Martha Stewart Serves Up Anti-Palin Hatred For Thanksgiving

It becomes more and more apparent that feminism has ceased to be about equality of opportunity for women and or their empowerment but rather an extension of the Democratic Party and the Liberal agenda. Where were the accolades from feminists for Condoleeza Rice? Did NOW stand behind President Bush when he liberated the women of Afghanistan from the most oppressive misogynist regime in history? The cold shoulder given to Secretary Rice by feminists and President Bush’s un-credited historic act of literal women’s liberation were mostly sins of omission. Silence, however, is not the hard and fast rule when it comes to feminist hypocrisy. Most recently an odd yet obvious phenomena has occurred since Sarah Palin took the national stage which is that among her hateful detractors it is women most of all who seem to be falling all over themselves to see who can spew the most venom against arguably the most prolific renaissance woman of our time. The most recent shrew to add her shrill voice to the rabid pack of anti-Palin women is the usually soft spoken, multi-millionaire, ex-con hypocrite Martha Stewart.

I’ll make a confession right up front: it was not my intention to write about Sarah Palin again so soon, but coming right on the heels of my unfortunate experience listening to NPR stoke the flames of anti-Palin hysteria last week I could not remain silent when I once again heard such absurdist hatred coming from yet another feminine voice.

Interviewed while walking another red carpet last week, egalitarian in name only Martha Stewart was asked about Sarah Palin. As dispassionately as she reads recipes off her studio teleprompter the former prison inmate didn’t miss a beat in spewing her unsubstantiated criticism and hate against the former Alaska governor, beauty queen, homemaker, sportswoman, author and all around American sweetheart. Asked “why do you think she’s polarizing to so many people?” the compassionate ex-con first tried to feign disinterest by saying “She’s, uh, very boring to me. Very boring.” Okay, fair enough. I am sure lying to Federal investigators and ending up in prison is much more interesting than watching Sarah Palin connect with America’s working men and women; had that been the end of it I wouldn’t have a thing to say, but Mizz Stewart, who claims to be bored by Mrs. Palin had more to say.

“To me (She’s) kind of a dangerous person. I mean, to, uh, she’s dangerous.” Asked to clarify the loquacious Stewart explained “She speaks. She’s so confused, and anyone like that in government is a real problem.” The interviewer, obviously finding Sarah Palin more interesting than the woman who rode her ex-husband’s coattails to fame and fortune, pressed ahead wondering if Stewart had caught any of Governor Palin’s interviews on television. Stewart, who had only seconds before claimed she found Sarah Palin so “very boring” responded “I wouldn’t watch her if you paid me!” As a simple human being I was not aware that blue blood gifted people with such transcendental powers as being able to be bored by someone I supposedly pay no attention to, not to mention find them dangerous! So which is it, Martha? Do you pay her attention and hence become bored and frightened or are you pulling all this out of your oven mitts?



Stepping away from my sarcastic fury for a moment let me leave you with this thought: we are not even one hundred years from the day women won the right to vote in this country and yet we are on the very cusp of seeing a woman become President of the United States (whoever she may finally be). What service does it provide women or humanity itself to deride, mock, and make non-substantive fear mongering attacks on a self made, American success story such as Sarah Palin? One does not need to walk lock step politically with Governor Palin to recognize that her accomplishments have indeed made her perhaps the greatest renaissance woman of our time. Consider that whether you agree with her politics or not her story can prove to be an inspiration for millions of our daughters who daily have to struggle with the poisonous pop culture, hip hop generation, music video message that they are only worth as much as their sex appeal.

Martha Stewart is today worth $638 million and would have you believe she is a self made woman; yet she owes it all to the doors her ex-husband first opened for her three decades ago. Sarah Palin may very well become President of the United States and she owes all her success to the doors she kicked open on her own, never forgetting that her husband and family were and are by her side. That is the American woman who embodies the Spirit of this nation. Martha, keep walking the red carpets and stay in your kitchen because out in the real world you can’t take the heat from a rising sun like Sarah Palin.

