The Double Standard and silly PC Points

Today's news brings a number of articles that illustrate both the double standard of American media and the silliness of political correctness.

This morning's headline on Yahoo news is that Republicans (gasp) laughed and applauded at an Obama impersonator who did a routine at some Republican grassroots conference held in New Orleans. Among the jokes that the article highlights were one where the speaker said that the White House is aging him and the screen behind the speaker showed a picture of Redd Foxx's character from the old Sanford and Sons TV show. Another joke was that the Obama impersonator said that his wife celebrated Black History Month but he only celebrated half of it. Still a third joke was that the Obama impersonator said that he was just back from visiting the state of his birth, Hawaii, or as the Tea Party calls it, Kenya. He also did jokes about Romney's Mormon faith and the collapse of the Gingrich campaign.

There is nothing worng with that comedy routine. Still, I read or heard three different news reports about it each of which intimated that it was low grade racist. Imagine making fun of an African American president by having a black man impersonate him. Imagine a joke that has its punch line based upone the fact that Obama is only half black. The outrage is both silly and PC beyond belief. Will Ferrell did a whole Broadway show impersonating George Bush. He made fun of Bush in every way imaginable. Was that racist? No. Was it improper? No. And how many Sarah Palin jokes have we all heard? When the media repeated the baseless story endlessly that her youngest child was actually her grandchild there was no outrage. That was a baseless and heartless attack, not a comedy routine.

The simple truth is that president Obama is African American. Every time someone makes fun of him or criticizes him, it is not racism.

Then there was the story about the media response to Obama's statements about ATM's and airport kiosks. You know, the other day Obama said that one of the main reasons for high unemployment was that devices like ATM's were replacing bank tellers and airport kiosks were replacing counter staff of the airlines. Of course, ATM's have been around for decades, as have airport kiosks. Both have been here for many years before we had the high unemployment. Further, there are more bank tellers today than there have ever been. Clearly, Obama's statement was not only wrong, it demonstrated that he does not know what he is talking about when it comes to job creation. The media, however, has been mostly silent about this. Are they afraid that pointing out that Obama is wrong and out of touch is racist? Are they just promoting a pro-Obama agenda? When Sarah Palin said that Paul Revere warned the British as well as the Americans, the response was an endless barrage of stories, many of which turned out to be incorrect. And Palin is not even a candidate for president.

So the media is not only silent about Obama's gaffes, it promotes the story that all criticism of him is racist. It is just sad. Many of these media folks are just plain delusional.