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Melissa Harris-Perry and the Apology Hashtag
Nothing says “deeply moving and sincere” quite like a heartfelt 140-character apology.
After refereeing a racist free-for-all on her MSNBC program where she and her guests made racist jokes about Mitt Romney’s grandson, Melissa Harris-Perry took to the Twitters to apologize.
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Seriously? She added the hashtag #MHPapology?
And this woman has a PhD.
Apologizing over Twitter is about as courageous as breaking up with your boyfriend in a text message.
Way to face the music MHP.
Naturally, Conservatives on the Twitters shredded her.
However, it might be good for Dr. Harris-Perry to have this hashtag since I’m guessing with her track record, she’s going to be needing it so much, it starts trending.
Could you imagine if, after the Sandra Fluke kerfuffle, Rush Limbaugh, instead of apologizing on the air for calling that slut a slut, took to the Twitters and tweeted his apology then added #RushApology at the end?
Good gracious, you would never hear the end it! Hosts on MSNBC — including Melissa Harris-Perry — would spend precious airtime lambasting Rush for his disrespectful, insincere apology and the nerve of actually including a hashtag for it! They wouldn’t shut up about it. They would get all righteously indignant and huffy — probably make jokes about Rush’s weight, not to mention throw in a few jabs about hoping he has another heart attack.
But Melissa Harris-Perry really isn’t sorry. She doesn’t care. MSNBC’s purpose is to sow discord, and race is delivery system. To Harris-Perry, race is something that must be exploited regardless. Race is all that matters. Race is the one and only thing that animates her. Race is the wedge she happily uses to divide the people of this nation.
And if tomorrow, race miraculously became irrelevant, people like Melissa Harris-Perry would curl into a ball and disappear.
Oh, that race would become irrelevant tomorrow.
Another New Year, Another 40,000 Laws
Liberal deep-thinkers like Nancy Pelosi love to claim that we Conservatives hate government and want to abolish it.
I realize Liberals, despite all reality, believe that Government is the only entity that can solve problems, create equality, provide healthcare, strengthen an economy, and manage every aspect of our lives.
They absolutely rankle at the fact that limited government is at the heart of our Constitutional Republic.
Why do you think they hate our Constitution?
We Conservatives do not want to abolish government; we want to make it benign.
Liberalism is a cancer. Government becomes a ubiquitous presence worming its way into every nook and cranny of our existence — from what kind of toilets we have to have to the kind of light bulbs we can purchase. And 40,000 new laws on the books is proof that this malignant Government has metastasized and is devouring the very lifeblood of a people.
We can’t get away from it. It regulates our comings and our goings. It interferes with everything we do — from the car we drive to the food we eat to the education curriculum of our children to the bathrooms our children are allowed to use in school.
It determines the flow of the water in our showerheads and toilets.
It forces businesses, already struggling financially, to spend more money on product labeling, wages, compliance, and taxes.
This aggressive cancer eats away at this nation’s liberty and prosperity. It is swallowing whole entire segments of our private economy.
You cannot escape it.
There is no refuge.
Not only is this terminal cancer not covered by Obamacare, it has spread even more because of Obamacare.
And now, 40,000 new laws went into effect on the first.
No.
Government isn’t out of control at all.
DeBlasio Ushers in Manhattan-Style Socialism
I kind of find it entertaining to know that all the wealthy inbreds who reside in Manhattan just provided the noose to hang themselves.
At yesterday’s inauguration of Detroit’s New York City’s newest Mayor, The Big Apple officially changed its name to the Big Plantation.
At least according to the kook minister they got to perform the invocation (Hat tip Politicker):
“Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,” he declared. “Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Oh God, oh God, oh God, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.”
Speakers, including the new Mayor, declared war on those of means on behalf of those who live off of those of means.
That’s right! No more living off the fruits of your own success! It’s time to relinquish your prosperity to those who do not want to work for their own prosperity!
The “haves” of New York City are about to become the “have nots” and the “have nots” of New York City are about to become…
Well, they’ll still be “have nots” but at least they will find pleasure in knowing those who used to be “haves” got royally screwed!
Democrats are officially the Party of Revenge.
Said the newly christened Stalin of Manhattan (hat tip Breitbart):
“When I said we would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, I meant it. And we will do it. I will honor the faith and trust you have placed in me. And we will give life to the hope of so many in our city. We will succeed … as one city.”
That’s right! New York will become one city — where every single person residing there is equally miserable! Because it is better that everyone be screwed by government than some be lucky enough to escape a screwing!
Because, well, fairness.
DeBlasio, like most socialist Democrats, started out his administration by uttering one whopper of a lie:
“We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success,” he said. “We do it to create more success stories.”
The only success stories that will come out of New York will literally be the ones coming out of New York. They will belong to the people who get the hell out and relocate elsewhere. And just like with Detroit, the only folks who will remain will be the people who cannot escape.
So, it isn’t so much that New York City is a Plantation.
Rather, it’s another Titanic. The wealthy will launch lifeboats to safety, while those in steerage, unable to escape the sinking city, will drown.
And, to save this Titanic from hitting bottom, taxpayers throughout the state of New York, as well as the rest of the country, will be called upon to save the sinking city.
Just like we did in the 1970s.
The election of DeBlasio is proof that “progressives” are about as “progressive” as the Amish
No offense to the Amish.
This new Mayor will not take New York City forward. Rather, if he succeeds in his agenda, New York can expect to return to the days of Dinkins — high crime, crumbling infrastructure, fleeing wealth, and increased poverty.
So, congrats, New York City! In a resounding landslide, you voted for your own demise.
But at least Harry Belafonte is happy.
The Delicious Irony of Stranded Global Warming Devotees
In what is probably the feel-good story of 2013, a group of Global Warming scientists who went by ship to Antarctica got stuck in the ice for days. Ice-breaker ships were unable to get to them because the ice was so thick.
Sadly, like most religious zealots, the Global Warming crowd will not see this as in any way proof that their religion is a fraud. Rather, they just shift their basic tenets around to suit reality.
It isn’t “Global Warming;” it is “Climate Change.”
“Climate Change” has nothing to do with weather.
The weather is doing what it’s doing because of “Climate Change.”
Tornadoes! Because Climate Change!
No tornadoes! Because Climate Change!
You use plastic grocery bags! You should be strung up with biodegradable rope with a low carbon footprint and hanged!!!
Speaking as someone whose climate changes with each season, I can state unequivocally that I am not responsible for the fact that I just had to shovel snow in single digit temperatures.
Though, if I didn’t shovel snow that I am not responsible for causing, my city could fine me for not shoveling snow that I’m not responsible for causing.
Ah, government.
On Planet Earth, (you know, the planet that isn’t warming to the point where we all have to wear SPF 6,000) we know that “Global Warming/Climate Change” is nothing more than another attempt to control people, extract from the producers their hard-earned money and redistribute it across the globe.
It is nothing more than punishing success, wealth and prosperity.
But the Global Warming devotees do not reside on Planet Earth. So, as they climb aboard their rescue helicopter and leave the frozen wastes of Antarctica, they will claim that their being stuck for days in ice as thick as Melissa Harris-Perry’s brain, proves without a doubt that the science is settled, the earth is heading toward a fiery end, and their mission a was success!
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Diann Russell is the author of RANT: Politics & Snark in the Age of Obama, as well as two novels, Sliding Home Feet First and Under the Cloud. She is a political dissident residing in The People’s Republic of New York.
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