Obamunist Public Enemy Number One: Sarah Palin

One of history’s darker truths is that scapegoats can be very effective in rallying people to a cause (right or wrong). When substantive solutions can’t be found to ameliorate a crisis simply point the finger at someone else. To keep people from laying the blame on those in power just stoke people’s fears and hatred. Seems since Bush and Cheney cleared out of Washington last January the Obamunists have found the scary boogieman hiding under their beds and in their closets to point the finger at and rally their growingly disgruntled and disappointed troops. Would you believe it possible that such a scary figure and focus of hatred could be a cute as a pixie, down home, common sense self made woman? You betcha!

Seems these days the little lady from Wasilla, Alaska is enemy number one on the Obamunist enemies list. Just observing how their pundits have derided her non-stop as insignificant, unprepared and even oafish erased any doubts that they truly hate this woman. The more she has succeeded the more they deride her. The more she accomplishes the more they say she has no accomplishments. If this was a kindergarten schoolyard I’d say they have a crush on her and in their infantile ignorance they only know how to express affection by pulling her hair. Where is the logic in proclaiming someone as insignificant when her first book is a runaway smash hit months before even going on sale? I will confess that in my naïve desire to give people the benefit of the doubt I didn’t wish to believe the anti-Palinites had truly gone off the deep end, but an unfortunate lapse in judgment which caused me to listen to NPR tonight erased all doubt. Simply put the Obamunists have lost their minds.

In the now ancient days of what by today’s standards was the Right-wing Clinton administration I used to listen to NPR nearly every day. Unfortunately along with all their Kool-Aid drinking fellows in the non FOX News mainstream media they have wholly succumbed to the addiction and loss of reason which is Obamunism. Still old habits die hard and so perhaps for nostalgia’s sake I still have one of the presets on my car radio tuned to NPR. As a result, in what would lead to a “my head feels like its going to explode moment”, I tuned into NPR on my drive home from work today. (As you know in Joe Biden’s America it is our patriotic duty to work longer hours so that we might take less money home while sending more to Washington.) The soft spoken voices which so innocently escaped my speakers were discussing Governor Palin’s best selling book and, not surprisingly, criticizing it quite heavily. No problem. Such is to be expected, but then they began taking calls from the lovers of diversity and tolerance known as modern Liberals. The callers nearly all shared a single minded vision of Wasilla’s most famous daughter which was summed up succinctly by one particularly lovely lady who referred to Governor Palin as “Osama Bin Laden”. (Friends, I invite you to insert any expletive you wish here.)

Osama Bin Laden.

Please, take a moment to let that sink in. The caller in question who dubbed Governor Palin “Osama Bin Laden”, and those surrounding her, were of a like mind that Governor Palin is an agent of Right-Wing Religious extremism and violence. The phrase “incite to violence” was used time and again to the amusement and apparent agreement of the host and guest during that block of time on NPR. Now I will admit that Sarah is no doubt a terror to Moose during hunting season but unless she is planning on flying a jumbo jet into a herd of them what kind of insane, inane, absurdist comment is it to accuse her of being another Osama Bin Laden? What is worse is that these people genuinely believe this! How twisted, how fanatical, how full of hate are the minds of these people who would find in Governor Palin’s family and values oriented speeches an incitement to violence? In their hate filled rhetoric Governor Palin’s critics are not grasping at straws they are creating an entire fiction of a magnitude so great that it almost qualifies as an “X-File”.

To put it succinctly the Obamunist hatred for Sarah Palin has grown so exponentially without any basis in reality that it is melting their collective brains.

In Obama's Post-Racial America "Dissent" is Just Another Word for "Racism"

Once upon a time in those ancient days when the then junior Senator from Illinois Barack Obama declared his candidacy for President many among the Democratic Party’s black supporters and activists questioned whether he was “black enough”. As David Ehrenstein, himself a black man, pointed out in a column he wrote in those bygone days there existed “criticism (white and black alike) concerning Obama's alleged "inauthenticty," as compared to such sterling examples of "genuine" blackness as Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg.” Indeed in this column Ehrenstein single handedly revived the notion of the “Magic Negro” now apparently embodied by Barack Obama. As time progressed and the media began getting a tingly feeling running up its collective leg every time Barack Obama spoke the issue of race once again shifted and soon it was no longer whether he was authentically black or not but rather that those who opposed him, even among Democrats, were in actuality closet racists. Looking for racists under every stone seemed to become the past time of the Obama campaign and its supporters even setting its sites on our first “black” President Bill Clinton who correctly declared that they had played the race card on him during the South Carolina primary. Still somehow with this apparent rampant racism tainting our nation, one year ago we elected the first black President of the United States. We now had the bright promise of our first post racial President. This was the man who had first come to prominence at the 2004 Democratic Convention by declaring that “there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddler… There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.” On the day Barack Obama took the oath of office his approval rating was more than ten points higher than the percentage by which he won office: America had hope that he would finally be the uniter we all desired. So I ask you now, as an American, as a Puerto Rican, why am I still declared by so many on the Left as a “race traitor”?

