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‘BEE a Comedienne!’—‘No Holds BARR-ed!’

Every once in a great while, I decide that I need to take a break from writing a blog about politics and all the political machinations taking place in Washington, D.C.  My last blog, about the value of a college degree in today’s society was one such break.  But then………bam!  Either the media, Hollywood or politics suck me right back into what has now become, the hateful quagmire of our society.

By this time, anyone not living in a cardboard box in Borneo has heard about the totally inappropriate tweet by Roseanne Barr concerning Valerie Jarrett.  Why in God’s green earth Roseanne decided to make this tweet about Valerie Jarrett, I will never know.  Like the other 99% of the people in America, I forgot about Jarrett and who she was until she was brought forward by this tweet.  She was a presidential adviser to  Barrack Obama.  Yup, just like you, my mind did a control, alternate, delete and erased her from my limited, aging memory bank.  Even though Ms. Jarrett is a passionate Liberal politically, she does not appear to be running for any elected office…at least not yet.  Only Roseanne knows why she made her the subject of this tweet.

I am not going to write the verbatim tweet written by Roseanne.  It was inappropriate, needless, and if Roseanne was trying to be funny, she did a 10 story belly flop onto concrete.  What I find way more interesting is the responses to the tweet.  The president of ABC Entertainment, Channing Dungey, immediately….and I do mean ‘immediately’, within hours, cancelled the show.  Channing is the first black person, (and coincidentally she is a woman) to be a president of ABC Entertainment.  The Hollywood social media nabobs came out of the woodwork in support of the ABC decision to cancel the show.  And, as expected, the vast majority supported the decision.

One of the more interesting, and coincidentally one of the first responsive tweets came from Alyssa Milano.  She tweeted, “Thank you, @ABCNetwork for doing the right thing and for showing people that bigotry and racism have consequences.  (So far, so good!  And then?)  Now, if you could only cancel our President for the same reason.  Say what?  Alyssa, you were doing so well with your tweet, and then somehow your mind wandered to the POTUS?  What exactly did you mean when you said ‘cancel our President?’  I am not confused about the fact that you accused the POTUS of bigotry and racism.  Do you know Donald Trump personally?  Are you on his Christmas card list?  Or are you just spewing the liberal blather of name calling, because name calling is the basis of the liberal hatred for Trump and the people that support him; which, coincidentally, is the majority of Americans!

If you have followed the Roseanne incident, you are aware that she has gone to great lengths to apologize to Valerie Jarrett, to ABC, to her cast of Roseanne, and to the world.  She has volunteered to work for free for a limited time and to do free promotional work for ABC,  all with the intent of keeping her show alive.   She has apologized profusely for her lack of judgement in attempting to be comedic, and she realizes her comments were responsible for a whole lot of people losing  their jobs.

ABC on the other hand, now realizes how much money the Rosanne show made and how much they will lose by cancelling the program.    Ahhh….there is nothing more awakening than the reality of the consequences suffered by doing a knee jerk reaction to a tweet.  ABC will lose lots of money and in Hollywood, money is the ultimate ‘god!’  They are actually thinking of continuing the program, using Sara Gilbert as the central character on the show.  What will be the show’s new name?  Roseanne without Roseanne?  I like Sara Gilbert.  I liked her on the original Roseanne.  I liked her as the antagonist to Sheldon Cooper on the ‘Big Bang Theory.’  I do not like her on ‘The View.’  Do you think that politics has had a big part of this whole affair?  I will predict that any version of the Rosanne show without Rosanne Barr is going to tank.  Like her or not….she is the show.

Just when you thought that things cannot get any loonier than this whole incident surrounding Roseanne Barr, along comes a relative unknown named Samantha Bee.  Unknown to the extent that she has a show on TBS called, ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.’  I have never heard of her and never heard of her show.  Her credentials are that she has spent 12 years on Comedy Central, and as a reporter for ‘The Daily Show.’  Well there you have it!  She’s a comedienne, so that makes her preeminently qualified to provide vitriolic political commentary.

What started this little incident was a tweet of Ivanka Trump holding her 2 year old baby boy.  This photo was posted by Ivanka.   But the people that live in the depths of the liberal swamp could not take the picture at face value.  That face value being a mother holding and cuddling her baby.  No..no..no!  It was obviously a picture that decries the fact that illegal immigrant parents are being separated from their illegal immigrant children.  Another ‘leap of logic’ by the liberals that makes Evel Knievel’s leap over the Snake River Canyon look like hopping a curb.  How these people get there, I will never know.

