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‘Imperialism’ and ‘Genocide’: The 4th of July According to MSNBC

When readers have finished with this story, we would be very surprised if they didn’t end up with a highly pessimistic query: Is there anything MSNBC can cover without spoiling it?

The answer, as it turns out, may be “no.” For you see, even on the 4th of July, arguably the one day when every American, regardless of party affiliation, should be celebrating, MSNBC has decided it wants to remind its viewers of just how many awful things America has been responsible for. Why? Perhaps for the sake of perspective, or for the sake of encouraging liberal guilt, but quite frankly, we don‘t feel qualified to speculate on the root of an entire network’s neuroses. All we know is that while everyone else is celebrating, MSNBC is letting their resident Jeremiah Wright admirer, Melissa Harris Perry, say things like this, according to Mediaite:

In what is sure to rankle the feathers of many conservatives, MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry took to her show Sunday to ponder the meaning of Independence Day, highlighting mostly the stains on American history. “It’s ours, all of it,” she said. “The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”

“Independence Day is more aspirational than actual,” she began her monologue. “We have longed defined the American Dream with commodities, a home of ones own, better education for the kids, family vacation and a car to the vacation in. And if we measure the dream by acquisitions, we’re in trouble. National unemployment remains above 8 percent. Wages have dropped, and the median net worth of American families plummeted by almost 40 percent.”[...]

She continued on to explain that her favorite story for this Fourth of July is one of people who are “not technically free.” She described a group of 27 inmates who recently completed their GEDs at the jail on Rikers Island. “Despite being incarcerated, they hold fast to the optimistic belief that education, hard work and second chances are still the stuff of America. And that they have a right to take part in the dream.”

“So on the Fourth of July,” Harris-Perry concluded, “I’m going to think of the Rikers Island graduates, and I’m going to wave a flag without hesitation — not because I’ve forgotten my nation’s many wrongs, but because I remember them. And I am nonetheless proud of my country, not for its perfection, because the alternative is too grim, the alternative is to give up on the dream of the nation founded in the belief, if not yet the practice that all are created, all deserve freedom, and all have the right to pursue happiness. Now, that is a dream worth celebrating — with fireworks.”

Watch Perry’s bizarre rant below:

Debunking Perry’s attempt to inject guilt into the national dialogue could take pages of prose, and quite frankly, we wonder if there is even a point, considering that her worldview appears to be influenced more by a quasi-religious faith in this country’s failings than by anything else. However, we are going to accept one part of her statement – that as of now, the American Dream is in danger of being more aspirational than actual. As to whose fault that recent development is, we doubt MSNBC has any interest in covering the subject.

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  • hayesstephen
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:16pm

    I know this will not happen but if ONLY, people would stop reporting what these lunatics are saying, doing, reporting. Just let a huge blanket of silence fall over them . A good way to kill weeds is lay down black plastic. Wait a few months and the pesky pest whether and die. Hush no more msnbc, not another mention.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:30am

      Yet one more third world black.

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    • F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:50am

      Another turd in the MSLSD toilet. Can it get any sh!ttier than this one? Barf Barf Barf Barf BAAAAARRRRRRFFF! Remarkable how smelly they can get!

      Burn the underbrush!

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:59am

      When these people look at the United States of America all they see is a worthless pile of steaming feces. They are projecting.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:03am

      Whose the guy in drag?

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    • Halo9x
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:32am

      Okay, America isn’t perfect. Name one country that is or ever has been. However, the problem lies not with the Founding Fathers but rather those who followed who failed to live up to the ideals of the Revolution. What they Declared and the Constitution they wrote are the very instruments for correcting the flaws as they arose. If there is one place where they came up short is believing that all men WANT to be free! We have too many who have opted for being taken cared of, like the young lady begging on the corner. I suggested she go talk to a Navy recruiter and stop begging. Did she? I don’t know. Hopefully, she will see the benefit of taking personal responsibility for her life vice taking from others.
      No doubt the Founding Fathers would be appalled at what has become of their great struggle to be free. Last week saw us become slaves of the State! I guess 235 years of freedom is long enough for the Democrats. According to them we are too stupid to live our lives on our own without their meddling in our lives. The Supreme Court seems to have agreed.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:45am

