In case you missed it, the latest attack tactic deployed by conservatives is to play the race card by saying that liberals and Democrats are playing the race card—racial jiu-jitsu far too lame to work anywhere but in the echo chamber of conservative self-love.
The problem for the conservative conspirators: President Barack Obama is black, and that is very bad news for their tighty-whitey movement, because it makes him very difficult to defame in their best Kennedy-Clinton manner. By all appearances, he is also a righteous family man in his marriage, so there is no Monica Lewinsky or Mary Jo Kopechne to invoke for the moral outrage these raging amoralists so covet.
So the co-conspirators have moved against Obama racially by acting in code. Keep in mind that 40 percent of the Republican party is in the South and that the successors to the old Southern Democrats are now all Republicans. (The Senator from the State of Segregation, AKA Strom Thurmond, had to literally leave the Democratic Party for that reason.) The only black Republicans you ever meet are on Fox News, and two out of three Latinos voted for Obama in 2008. All of that is not exactly an endorsement of conservatism from the people of color in the United States.
When the punditocracy talks about conservatives “playing to their base” in the Obama Presidency, the racial card is always on the table. Why did Rush Limbaugh fall in love with “The Magic Negro,” an essay about Obama? Because it allowed him to call Obama a negro for months and months, with all the denigration that term implies in the 21st Century. In fiction, in fact, the “magical negro” is a character who helps the white protagonist get out of trouble.
Two incidents of a magical nature for conservatives transpired over the weekend just past: the meltdown by Serena Williams, who is black, at the U.S. Open, and the rude behavior by Kanye West, who is black, at the Video Music Awards.
First understand how the co-conspirators play the racial game: by not mentioning it.
These were two bad moments for two black people, but it is no coincidence that Sean Hannity’s radio program and television show on Fox News paired them together Monday under the general heading of what’s wrong with America—and no coincidence that that incidents pitted two people of color against two women not of color. Nor is it a coincidence that Hannity had two blacks on a panel of three to discuss the incident on Fox News.
See? Fox News is racially fair and balanced because Hannity and the other panelist are white.
Kanye West, you’ll remember, said George Bush hates white people after Katrina, an unfortunate outburst that Hannity put on the table on his radio program. But that little tidbit, though certainly relevant in the context of Conservative Racial Theory, was left out of the panel discussion, perhaps because it would have seemed…racist. In fact, Hannity and Dick Morris talked about race earlier on the television show by agreeing liberals say all criticism of Obama is now racist—then Hannity did not even mention race in a context where it was clearly relevant. A pretty neat trick, stop to think. Hannity could not mention race in the Serena-Kanye segment because the part of the program was entirely about race. Not mentioning race was actually an act of racism.
Remember too that Kanye West said a black singer, Beyonce, should have won the Video Music Awards instead of the young white woman who did.
Two more things. It’s no coincidence that both segregationist Strom, the Democrat turned Republican, and Congressman Joe “You’re a liar” Wilson are both from South Carolina, in what remains the white heartland of the shrinking conservative base. And it’s no surprise to look at the tens of thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C., over the weekend and see almost no white face.
Ever since Barack Obama arrived on the scene, the race card has become magical for conservatives.
Hey, that Obama is one crazy “cat.”
Worth noting: a new book by a Bush speechwriter that refers to him as a “cat,” presumably a cool jazz musician, presumably black:
After one of Obama’s blistering speeches against the administration, the president had a very human reaction: He was ticked off. He came in one day to rehearse a speech, fuming. “This is a dangerous world,” he said for no apparent reason, “and this cat isn’t remotely qualified to handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you.” He wound himself up even more. “You think I wasn’t qualified?” he said to no one in particular. “I was qualified.”
Best, Con Man!
This must be some kind of ruse by the Con Man. Tomorrow he is going to tell us that he was just trying to get a reaction. Well he did. How could someone look at either the incidents mentioned and think it was race related? I did not hear the Sean Hannity show yesterday, so the only one (in my small media world) promoting this as racial behavior is the Con Man. Maybe I just don’t understand the history with the music awards and Kanye West. I do feel I understand sports.
When the crowd cheers for Phil Mickelson on the 18th, are they really against Tiger Woods because he is black? Maybe ONLY the white people cheering in the crowd are racist? Are these same people racist if they cheer for Woods when he walks up the 18th fairway? Was the Michael Vick suspension racially motivated? They Con Man would have you believe this if you apply his logic to that situation.
