You Evil White Men!

Gender and race?

pfffffffffffffffffffffffft…………….

This Nora Ephron is a tool and a fool.
I thought vision, ideas and a commitment to America, were more important qualities to look for.
And maybe someone who would issue a ban on progressive aggressive tax policies and folly.
And earmark pork and folly.
“something the dummycrap congress promised, but only incresaed”

Jeffrey Nihart

This is one of the most childish hate filled screeds I have ever had the misfortune to read. I so regret having wasted the time to do so.

Two commies and a democrat, soon to be whittled down to a democrat and a commie. Hmmm, when the time comes, I’ll vote for the white guy and HOPE he can CHANGE!

Interesting comment.
Nixon started the EPA
JFK was against tax increases because he knew that tax increases would defund the federal budget.
LBJ ramped up the Vietnam war.
Clinton the Bosnian war.
The early democrats were against civil rights and freedom.

But it was the progressive left that inspired Hiltler and Stalin.

And if your comment that progressive Hillary and the empty suit Obama; are centrist and closer to the right;
well your could not be closer to wrong.

The antiwar and “green” groups are all progessive socialist lefties.

You lost any web cred where you began with the name calling.

Jeffrey Nihart

Jeffrey Nihart,

Clinton and McCain both voted for the use of force in Iraq. Both stand for big business and big business is certainly not green. The real antiwar greenies are Kucinich, Nader, etc for your information. Don’t care about my “web cred”. Who uses the phrase “web cred” anyway?

Okay, guys… don’t get your knickers in a twist here. Ephron’s a feminist type screen writer/director. The majority are romantic comedies, BTW. Not to mention she’s also a Wellesley girl, raised in Beverly Hills. Very little association with “rural America” anything but to suck up their cash for film residuals.

So… being an ex film production person, and recognizing the critter with witch… er *which* we deal… here’s my take.

I’d say she made a desperate attempt to be cute in an Erma Bombeck’esque sort of way… and failed miserably. And, of course, being Hollywood – and the partner of a few failed marriages (including Carl Bernstein) – she embellished to the extreme to make a point.

So… oh stellar group of “he-men” here, please don’t rise to the occasion and give her any cause to support her case! She’ll just add that white men have no sense of humour to her beefs.

Just ignore her. She’s been reduced to HuffPo as her most exposure of late and hitting hard times. “Bewitched” was her last attempt at the big time cinema. She’ll be paying for that for years! Long after Nicole Kidman rebounds.

You are as powerful as you feel, Machiavelli…. caucasian or not, regardless of gender. Do not fall prey to enforced classism and divides. They only exist if we acknowledge them, and behave with different standards for each other.

And Nora? Quintessential NOW type of woman. Personally they all piss me off…. Before they came around, I was revered, put on a pedestal, had doors opened, and treated just wonderfully. When they decided to make the genders “equal”, I had to take a superiority cut…. LOL

This would be, and rightly so, astonishing if it were titled “Black Women” and was written by a white male.

But while this is repugnant it isn’t astonishing, for it perfectly fits a well honed liberal meme: white males are inherently racist.

Nonetheless, she arrives at a truth though her logic is deeply flawed.

And that truth is that Obama is unelectable.

There are those like myself – a white male – who won’t vote for him because of profound philosophical differences: I think he is tainted, perhaps drenched, with Marxist tendencies; a practitioner of identity politics and the politics of victimhood; an advocate of isolationism in a dangerous world; a simple politician with no stature as a statesman; a panderer to the populace; an opportunist without a moral compass; a big government elitist who believes the proper role of Washington is to solve problems best left to individuals; one who believes that individuals are inherently flawed and must therefor be shepherded to the promised land as he defines it; a big spending liberal who believes that Government is more efficacious in the allocation of resources than markets; a purveyor of class warfare who believes not in equality of opportunity but in equality of outcome; that the full might of the government should be brought to bear to achieve those equal outcomes, said outcomes to be foisted on the many by the chosen few; a worshiper at the alter of multiculturalism who believes that diversity is a preeminent end in and of itself rather than a means to a better end.

And there are those who are black, Hispanic, Asian, female, First American (as he puts it) and so on that won’t vote for him for the same reason.

And there are those who will vote for him simply because he is black.

And there are those who won’t vote for him because he is black.

The last two presidential elections have been very close, with the 2000 election ultimately decided by some 500 voters, Bush’s margin of victory in Florida.

If he wins the nomination, which he is likely to do, we will hear more such musings about how white males who don’t vote for Obama don’t do so because of racism. And many liberals will believe that to be an effective strategy, that they will be able to “shame” white males into voting for Obama. And they believe – it’s as logical as night follows day with them – that white males will be grateful for the opportunity to begin to cleanse themselves of their hateful racism.

And white liberal males will dive head on into the cleansing waters such an opportunity offers. For the rest of their lives they will perform cocktail party conversational contortions to make it known that they voted for Obama. For all of eternity, their bona fides will be established.

As evidenced by the performance of this simple civic duty, they are not racists. Their spirits will be buoyed. They’ll stand taller, stride confidently, chests puffed out. But, like Obama’s Big Mama, they’ll still be wary of pants sagging, doo-rag wearing, dread locked, menacing looking young black males who pass them on the street.

There will still be neighborhoods they won’t go into.

And, via the egregious racism of diminished expectations, they will believe that blacks are inherently inferior, that affirmative action is necessary for their success, that pathological behaviors like skyrocketing out of wedlock births and out of proportion to the population incidents of criminal behavior must be excused.

But in the end, the tack of white-males-as-racists isn’t necessary to capture these voters. They’re liberals, after all. They were going to vote for him anyways.

White males comprise some 36% of the voting population. And here’s the deal: Overwhelmingly, non liberal white males are not racist.

They don’t share the forty acres and a mule diminished expectations for blacks that liberals regard as a trait of the race.

They are robust individuals. Family men. Husbands, Sons, and Brothers. Hard workers. They strive for a better lot for themselves and their families.

They sacrifice.

They go to churches that preach salvation and not separation.

They learned many of life’s lessons at an early age. Be responsible to and for yourself. Your word is your bond. Be on time. Look both ways before crossing the street. Protect the weak. Be humble. Prayer works. Do your job the best you can. Help others. Friends are valuable. Love your country and honor those who served. Accept responsibility. Set goals and strive for them. If you fall down, get back up. Stand up to the bully. When your back is to the wall, fight.

They are far from perfect, but they are virtuous.

But, mostly, they are independent. They don’t like elitists calling them names and telling them what to do.

And a wide and large swath of that 36% won’t respond favorably to the racist, sexist rantings of Nora Ephron and her ilk.

Having been effectively backed to a wall, these people will choose not to vote for Obama not because he is black, but because they are white.

I told you why I wouldn’t vote for him. And I thank Mz. Ephron for helping to keep him from being elected.

well theve killed him hes gone from tv or just demonized hes gone from politics or just demonized hes not allowed to go to schools of higher learning no more sports most blue collar jobs have to be saved for this or that minority forget anything in health care just watch that burger king ad if you cant discover life on a new planet that girl is going to slap you out of your chair or that black guy is going to call you a stupid honkey or that v-8 ad im tired of being poked in the head no the white man is dead