Wealthy? Then Shut Up!

I was reading a Facebook post this morning from someone trashing Glenn Beck and his rally today at the Lincoln Memorial.  He started his long list of reasons why Beck is so aweful and a danger to our society by pointing how his (Beck’s) net worth compares with that of Dr. Martin Luther King who also delivered his famous speech on this day 47 years ago from the same steps.  He went on to point out those supporting Beck and financing his campaign to “Restore Honor”.

I guess my first question is, What does Glenn Beck’s net worth have anything to do with his right as an American to voice his opinion.  I guess when you’re wealthy or have succeeded in our free enterprise system, you achieve the “American Dream” and suddenly you just need to shut up, pay more than your fair share of taxes,  just be grateful for what you have and did I say pay more taxes.  As far as those supporting Beck, why don’t we ever want to talk about the George Soros’s of the world, his funding of their socialistic, European style, anti-capitolism push on the American people.

It’s pretty obvious that the American people aren’t buying the “hope and change” promised by this Administration.  Maybe that’s what’s ticking off the left.  It’s not so much Glenn Beck, it’s that as each day passes more Americans are seeing through the facade and empty promises and realizing that it just doesn’t work.  It further iritates them that all the new government programs they dream of implementing, the socialized medicine they want to force on “the people” and the mountains of new debt they want to rack up isn’t cutting it either.

So, when they see the writing on the wall, they fall back to the same old play book.  They question the sanity of those who oppose them, they pull the race card and the ultimate card is pulled, the class envy card. They say things like: “Look how much money he makes….he, uhh is rich, uhh…. he’s got a lot of …. money.  uhhh… he’s wealthy so uhhh, uhh… SHUT UP!”

I say keep speaking up America.  You’re getting under the thin skin of the left and they are beside themselves.  And it’s not even November.

A Teleprompter? 6th Graders?

As one of my children would say, “Ahh come on!!!”  And they made fun of President Bush talking with school children?  This is unbelievable!

The Air Is Let Out Of America

Word that Air America is going dark.  They never really were a viable operation, although you wouldn’t know it from the news release on their website.  They have struggled from the very start and yes these are tough times to be in the radio business, but when you combine poor economics will programming almost no one wants to listen to, the combination spells disaster.   Although I’m a Conservative radio talk show host, I do enjoy a good debate and listening to opposing points of view.  I like to hear what others (even those with whom I disagree) believe.  But the plain truth is that Air America was anything but clever or cutting edge talk and as the rating showed across the country, a failure. So, good bye Air America.  Don’t look for a wing in the museum of broadcasting anytime soon.

Nail In The Healthcare Coffin

If last nights Massachusetts miracle isn’t a wake up call for Democrats, I don’t know what is.  Republican Scott Browns decisive Senate victory should leave little doubt in the minds of those in charge in Washington that even liberal Massachusetts has had enough.

Most people agree that there does need to be changes in the way we deal with the issue of healthcare in this country, but the current plan which would most certainly lead us down a road toward socialized medicine is not the answer.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi can talk all they want about Republicans setting up roadblocks and the will of the people being thwarted.  But you can’t ignore the facts:

• The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 38% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.  That matches the lowest level of support yet.  Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters oppose the plan.
• Now as of last night, the GOP has gained an important Senate seat in a state that hasn’t seen a Republican Senator for decades and the very seat previously occupied by the man who championed the current healthcare reform measure.

When it comes to the current healthcare bill to borrow a phrase; Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Good Bye America As We Know It?

If President Obama signs this United Nations Climate Change Treaty  in Copenhagen this month, we might be witnessing in our generation, on our watch, the beginning of the end of this country as we know it.  Please take a look at this video. Does it trouble you as much as it does me?  We’ll talk about it on The Jeff Whitaker Show on WOND 1400 AM today at 3.  Join in and let me know your thoughts.