But Samatha Bee, that all caring person on her show decided that the Ivanka Trump’s photo tweet warranted calling Ivanka a “feckless cxxt”.  That particular noun, more than any other noun in the world would set off my late mother with more intensity than a volcano in Hawaii.  She absolutely hated that word and yet here it is….on national television for all to hear.  I cannot find enough proper adjectives to describe this incident:  Disrespectful?  No doubt!  Low class?  Yup!  Inappropriate?  Hell yes!  Politically motivated? Check.

Again, the Hollywood brain trust sprints into action.  This time by the ‘flying nun’ herself, Sally Field.  (Ok, for you younger readers, Ms. Field starred in a TV show called ‘The Flying Nun.  It was during black and white TV.)  Ms. Field tweeted, “I like Samantha Bee a lot, but she is flat wrong to call Ivanka a cxxt. Cxxts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.”  I am totally confused by her comments.  But I hope that Ms. Field will have an opportunity to meet my mother in the afterlife, because the momma of Grandpa T will kick your ass for being so stupid and vulgar.  Amen.  Samantha Bee will never meet my mother, because if dear old departed mom has seen her show, she will be politicing for Samantha to go straight to the hell for the dumb and vulgar!  Again…amen.

Before you join the Samantha Bee fan club, I would like to share some facts about her before you remit your membership dues.  Samantha Bee was …..tada….born in Canada.  Samantha Bee was…tada….educated in Canada.  And…Samantha Bee is…..tada….a Canadian citizen!  And we’re concerned about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign and we give a pass to Canadian meddling?  Where is Fusion GPS with a damaging report on Samatha Bee when you need one?  Has the FBI or CIA put a spy at TBS?

I want to bring forth one more collective incident that is mesmerizing the press as of late.  That being the personal attacks on the women of the White House.  Primarily, these vicious attacks are made on Ivanka, Melania and Sarah Sanders.  We have comedians getting way too personal and way too political with their feeble attempts to be funny.  But they have all forgotten the definition of funny and proceed with their vitriolic slurs, all in the name of entertainment.  Enough already!

In conclusion, I want to bring one matter to your attention.  I believe all women should never use the word ‘sexism’ again.  Ever.  Why do I say that?  Because in doing the research for this blog, one very important fact became evident.  That fact is that………all of the most vile comments, all of the most ignorant comments, all of the most unfounded comments, and all of the most racist comments made against these women……were made by other women!  With few exception, none of the personal attacks against women are done by men.  Men may support comments made by other women about women, but it appears we have become intelligent enough not to initiate those comments.  What happened to the fairer sex?

Women were always the calming, balanced members of our society.  Now it appears that there are many who have joined the quagmire of our society.  Heaven help us!

Role Models, Marches and Celebrities, Oh My!

Donald Trump presidency………..D +11

There is one big advantage to being a grandparent.  We don’t have to raise any children!  We get to spoil the grandkiddies, visit when we want, and then go home to the peace and solitude of our home. How could it get any better?

The one thing that does concern me, however, is the role models being presented to our grand children, especially our granddaughters.  Grandma P and I have three granddaughters ages 16 and under.  They are young and they are impressionable.  Who should be their role models?

Case in point.  The million women’s march, specifically the march held in Washington D.C following the inauguration of President Trump.  What was the purpose?  As a man, I am totally confused.  Was it about Pro Choice?  Women’s rights?  Or was it just a rally protesting the election of Donald Trump?

The reason for my confusion were some speakers.  Specifically Madonna and Ashley Judd.  Let’s begin with Madonna.  Firstly, I will give her credit for at least having a written speech.  She needs to find another speech writer, however.  Three times during the speech, she managed to use the F – Bomb. Secondly, she stated that the country was now in a  “new age of tyranny.”  Thirdly, the intellectual Madonna said that she had given a lot of consideration for “blowing up the White House.”