      Scott et al: Can you guys please STOP COVERING this pathetic excuse for a news channel? MSNBC are traitors/anti-American dolts. IT must drive them crazy to see (from Coast to Coast) the REAL AMERICAN out at these CELEBRATIONS of our 236 Anniversary !!! I don’t care what they say/think/report. I for one am not going to read anything about them…even on Blaze ! HAPPY FOURTH AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!!

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:02am

      This bit*h is out of her mind, as is the other DESERTROSES of america

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:28am

      Today’s “so-called” leaders are pathetic and should be ashmed of themselves. What, put the people & the nation before ourselves…whats that?

      The sacrifices of 56 men who signed the declaration of independence

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEA16DKYNTE

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:21am

      Well I guess this proves PMSLSDWTF isn‘t racist since they’ve now started hiring Goblins.

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    • Reason365
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:37am

      Libs really are self haters. They have to project this hate outward or go insane. I think we see both!

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    • stage9
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:31am

      Even though the issue of slavery is often raised as a discrediting charge against the Founding Fathers, the historical fact is that slavery was not the product of, nor was it an evil introduced by, the Founding Fathers; slavery had been introduced to America nearly two centuries before the Founders. As President of Congress Henry Laurens explained:

      “I abhor slavery. I was born in a country where slavery had been established by British Kings and Parliaments as well as by the laws of the country ages before my existence. . . . In former days there was no combating the prejudices of men supported by interest; the day, I hope, is approaching when, from principles of gratitude as well as justice, every man will strive to be foremost in showing his readiness to comply with the Golden Rule ["do unto others as you would have them do unto you" Matthew 7:12].” 1

      Prior to the time of the Founding Fathers, there had been few serious efforts to dismantle the institution of slavery. John Jay identified the point at which the change in attitude toward slavery began:

      “Prior to the great Revolution, the great majority . . . of our people had been so long accustomed to the practice and convenience of having slaves that very few among them even doubted the propriety and rectitude of it.” 2

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    • stage9
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:32am

      While Jefferson himself had introduced a bill designed to end slavery, 3 not all of the southern Founders were opposed to slavery. According to the testimony of Virginians James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and John Rutledge, it was the Founders from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia who most strongly favored slavery. 4

      Yet, despite the support for slavery in those States, the clear majority of the Founders opposed this evil. For instance, when some of the southern pro-slavery advocates invoked the Bible in support of slavery, Elias Boudinot, President of the Continental Congress, responded:

      “[E]ven the sacred Scriptures had been quoted to justify this iniquitous traffic. It is true that the Egyptians held the Israelites in bondage for four hundred years, . . . but . . . gentlemen cannot forget the consequences that followed: they were delivered by a strong hand and stretched-out arm and it ought to be remembered that the Almighty Power that accomplished their deliverance is the same yesterday, today, and for ever.” 5

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    • stage9
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:32am

      Many of the Founding Fathers who had owned slaves as British citizens released them in the years following America’s separation from Great Britain (e.g., George Washington, John Dickinson, Caesar Rodney, William Livingston, George Wythe, John Randolph of Roanoke, and others). Furthermore, many of the Founders had never owned any slaves. For example, John Adams proclaimed, “[M]y opinion against it [slavery] has always been known . . . [N]ever in my life did I own a slave.” 6

      For many of the Founders, their feelings against slavery went beyond words. For example, in 1774, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush founded America’s first anti-slavery society; John Jay was president of a similar society in New York.