-jkh
‘Race Card’ lol how desperate are you to accuse anyone of that?
Government spending is now up to 26% of America’s spending. Both political parties have kept us in this insane, illegal, immoral, war for empire, war for greed, war for oil, war for drugs, war for fun policy.
Governmental spending has not created JOBS. Taxpayer fortune has mostly be diverted to the evil Banking Class and the preservation of the rich special financial interests.
The government is guilty of negligence, waste, deception, conflicts of interest, infectiveness in its execution of its programs to help the vast suffering among its citizens. Citizens are rebelling against the obvious failure of the Obama administration with mass protests such as the one this weekend in Washington DC. and his poll ratings reflect this.
for anyone who hasnt scene this, I implore you too.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7535755025025800195&ei=aga5SdCTJqmyqAOX1uXCAQ&q=obama+deception+full#
Our government has failed us, both obama/bush/clinton are all traitors and
sold the middle class down the river.
http://www.infowars.com/the-two-party-system-has-failed-america/
jkh-The Con Man’s argument never deviates beyond the convenient. Take, for example, the question of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. To the Con Man, it’s all a matter of some coke snorting Republican Congressman from Texas named Charlie Wilson. And that’s where his analysis ends, especially if further examination reveals that Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, admits that on July 3, 1979 President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, six months and change before the Russians invaded Afghanistan…
Will you hear mention of this on Con Games? Hold your breath at your own peril.
Cheers,
I used to listen to the show with an intense curiosity on the liberal logic. You used to make a level headed case on numerous topics with valid and reasonable points backed up with articles or documents and guests. Lowering your standards by “taking off the gloves” helped me realize that you just tout the party line. Now that the going is getting tough, it was only a matter of time to play the race card. You’ve helped me to realize exactly how out of touch you really are with the real world. I find it hard to believe that the same country that elected its first black president is suddenly transformed into racist southern idiots with IQs less than 50; simply by not supporting a public health care package that will cost more than the trillions advertised. I thought your standards were higher than that…….no more con-games for me! I can get plenty of dirt listening to Rush or Savage anytime.
Who’s really playing the race card?
GoodBadAndUgly-To me, the most troubling development of Gone Games is the way the Con Man now treats callers like Eloise from Carbondale and Pat from Aspen. Michael used to observe a decorum that resembled respect. These callers once served the Con Man well when he was trying to garner an audience. Apparently they have out-lived their usefulness.
What changed?
Has the Con Man sold his principles?
If so, I do hope he’s happy with the price.
Cheers,
Must be nice to have principles, Mitch. I guess that what makes you a conservative. And your comments on Afghanistan, after our private emails, are troubling and come close to a cheap shot simply because I don’t agree with your historical worldview.
As for Pat and Eloise:
One of the major changes in the show is I’m trying to pick up the tempo. Eloise and Pat are two different cases. Eloise often calls in way off the subject and we’re not going there any more. Everyone has to stay on topic. Pat is a good friend but the other day he called in about Congressman “John Randall,” whom I had never heard of; he meant Charlie Rangel. I don’t have the intellectual firepower to have a meaningful discussion about a Congressman who doesn’t exist. Ain’t going to happen.
I think you know Mitch that I’ve NEVER taken a personal shot at you like you have me have with me above.
Has the Con Man sold his principles? Or has Mitch?
Michael,
Our email exchange pertained to the origin of the Taliban, not to U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan. If anyone would like to see this exchange, I will happily share it. I hesitate to do so however, because it would reveal your “cheap shot” premise as so much belly aching. On the other hand, this certainly would comport with your “angry liberal” posture on the radio these days.
Cheers,
“Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, admits that on July 3, 1979 President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul, six months and change before the Russians invaded Afghanistan…”
It goes much further than that.
I know, Im getting off track a bit, but still, anyone who says anything different than ABC/CNN/FOX + company gets the tin-foil treatment from the conman and the other lying tools.
Anyone who actually looks at the evidence cannot help but realize that the US Intelligence community DID in fact plan and execute the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1995 OKC bombing, and the attacks of 9/11.