What part of this had anything to do with Pro Choice or women’s rights?  Gosh.  If I didn’t know better, I would think this was strictly a Donald Trump hate speech.  But here is where it gets really confusing.  At the end of her speech, Madonna led the chant, “We chose love.”   On what planet do you equate F -bombs, tyranny and bombing with love?  Geez.  I hope my granddaughters were in school and missed this whole speech.   But Madonna is a celebrity and she made her feelings known.  The liberal media covered this speech without bleeping the F – bombs.  Is she a role model you want your daughters or granddaughter to emulate?

Not to be outdone, Ashley Judd spoke.  She referred to the new president as “a man who bathes in Cheeto dust.”  Yeah, I don’t understand it either, but I will assume it was not a compliment to our new POTUS.  Then she went on to infer the country was “turning rainbows into suicide.”  Another intellectual observation by Ms. Judd that has again gone over my head.  To demonstrate her knowledge of history, Ms. Judd proclaimed that she could “feel Hitler in the streets.”  This was another insane comment made in all places, our nation’s capitol.  Ms. Judd, do you realize that Adolf Hitler (I am assuming that is the Hitler you are referring to) was responsible for the deaths of over 60 million people worldwide by starting WWII?  The United States lost almost 600,000 people in WWII. Russia lost 25 million people and has not really recovered since.  Oh, and then there was that little event referred to as the Holocaust.  In your advanced knowledge of world events, just how in the hell do you equate Hitler with anything transpiring in Washington, D.C?

Oh, but Ms. Judd was not done.  To assure that there wasn’t any confusion as to the purpose of her speech, she crossed the line of civility about her comments about Donald and Ivanka Trump. Without specifically mentioning names, she said your “daughter being your favorite sex symbol.”  And, a “wet dream with your own genes.”  OK.  Ashley, you made a few comments I did not totally understand, but I certainly understand these comments.  So, unlike the liberal media that did not make comment about your speech, I, Grandpa T will make a comment….”Ashley, you are one, sick, demented, hateful bitch.”  You obviously drank some bad water in Mexico and have a worm boring a hole through your brain.  That “wet dream with your own genes” comment; where did that come from? Was that the way it was in your house? (With your vast knowledge of history, you must have forgotten about a past president getting ‘serviced’ by a White House intern under the Oval Office desk.  Why didn’t you mention him?)

When I heard that speech, I became furious!  Firstly, these two speakers may be celebrities, but they are both idiots.  Yet, they were both given full-on media coverage by the liberal media like many of the celebrities who live in LaLa land.   Secondly, it strengthened my belief that this march was not about Pro Choice or women’s rights, it was a Donald Trump hate gathering.  So, which one of these women would you want as a role model for your daughters and granddaughters?  Interestingly, both of these speeches are readily available on U-Tube, and when I viewed them again, both speeches had more dislikes than likes.

Don’t get me wrong, I realize there were many more marches in other cities and I assume most had purpose and took place in a peaceful and orderly manner.  But, those peaceful and orderly marches did not get the national media attention as the Washington D.C. march obtained.  So I am going out on a sexist limb when I say that I am not sure what the purpose of your marches were, but the speeches in Washington definitely detracted from it.  That D.C. march became a sham and stole your credibility.

One week later, there was another march in Washington, D.C.  This time, it was a Pro-life march. (Now don’t get me wrong, as a man, I am neither pro-life or pro-choice, and that is not the topic of this blog.  If I had my druthers, I would take the whole subject out of the federal government limelight, and send it to the states.)  The keynote speaker at this march was Vice President Mike Pence.  But being he is a man, we will discount him as a role model for my granddaughters.  One of the other speakers was Kellyanne Conway.  Now there is a role model I could approve for my granddaughters! Kellyanne is the senior adviser to President Trump.  I do not admire her as a role model because of her position in the White House, even though other women should, but how she got to where she is. She had a rather rough childhood.  Her parents divorced when she was three.  She was required to work for support during her high school years.  But through perseverance and determination, she received a political science degree and a law degree.  She is a paragon of becoming a self-made woman.  At the same time, she and her husband are raising a family of four children.

If you own a television, no doubt you have seen her many times.  She was the architect of the Trump campaign as its manager.  The first female to be a campaign manager.  She has been speaking on many of the news shows lately.  She is intelligent and articulate.