      Other prominent Founding Fathers who were members of societies for ending slavery included Richard Bassett, James Madison, James Monroe, Bushrod Washington, Charles Carroll, William Few, John Marshall, Richard Stockton, Zephaniah Swift, and many more. In fact, based in part on the efforts of these Founders, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts began abolishing slavery in 1780; 7 Connecticut and Rhode Island did so in 1784; 8 Vermont in 1786; 9 New Hampshire in 1792; 10 New York in 1799; 11 and New Jersey did so in 1804. 12

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    • stage9
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:32am

      While much progress was made by the Founders to end the institution of slavery, unfortunately what they began was not fully achieved until generations later. Yet, despite the strenuous effort of many Founders to recognize in practice that “all men are created equal,” charges persist to the opposite. In fact, revisionists even claim that the Constitution demonstrates that the Founders considered one who was b l a c k to be only three-fifths of a person. This charge is yet another falsehood. The three-fifths clause was not a measurement of human worth; rather, it was an anti-slavery provision to limit the political power of slavery’s proponents. By including only three-fifths of the total number of slaves in the congressional calculations, Southern States were actually being denied additional pro-slavery representatives in Congress.

      References provided upon request…

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    • stage9
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:33am

      The Republican Party pioneered the right of women to vote and was consistent in its support throughout the long campaign for acceptance. It was the first major party to advocate equal rights for women and the principle of equal pay for equal work.

      The Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848 marked the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. Two years later there was a nationwide meeting in Worcester, Mass.

      By 1870, the Massachusetts Republican State Convention had already seated two suffragettes, Lucy Stone and Mary A. Livermore, as delegates. In addition, the National Republican Convention of 1872 approved a resolution favoring the admission of women to “wider fields of usefulness” and added that “the honest demand of this class of citizens for additional rights … should be treated with respectful consideration.”

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    • love the kids
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:05am

      I did here that 97% of their audience agreede with the story, all 41 viewers were in agreement that America should be remembered for it’s wrongs. I cannot figure why we have so many illegal immigrants if this country is so bad. Isn’t Obummer actually HURTING them if he lets them stay in such a bad country???

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    • Hanner
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:43am

      Why didn’t this woman mourn and lament for the millions of slaughtered unborn children in this nation? She must be pro-choice. Forget the past. This horrific act is current and up to date. This nation is drowning in an ocean of unborn blood. What makes me mourn is the fact that many people in this nation have put a bunch of Godless monsters in charge with their vote. I love this nation, and I have served in the Armed Forces also, but make not mistake…we are headed down the wrong path. WE THE PEOPLE have elected these lieing monsters to power! A politicians greatest fear is to be measured by righteous standards. You can see this by the threats against churches every election cycle. A politician isn’t required to preach, but he or she definitely needs a moral compass. That compass is God. Godless people make Godless laws. That’s a fact. Quit ELECTING these godless, immoral people and you will see this nation turn around. God bless the USA.

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    • Tom K
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:24am

      Since when did MSNBC / MSLSD have ANY viewers ? Mssss. M.H. Perry spews hate for our country. Don’t watch or listen. Record a (1) show, list the sponsors and e-mail the sponsors and tell them why you refuse to buy their product or service. Hit these knuckleheads in the wallet right now in the middle of the Obama Economy ! It worked for David against Goliath !

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:54am

      stage9

      Nice post. Thanks. Everyone should have President of Congress Henry Lauren’s remarks in their hip pocket for the inevitable charge by America haters.

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    • ktowers
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:01am

      Halo9x, thank you. Extremely well said.

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    • mattmo79
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:22am

      Everyone needs to dump comcast in protest to this poor excuse of a network!!

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    • bs369
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 11:59am

      A perfect example why these people were enslaved and forced to work in the fields. Most not good for anything else.

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    • Obamammy
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Why is it that everything at MSNBC looks like it’s in the middle of a sex change or in drag?

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    • zenjak
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Of course, it probably never occurred to her Obama-loving pea brain that the USA is one of very few countries that allows prisoners to get an education in jail.

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:01pm

      “Independence Day is more aspirational than actual,” she began her monologue. “We have longed defined the American Dream with commodities, a home of ones own, better education for the kids, family vacation and a car to the vacation in.

      It amazes me how this piece of **** can say that. I bet this moron hasn’t even read the Declaration of Independence. Here’s your sign!

