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Whitaker's Current Articles June 28, 2003
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Fun Quote:
Philosophers say:
"It'll all come out in the wash."
Revolutionaries say:
"It'll all come out in the bloodbath."
No
Conservative Has the Guts to Support Real Freedom of Speech
When I was a Reagan appointee in Washington in
the early 1980s, I had one reminder of home. The wide grin of my
old friend Maurice Bessinger could be seen in on the label of his
bar-b-cue sauce in grocery stores. His was a nationwide business
straight out of Columbia, South Carolina.
A couple of years ago, Wal-Mart destroyed
Bessinger’s national business. He put up a Confederate flag and he
had political pamphlets in his restaurant in West Columbia. If
those had been Communist pamphlets no one would dare have boycotted
him for it. But this was right-wing stuff. This was heresy.
Wal-Mart took Bessinger’s sauce off its stands
nationwide. Not only that, but Wal-Mart announced a nationwide
boycott of Bessinger’s bar-be-cue sauce. Black thugs backed them
up in other grocery stores by taking the sauce off the shelves and
pouring it on the floor.
No one denounced the black thugs. I heard
about them second-hand.
No Columbia or national media reported the black thugs.
None of the conservative media that constantly
complain about being suppressed said a word in Bessinger’s favor.
What was Maurice's Great Crime?
What was Maurice Bessinger’s big crime?
Wal-Mart said that one of the pamphlets he sold in his restaurant
said that black Americans were lucky their ancestors were brought to
America as slaves.
Every one of us who were raised with black
people has heard at least one black person say that. As Whoopee
Goldberg put it, “Am I an African-American? I’ve SEEN Africa.
I’m an America.”
I’ve seen Africa, too, and any American black
who has seen that place had better be glad
he’s here.
In Africa, black people STARVE to death. I
know Jane Fonda talks about “starving children in South Carolina,”
and leftists talk about starvation all the time. But if you ever
saw a real human being really dying from hunger, you would be
ashamed to use that word in America.
So Bessinger’s pamphlet certainly had a point.
But the question is not whether Bessinger is
right or wrong. The question is, did he have the right to have that
pamphlet in his own restaurant?
Libertarians would have raised hell
if anyone had boycotted Bessinger for a Communist pamphlet. We have
not heard one single word from any of those brave libertarians
organizations and all the conservatives are hiding as usual.
Bessinger fought Red Chinese and North Korean
Communists in Korea. But that doesn’t mean he has any of the
rights to free speech he fought for.
By the way, you remember who the Red Chinese
are? They're the ones who seized an American plane a little
while back and held it hostage. The Red Chinese
are the ones who produce half the goods Wal-Mart sells.
You remember who Wal-Mart is? Wal-Mart is
the company that is boycotting and ruining Bessinger.
The
Last Straw: Fox News Conservative Cowards Beat Their Scrawny Little
Chests
A respectable conservative would cheerfully
allow liberals to rape his children if he needed to do that to keep
his “respectable” label. As the Wal-Mart example shows, anybody
who is declared unrespectable by liberals is not just suppressed, they
are ruined. Respectable conservatives make their living by pleasing
liberals.
I hate leftists, but respectable conservatives
make me sick. It turns my stomach to see a respectable
conservative acting brave.
The last straw for me was when a bunch of
respectable Fox News conservatives told the world how brave they were about free
speech.
A few weeks back, Wal-Mart decided to withdraw
two semi-pornographic magazines from its stands. Liberals went
ballistic. Conservatives wanted to show liberals they were just as
outraged at this suppression of free speech as liberals were.
Fox has a program called “Fox News Watch” that
is supposed to criticize news coverage. They started talking about
Wal-Mart’s “boycott” of Maxim Magazine and the other one. They
never mentioned the Bessinger boycott.
I wrote News Watch about Bessinger, but
naturally I didn’t get a word back.
As usual, I am willing to bet I was the only
person who made the connection between Wal-Mart and Bessinger in a
letter. Their address is
newswatch@foxnews.com
Please write them or send a copy of these articles to them.
Southerners
Who Call Themselves Conservatives Don't Back Bessinger,
Either
We all know why no conservative says a word about Bessinger.
Respectable conservatives are only loud when liberals allow them to
be. When liberals say, “Sic ‘em, boy", they demand to be
allowed to lead the liberal lynch mob against “racists,” or anybody
else who liberals condemn.
You might think Southerners and especially South Carolinians might
be willing to whisper something in Maurice’s favor. What about all
those brave South Carolina "traditionalists"?
Southern "Traditionalists" have no time for Bessinger. From the Southern Traditionalist
point of view, Bessinger has two fatal weaknesses.
First, he’s alive. Traditionalists are very brave when it comes to
defending the reputations of dead Confederates. Defending dead
people lets you hide
behind history and not offend liberals directly.
More important, Bessinger was ruined over a year ago. When Brave
Southern Spokesmen aren’t talking about dead people, they are
mailing out the latest stuff to each other. The people who
remember every battle fought in 1863 have forgotten Bessinger.
I
would like it if WhitakerOnline readers would e-mail
their friends about Bessinger and Fox or mail out these articles.
I also much
appreciate it when readers
put these articles in news groups.
Once again, the address of Fox News Watch is
newswatch@foxnews.com
Please write them or send a copy of this article to them.
Maurice Bessinger deserves our support, despite the fact that he is alive.
Maurice Bessinger is a real, living hero and martyr to our cause and
the cause of free speech. It is time we gave some of the attention to
him that we give to the latest conservative fashion.
News Watch Personnel
The Fox News Watch panel has two respectable conservatives,
Al Thomas and Jim Pinkerton..
Jane Hall
and
Neal Gabler
are the standard and packaged liberals, and the moderator Eric Burns
brags about his devotion to free speech and straight talk in the
news.
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