Posted by
NSSA (Not So Silent Anymore) on Friday, June 12, 2009 12:00:00 AM
As I peruse the blogosphere & channel-surf, I am growing more & more amazed at how little 'play' any conservative gets, quoted - or misquoted - unless it is to be used as a 'joke'.
I'm not laughing. As near as I can tell, most people who have a moral compass - whether they are liberals or conservatives - are disgusted by such crude, rude, tacky & socially unacceptable behavior as letterman is currently spouting & then he tries to 'justify' & 'explain'. The words were coming out of his mouth, he knew what he was saying & he was enjoying it. The small laughter from the audience shows me that he is definitely on the wrong path & even the most liberal of liberals, are now becoming offended.
Holding someone such as letterman up as a spokesman for liberal ideas, concepts, thoughts, & 'jokes' is making a lot of people not just uncomfortable, but disgusted. These same liberals want to stay on his guest list so they won't have the courage - have they ever? - to say what they think. He has reached a new low in his monologue & many are realizing that they do not want anyone like him as their neighbor or near their children, especially their daughters. Then Playboy came out with even more disturbing, disgusting, degrading garbage. Carrie Prejean is being villified because she respectfully stated her thoughts & they are the exact same as the POTUS; she is being trampled & yet the POTUS is adored by the same ones who are slamming Prejean.
So, where will it end? When people actually find the courage to stand for what is right & to condemn what is wrong. Many people are quietly doing this, but quite frankly, 'quietly' is the problem.
Personally, I have had more than enough. I do not want my daughter to believe she is a 2nd-class citizen because of her sex. I do not want my daughter to stuff her beliefs down inside & 'go along to get along'. This, after all, is what we are being asked to do.
If you have not written, called, emailed your objections to the moral degradation obviously on display on t.v., then you are part of the problem. Would you want anyone to basically call your daughter/sister/mother/friend/lover/wife a whore simply for expressing opinions held by approximately 80% of the citizens of the U.S.? If your daughter's name appeared on a 'hate rape' list, what would you do? Answer that question & then do it.
Ignoring all this will not make it go away. In fact, by ignoring the garbage being shoveled into your home from the self-appointed 'cool' people, you are agreeing. When you grow a spine, when YOU write/email/text/call to protest the attacks on women - no matter who is saying these things - then they will be lessened.
No, they will not go away. But, at least it is a beginning by stating your opinion. I would be equally insulted if the 'hate rape' list was on liberal women. I would be equally insulted if letterman's diatribes were regarding the daughters of a liberal.
I am a woman. I am afraid for my daughter. If you are not afraid for your own daughter, wife, sister, Mother, Aunt.....the list goes on....then you are not living in the real world.
Wake up before it is too late. As I have always told my children: Right is right even when no one is doing it & wrong is wrong even when everyone is doing it.