It Should Not Happen In America

When I was a  kid, we'd all tune in to watch the Miss America Pageant.  They'd walk across the stage in a bathing suit and high heels, then an evening gown,  The finalists all had to answer some insipid question and usually did so with an equally insipid answer.  There would be the runner's up named, building up to the crowning of the new Miss America by the last year's winner.  Bert Parks would then croon "Here she comes, Miss America" as the newly crowned beauty walked down the runway wearing her tiara and holding a few thousand roses.  A month later, most of us probably couldn't even remember her name, let alone what state she represented. 

Today, in order to placate the Feminists, pageants are not supposed to be just about beauty - although you won't see an ugly chick among them..  It's all about talent and scholarships, with the winner emphasizing her personal cause. 

The insipid questions they ask are still insipid and the answers are usually just as vacuous.  You may recall Miss Teen South Carolina's infamous answer to why one fifth of all Americans can't find America on a world map.

Miss California (Carrie Prejean), in competition for the title of Miss USA, gave an honest answer to a politically charged question.  The question, asked by a contestant judge by the name of  Mario Lavandeira, was about gay marriage.  In essence, Ms. Prejean gave the wrong answer.  The next day, Lavandeira showed his class and breeding by calling Ms. Prejean several unrepeatable names and saying her answer was why she did not win and if she had won, he would have ran up on that stage and ripped her tiara off and ran out. 

Whether he would have or not is open to speculation.  I imagine he really doesn't have the eggs to do much more than name call from a long distance.  Since then, some people have demanded she have her California title removed.  Others have joined Mr. Lavandeira's lead in classiness and called her names, etc.  "Objective" journalists have excoriated her.

Freedom is in danger.  Regardless of your opinion concerning gay marriage, or even of Barack Obama, you should be able to freely state it.  You should be prepared to defend it in a discussion or a debate, but you should be able to state it with out fear of some two-bit gossip monger and freak like Mario Lavandeira calling you filthy names.

Freedom is under assault.  Every day, conservatives are being told by liberals (and those same objective journalists) that their views are too extreme and must be modified.  Those of us who support the Tea Party movement are being called racists and even un-American.

As Ms. Prejean said at her presser today:  "It should not happen in America".  But it is.  Leftists are not about freedom of speech or freedom of anything for that matter.  They want to tell you what you can say, where you can live, work and play.  It's only going to get worse.

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Comments

[MAS1916]

We must take heart.

Obama will drive the economy into the tank within the year. How do we know? This is actually a well-worn path. Jimmy Carter tried handling the economy by overspending and borrowing as well as by driving up energy costs. This all produced double digit inflation, unemployment and interest rates. Obama is Carter on steroids, though, so we should see this all taking place by the end of the year.

For other similarities between Carter and Obama, you can hit:

http://firstconservative.com/blog/political-humor/political-humor-jimmy-carters-disastrous-legacy

[Anna]

And liberals were told by conservatives what was patriotic and unpatriotic a few years back, so, it's back and forth, back and forth, and THAT'S freedom.