From conservative Darrell Michaels at Unabashedly American:
It is a shame to poke holes in your poem, Mr. Dubya, considering you obviously worked so hard at it, but the truth must be heard with the questions your poem asks.
“Fake news is the enemy of the people”
Yes, if it is not truthful, then it absolutely is the enemy of the people. It misinforms and tells lies to propagate a dangerous socialist agenda. It ignores the wrongs of the left and characterizes rioters as “mostly peaceful protesters”. It questions President Trump’s mental condition and ignores the fact that Joe Biden cannot even hold a press conference without having answers written for him on a teleprompter. It seeks to destroy one side and not inform, as journalism is supposed to do.
“Global warming is a hoax”
No. ANTHROPOGENIC global warming is not proven science. It is a means to further a Marxist agenda by the left. I give you the green new deal as evidence of this.
“We don’t want everybody to vote”
I do NOT want everybody to vote. I want only registered American voters to vote. I don’t want illegal aliens or felons to vote. I know that cuts into the left’s voter block though. I’d prefer that voters also are educated on the candidates and the issues, but if they are registered American voters, even the ignorant have a right to vote.
“Tax cuts for the rich are what we need”
First, while I have never had a poor man offer me a job, that is also false propaganda. Bush’s and Trump’s tax cuts helped middle class families immensely, especially with child tax cut credits. The problem is that the bottom 50% of American tax payers account for less than 5% of the national tax burden. The leftists in congress describe anyone with an above-minimum-wage job as rich evidently. Further, Trump’s tax cuts were a significant reason as to why the American economy grew so strongly before the Covid nightmare.
I thanked Darrell for sharing my poem, and for his thoughtful critique. For some reason he hasn’t published my response at his blog… He and his less informed friend seem to have all necessary discussion in hand. Whatever would we say or think, if we didn’t have conservatives telling us what we “really” say and “really” think? How would we have ever guessed we are actually “America-hating Marxists”?
In my response I didn’t address this point he made.
“Fake news is the enemy of the people”
Yes, if it is not truthful, then it absolutely is the enemy of the people. It misinforms and tells lies to propagate a dangerous socialist agenda. It ignores the wrongs of the left and characterizes rioters as “mostly peaceful protesters”.
My statement, supported by evidence, was that most protests and protesters were peaceful. Note that Darrell twisted it into, ”characterizes rioters as mostly peaceful protesters”.
But what difference does rearranging or substituting few words make, amirite? Leftists and journalists must be snowflakes for wanting their words in the correct, but not “Right” sequence.
I’m still shut out from the discussion of my poem. My comments were, ah, what’s the word..cancelled. And of course, Darrell accuses me of promoting “cancel culture”. Isn’t that special?