Anyone who actually looks at the evidence cannot possibly deny that the CIA funded Bin Laden and Al Qaeda from the very beginning to provoke the Soviet Union into attacking Afghanistan.
George W. Bush founded his first oil company in full partnership with the Bin Laden family (public record) .
On the day of the 9/11 attacks, the only people in the US who were allowed to fly were the Bin Laden family–in US-owned aircraft, no less.
Several months before the attacks, despite the fact that we were allegedly hunting him, Bin Laden was admitted for treatment in a US Military hospital in Kuwait, where he met for several hours with a CIA station chief before being released.
All three attacks were followed almost immediately by increasingly draconian legislation designed to strip Americans of 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendment rights—legislation such as the Patriot Act, hundreds of pages long, introduced almost immediately after the attacks, and not one senator or congressman was allowed to read the legislation before voting on it.
Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are CIA assets and always have been. Just like Saddam Hussein was. They are tools used by evil men to create a crisis so that they can offer us a solution, one which always involves giving up our liberty in exchange for the promise of security.
The US government has admitted to such false flag operations in the past. We blew up our own ship, the USS Maine, as a pretext for the Spanishj-American War. President Kennedy was assassinated shortly after refusing to authorize the plan outlined in the Northwoods document, which spelled out several scenarios for false-flag ops to provoke a war with Cuba, including hiring Cuban Americans to attack our base at Guantanamo dressed as Cuban soldiers; a rehash os the USS MAine incident; using snipers to fire on civilians or hijacked aircraft to fly into buildings on US soil and blame it on the Cubans. The Gulf of Tonkin incident that dragged us into the Vietnam War is another admitted false flag op. The attack on the Liberty, in which one of our ships in the Med was brutally assaulted by Israeli forces–others of our ships tried to lend assistance but were ordered to stand down.
The day of 9/11, NORAD was involved in multiple drills regarding the scenario of hijacked aircraft being flown into US landmarks.
Evil men have a deathgrip on the machinery of power in the US. Hiding your head in the sand is not going to make them go away, it will only make them stronger.
Now they’re pushing to get all the states using touch-screen voting machines that create no paper record of any kind of individual votes. Machines that are ABSOLUTELY KNOWN to record not merely inaccurately but fraudulently, and ABSOLUTELY NO WAY TO VERIFY THE RESULTS.
Look at the evidence for the Gods’ sake!
Go to google video and search for:
Terrorstorm
Endgame
Loose Change
Masters of Terror
if you search for
Alex Jones
you will find many documentaries that bring large quantities of evidence into one place. Watch these films, then follow up by doing the research yourself.
Unless you like the idea of being a slave, in which case, by all means, keep your head in the sand.
Infowars.com,
What goal are these “evil” men trying to achieve? Why are they trying to take away our “freedom”? They are already the most “powerful” and richest people in the world, so what more do they have to gain?
its a complicated issue which this blog will not tolerate any time too.
I guess you could give this 10 minute video a try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cMseePn39w&feature=related
This and other current blogs presents a perfect example of why I don’t care to participate much on Aspen Post anymore or will ever call Con Games again.
I really don’t care for the namecalling and accusations of lying about deleting or changing comments, and I certainly don’t care to be made to look like a fool along with Eloise and Pat on the radio.
Have fun all, I’ve got better ways to waste time.
Yeah Sue, I think Im gone too.
Nathan, here is another 9 minute video that shows youve been lied too, you have been had, used. You and your family are SLAVES.
Hopefully, the people will wake up, and no thanks to this propaganda site and radio show, that keeps the lies going round and round and round.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f0sDWcZ4IY&feature=fvw
The door at Aspen Post stays open to anyone who wants to blog–even you TeleDog, as long as you don’t go getting personal like you just did.
For close to four years now we’ve kept that door open to people like Sue and infowars.com at some cost even as those who would shut them down grew louder and louder. We never did–we never will–and we took the heat we took it as an endorsement for what we are doing by creating a place where everyone, even the Sue Grays of the world, get their say. That’s our proudest achievement.
People like Sue and infowars.com, so criticial of everyone else, so certain to see hypocrisy in those who disagree, have completely lost sight of the power they have in this situation–the power to change the game.
If they don’t like the dialogue, they can change it by taking it in any direction they want. If they don’t like the tone of things they can change the tone. It’s that simple.
