WHAT YOU SAY, MAN?!

Okay, so last week Keith Olbermann introduces a new feature on his show – the “WTF” the moment. While it is only a segment on the show, the whole show could be filled with WTF moments as that is just how absurd news is today.

So, in my “monkey see, monkey do” persona I am launching my “What you say, man?!”  blog which I expect may be done periodically.   It may not be as catchy as “WTF” but the acronym does sound cool, “WUSM?!”  Olbermann started his segments with a piece on Miss California Carrie Prejean and I will include her a bit later on.

But, first, let us start out with the story that 89 year old John Demjanjuk was finally deported to Germany last week after a three decades long fight. He was deported for his part in the Nazi killings at a concentration camp.

Now, here is a guy who for the most part was a minion in the Nazi killing machine – not a general or a politician who made the decision – just someone carrying out orders. Yet, here in the US we allow Bush and Cheney to go free when their crimes were probably even more horrid than anything Demjanjuk did.  Or, does it mean we have thirty more years to argue over this stuff and we will see W and Dick wheeled into the slammer when they are in their nineties?

Now, what’s the deal with the Cheney daughters? I mean, first in 2004 it was lesbian Mary being all up in arms that then presidential candidate John Kerry mentioned that she is a lesbian and started to attack Kerry and defend her father’s stance on LGBTI issues. Now, sister Liz is out on the trail defending her father’s record on torture and, get this, she even called Obama “un-American” for indicating that he would be in favor of prosecuting Bush administration officials for breaking the Geneva Convention. I guess that if Obama is unAmerican then Daddy Dick is a saint. You know, it just makes me long for the days of the sideshow that was the Reagan children.

Speaking of political daughters, let us not forget about Bristol Palin. After going on national television and saying that abstinence education is not realistic, she re- emerges a couple weeks ago as the new spokesperson for abstinence education. But, that is not the whole story. Turns out she was hired by the Candies Corporation to represent its foundation. Well, Candies makes all these hoochie mama clothes for teenager girls. So, while they have this problem against teenage girls having sex, they certainly do not mind dressing them in sexually provocative clothes that make them look like hookers.

Okay, let us talk about Carrie Prejean. There are those saying that she said nothing that Obama has not said. Well, I do not believe that is true for while Obama is against marriage equality he has not invoked the name of Jesus or said he was being tempted by Satan for having to answer questions on marriage equality. What gets me is that on the one hand Ms. Prejean wants to be all holier than thou, but on the hand she is posing topless (which, by the way, I do not find objectionable), getting breast implants, and entering beauty pageants left and right. Or, to put it another way, Ms. Christian has no qualms about participating in all of the Pagan activities. And, I had said to a friend that you watch before long Prejean will be on Fox News. as a commentator. No sooner had I said it then it was announced that she will be doing a guest commentator spot on Fox News next week.

GOP National Chairman Michael Steele has decided that the argument to use to oppose marriage equality is that it hurts small businesses. His brilliant reasoning is that small businesses will get caught paying for all of the same sex partner that heretofore would not be including on spousal plans. If that is true then all marriage should be banned. Actually, though,Steele inadvertently makes the case for nationalized healthcare because small businesses should not be responsible for preserving the health of its employees. Let us just remove these crippling health care costs and allow the businesses to better compet with their foreign counterparts.

I did not want to forget about my other great GOP friend, Rudy Giuliani. Now that he wants to be Mr. Super Conservative and appeal to upstate NYers in his expected bid for NY Governor he could not bring himself to attend the marriage or commitment ceremony of the gay couple he stayed with when he separated from Donna Hanover. How sad that these politicians feel so compelled to play a role to advance themselves. Oh, WUSM?!

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