Charlie Daniels re: the Paula Deen supposed scandal ... Thx good friend Bob L!

Subject: Charlie Daniels: Regarding the Paula Deen Scandal

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>Charlie Daniels (the country  star) regularly writes a column offering his opinions on current events, and  he did write this one.  He is spot on!
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>Charlie just cuts
  through the crap!
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>Charlie Daniels: Regarding The Paula Deen
  "scandal"
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>I think that if anything exemplifies the overt prejudice
  and determination
>of the American media to report only the news that suits
  their social and
>political interests and concept of what does and does not
  fit their
>agenda, it’s the totally overblown coverage of something Paula
  Deen said
>20 years ago, and some party she planned that she wanted to
  resemble a
>plantation scene featuring black male waiters in period
  dress.
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>If Hollywood plans a movie featuring black waiters in a
  plantation scene
>or portray women as prostitutes or cast minorities in
  caricature roles
>does the media get upset and start calling the movie
  moguls racists?
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>Is there any grown person who could truthfully declare
  under oath that
>they have never uttered something that someone might find
  personally
>offensive?
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>“Let he who is without sin cast the first
  stone.”
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>Do the twenty-year-old words of a lady with a television
  cooking show
>trump the lie an Attorney General told Congress, or officials
  at the IRS
>usurping the rights of the American public and pleading the
  fifth
>amendment when confronted about it or the hiding of the facts
  surrounding
>the murder of four Americans at a Consulate in Libya or the
  incredibly
>shabby image of a president taking a one hundred million dollar
  vacation
>in this economy while closing down tours of the White House or the
  NSA
>invasion on the privacy of millions of unsuspecting citizens?
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>I
  think not, and yet these and other stories of the utmost importance
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>either ignored or given a back seat to the Paula Deen story which,
  when
>taken in context with the high level scandals, Putin's snubbing of
  an
>American president, the potentially explosive situations in so much of
  the
>world the story was certainly not newsworthy enough to be featured
  five
>nights in a row on network news.
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>Wouldn't a week-long
  investigation into the life of Lois Lerner, the
>things she's done and the
  reason she's pleading the fifth be more
>meaningful to the American
  people?
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>What about what's going on in Israel ? The media has been
  strangely quiet
>on that front lately, is there nothing worth reporting in
  that volatile
>part of the world?
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>How about the coming catastrophic
  tidal wave the effect of Obamacare is
>going to have on America , is there
  nothing worth questioning in the over
>30,000 pages of
  regulations?
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>How about the fact that due to federal over regulation
  it's nearly
>impossible to live in the U.S. without breaking some
  law?
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>How about the Christian pastor who is being held in one of the
  worst hell
>hole prisons in the world in Iran for nothing more than sharing
  his faith?
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>How about a whole way of life that's being destroyed in West
  Virginia by
>the president's war on coal?
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>I think you get the
  picture.
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>No wonder the mainstream media has fallen so far in the trust
  of the
>American people.
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>Why is the Paula Deen story worth so much
  airtime if not to take attention
>off the truly important issue, the life
  changing things that really affect
>the lives of Americans?
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>The news
  is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people,
>destroying
  others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective
>throats of
  America .
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>What do you think?
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>Pray for our troops and the peace
  of Jerusalem .
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>God Bless America
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>Charlie
  Daniels
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