Weeding Out The Crap From The National Dialogue

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Weeding-Out-The-Crap-From-by-Reverend-Anthony-W-110805-508.html



As American politics continues to veer off the closest cliff it can find I am left amazed at what passes for intelligent conversation these days within the body politic. I am stunned at what intelligent men and women allow into the national discourse as credible. Of course there is the continued Foxification of what used to be the media but beyond that, individuals who clearly must know better continue to allow people who simply do not know what they are talking about to mangle the truth.



That is why a major thumbs up needs to be given to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie; yes, that Chris Christie. I do not like Mr. Christie nor his politics. I think he is a bully who governs like he does not have to answer to anyone. That aside however, he nominated a judge to the State Superior Court in New Jersey this week who was Muslim. The outcry from the faux conservative wing of the GOP was that no Muslim should be nominated because they secretly want to implement Sharia Law. Christie's exact response was:



"The guy's an American citizen who has been an admitted lawyer to practice in the state of New Jersey, swearing an oath to uphold the laws of New Jersey, the constitution of the state of New Jersey, and the Constitution of the United States of America . . . .This Sharia law business is crap. It's just crazy. And I'm tired of dealing with the crazies."



Amen. I'm tired of dealing with the crazies too. As bad as Christie may be on a lot of issues, he is spot on here in calling crap, crap. But what about the rest of the national dialogue beyond the silliness of Sharia Law? Why can't politicians and media talking heads who don't work for Fox simply call crap, crap?

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