What are the consequences of words?

[Smiley and West]

Smiley: "I actually side with Glenn Beck on this issue..."

 

West: "I have no problem zeroing in on that Mormon brother when he's mean-spirited and cold-hearted."

[Jay Jordet]

Carlson finely finds Grace in responding to Tessa Byrd, but I still feel a need to call him out because he monopolized the blog by pasting the same response by others from old postings as if he is responding to someone other than himself:

Reply by Steve Carlson on October 22, 2010 at 8:41am
“….I am a person who wrote the Cultural Pluralism requirement for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, so I want scholarship and knowledge and intellectual inquiry and debate on black America, Asian America, Chicano America, Hispanic America, American Indian America. But what we have is still--silence, and ignorance, and little, if any knowledge base…”

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha What is HIS knowledge base?? This Carlson NEVER GIVES A FOOTNOTE ON ANYTHING HE WRITES!!!! Not even the beatitude! He even brags about his resources being the Internet and Wikipedia!

Then he laments, “…I find NPR sickening in the first place and never listen, because I can get all the information I want on the internet…I don't recall seeing any informative NPR cases lately.”
If Carlson never listens to NPR of course he doesn’t recall *seeing* anything informative on the Radio!

Carlson hits bottom, “…the brain-dead leftist elitists at NPR..." Isn't this name calling?? He rambles on "…NPR runs counter to American values and NPR should not be a part of the government. There's no reason for it now, we have plenty of news outlets…"
Yeah, plenty of news outlets owned by a few. Now who is HE trying to silence? Everyone on this blog as well as NPR.

Carlson then speculates, "I hope we'll see some understanding of what Fox News is actually trying to do…Maybe the Obama people are taking it out on Fox News through their little government liberal mouthpiece NPR. And by the way, this is why Obama is being weakened in these elections. The man is all about carrying the water for Harry Reid…”

Doesn't this sound racist to anyone else? Calling the President the "water boy" for Harry Reid?

[Steve Carlson]

Jay Jordet said:

Carlson finely finds Grace in responding to Tessa Byrd, but I still feel a need to call him out because he monopolized the blog by pasting the same response by others from old postings as if he is responding to someone other than himself:

Reply by Steve Carlson on October 22, 2010 at 8:41am
“….I am a person who wrote the Cultural Pluralism requirement for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, so I want scholarship and knowledge and intellectual inquiry and debate on black America, Asian America, Chicano America, Hispanic America, American Indian America. But what we have is still--silence, and ignorance, and little, if any knowledge base…”

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha What is HIS knowledge base?? This Carlson NEVER GIVES A FOOTNOTE ON ANYTHING HE WRITES!!!! Not even the beatitude! He even brags about his resources being the Internet and Wikipedia!

Then he laments, “…I find NPR sickening in the first place and never listen, because I can get all the information I want on the internet…I don't recall seeing any informative NPR cases lately.”
If Carlson never listens to NPR of course he doesn’t recall *seeing* anything informative on the Radio!

Carlson hits bottom, “…the brain-dead leftist elitists at NPR..." Isn't this name calling?? He rambles on "…NPR runs counter to American values and NPR should not be a part of the government. There's no reason for it now, we have plenty of news outlets…"
Yeah, plenty of news outlets owned by a few. Now who is HE trying to silence? Everyone on this blog as well as NPR.

Carlson then speculates, "I hope we'll see some understanding of what Fox News is actually trying to do…Maybe the Obama people are taking it out on Fox News through their little government liberal mouthpiece NPR. And by the way, this is why Obama is being weakened in these elections. The man is all about carrying the water for Harry Reid…”

Doesn't this sound racist to anyone else? Calling the President the "water boy" for Harry Reid?

I didn't offer any of the information as bragging. Why would I come here to brag? Are other posters providing footnotes? Makes me question why I would share these things. They obviously mean nothing to you, but I sacrificed to do them, didn't just sit on a blog and take potshots at people.

And yes, the fact is, documented, that Harry Reid called Obama in his office and told him he wouldn't make a good Senator and said he was concerned Hillary would run and lose to the Republicans, so he asked Obama to run and Obama agreed. That's in the 2010 book "Game Change". That's what I mean by carry the water. Any race of person could do it, and it definitely is not racist. And your race-baiting is predictable. I'm not going to swoon and fawn over Barack Obama any time soon, but why should you expect that? I've never swooned or fawned over anybody that made their way to the White House. You should have seen how Abraham Lincoln was treated. The press called him a gorilla. I wonder how Obama would handle that kind of treatment? Nobody is doing anything to Obama, he's just making a lot of mistakes and then he just throws people under the bus. So, two more years. And his coalition of abortionists and "progressive" schemers have got to go. Look at what's happening to America, and what does Barack do, he's all thrilled about his "time has come". Whoopee! We need A LOT more out of a President.

Well, we will have a new Congress in about one week, and that is a very good thing. I think Obama has wasted the time he was given, because of his inexperience. My concern is to put the country back together, create some unity. I'm not yet sure what role Obama will play. Are you? But he can't blame Glenn Beck, Beck is just out there talking with people and giving his views.

NPR? Maybe you like what they did to Juan Williams, that's your business. I don't like it, I never get my information from them, because frankly they have very little information that does not have to be checked out for completeness and accuracy. That's because they have to fund-raise to their listeners, and so their listeners tend to be very select, self-selecting. Do you listen to NPR? By the way, I just debated Obama ally Betty McCollum and Republican Teresa Collett on NPR (Minnesota's MPR) yesterday. You can listen at http://bit.ly/bYArpt (It's the second half, right after Keith Ellison debated Joel Demos and Tom Schrunk). Not posting this to brag, but to show the kind of dialogue we are actually having here in the Twin Cities. I actually have a lot more information to share, but I'm concerned that anything I say is not going to be listened to, or responded to, it will just be an occasion for you or somebody else to call me a racist, a white guy, or that I'm bragging.

I think this is the same thing that Glenn Beck experiences. It's some kind of crime to just listen to what he says. And now it happened to Juan Williams, too. You like Vivian Schiffer or whatever her name is, the CEO over at NPR? She ought to have her head examined, and frankly the whole of NPR ought to. They are people whose whole view, if they have one, is being thoroughly discredited and rejected by the American people. Juan Williams said he noticed, let's say, when someone came on a plane "wore Muslim garb" and gave off vibes, if you will, that they were Muslim first and foremost. I guess he felt more secure around Muslims that were more outgoing, and that's because he flies, and what he was trying to do was empathize with other passengers who did not feel comfortable with the current flying situation.

So this whole free speech thing, that's really valuable and really important. And since that's what this topic is about, I thought I'd mention that again. If you attack me as a racist because I mention what Harry Reid said, then I'm sure you'll keep attacking Glenn Beck. I really don't know when we'll get someone in the White House who can communicate without attacking everyone, I guess that's just what you do when you work for the Democrats.