My own letter to the FCC

[silverthorne]

I’ll keep it short, because I’m sure you’re already flooded with this.

Those comments about ‘lynching’ ‘militant black women’…should have never made it onto the air. You are fools, idiots, racist and prejudiced if you believe otherwise.

What she said wasn’t even inflammatory. I’ve heard many, many white males say the same damn thing over the years in their own campaigns. Why is her saying it any different? Why should it be allowed to be indicated that there’s any other reason than the same ones the white boys had for saying such things?

You owe her and her family an apology. You need to keep your rabid ‘good old boys in check’, and you need to rethink your policy and quite probably your attitudes.



Signed.
A white woman.
Anne M. Campbell

Comments

[chiss.livejournal.com]

Michelle Obama?

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Or rather, the reaction by Mr. O'Rielly.

And yes, free speech and all that, but you know, there's a time when people need to be punched in the mouth rather than tolerated. This is one of those times.

[chiss.livejournal.com]

Absolutely, I agree with you 100%. Totally uncalled for, and there is no excuse for that kind of backward ignorance in this day and age. I don't care if it was a "slip" like people have been saying -- if that kind of thing is what "slips", what does it say about what you usually THINK?

And really, free speech is a joke in this context. Sure, he has all the free speech to say whatever he wants in the world, but the right to free speech is not a right to a protection from criticism based on what you do with that right. It's his right to make racist, putrid filth, and it's my right to call him a goddamn good-for-nothing ignorant backwards-ass redneck fuck for it.

Good for him. He deserves every drop of what he gets over this. That woman is PROBABLY going to be our next first lady; however you feel about that, as a person, she deserves respect, well and above this. And hell, even if she was just a grocery clerk or something else, there is NO excuse, IMO.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

There is never excuse for that kind of bullshit, high or low, nor from any quarter.

I hope, honestly hope that all this idiocy does the one thing that trying to follow the rules the past eight years hasn't been able to do; which is open enough eyes that there is no fucking possible way that camp can stay in the white house for the next four years. I hope they hang themselves with their own goddamned figurative intestines.

[chiss.livejournal.com]

Ugh, agreed agreed agreed.

It makes me feel a little better though that Michelle Obama, if put in a room with O'Reilly, would probably leave little more than his bones and a large, bloody smear in her wake. That woman... she puts the fear of God into me. In a good way... but, still. Wrong target.