Posted by
Dave Perkins on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:58:37 AM
Powerline carries a terrific example of celebrity superficiality today,
a video of a bunch of Hollywood types (
half of whom I do not recognize, and about a quarter of whom I hope I never see again on any screen) doing the self-congratulatory 'pledge to be a better person' thing in the name of the One.
I listened carefully. I watched twice, just to be sure. And now that I'm sure, here it is--
THERE IS NOTHING IN THOSE PLEDGES WHICH COULD NOT HAVE BEEN EQUALLY AS PASSIONATELY PLEDGED FOUR YEARS AGO OR EIGHT YEARS AGO. The
horrors of the
tyrannical Bush administration in NO way impeded any of these pursuits. People were free to use less bottled water, to get to know their neighbors and to smile more even DURING the Bush
tyranny.
As when Queen Hillary announced at the age of 47 that she had learned that janitors are human too and deserved decent treatment, these Holly-woodenheads are just embarrassing themselves, and the sad thing is they don't even realize it.
p.s. Forgot to mention the one salient comment among the vacuousness-- perhaps the reasons for this are a mixed blessing, but to see Michael Strahan, the great defensive end from the New York Giants, say he will consider himself "an American, not an African-American" was uplifting. He is the only person in this entire video who has grasped a good, sound and forward-moving meaning from the Obama election.
Don't get me wrong; he could still have said this in public eight years ago. There was nothing in the
Bush tyranny that isolated or oppressed American black people. In fact, Bush appointed the first TWO black SecStates, and the first black FEMALE SecState, along with the first black SecEd and several other colorblind moves that showed the best of America; he also spent billions in the fight against diseases like malaria and aids in Africa, saving millions of lives-- and got NO credit for any of this.
Strahan is not the kind of guy who would have stepped up during the Bush years and congratulated him for his progress against racism, I guess. Nonetheless, he's noticed that we've elected a black President and is aware of ALL that this means, and for that I am thankful.
the rest of them are just dopes.