What I do on “Con Games” is my business because it’s my show. Just for the record, I’ve had personal conversations with Pat and Eloise and we’re all on the same page. But what happens on Aspen Post is a different story. For four years anyone who doesn’t like a show or an idea has every opportunity to let me have it. For the most part it’s been helpful even when it’s hurtful–and even constructive.
Those who say “I’m done” have almost always come back to blog and they will always be welcome. Maybe some people have a need to say “I’m better than this” because they don’t realize an open door like Aspen Post is as good as it’s going to get.
Best, Michael!
Michael,
All due respect, but Aspen Post has degenerated into a schoolyard brawl. It used to be a place where we could have intelligent, respectful conversations, even if we disagreed. Now when there’s disagreement, it takes the form of namecalling and unfounded accusations.
As for Con Games, Mitch is right. You used to treat your callers with respect and allow them to have their say. Recently I’ve noticed a change in your attitude toward certain callers. I can hear it as soon as the person says hello and you greet them with a tone that says “Oh brother, not you again!”
When I’ve called in to discuss my area of expertise; the Middle East, you try to corner me with accusations of supporting bin Laden and terrorism. You try to portray me as an idiotic nutcase and I don’t appreciate it.
But it’s not just me. Anyone whose opinion differs from yours gets the same treatment. If they don’t agree with abortion, they support shooting abortion doctors. If they hold conservative principles, they are selfish greedy assholes.
Instead of offering a place for people to express different opinions, Con Games has become the mirror image of Limbaugh’s show. Anyone who steps away from your place of comfort gets portrayed as a nutcase extremist.
It’s really too bad. I like you, I like Aspen Post and Con Games. I just don’t like where it’s all been going recently.
I’m not saying I’ll never blog here again, I’m just saying I don’t find it as fun and intellectually stimulating as it once was. And Con Games isn’t much fun to listen to anymore either. In fact, it’s sometimes downright uncomfortable!
Maybe if you brought things back to center, it would be more inviting to those of all different opinions.
I didn’t know where to send this note, so this seems like the best place.
I’ve been listening to Michael since the beginning of Con Games and have always appreciated one thing about the format of his show: His relative civility and commitment to discussion of the topic of the day. The recent, and blatantly obvious, change to a new broadcast technique is a disappointment. I’m a listener of the show, not a caller. I discuss politics, etc. with my close friends and colleagues and have never found much satisfaction in the public realm. I get somewhat flustered in large groups or on the radio. I try to participate by supporting his sponsors and bringing the topics to my circle of acquaintances that do not listen to the show. With that said, I’ve very much enjoyed Con Games because of the great variety of opinions and information that come from Michael’s touted “Best audience in talk radio.” One compliment I’ve always had for Michael’s show is that he’s too smart and too civil to be nationally syndicated. National talk show ‘acts’ have their format of argument that is as transparent as the homogenous audience that listens to them. A thinking person can discern when the host of a talk show is not listening and is simply letting someone speak until they can be shut down in a way that makes the host’s point. Often with veiled insults or smug indignation at the caller’s positions. Maybe we’re hearing the beginning of a new era of Con Games that likely will not play out well in the valleys that his show serves. The people here are too smart and there’s enough anger in public media to go around already. Maybe he has larger goals that seem to require this approach. What makes for good theater or radio does not necessarily translate into ratings. But it may, so, good luck with that. I liked it better when we only heard the Choleric Con Man on days when he addressed certain topics that hit home for him, such as religion and war. Unfortunately for him, he has a lot of fine-tuning of his new broadcasting technique, because it has not been very persuasive. When a caller, like Mark (I think from Vail) is making valid, albeit debatable, points, the Con Man has been ineffective at winning the argument and is using the tool of getting loud and exasperated in order to justify shutting the caller down. Many of the recent callers deserve much more respect than they have received. I’m sure plenty of people will support this new format. However, it’s disappointing to see another example of Americans picking a side and digging in. People too often use the excuse that they’re ‘fed up,’ and that their disagreeable behavior is somehow justified because of others’ bad behavior. This is Psych 101 stuff, folks. Maybe The Con Man got a big dose of gamma radiation during a lab experiment and just can’t help what he’s become.
Still hoping,
mgman
Sue:
I take full responsibility for Con Games. That’s one thing.