Then there is the woman who was the object of Ashley Judd’s incestuous comments, Ivanka Trump. I am not going to say that Ivanka was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, or gold, or platinum, or plutonium, but she has made her own wake in the business world.  I became impressed with Ivanka during the presidential campaigns.  She spoke often, as did her siblings in support of their father.  But Ivanka was extremely articulate and poised during her speeches.  She has been a successful model, author, business woman and has held an executive position with Trump enterprises for ten years.  Now she, too, is an adviser to her father and is raising a family of three kids as well.

If you have followed my blog, you will know that I selected a Trump-Rubio dream team about 18 months ago.  At least I was one for two.  So I will now make another prediction.  If I were a liberal, I would be careful about lambasting Ivanka Trump.  You could very well be talking about the first female president of the United States.

So as parents and grandparents, you decide who you want as a role model for the young females in our families.  Do you want hair-brained celebrities with more media coverage than brains or would you rather have someone who is intelligent, ambitious and educated.  Kellyanne Conway comes to mind, but so does Condoleezza Rice.  Ivanka Trump is a good role model.  So are Kristin and Catherine.  Oh?  You have never heard of Kristin and Catherine?  These are my two daughters-in-law.  Both are educated, articulate and ambitious.  I am not exaggerating when I say they are both within the top 5% of the wage earners in the U.S.  They achieved this status with their own capabilities and determination.

Maybe I don’t have to worry at all about the role models for my granddaughters.  If they follow in their mothers’ footsteps and use them as their role models, everything should turn out just fine.

PS.  After writing this blog, one of my readers pointed out that Donna Hylton was also a speaker at the Washington D.C. march.  Donna, speaking for women’s rights, has spent time in prison for kidnapping, torturing and eventually killing a gay man.  She and her compatriots did the torturing over a 20 day period.  Google her for more information.  Wow!

Republican National Convention. Cleveland Rocks!

The Republican National Convention was recently completed.  It ran from 18 – 21 July and took place in Cleveland, Ohio; formerly known as the ‘mistake by the lake.’  There were many interesting facets to this convention.  Some good.  Some not so good.  One of my big concerns is that Grandma P has become a political junkie.  She watched more speeches during this convention than she has watched totally in the first almost 30 years of our marriage.    She maybe missed 90 minutes of the convention.  Should I be concerned?

Anyway, it is always more interesting to talk about the negative facets first, so here we go!

NEGATIVES

Do you realize how much money a convention brings into the hosting city?  It is in the tens of millions of dollars and the competition to be the host city is only exceeded by a city wanting to host the Olympics or a Super Bowl.  So, with the convention being in Ohio, where was the governor of Ohio, John Kasich?  Oh, I remember, he was one of the many participants in the Republican debates that swore they would support the eventual Republican candidate.  So much for your word, Mr. Boob.  You did not even have the decency to appear and welcome the delegates to your state.  You are only the first of many people that went contrary to ‘your  pledge of support.’

Ted Cruz.  What more can be said about a sore loser whose ego is barely eclipsed by the size of the state he represents.  That would be Texas.  Rather than show anything that approached denoting party unity, the wienie took his opportunity to extol his virtues, without endorsing Trump.  He was rightfully booed off the stage.  The next morning, he was speaking to the Texas delegation and was asked very pointed questions as to why he did not endorse Trump, the Republican candidate, as he had pledged.    Again, it was back to his principles and he was a master at ‘politcal speak’ in that his answers chewed all around the cookie without having to take a bite.  It was obvious it was all about him.  Never mind what is good for the country or what the electorate wants.   My respect for wienie Cruz has declined into negative numbers. (Is his ego so large as to run as a third party candidate just to defeat Trump and hand the victory to Clinton?)  Ted is lucky he has two more years to his term as senator, or he probably would have lost an election this fall.

Jeb Bush.  Another of those people that pledged support to the Republican candidate that just could not find the time or effort to attend the convention or even make a statement about party unity.  Quite honestly, he was not missed.  Jeb always seemed to be out of touch with what was important to the electorate, anyway.

The two people I am rather disappointed with are George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.  As the two former Republican presidents, they could have at least made some statements via video to support the party principles and bury the hatchet about the divided party by at least wishing Trump well in his upcoming campaign.  I like and respect both of those gentlemen, and it would have been my hope that they would have risen above the butt kicking their brother/son took during the primaries and shown some interest in the political party that got them both elected.  I do not remember any former presidents shunning the following party conventions such as the Bush’s have done.