      It’s called life, liberty and the “pursuit” of happiness! dipsh!t.

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    • Rhondar
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:02pm

      http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/07/04/can-americans-escape-deception/
      it’s lunacy to call evil good
      the bible predicted it

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    • Budrow
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:40pm

      The word is “wither” and die.

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    • sharone
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:31pm

      agreed..forget about them

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    • ginger ghent
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:14pm

      Yup..works for me…I never watch the “msm” and especially msnbc I have found their “hosts” to be vile, evil, vindicative, hate mongers…and that is the good side of them,

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    • Optimist4now
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:20pm

      The Blaze has just provided more audience than MSNBC could possibly muster on its own. It’s good to get the message out — idiocy cannot hide.
      Thank you Blaze

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    • slkgej6
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:34pm

      It’s sad that someone like this who has benefited from her sex and color can, in good conscience stand there and talk about Americans as if the country is nothing but a bastion of racism and hatred, yet “there is still much to celebrate.” What’s even more ridiculous is Obama claiming that the only reason someone would oppose him is because of racism. He has often given speeches where he has told young people that the American Dream is dead and racism reigns supreme. It’s kind of hilarious that anyone would buy that tripe. Apparently, he hasn’t noticed that, with no qualifications, a black man became president of the United States, and the most powerful man on earth. To him, it‘s neither hypocritical nor ironic for him to claim that a black man just can’t make it without a white man paying for him. He sounds awfully close to some of the racist comments that I have heard over the years and the fact that it is coming from the most powerful man of ANY color in the world just makes for good comedy. And, as for those prisoners in Reyker’s, talk about a full ride scholarship based on deserving nothing at all, unlike her claim that they have a “right” to the American dream even though they are free. What mindless drivel, yet entertaining as she tries to explain why a bunch of cons are more admirable than the founding fathers. The hilarity never stops with these people and nothing they say seems to faze them that they are not taken seriously because they’re completely out

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    • Sherrie Olsen
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:52pm

      I totally agree with diaperhead. Barf! You’re in the wrong country Perry. Move to any one of the 100 + Countries that live the way you describe the USA. You Ms Perry are spouting hatred and division. Listening to you is impossible, as is listening to anyone on MSNBC! The general population despises your sick theorys. If the USA goes the way you describe, the world is doomed! What a collection of bobble headed chatter. Eliminate the negative and don’t mess with Perry inbetween. YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! Remove me from this diseased cesspool of Marxist thought!

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    • Patriot Z
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:35pm

      to a point i agree, but unfortunatly if we let these idiot ramble we see how quickly they are believed. these same people are the ones who get information from the colbert report and daily show, etc. if We do not and constantly offer counterpoints and the truth, we are lost. sadly even on the conservative side the vast majority of Americans are too lazy to research, form opinion for themselves

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    • Linda C.
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 5:56pm

      I couldn’t agree with HayesStephen (and others who share his opinon) more. I urge The Blaze and other reporting sites like it to stop giving these people are platform. If they keep spouting this crap, so be it, but why do we give them a platform when their ratings are sinking on their own due to their jibberish?!!

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    • Consergirl1
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:40pm

      This women is the BIGGEST racist. She hates white people. PERIOD. She speaks ALL over the place about how bad the White man is. PATHETIC. But MSLSD is such a LOSER channel, I’m surprised they have 1 viewer. BUT if, The Blaze keeps watching then they have 2 viewers. Stop watching- who cares anymore what they say!

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    • neonvito
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:18pm

      I heard her say, after a very brief statement about Larry Bird, the future hall of famer. that “every time the Celtics came on my mother would say ‘I hate them’ they are the white team”…..soooo….what do expect from that racist? She was raised that way.

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    • jingo455
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 12:05am

      Your theory MSNBC will just go away if you are silent is wrong. They don‘t need money to function when they are owned by a corporation who benefits by their existence and which can hawk it’s wares and improve it’s image among the boycott-crazy liberals.

