice for his wife or girlfriend or partner.  Let’s just say that if a flock of seagulls flies over head, keep mouths closed.  His suggestion for Palin was so vile, even Taliban viewers tweeted their disgust.  Still, he did not receive any sanction from the network.

As for the distinguished actor Alec Baldwin, whose ratings for his new show on that network are so abysmal that it should be named 30 viewers, his big crime was…to heave a gay slur.  This is the guy who goes all Rob Ford on his daughter and TV reporters threatening violence to them but is only censored when he publicly utters a gay epithet.  As is the case with many actors, his ability to put together cogent thoughts and have intelligent discourse disappears if there is no script to follow.  So instead of the articulate characters he portrays, his vocabulary is revealed as somewhat more street. For this vile transgression, he was suspended for two weeks from the show.   Insult the women all you want, but not the girly men.

So now, there’s another word to be censored from common use, henceforth only to be referred to as the ‘f’ word.   That of course joins the ‘n’ word, the ‘c’ word but not to be confused with the other ‘f’ word.  As time goes on, this reference may even be too offensive and people will have to resort to hand gestures in place of those letters.

Like rap videos, MSNBC is devoid of any real content, it has become the Miley Cyrus of the news and information business.  It’s shock TV.  It’s the same tribal beat of misogynist and violent views over and over again masquerading as free speech and liberal thought.   Interestingly, two of these newly offensive letters are found on MSNBC’s call sign.  If we wind up getting the other letters banned, we may have to call it ***** , or the asterisk network.  Of course, for ease of discussion, it will simply be referred to as the ass network.

link Anthony Weiner: poster child for mistrust – baltimoresun.com.

People get tired of this story because it is so base.  Weiner himself perpetuates the saga by virtue of not resigning after the queasy details of his personal peccadilloes have been revealed.  Otherwise, it would have been  old news by now and people would have moved on to the next scandal.

Now the story takes a different dimension.  The focus is no longer on Weiner, it now shifts to the constituency that he represents because there are reports that by a simple majority there, people support him.  This is the root of some of the malaise that infects society at large. The cliche goes that people deserve who they elect and this gets proved again and again.  Less than a year ago Charlie Rangel, the permanent Democratic fixture in New York was censured for all kinds of offside activities while sitting as a congressman.  Avoiding taxes was one such issue, which is only noteworthy because he was one of the authors of the federal tax code.  Lovable Chuck managed to ‘golly gee, shucks” his way out of that one.  The lovable rascal didn’t have to resign, because, well he’s so gosh darn charming and the people loved him.  Besides, his explanations for his transgressions were all innocent enough:  He forgot, or didn’t understand the complexities of his tax issues.

Mr. Weiner, to his credit did a full mea culpa.  There was no room for misunderstandings, no accidents, no reasonable explanation of his recreational proclivities.  Despite his impressive Pinocchio impersonation, the people in his district still think enough of Weiner to allow him to represent them.  He’s still their boy!  This is great for Weiner, because now, he doesn’t even have to pretend to be sane!  His public knows that he’s warped  and they don’t care!  Not that this is a big surprise, given his New York district, which, like San Francisco on the other side of the country support their own varieties of mixed nuts.   What this means however, is that for the rest of the population, they must endure policies passed in no small part by the input of these flaky representatives.  Essentially, the wacko predilections of these districts are transmitted to the nation as a whole, truly a tyranny of the minority. 

This also means that crafting rational policies to deal with large scale social and financial issues are entirely moot excercises.  Obviously, trying to reason with people of these constituencies would be like explaining string theory to monkeys.  It’s very much a mob mentality.  To attack the leader of the mob, regardless of how eminently unlikeable their personalities, is to attack the mob itself.  I’m sure even Weiner is surprised by all of this support.   People can take encouragement by these episodes.  This means that anyone but anyone can run for public office.  As a matter of fact, they should actually publish a picture list of requirements to make it simpler for those who can’t read, (incidentally not a dis-qualifier).  Apart from shallowness of character, extreme narcissism and lack of any rational judgement, pants being on fire would be good credentials to have.  The major stipulation is that you need to bring along  a few million voters who are just like you.   Next thing you know, Alec Baldwin will be running for mayor of New York….