Conservative Refocus

By Barry Secrest

Let's talk about "ANTI-birther" blather for a change?  The new mainstream media has officially reached a trembling crescendo of state-mandated reactionary rhetoric concerning the President's mystifyingly elusive birth certificate. In fact, unless our relatively now state-sanctioned media can be relegated to the perpetual plagiarists category, it would appear that our fearlessly intrepid news organizations are acting in lockstep, journ-o-listic backlash against a growing world of  skeptics with their newly conjoined, favorite words now being "birther-blather." Doubtful? Very well, then pause from reading this and enter in a Google search for "Birther Blather" and behold the over 3,350 results.

Even more impressive? Remove the quotation marks from your birther blather search string and then note the over 1,260,000 results; fascinating, huh?  So why is it that the media, who are supposed to be our built-in skeptics of all things Government and otherwise, appear to now be the permanently built-in apologists for hope and change, or the new theme, that being "WTF?" For the answers to that question, we must look to brother-extraordinaire, Leonard Pitts' most recent racially inspired tirade (what else?) against anyone who is not yet totally convinced of Obama's origins.

To be fair to Pitts, a favor that Pitts rarely extends to anyone lacking copious melanin content, Leonard did not use the word "blather" anywhere within his column. Yet, many of the newspapers which edited and ran his column, certainly did--within the title, in fact. Pitts, choosing to eschew the already well-worn word blather, rather chose to employ a rather unimpressive lexicon of name-calling to those he calls birthers that one might ordinarily deploy in an aggressive vehicular sojourn around any busy metropolis.

A Nation Of Jack-Asses (Who Voted For Obama)

Pitts called virtually anyone who doubts the now-overwhelming body of non-birth certificate evidence, a range of nasty names from "jack-ass" to "pinheads" and beyond. The interesting thing is simply this, he seemed to be referring to non-blacks--only--as one perplexedly begins to understand while reading Pitts' column.  After glancing through Pitts' words, I later gave the column to a friend who knows Pitts and had indicated him as a very gracious individual who had generously donated a good deal of time, on various occasions, to her college classes.  Her response to me, after having read everything Pitts had written, was to drop what I was writing and immediately refute Pitts with great indignant vigor....

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