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At 6:00 and 6:15 A.M. on Friday, November 14, 2003, Portland’s stellar NBC affiliate ran video of the talk-a-thon going on in the U.S. Senate.  The "in-depth" report explained that it was supposed to be over, soon, and that Democrats had said it was a waste of time.  The award winning morning newscast professionals then moved on to stories about  a cougar sighting at Skyline elementary and a man hanging by duct tape from a bridge. 

These people are considered “journalists,” understand.  You can go to KGW’s website and click on a link that will put you in contact with someone who will help you arrange for these stellar “journalists” to come and speak to your organization about “journalism.”

When they do, ask them the following question.

How can Brenda Braxton and Russ Lewis do an "in-depth" report on an event taking place at the highest legislative level in America without explaining the reason for that event?  In case Miss Braxton and Mr. Lewis read this, I will put it in terms more easily understood by the intellectually-challenged.

The Senate, a big place in Washington, D.C. where “senators” do things,  is in the control of Republicans, which means that they have at least one more vote than the Democrats.  But, because they do not have a lot more votes than the Democrats, they have been unable to bring judicial nominees made by the president of the United States to the floor where they can be voted on.  A “vote” is what senators do when they say yes or no to something officially.  Just like when you make your selections on your Oregon voter’s ballot during an election.

The Republicans in the Senate want to be allowed to vote on some Latino and African-American judges, but the Democrats have filibustered the process.  A filibuster is when Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington keeps talking a long time to prevent a vote from taking place because he knows that there are enough Republican votes to pass a very bad piece of legislation or confirm the appointment of a very bad judge.  Democrat judges are "good."  Republican judges are "bad.". (The "filibuster" that is going on in the senate at  present is a "virtual" filibuster -- that is, the Democrats don't have to stay there and talk like Jimmy Stewart.  Everybody just imagines that they are there, talking.  That way, everybody gets to visit the senate gym, go shopping or get drunk instead of having to actually be there.)

The most important Democrat filibuster in the past fifty years, by the way, was the 52 day attempt to block the vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  The last Democrat in that talk-a-thon was a former member of the K.K.K, one Robert Byrd, D. VA.  Democrats are experts on race matters.

Now, what is it that makes even minority Republican judges bad?  It's simple.  Latinos and African-Americans that Republicans want to be judges are false Latinos and African Americans.  If you are a Republican Latino or African-American, you are actually “white.”  Even though you have the correct skin color for your race, if you aren’t a liberal, you are not a true Latino or African-American.

It is what you believe that decides if you are a true Latino or an African-American.  The nature of the belief structure that is correct is decided by liberal Democrats.  This means that the Republican Latinos and African-American judicial nominees are actually anti-Latino and anti-African-American racists.  Genetic racial characteristics or ancestral progenitors which would qualify them for affirmative action do not qualify them for an up or down vote on the floor of the senate..  Republicans do not understand all this.  They see a black woman and, more fools they, think she is a black woman.   Republicans lack subtlety.

All this makes Democrats good politicians and Republicans bad, racist politicians.  Thus, it is a waste of time for Republicans to hold talk-a-thons.  This is because the purpose of the talk-a-thon is to let the American people know that the Democrats are blocking votes on the bad Republican Latino and African-American judicial nominees.  Since the morons, Brenda Braxton and Russ Lewis of KGW didn’t explain any of this, the Democrats are correct.  It was a waste of time to do it.

The only question here is whether Brenda Braxton and Russ Lewis were given instructions by the Democrats to not tell you the reason for the talk-a-thon, independently decided you don’t need that information, or simply are so damned stupid and incompetent that they don’t know what news is.

I vote for the last one. 

(LL)

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