Aspen Post is another matter. It rises and falls on the bloggers. So that’s on your shoulders. If you, or any other blogger, doesn’t like the tone, you can simply change your own tone.
As a cartoon character once said: “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.”
See you later, Michael!
Michael,
You are the editor of Aspen Post. As such, the “tone” of the blogs is under your control. When you let insults and personal attacks run rampant, it sours the “tone.”
You also set the tone by your choice of editor’s picks and wording on the home page. Your decision to make the title to your comment on this blog, “The Taming Of The Sue,” creates an impression that my criticism warrants taming or that I am a shrew, or bitch, as your play on words relates to the origin of that title.
Statements like “even the Sue Grays of the world,” and “People like Sue and infowars.com, so criticial of everyone else, so certain to see hypocrisy in those who disagree,” further give the impression that my comments don’t warrant respect, but are only just tolerated on Aspen Post.
I try to be respectful of those I disagree with. I don’t always succeed, and I’ve been chastised by other bloggers for being overly harsh. That’s as it should be. Like you’ve said, we sort of police ourselves here.
But your “tone” on Con Games and Aspen Post is leaning ever more toward insulting, disrespectful, and even mean. When we here point that out, you respond with more insults and demeaning titles and comments. Not a good way to encourage participation from your audience.
I would hope you’d take our criticism as genuine concern for the welfare of the show and blog, instead of getting defensive and trying to turn it back on us. But I guess I should know better after the Wharf Rat incident.
I believe mgman hit the nail on the head. You appear to be angling for syndication by mimicing the radical right’s tactics, only flipping it to the left. Meanwhile you’re alienating your local audience.
In general humility works better than hubris for winning friends and allies, but maybe that’s not the case when you’re trying to win syndication.
On top of everything else, Sue, you can read my mind and glean my motivations. Wow. Now that’s power.
“The Taming of the Sue” was ironic but unfortunately the irony was lost on you.
As for the health and welfare of Aspen Post, you’re always welcome back. The value of our little blog is evident in the comfort you feel in coming on the blog to continuously (a) criticize me; and (b) blog about what you don’t like about the blog, and then comment about what you don’t like about the blog. It goes without saying that Aspen Post has been very good to you and that in exchange all we ever get is another earful about how we (and me) are not good enough for you..
That speaks for itself.
Best, Michael!
PS Maybe we just need a new editor, someone closer to your sensibilities. Now that would be an Aspen Post reckless G could love.
Not that Michael needs me to defend his new ‘tude, but I see nothing wrong with telling a caller “show me.” What reason is there to listen to fairy tales. Are these reactionaries children, delicate, unsure of their fragile maturity? Unconstitutional? Show me, you have access. Death panel? Show me where that is written in the bill. Communist plot? Show me the plotters and their authored original plan(s). Monkeys in Washington not racist, ok if “white people are war mongering murderers attempting to wipe out Jews, Blacks, Latinos Tropical and Indigenous populations and injecting these peoples with HIV. Makes sense right? To whom? You?
Sooo….
For many years the rabble, emanating from the mob of ignorance; the ditto heads, the imPalinators, the ignoRanti have been babbling, screaming and raging, discussing the rape of the tooth fairy under the money tree, as economic theory or even some sort of reality,desirous of being able to casually refer to people as “just a bunch of N-words, Sp-cs, Heb-s, Kik-s, pinkos,fag-ots, commies, thats, those and whatevers and claim they are not bigoted racist and so forth. They lay claim to Christianity, Constitution, capitalism and patriotism — all false. They are just god damned stupid. Who would hire them but an American? IT work for a Chinese hi-tech firm? Are you kidding? BioTech in Europe? I’ve smoked better and still think better (this is tongue in cheek humour). Cane sugar to ethanol, to take Brazil off the umbilical cord to the Middle East? Obviously a joke.
Why don’t these people have at least a utilitarian education, where they can add value to something, instead of stopping those who do want to add value to something? This includes racism within a set of cultural stupidities, this country indulges itself in. Thus far, expecting the reactionaries to understand how to debate, much less the content useful in debate, is like expecting a glass to enjoy a drink.
There is probably more genuine history behind Jason and the Argonauts, than in the current nonsense from the reactionaries, described above. If a liberal were to debate the departed Hatfield, Reagan, Kemp, or WFB or the still contemporary George Will, one would be able to have points to discuss based on perspectives of reality from an individuals aspect.
