Bob Dutko's Guy Hung Up On Me!

Today, Bob talked about a recent symbolic ballot initiative, passed in Vermont, ordering George Bush and Dick Cheney indicted for "crimes against the Constitution."

Bob dismissed it as a bunch of liberals who "can't even describe what the crimes against the Constitution are."

I called Bob and let him know about warrantless wiretapping. In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled that tapping the phone of an American citizen without a warrant it a violation of the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. I thought Bob should know.

When I called, a man (not Bob) answered. I began explaining to him that warrantless wiretapping was a violation of the 4th amendment.

That's when I heard the click.

He hung up.

Here's more information on Bush's crimes against the Constitution.

Enjoy!

According to Bob Dutko, Black People Are A Bunch of Lazy, Dumb Sluts

Today, Bob recited The Heritage Foundation's alleged debunking of a study done by The Eisenhower Foundation.

The Eisenhower Foundation released a poverty study to show how well the anti-poverty policies of the Johnson administration worked. According to TEF, we still have a lot of work to do to eliminate poverty, inequality, racial justice, and crime.

I think that most people would agree with this. I think that most Americans believe that this country still has too many people living in poverty, and that minorities make up a higher percentage of people living in poverty.

But The Heritage Foundation, putting their two cents in found that blaming the victim explains inequality:

Robert Rector, senior research fellow on poverty and family issues at the Heritage Foundation, says the Eisenhower Foundation may claim to be nonpartisan, but in fact comprises a small group of "extreme left-wingers."

According to Rector, the report completely ignores the three major causes of poverty. "One is that 69 percent of black children are born out of wedlock and those children are raised without a father in the home," he says. "The second is lower levels of work and more welfare receipt; if you're on welfare, [it] doesn't pay enough for you to get out of poverty. The third is low levels of actual educational attainment -- real math and verbal skills."

I'll translate: The Heritage Foundation thinks that black people are poor because they all just sleep around and are too busy sucking off of welfare to get a real job or education.

Bob repeated this word for word, without even reading the study!

Let's take a look at The Heritage Foundation:

The Heritage Foundation was created by racist beer baron Joseph Coors. The Coors family has an extensive history of racism, as can be documented here. Joseph Coors hired Roger Pearson to be co-editor of The Hertiage Foundaton's Policy Review. Pearson wrote a number of racist works, including the book "Race and Civilization." The racism of THF is evidenced in their reports on racism, in which everyone of them seeks to claim that racism doesn't exist, or isn't a problem. The real problem, according to them, is that black people are lazy and dumb. Here's a quote from one of their articles:

"So blaming racism for our lack of achievement is, at best, a misplaced focus and is, at worst, what I call social insanity. Now, let me tell you what I mean by social insanity. If you believe that racism prevents you from achieving any particular goal, then inherent in that belief is the granting of the power to succeed to the partisans of racism."

In other words, pretend racism doesn't exist and it'll simply go away!

But back to Bob.

Bob has knowingly quoted a racist organization that seeks to make black people look lazy and stupid. And he did it with a quote that is designed to do just that. By giving credibility to the organization through quoting such rubbish, Bob has decided to put into the minds of his white listeners that:

1) Racism isn't a problem in America.
2) Black people are in poverty because they're lazy, slutty, and dumb.

Remember this the next time Bob wants to bring up the racism of people he seeks to demonize.

Prayer in the Public Schools

I don't think it's a stretch to believe that if Bob had his way, there would be Christian prayer in every public school at just about every imaginable time. There would be prayer at the start of every school day, before athletic events, and at graduation ceremonies.

I, on the other hand, am opposed to public schools being used as a platform to impose the religion of the majority on the minority. It's cases like this out of Delaware that remind me why:

Mrs. Dobrich, an Orthodox Jew, grew up in Sussex County. Though often the lone Jewish student in school, she said, she did not have problems with Christians or others. For years, while her daughter, Samantha, now 21, attended local schools, Mrs. Dobrich said, she listened to Christian prayers at school potluck dinners, award dinners and meetings of parent-teacher groups.

At Samantha’s high school graduation in 2004, a minister’s prayer proclaiming Jesus as the only way to the truth nudged Mrs. Dobrich to ask the school board to consider more generic and less exclusionary prayers, she said.

As news of the request spread, many local Christians saw it as an effort to limit the free exercise of religion, residents said. Anger spilled onto talk radio, in letters to the editor and at school board meetings attended by hundreds of people carrying signs praising Jesus.

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Her son, Alex, then 11, had written a short statement that said in part: “I feel bad when kids in my class call me ‘Jew boy.’ I do not want to move away from the house I have lived in forever.”

After the family received threats, Mrs. Dobrich said, she and Alex moved to Wilmington.

This is a shining example of why public schools must be secular institutions, free of interference by religion. Here, the mother here didn't ask that prayer be removed from schools. She only wanted the "Jesus is the only way" rhetoric toned down and a less exclusionary approach implemented.

How did the so-called Christian townspeople react?

They drove her family out.

It's also an excellent illustration of not only why church/state separation is necessary, but also an example of antisemitism.

But Bob hasn't mentioned this story.

Bob will imply that Barack Obama is antisemitic because Louis Farrakhan endorsed him.

Why doesn't Bob speak out about the antisemitism of Christians in Delaware?