      I‘d say MSNBC is GE’s way of avoiding being boycotted for exporting all those union jobs to China.

      That said, she actually brings up some decent points. It’s not okay for us to be blindly patriotic, and we have to remember the founders said Republics were a BAD government form and would ONLY work in America, which was a frontier nation. This is why we’re being quite idiotic trying to spread it to the Middle East where it only ends up electing dictators.

      And now that America is no longer a pioneering frontier, there is no longer that independent spirit the founders thought would keep us from being dependent on handouts. Remember Octavius ended the Roman Republic by figuring out he could hand food to the plebeians to get their loyalty. Today a third of Americans are on food stamps and another third on other forms of welfare (SS,etc.).

      And the Supreme Court ruled itself powerless last week, saying that it’s “not their job” to protect us from the political consequences of what the 51% decide, even though that IS THEIR JOB (to protect the minority from the majority! du’h!). Which means we are a full-fledged democratic dictatorship.

      The founders seceded from a democratic parliament for a LOT less reasons.

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    • indyron
      Posted on July 6, 2012 at 7:26am

      BRAVO, Bravo !! Precisley my thoughts. A friend sent me an email this morning on the drought reported by MSNBC… I replied there has to be some form of political motivation behind it. NOTHING, from that channel can be trusted. Talking about it is a waste of time.

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  • steelertim
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:15pm

    OK,so America is not perfect. If you dont like it here,leave.Its as simple as that. North Korea or China would have her shot for saying something like that, and anywhere in the middle east would stone her…since they still live in the 12th century…

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 7:07pm

      I agree. I am so sick of people living in freedom and relative safety while they make themselves wealthy and gain fame, only to use it to demonize the land and the people who made it possible for them to rise above poverty and hard work. Until recently we had the best health care in the world, which they labored long and hard to destroy for the rest of us as we all know the rich will easily get whatever care they desire. All while we lose ours and watch our elderly loved ones be sentenced to perish in a system which shows no value in those with the greatest experience and wisdom, a thing these liberals despise. These liberals are soulless and without the least redeeming quality, the most vile filth ever to walk the earth. They cherish their freedom with the same breath they use to hate ours. Hard to decipher which they hate most, our liberty or the God who made this nation possible. In the end I would have to surmise they hate our God more than our liberty only because they know He shines the light of truth which exposes the evil wickedness, the infinite depths of darkness which is residing in the hearts they posses which once long ago were human. Yes I know we Christians are supposed to have sympathy knowing what their end will be but I for one am not now nor will I ever be sorry for them. Better my Creator is upset with me for looking forward to the Hell He has waiting for them than to face His wrath for being like one of those vile liberals.

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:04pm

      @Dr.Vel, I really think you need to go back and reread what you wrote. I’m a Liberal, I have been all my life. To me, being a Liberal means expanding rights and access to those who are lacking, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or religion. I value the right of people to express their opinions even when they disagree with mine. I do these things out of a great faith in God and the moral teachings of the Catholic Church. I DO NOT think that people who disagree with me are “vile filth” but I do admit to fearing what these people will do to people like me out of their mindless hatred and demonization of those they disagree with. I feel pity for people like you, so blinded by your own anger and hatred that you don‘t even see what you’re doing. It’s also sentiments like yours that have given me such a poor view of “Christians”. Jesus told us to love each other as he had loves us. He ate with prostitutes and tax collectors. He talked to the woman at the well. He asked us to treat each other as we wished to be treated. Do you really think your post is very Christ-like? Like Professor Harris-Perry, I love my country for the possibilites, warts and all. I believe in the power of the Government to make things better for the people. I even love my country when it does things that I don’t like. I don’t talk about getting guns and “taking” it back. I just wait for the next election and remind my representatives of my values. An

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    • DYNA
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 3:01am

      @DESERTROSE1960

      It is true that “Jesus told us to love each other as he had loves us. He ate with prostitutes and tax collectors. He talked to the woman at the well. He asked us to treat each other as we wished to be treated.” But notice that those that Jesus associates with are those that want to listen to Him. Not with those who chose to ignore and revile Him. The ones that welcome and listen to Jesus want deliverance from sin. They want a way out of the cycle of sin and death. They do not want to practice sin anymore. Jesus bore their death so that they can have His Life.

