Stupid Quote of the Week 17Aug

It was a tough call this week. I had some good material to work with; Elizabeth Fauxcahontas Warren started off the week with a whacky tweet about celebrating the life of a young thug who, after the most intensive investigation ever into a racial "murder" that wasn't, deemed it to be murder anyway. Of course, I'm talking about Ferguson, Missouri and Michael Brown when she pandered for black votes with her tweet. Even blacks realize Michael Brown got what he asked for when, after robbing a store on camera, he thought it would be a good idea to assault a police officer in his patrol car. Obama and Holder promised them justice, and in an ironic way that's exactly what Michael Brown got, not to mention the scads of money his family made after the "tragedy" while watching Ferguson burn.

But she was outdone by Chris "Fredo" Cuomo, ostensibly a CNN news anchor who melted down after being called Fredo in public. Paradoxically, Cuomo has used the term "Fredo" during his broadcasts often, which makes me wonder what his standards really are. Is it ok to call somebody else "Fredo" on a national broadcast but melt down with threats of physical assault when the term is turned around and used on him? As the saying goes, Fredo: You won't be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. Wearing that nickname for the rest of your life (as I previously blogged about) is poetic justice. You earned it; wear it with pride.

But both of them were outdone on Friday, when I read this gem in a column written by Leonard Pitts Jr., whose Miami-Herald column is published nationally ... oh, maybe once a  week or so. Leonard uses his poison-pen to regularly slam Trump, whites, and racism. Oh, the irony! Pitts is, in my opinion, the biggest reverse-racist I've ever read, and I've read some doosies. He was writing about the 50th anniversary of Woodstock and decided to racially slant it with this quote:

Jimi Hendrix famously closed Woodstock by fracturing the national anthem, his guitar splintering the song into jagged, defiantly ugly shards, reflecting the jagged, ugly shards of the nation’s division. And that, too, remains relevant 50 years on. 

All of a sudden, Woodstock was about racism according to Pitts. Ugly shards, says he. The fact that the almost 500,000 had dwindled to about 40,000 on Monday morning (most of the crowd left Sunday evening) when he finally got to play didn't deter him from opening his act with a tribute to the Star-Spangled Banner. Hendrix was undoubtedly the best guitarist of his time and his message was not one of racism at all.

Ugly shards? He was playing about the nation's division? Where did that come from, Leonard? Only the deep, dark recesses of your angry racist mind could have produced those words, Mr. Pitts.

No, Leonard. He was celebrating and playing the national anthem was his salute to America. And he not only played it, Leonard, but he added to it by making his guitar copy the sounds of the rockets and bombardments that inspired the song. They weren't ugly shards, Leonard. They were awesome, they were inspiring and they didn't divide the nation. If anything, they helped bind the wounds of the time, and there were wounds then just as there are now.

So while you celebrate the downfall of patriotism when black athetes take a knee during the national anthem, and as you continually make excuses for those pathetic spoiled brats who cash their million-dollar (s) a year paycheck, remember one thing, Leonard:

Jimi Hendrix never took a knee to America. He knew where he came from and he knew if he could make it, then anybody could, and that's the American Jimi Hendrix was.

Unlike you, Leonard. You're just a purveyor of angry words stoking the flames of racism. Instead of using your platform to help, you use it to spread fear, divide and destroy.

And that's why you made my Stupid Quote of the Week, Leonard. Congratulations, you aced out some really tough competitors. Keep up the bad work (as if you need me to tell you that).