It has become an unfortunate battle cry among too many on the Left that the Democratic Party is THE Party protecting and advancing the causes of minorities and anyone who would stand outside of such a broad tent must either be racist or, if they are themselves a minority, self loathing and or a sellout to “the man”. I can still remember driving on I-75 on the night I heard NPR broadcast an interview with Harry Belafonte in which he compared then Secretary of State Colin Powell to a house slave desperately seeking to please his master. So vitriolic was the partisan/racial divide that rather than acknowledge the historical appointment of our first black Secretary of State Mr. Belafonte felt the need to use what can only be seen as a racist slur; Secretary Powell’s successor Condoleeza Rice did not fair much better treatment from the Left (though I do not recall if the term “Uncle Tom” was feminized into “Aunt Tomasina” for her or not). But this was in the dark days of the Bush administration and we are now in the post-racial, post-partisan era of Obama! Yes?

You know how they say that the more things change the more they stay the same? I’ll do you one better: in the case of race relations in the age of Obama the more things change the more they regress.

From personal observation there was a rather disturbing trend throughout the 2008 Presidential election season in which it seemed Barack Obama’s supporter were so enamoured with him, so convinced of his messianic qualities that the only explanation which they could arrive at as to why anyone would oppose him was racism. As was noted earlier even Bill Clinton of all people was painted with this incredibly broad and unjust brush. (Is it any wonder that Bill Clinton declared at the time “I don't think I should take any shit from anybody on that, do you?”) Upon his election the enamored media began comparing the President Elect to the greatest figures to ever reside in the White House! If Barack Obama was Lincoln, and FDR, and Kennedy and Ronald Reagan all rolled into one why would any American oppose him if not for the color of his skin? Not so long ago in the wake of this summer’s unexpected national uprising against the overreaching and fast paced extreme Left push of the Obama administration vis a vis “healthcare reform” (aka the push for socialized medicine) the race card was played once again. At the height of the summer of revolution when millions of ordinary citizens flooded town hall meetings from coast to coast Carlos Watson declared on MSNBC that “socialist is becoming the new N-word.” Suddenly a new standard in judging the opposition came into play in the era of Obama: don’t judge dissenters on the merits of their opposition but rather judge them based on the color of the skin of the President! The Obamunist thesaurus suddenly seemed to say that “dissident” was just another word for “racist”. There is a clear obsession with race in American politics and it is not on the part of the Right but rather on the part of the Left.

I am perhaps not qualified to write on this topic because I am, as I mentioned at the start, a “race traitor”. Like so many political junkies I have exercised my fingers typing non-stop participating in countless discussions in online forums about politics. Invariably time and again during last year’s campaign and straight through to the present upon it becoming known that I am Puerto Rican some agent of “Hope and Change” from the Party of tolerance and diversity has accused me of siding against my people’s interests and or more explicitly being a race traitor. In the age of Obama there is not the individual, there is simply the mass. To them I am not Manuel Rosado-Morales citizen, I am Manuel Rosado-Morales voting demographic and in bucking the trend I commit a cardinal sin. If I am nothing more than a voting bloc how can I ever believe that they are looking out for my interests? Are they seeking to lift me and mine up or are they seeking to ride our shoulders into the halls of power?

In the summer of 2004 when Barack Obama took the podium at the Democratic National Convention I took notice of him. I opposed then as I do now most his political ideology and his chosen Party yet still he impressed me for he spoke words which could have come from my very own heart: “alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga. A belief that we are connected as one people… It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one” I believe this just as I believe that “There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America”. I believe this! This is what all true American Patriots believes; in the hedonistic inebriation of victory and power it has become too obvious that the agents of “Hope and Change” do not.