(click the picture above for
the high definition
video - but also click
YouTube
for me!)
12:23 PM,
Thursday, February 21st 2008:
I realized for the
first time last night that I'm willing to throw my
entire "career" out the window for something I believe
in.
I'm
not however willing to hurt someone else
for it. Both things I assumed before, but
last night was one of those tests where I
was completely suprised at just how much I
was willing to risk and how badly I was
ready to sacrifice everything for what I
believed in. Now since I didn't do
it, of course how can I prove it - but for
the longtime readers, you know
I simply don't lie within these
pages, they're far too sacred. So believe
me when I say - had it not been for my
friendship with Tyson & Michelle
(and I do mean friendship and not
"contact") I would've been on that stage
in a heartbeat. I know the theater
well (It's the Price is Right theater
I did the Egos on) and knew the
number of STEPS it would've take to reach
that fucker and the security in that place
is notoriously lax. Bill had to jump into
the crowd one time and kick someone out
because of it. Pathetic.
To those who can't
see the video, it's very simple. Jack Kingston, a
republican representitive from Georgia, slipped in the
lie about Obama and putting his hand over his heart
during the pledge of allegiance. He went a bit further
and said he wouldn't even SAY the pledge of allegiance
and then went onto the now infamous internet myth that
shows this picture:
..and states he
was disrespecting the flag but not putting his hand
over his heart during the pledge. To the sheep in the
world that fall for this, I weep. Notice no one's
mouths are moving? It's during the national anthem. A
moment in which I have never put my hand over my
heart. No one I know ever has either. You take
your hat off, giggle at the bad singer, then yell play
ball and continue drinking your beer. I include video
of this event in my video so you can indeed see
(and hear, dear GOD - hear) that it's during the
anthem. And finally the slimey fuck slips in the
"Hussein" middle-name jab as a tiny little fear card
to scare us sheep from casting our vote for an evil
muslim! FUCK ME.
But no one said
SHIT. We in the crowd booed. I yelled "ANTHEM" twice
during it (and actually if you turn the volume up on
my high-def
version,
you can hear my 2nd 'ANTHEM'). When no one called him
out for a blatant lie (and in their defense they may
have just not known) I was moments from running
up there. I swear to you all. I thought of
Michelle and how she would most definitely lose her
job and immediately threw that thought away.
I sat with my head in my hand nearly the entire
rest of the show tapping my foot and trying to get the
fuck out of there before I exploded. I'm furious
as I'm WRITING this.
And honestly? I'm
disappointed in Bill. Now I've heard him say a few
times that he's kind of "anti-internet", in fact even
said gleefully he never has to use it several years
back, so he certainly may have no idea about this
story - but the "Hussein" thing? All he, or anyone on
the panel, had to say was: "You know, that's the
type of shit that makes people hate YOU." Now I love
Bill, I will give him the benefit of the doubt
here because 99% of the time he is dead on. But
when you don't stand up against these types of tactics
and CALL people out when they're so CLEARLY lying
- you are just as bad as the people saying
it.
But bottom line
I guess what kills me most of all is that it
works. I personally know someone who is pro-clinton
simply because of the "muslim" fear with Obama. This
person isn't stupid, but guess what happens when you
get past a certain age? Fear trumps hope. Hope is some
bullshit you had when you were a kid. Soon your
fearless invincible swagger gives way to fear as you
start to realize you're closer to death. Few can keep
that hope after decades and decades of watching
idealism die. And after these past 8 years?
I have to admit - I had no hope for this
country. That must mean I'm a muslim or some shit, but
it's the truth. No hope. One man's story of how he
came to be made me think: "If he can make it to be
president, anything is possible." So don't sit there
and tell me I'm being swindled by a snake oil
salesman. He represents America to me because he's the
most unlikely person I can think of to get this far
and he did it by believing he could. Time will tell if
he can get past the next 8 months or so.
People like
Kingston make me wonder if it's possible. Fuck him for
doing that.