After Trump’s speech on Thursday evening, Texas billionaire Mark Cuban went into warp drive tweeting his dislike for Donald Trump, referring to him as stupid and lazy.  What is it with these Texans?  Ted Cruz, the Bush’s, and now Mark Cuban?  Just because you lost the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, doesn’t mean you should carry a grudge for almost 200 years!  Just because Trump is not from Texas, doesn’t mean he can’t be president.  So here are my words for all four of you…..“GET OVER IT!”  Do any of you four believe the country and world would be better off with President Hillary?  Mark Cuban supported Trump until a few months ago.  What happened?

POSITIVES

I was very impressed by the quality of the majority of speeches given during this convention.  Yes, there are always a couple of marginal speeches, and some were clunkers, but the vast majority were very, very good.  Did you notice how many of the speeches were given by minorities and women?

Newt Gingrich.  Some of the speeches were beyond excellent.  Newt Gingrich gave an excellent speech.  I wish my college professors were as good as Newt.  I may have gotten better grades if they were.  He laid out the difficulties our country and the world will be facing because of Islamic Muslim extremists.

The Trump Children.  I would not know how to pick the best speaker from the four Trump children that gave speeches.  Not only were the speeches outstanding in content, they were delivered to near perfection.  Donald, Jr., Eric, Ivanka and Tiffany all did an absolutely wonderful job.  If the children are truly a reflection of the parents, then I would say that Donald Trump has done an excellent job of parenting.

Melania Trump.  Another great speech by another Trump.  But almost as soon as it was completed, the Democrats started yelling ‘plagiarism,’ as 58 out of the 1400 words were similar to a speech Michelle Obama gave in 2008.  With all of the things that have happened recently, this is the what the Democrats focus on?  I would say that criticizing this speech as a part of what all is taking place in this country and the world is a clear indication of ‘pole vaulting over mouse turds’ by the Democrats.

Make America Safe Again.  Make America One Again.  Make America Great Again.  I don’t know what adviser came up with these slogans, but they pretty much framed the content of all the speeches given during the convention.  I believe all of these issues are important to the electorate. With the latest ambush of the police, with the latest terrorist attack, and with the largest racial divide occurring in this country during my lifetime, how could the electorate not be concerned about these issues?

Donald Trump.  I will give Trump an A for the content of his speech, but only a B+ for delivery.  As Grandma P pointed out, there were times when it appeared he was screaming.  (I noticed it, also.)  But Donald is a very passionate man, and it is obvious he believes the United States is heading in the wrong direction because of the policies of the present administration.  I agree with him.  He is not a professional, lifetime politician who makes large group speeches for a living and for contributions.  I find that to be an asset rather than a liability.  If he is elected, he can scream all he wants if he can correct those passionate issues.

The Party Plank.   I thought the Republican National Committee did an excellent job of framing the issues and direction of the party.  By tying the slogans with the content of the speeches, a viewer would definitely see the direction that the Republican party is taking.  Background checks for immigrants.  Check.  Second Amendment rights.  Check.  Border Security.  Check.  Reducing the national debt.  Check.  Creating jobs.  Check.  Placing citizens before immigrants.  Check.  Assuring citizen safety.  Check.  Support the police.  Check.  Rebuild the military.  Check.  Did I miss anything?  Probably.

Democratic Critique.  Now that the convention is over, Hillary and her media machine have framed the convention as nothing but ‘doom and gloom.’  Just like Chicken Little, the Republicans have been accused of promoting ‘the sky is falling, the sky is falling!’  Even though I find this somewhat amusing, I believe the issues brought forth at the convention were brutally honest about situations and conditions that need to be addressed and corrected.  Democrats apparently do not want to face these issues and continue to portray the world and our country as if everything is just hunky-dory. This is disturbing as it would be my hope that the two parties would come together to resolve some of these various, serious issues.

So there you have it, readers.  My assessment of the Republican National Convention was that I was seldom bored and it was done very professionally.  The speeches were, if not perfect, very informative.  There have been accusations that Donald Trump is not a conservative.  I cannot even fathom how that could be proposed after watching this convention.  One political pundit said it was one of the most conservative conventions he has ever witnessed.  I agree.

If Donald Trump gets elected and is able to do half of what was proposed at this convention,  the country will indeed be heading in the right direction.