Daily Archives: January 13, 2010

The Bachelor: Past Two Weeks in Review

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The only thing I watch on TV is reality based programs. Why? I am a sucker for competition, as it is the one human emotion that brings out one’s true personality. That aside, I have been watching a lot of The Bachelor lately. It is a show that really displays female competitiveness to the extreme. This season has got to be one of the most crazy and insane episodes of The Bachelor that I have ever witnessed, as they are fighting over a man they barely know for the chance to marry him. Seriously, whatever happened to taking your time and meeting that special someone?

Case in point, look at the actual Bachelor himself: Jake, who is extremely good looking. Jake seems like a nice guy, but I am not certain if he is the man that I could imagine introducing to my parents. Imagine my father talking football with this pretty boy, and he would probably oust him to the corner (my guess is that he’s a Cowboys fan…this would not set well with my Redskins rabid father). The first episode really confirmed my suspicions we were really looking at a guy, who probably could not impress my athletic family. For the full disclosure, you are about to witness a guy, who really should not say that he even played football. Also, I think it is quite impossible to play football in evening gowns (though I have to admit it would be fun).


Source: ABC Network

This is just one example of craziness that keeps me coming back to watch week after week. I could personally throw a football better than that guy, as I grew up around male cousins. This taught me the value of fighting for what you want.

The girls are another level of insanity. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. The competitiveness is at an all time high. The first episode saw some of the crazy ones eliminated, including a girl who made a joke about the landing strip. Just recently, we saw the elimination of Roslyn, the first female contestant who was eliminated for messing around with a staffer from the show.

It brings me to make a real good point about reality TV though. If you are crazy enough for putting yourself out there like these girls (and yes, even the Bachelor himself), then prepare for some of the jokes. All in all, I will keep you updated with some of the humorous events from the show. In the meantime, I wonder if they realize that they are making fools of themselves without the opportunity to become the Bachelorette (which is another reality TV show that I am hopelessly addicted to).

No GOP "Game Change" from Reid's Negro Comment

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In case no one has heard, the new book, Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, presents a stream of gossip stemming from the 56th season of the popular reality show, U.S. Presidential Idol.  Controversy erupted over a quote, attributed to Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, regarding Barrack Obama:

He [Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one

Reacting to Reid’s blatant racism, Republicans and right-leaning pundits have quickly jumped on a racial free-for-all bandwagon.  Listen to Sean Hannity whine about double standards and hypocrisy.  Is he right?  Yes, but so what?  Desperately hoping to score political points on the “giving end” of racial accusations, the GOP fails to see how their pretend outrage translates into an electoral gain of this many votes:

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No, that is not a symbol of the President, despite the incredible similarity, it is a zero.

Whining about the double standard and hypocrisy is hollow because it is self-centered.  It is fake because it makes Republicans no less racist then Democrats falsely charge; it tacitly accepts the presumption of Democrats’ false charges; and it is rooted in sour grapes over the demonstrable effectiveness of these charges.  None of this is attractive to any voter, let alone a black voter.

Harry Reid can appear on the floor of the U.S. Senate in black-face, eating fried chicken, sucking on a watermelon, slurping grape soda, reciting

and not a single vote will move to Republicans.  He has insurance.  Republicans need to get off of this and go back to promoting constitutional liberty.  Currently, this is centered on economic opportunity, fighting a central government that obstructs it, and the confiscatory taxation (approaching slavery) that is feeding it.

Many will be tempted to think that the Reid comment presents an opportunity to break the perceived conditioning to reach black Americans with the GOP’s message.

Regretfully, now is not the time.

Black Americans live in the major urban centers of the United States: Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, DC, Houston Los Angeles, etc.  These urban centers and their respective states are about to collapse under the weight of the out-of-control spending necessary to support the bureaucracy that purports to “help,” but instead, enslaves black Americans.  To put it succinctly, these states are on the precipice of FAILURE.

This failure marks the approaching day of reckoning for black Americans and all Americans, in general. But, for black Americans, this will be the day when they will have the opportunity to embrace conservatism, and for conservatism to welcome them back with open arms.  That will be the day they take their rightful place as free Americans, providing for themselves, their children, their liberty and their future.

Liberty is not waiting for a demagogue to sprinkle bread crumbs in their mouths while cruelly passing it off as change.  This is real hope for all whom have the audacity to embrace liberty for themselves.

And when this day comes, if they still do not choose liberty, then who needs them anyway?