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McClelland and White Conservative Affirmative Action

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One of the funniest things that I heard came when MSNBC's Tucker Carlson called Scott McClelland an incompetent who only got his job because of connections. I was amazed. Did Carlson not see the great irony? What are Carlson's great accomplishments aside from finishing in last place on "Dancing With The Stars"?

Carlson got a job because he wore a bow-tie and he was a White male Libertarian/Conservative. MSNBC graded him on a curve and hired him to show their post 911 patriotism.. MSNBC even gave Carlson his own show, which failed. Carlson is now a political analyst for MSNBC. the qualifications for an analyst job for White Conservatives appears to be having an opinion.

Carlson is not the only low skilled Conservative White guy who has found employment in MSM. William Kristol sits in a columnist spot at the NYT. Since the first of the year, Mr Kristol has had errors requiring correction in three of his weekly columns. Kristol remains employed. Obviously fact-checking prior to publishing is not required for Mr Kristol. White Conservatives need not worry about accuracy in media.

On CNN-HNN, we have Glenn Beck. Mr Beck calls himself a rodeo clown. After attempting to watch him discuss hybrid automobiles with a GM executive, I truly understand the clown part. Beck made sure to attack environmentalists while addressing the alternative fuel source story. I could only stand about a minute and a half of the discussion before my head began to hurt due to the inanities passing for deep thought and humor coming from Mr Beck. Of course, Beck's high mark was asking Rep Ellison, a Muslim member of the House of Representatives if Ellison were a loyal American. Beck gets an hour of each weekday to promote Conservative views and to  think that he is thinking. Intelligence is not a criteria for Conservative white Affirmative Action hires.

Then, of course, there is the biggest Conservative White Affirmative Action hire of all times, GW Bush. Bush has set the gold standard  for Presidential incompetency. If you have a limited internal mental databse, you don't worry about the wide spn of options you have before you commit the nation to an unwise war. Also, since you perspective is limited, there is not a great deal of reflection.

Now we have the incompetent McClelland rejecting the incompetence of Bush, and  incompetents Carlson and Beck attacking McClelland for challenging the results of Conservative White Affirmative Action. If the issues weren't so serious , this would be a Three Stooges skit.


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Let us not forget the media's biggest welfare queen, the Washington (Moonie) Times, which has never seen a profit in its entire existence, and which serves, as other circulation-challenged conservative publications, as life-support to the otherwise unemployable propagandists of the conservative cause.

Wow, great call. I just today wrote an editorial to my local paper in KY about how the editorial page does not give one a license to spout BS. Some guy was claiming 22,000 scientists oppose global warming, among other lies. Two editorials later some guy said that the ~25,000 strong polar bear populations were not in jeopardy. I googled it, and it looks like he performed the same google search as me, read the first article because it confirmed his opinions, and missed the news article right below it that qualifies and clarifies and contends some of the stuff in the first google hit.
I had to do the same thing in my college paper when someone ad hominem'd Al Gore and denied global warming. But then again, it was a college paper at UofMichigan... you can't hold that to the same standard as a McClatchy paper, can you?

Yeah, it's piss easy to get a plumb job in DC if you're willing to pose as a conservative.

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