The Whitehouse, White Trash, And Your Inner Dirt Bag: “When Suffrage Causes Suffering” or “Was Rosa Parks Divisive?”

In the boys’ first porchcast of The BS Show® since switching to daylight savings time, Bjorn and Shawn not only take notice that none of the six definitions culled from the four sources on dictionary.com characterizes the term white trash as racist (but hey, “education’s the key” at least according to most of the geniuses many of us kowtow to) but they question the dangerous, pretty sounding platitudes bandied about by all manner of registered goobers, uh, we mean, voters just one day before a major American election. Pay as much attention to what matters most as Bjorn and Shawn do, on this iconoclastic porchcast of The BS Show.®

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The entrepreneurs at eHarmony.com have finally been strong armed into submission by The Almighty (the Almighty State of New Jersey, that is). It turns out those “open minded,” happy go lucky “multiculturalists” who run New Jersey, The State, have made it oppressively clear just how far that ostensible open mindedness rhetoric goes, and even more clear just who is really in charge of eHarmony’s target market, expertise, and overall mission. 

In a spirited and invigorating exchange co-hosts of The BS Show®, Bjorn and Shawn, presume to advise eHarmony.com and its putative leader, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, how best not to back down to these punitive purveyors of postmodernity. Bjorn and Shawn also presume to directly question those totalitarian despots who have now bullied into position as eHarmony’s de facto boss. (By the way, if you doubt that your business is next please reexamine the tell-tale signs which lead up to Kristallnacht. Or simply default to a sheepishness as obtuse and inhumane as Sheryl Crow’s defense philosophy. Either way have a great show everyone — while it lasts.)

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Should it turn out that financial guru Bernard Madoff is guilty of stealing upwards of $50,000,000,000 of his clients’ investments one can, in keeping with the en masse left-leaning, hyper-tolerant mania which is sweeping these United States these days, only hope (and keep a nice thought, too) that we’ll carefully mind ourselves as to the severity of our reaction as a nonjudgmental family of well-meaning beings.

Obviously, to many of us, education is “still the key” to, umm, blunting our wonderfully evolved race’s inclinations towards, umm, misunderstandings about one man’s mistaken misappropriations of the monetary assets of others, so it will remain especially important that our progress towards progressive values not be derailed by the inflexibility of old fashioned (think “right-wing, conservative”) moral expectations nor by the assuring but coercive rigidity of a so-called high standard of justice.

After all, hasn’t each of us woken up on the wrong side of the bed and needed a little extra tolerance for the disarming lack of balance which ensued? Isn’t it New York Times® columnist David Brooks who presumes to remind us how divisive it can be to rush, or even crawl, towards a black and white  assessment which might be perceived as not inclusive of others? 

Before any of us offends another’s inclusive sensibilities by acting bigoted (or acting at all close minded) towards a Bernard Madoff let us resolve to not become so partisan that Mr. Madoff is suddenly made to “feel like the other.” (Remember one present day “expert’s” lesson drawn from Kristallnacht?) Do we, as a beautiful gathering of tolerance-loving beings want to risk having those as erudite as David Brooks’ passel of colleagues at The New York Times® react by showing us that we are, in Brooks’ pejorative, “reactionary?” Chance forbid.

So this week when water cooler chit chat surrounding Bernie Madoff’s alleged faux pas takes a turn towards outdated, judgmental standards, and the quest for alleged moral clarity, which, taken together, might tempt you to abandon the enlightened warmth of everything “progressive” merely to join those hateful, ethics-touting control freaks who smugly offend others as if they have a duty to judge well, well, you and we at TheBSshow.com® can band together in protest. We can say, “Hey guys, isn’t this critique sort of inappropriate? Might not others feel offended by your bigotry towards Bernie at this sensitive time? Can’t you see how such hatefulness can be perceived as divisive. Can’t we all just come together?”

Yes! Yes, we can. Together, we can all work — oh, wait, now many of us will absolutely have to work because our $50 billion has been pilfered, but, leaving that aside, what was I saying? — oh, together we can progressively progress towards, umm, more togetherness, and finally learn that when we positively come together (or in this case work together) it’s not only easier to continue avoiding harsh judgments, it’s also easier to reach into others’ pockets, er, I mean, easier to share that enlightened open mindedness of the message of acceptance which feels stronger than fifty billion fallacious platitudes which, though vacuous at best, nevertheless help us to forget how ridiculously dangerous, wrong, and infantile our constant sidestepping of moral issues is. 

What’s the old bumper sticker slogan?  ”If you think morals education is expensive, try Bernie Madoff’s.”

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As most lefties, libs, secular extremists, and loons will assure you (especially after snubbing  even your most effusive “Merry Christmas” wish) there absolutely is no culture war. Seriously. And I, for one, believe them.

In a totally unrelated story, Oxford University Press has deleted the following words and definitions in the latest edition of its junior dictionary: abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar, coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, bacon, among many others. 

Wait, bacon?!? I certainly hope none of you Islamophobes is now suddenly going to deviate from the PGO* practice propagated by The New York Times, a policy of special interest Sharia, er, I mean, policy of non-specificity which will be exposed as the infantile, misleading, and bigoted bane it is, should The Times begin to feel journalistically competitive about CNN’s Lou Dobbs’ use of specificity via the term “narco-terrorists” on his radio program today. Mr. Dobbs’ was making reference to more present day murderous rampages by Mexico’s drug cartels. Or as The New York Times will no doubt promiscuously “label” them: gunmen, or pharma-fighters. Where’s Sophocles** when you need him?!? 

We at The BS Show should confess that we’re inclined to be open minded about adopting Dobbs’ brand of judgmental bigotry in this regard. 

[ See an incisive video commentary by genius politico Bill Whittle at PJTV or read a more complete account at Telegraph UK. ]

* Profligate Glaze Over (definition of which has been redacted by The BS Show with Bjorn And Shawn®)

** Sophocles is said to have said “It is terrible to speak well and be wrong,” an especially salient and inconvenient remark for those of us who believe eloquence necessarily accompanies intelligence. Unless you happen to be extreme about the PGO.