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Victoria Jackson, Former SNL Star, Compares Obama To Hitler In Mad Rant


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Victoria's statements are very reminiscent of the ideas I grew up around.

In Louisiana, politics, religion and hunting lose separate identity and merge into a grand life-statement that is the Southern Man. Southern Man is not curious about other cultures, religions, or forms of government. The mindset is one of fear; Fear of strangers and strangeness. Fear of all outlying possibilities and potentials.

I felt pressure to conform to a space without freedom, creativity or honest expression. It is this compressed and limiting structure that the southerner calls home, and defends at any expense.
He defends it because he believes his God, his family, and his way of life are all inside this stricture, and any force seeking to change it; expand it, or add a window, is a force of evil " threatening the perfect proportions of God"s Kingdom.

This is the stronghold of Rush Limbaugh, and the other sowers of fear and distortion, for the soil is fertile.

This mammoth dysfunction stretches back to the Civil War - collective guilt over slavery, etc. But that's a book I don"t intend to write.

My point to the reader is this:

To bring these wounded, frightened souls to the light, we are going to have to launch an invasion of friendship.

When southerners hold "tea parties", book burnings, or otherwise impede the progress of enlightenment, don"t chastise or belittle them. Just befriend them; one-by-one. Listen to them. Love them.

Once the fear subsides, they'll respond to reason.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 PM on 07/10/2009

She shows courage.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:40 AM on 07/10/2009
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Is that the new word for bigotry?

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:13 AM on 07/10/2009

I have, after reading this article, lost all respect for Ms. Jackson.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:10 AM on 07/10/2009

Back when she used to do the dumb blonde routine on SNL, she was so good at it that I was sure it was an act. She got all aspects of the stereotype so on target that I figured she was actually fairly bright with the gift of a Betty Boop voice and made the most of it.

I was wrong. She truly is the cartoon she played. And there's something actually cruel about the way they bring her on and interview her for her "opinion". A no brainer (in more ways than one.)

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:51 AM on 07/10/2009

World renowned airhead criticizes Obama.

Ouch.

    Reply    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:17 AM on 07/10/2009
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