Cover your ass with WILK and Steve Corbett

Steve Corbett of WILK in Wilkes Barre was a big help in getting my Duncan Hunter video off the ground and I can never thank him enough for that assistance. However, anyone who has followed me long enough knows that nobody is a sacred cow, nobody gets a free pass, and that includes Steve.

If you were to listen to Corbett's program lately you will hear him railing about Barack Obama smoking. You might think this was because sadly, Steve lost two parents to smoking. However I overheard a call on his show where the caller warned about all of the white supremacists that were in our military. The caller said he had nothing against Obama, but “was afraid of what would happen with these white supremacists should Obama be elected president”.

Steve said nothing to respond to this caller. He should have pointed out how little the caller thought about our own young men and women who defend this country. Steve should have stood up for them and reminded the caller that many of our troops cannot stand George Bush, but still loyally serve their country, even die for it. Steve just laughed and said nothing further.

A man calls in and accuses our own military of having elements that would be ready to execute a coup, just like we were some banana republic, in the event Obama won, and Steve says nothing. What a grotesque insult to the people who defend our country, and Steve says nothing. Steve is a well known staunch defender of American veterans.

Maybe it would not be surprising to you that Steve Corbett openly backs Hillary Clinton, but it should be. Hillary stands a better chance at winning Megamillions lotto than she does winning her party’s nomination. Why so much energy for Hillary and so much heat for Obama from a man who professes to loathe George W. Bush? Steve Corbett is an obviously intelligent guy, why would he let such large objects fall through the cracks?

That is because Steve Corbett is little different than Rush Limbaugh who makes his living pandering to an on-air audience. An audience where the majority would not vote for a black man if you held a gun to their heads, but an audience that is mostly white and democrat. Why in the world would all of this occur you ask?

John McCain has pledged to continue the war in Iraq for as long as one hundred years if he feels it’s required. John McCain has staunchly defended Bush’s tax breaks for the wealthy and pledged to continue them if he is elected. Even with the economy going in the toilet and government debt going through the ceiling. The only thing McCain has not promised to continue from George Bush’s regime is allowing the Evangelicals to continue to terrorize the American people on gay marriage and abortion.

Bully for that, but John McCain sounds like the absolute last person a loyal democrat would vote for, that is of course unless that democrat is blindly racist against blacks, you know, sorta like Geraldine Anne Ferraro. Truth be told, I think she is deliberately playing up white fear and working it just like Corbett for Hillary, but that is just wishful thinking, just me hoping that both Ferraro and Corbett don't actually believe the junk they are feeding out.

So if you are a loyal democrat who realizes that they cannot vote for Obama in the next election because of deeply riddling prejudices, you have to find some way to justify voting for McCain. In doing so, you will latch onto any reason you can, so you don’t look bad to your friends. As a result, Obama is “not old enough”, “not experienced enough”, “he’s a smoker”, “he has a crazy preacher”, “white people with guns in the army will revolt”, “he gives great speeches but what can he actually do”, and even more silly-ass considerations.

You will not see these loyal democrats asking what Obama says he will do and looking at his voting record to see what he has actually done in the past. That is because if you focused on those things, Obama looks like a great candidate. Obama however is black and we still have huge problems with black and white prejudice in this country. Even in the DNC we have a massive problem with race, it’s not just a republican problem.

Steve Corbett knows his audience well, and he knows exactly where they are going. This is why he is backing the dead horse that is Hillary and attacking Obama for smoking cigarettes. Steve Corbett’s audience has opinions that many fearful white people have all over this country, and Steve knows them well. Steve Corbett is already ready to justify to his audience why they should vote for John McCain, because he knows that is where they will be after the convention.

Steve Corbett has decided he would like to keep his job. Cannot blame him for that, can you? I probably would agree if I were not one of the last real journalists, and we take the heat for telling the truth. Sorry Steve, I am not a real reverend with my own church. In our last conversation you were seeking a moral view from a preacher, but instead you just got one from a journalist.

Steve, if you wind up backing Obama I will publicly apologize to you. I will be thrilled to be proven wrong on this.