Liberal humanitarian monopoly

I am tired. Sick and tired. Sick, tired, and pissed off. I am a conservative, middle class, white, male professional which means that I am typically pissed off at the liberal media and the garbage that they try to pass off as objective journalism. Today, I am pissed off at conservative America. Shame on you. Why am I upset at you? Because you have consistently allowed the “mainstream” liberal media to give credit where credit is not necessarily due. Let me illustrate my point. When I ask the average American who cares about the poor, Republican or Democrat, what answer will I get? Democrat. Who cares about the AIDS epidemic in Africa, conservative or liberal? Liberal. Who gives a crap about freaking starving kids in Malawi, pachyderms or donkeys? Dumb asses. Not them – YOU. These false generalizations have been so wrongly engrained into our collective social thought that many conservatives find themselves thinking that they actually have to stand against starving kids in Africa to avoid ostracism from their own party. This is absolute nonsense! Its time for a reality check – liberals do NOT possess a monopoly on humanitarian goodness. At the risk of making some mildly hypocritical generalizations of my own, let me continue. When you are flipping through channel after channel of reality T.V. garbage, who do you see on those commercials begging you to help fight disease and extreme poverty? Christians. Those bastards are at it again. How dare they move in on the supposed liberal humanitarian monopoly. The truth is, Christian groups have been on the front lines of humanitarian relief as long as there has been such a thing. How can this be? Between commercials, “reality” television tells me that Christians are backwards, superstitious, and racist. This July, the G8 will meet in Scotland with a primary objective of improving the conditions of extreme poverty on the continent of Africa. As he has done many times in the past, George Bush has made his commitment to this cause clear. Where are the media parades and the collective kumbaya a Hillary Clinton or Oprah Winfrey would get for such action? Conservatives must speak out in support of G.W. on this one and force the media to listen. We cannot continue to allow the perceived monopoly on humanitarianism.

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