The difficulty of debating with the reactionaries is similar to debating Ptolemy or the Church over the Solar system in 1500 A.D. with present information. The only difference is Ptolemy was searching for something that explained observations. The leaders of the reactionaries Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck simply make up silliness, from fantasies rivaling Through the Looking Glass, without the intellectual acumen necessary for sophisticated readers.
If I were whacked on the head left in a state of mindless delusion and declared “Louis Farrakhan not racist,” then I should be challenged. Quite honestly, if the same standards the reactionarieas apply to them selves, were applied to Farrakhan, then he couldn’t be considered racist or anti-semetic.
My wife has observed me experiencing racism in this valley. It is naked, infuriating and discraceful. It is also much easier to get away with it, than be compensated for the wrongs done. This is where the law protects the offender. I and others have to go begging a legal system to deal with some of this scum. While I have no interest in screwing other people, I am aware that there are many who do not share this philosophy. This problem extends into other arenas besides Racism. I am certain that if the offenders were not protected by law from immediate personal reprisal, this type of Sh-t would never happen. Racism is a type of white collar crime.
If Hatfield, Reagan, Kemp, WFB or George Will
were in one of these crowds of mental midgets they would have their lives in danger because they would sound and be dangerously INTELLECTUAL. There is no confusing these very worthy conservatives, with the trashy garbage usurping “conservativism” from a rightful place in definition (no pun intended).
As Americans, and what America used to stand for, we should all be embarassed. With the global modern media, the emperor has no clothes. If you can’t think any better then shut up, do what you’re told to do and get out of my grill.
[There is probably more genuine history behind Jason and the Argonauts, than in the current nonsense from the reactionaries]…
It isn’t nonsense to them. One definition of ‘myth’ is: “a widely held but false belief or idea.” The key word here is ‘belief.’ There is a shortage of common sense being replaced by belief. Why we’re so obsessed with being on the winning side of an issue is still perplexing to me. Something doesn’t have to be true for a person to believe it’s true. There’s been a run on ammunition in this country because an uncomfortably large number of people believe that Obama will be coming for their guns at some point. There are absolutely no steps being taken to this end, but that’s an inconvenient fact that doesn’t support the belief….so..poof! It’s fact.
mgman
Actions based on these myths and what hould be called mythological pathos should be considered extremely reckless. Those drowning in ignorance can drag us under with them. Being correct on an issue is the first step, being prepared for various scenarios stemming from those “afeard” of Obama taking away guns is next. Thinking people need to be ready to jetison the ignorant chaff and ready for what I think are probable actions of violence from this refuse. The gubernatorial elections could be the stimulus for violence, if not then I would be very shocked if there wasn’t violence before the 2012 elections.
Are you serious ConMan? My post was personal? Looney and goofball?? Have you deleted Frosty Wooldridge’s numerous posts calling any number of us stupid and/or ignorant? Are you kidding me?
You shouldn’t even give views like Wooldridge’s the light of day but you delete a silly post like mine?
Makes me question my “liberalness.”
Teledog:
Please point out the offending comments and I will remove them immediately.
Thanks, Michael!
Conman,
Why did you remove any comments? You can’t truly judge whether something is offensive. You can only judge whether something is offending you. Everybody gets offended by different things and at different levels. I, personal, don’t get offended at anything other then not having a voice. If someone wants to talk trash or even make-up disgraceful lies, then want it to be on record. If the insults are true then they give me an opportunity to better myself; if they are nothing but lies, then I can let the person make a jack-ass out of themselves by showing the truth.
I agree with everything you say about your show and I also agree with your right to edit this post however you’d like. However, if you edit legitimate posts it will be in direct contrast the reason I use this blog.
Again, I want to say thanks for giving all of us a platform. But please don’t ruin it by editing real opinions. I think you know the power of expression, so don’t put a cap on it.
Quit whining Sue. I could of wrote anything I wanted before or after your comments. If someone cared about “the taming of Sue” then they could of clicked on the blog and read what you actually said. My point is that your voice is being heard. The only real issue should be the apparent removal a comment. I believe Teledog should re-post his comments.
Nathan you make a great point, nothing should be edited/censored, unless it is illegal — child pornography for instance.