And don’t see this as THAT important.

Now see, that’s what we need. A good flame throwing over music. I know lie-to-the-girls has some pretty strong ties to Barry Manilow. And isn’t Pookey a big Boy George fan?

The thing is, a conservative will tell you the mass media is liberal. A liberal will tell you the media is a vast right wing conspiracy. Many minorities (rece, religion, gender) will tell you the media paints them unfairly. But the majorities say the media panders to the minorities. I completely agree that there is a ton of biggotry in the world. I just tend to think that when everyone thinks the media is against them, it is probably somewhere in the middle. I’m willing to admit that am I probably wrong though. At least in this case :)

there’s more than a passing similarity in Obama’s comparison to JFK…and why mainstream media keeps bringing it up.

There had never been an Irish-American presidential candidate prior to JFK. Why? “Whites” are not nearly as united against everyone else as you assume.

There had never been a Catholic presidential candidate prior to JFK. Why? See previous paragraph.

Having been raised in California I lack most of that racial awareness of our country’s treatment of anyone “different”, but my East Coast relatives can tell you exactly how the Irish in America were treated.

Google NINA laws (no Irish need apply), Google indentured servitude, Google Great Britain’s deportation laws that ended up populating Australia, google the Irish famine of 1849, then google the treatment of Jews throughout at least five hundred years of European and American history. Google the history of the Mafia in America and ask yourself why that came to be. My opinion? Just like every other oppressed minority, they did what that had to do in order to survive. Then google the shorter history of persecution of the Mormon religion. Study American immigration laws governing immigrants from historically Catholic countries, then google America’s shameful history in dealing with immigrants from Asian countries. I’m not even going to touch on our treatment of Latin American citizens, I’ll just say that if you study American history things haven’t changed.

I’m not trying to tell you that blacks haven’t been discriminated against in America. I‘m not going to tell you that African American citizens haven‘t faced the worst discrimination in America, but before you wrap yourself up alone in that persecution blanket please recognize that you’re gonna need a really big blanket if you want to take care of every group, white, brown, yellow, black and green, who have been wronged in this great country.

Personal anecdote: I visited New Orleans a couple of years before Katrina and while on a guided walking tour of the French Quarter we visited St. Louis Square and the gorgeous Cathedral there. We were all, obviously, Northerners and while the tour guide extolled the virtues of the square and cathedral and the money and labor required to build these magnificent edifices one smug dumbass/liberal asked her a pseudo-question. His question: "but didn’t you build all this with slave labor?" She: (obviously horrified) "No! Slaves were very valuable, you would never use a slave for this kind of work, it was too dangerous. If a slave died you would lose at least a thousand dollars. This was built by the Irish. If you lost an Irishman, you’d hire another one the next day to replace him".

Sorry about that – it should be a quote, not a cross out.

My family background is Greek Orthodox, and the virulence of some of my relatives’ dislike of the Mormon religion is borderline scary. Definitely irrational.

I knew Romney’s candidacy was destined for failure. I think we will see a black female Jewish President before a Mormon one.

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