      At present, the Democrats are the largest liberal organization in the USA that are anti-Christ. Along with the ACLU they have chosen to fight against the Word of God, the Bible. Even that portion of Americas history that was influenced by those who chose to hear and believe, and by faith make decisions based on the Holy Spirit inspired and revealed Word of God. Those who desire to be loved by the world become hostile towards God. As Jesus has said, if the world hates Him they will also hate those who are His, for the disciple is not greater than the Master.

      There is something insidious at play when those in government fight against the freedom and strength that is found by faith in Christ Jesus while wanting more people to be dependent on them, not God. When people chose darkness over Light they seem to think there is safety in numbers as they destroy others along with themselves.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:19am

      @ Rose….to quote you “I believe in the power of the Government to make things better for the people.”

      I would think that if you believed everything prior to this statement, you would have said I believe in the Power of God and his children to make things better for the people.

      Jesus showed how as individuals, through the power of the Holy Spirit, are to love each other and serve each other. We are not to surrender that to a government.

      The founders understood this principle, thus the reason our government is to have specific and limited power. The size and scope and overreach of the fed gov’t is the reason things are such a mess.

      The power of the gov’t has been allowed to explode beacuse the people have drifted away from God and His teachings

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    • Obama_Sham
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:01am

      @DesertRose

      “I believe in the power of the Government to make things better for the people.”

      In other words, you want someone else to take care of you… In other words, you do not want to practice individual responsibility, rather have another entity practice it for you… The most basic teaching of Christ was that each individual is responsible for themselves and their actions… You, just like so many others, are a hypocrite and do not fully understand what you profess to believe… Save your pity for others because it is you that is in need of pity from others… Fix yourself first, before trying to fix others…

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:16am

      “I’m a Liberal, I have been all my life. To me, being a Liberal means expanding rights”
      Rights are granted by god and there are a limited number of them. You believe in assuming the mantle of god in order to distort, pervert, and grant entirely made up rights to specific people of your chosing?

      “I value the right of people to express their opinions even when they disagree with mine”
      Well either you ARE a liberal or you AREN’T. Make up your mind please.

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    • Steelheadisadouche
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:49am

      RoseySheik
      You can spew forth at anytime without govt intervention and of course you get to see the repercussions of that crap you spew; but to want larger govt for your own purposes is pretty shallow, weak, and right in line with euro trash defeatism. May you wither in the sand.

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    • F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:03am

      @ @ desertrose1960. I think you need a reality check! None of us are Jesus. We are human and we get pissed. Good advice for those in a position to heed it, but right now “the gooks are in the wire”; and, to us traditional folk, our way of life is under major assault by government-bred jackasses! We are bloody sick of being expected to “turn the other cheek” while the things we hold dear are cr@pped on. Sure we can take our values and clean the cr@p off and move on, but at some point it becomes intolerable …unless of course you are Jesus and willing to give up your life so nature can take its course. That we are not! Not today anyway.

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    • term limits for congress
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:45am

      “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country…..”

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:39pm

      You have to understand…DESERTROSE is a union operative and federal government employee. Expansion of government and reliance on government are paramount to her own self interests. Worship of the state is the only religion she truly adheres to.

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    • antibiggov
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:45pm

      @DesertRose, which liberal are you?

      Liberalism, a political ideology or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality Classical liberalism, the philosophy committed to the ideal of limited government, constitutionalism, rule of law, due process, and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets

      Conservative liberalism, a variant of liberalism, combining liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or, more simply, representing the right-wing of the liberal movement

      Economic liberalism, the ideological belief in giving all people economic freedom, and as such granting people with more basis to control their own lives and make their own mistakes

      Social liberalism, the belief that liberalism should include social justice

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  • Whitehouse Mouse
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:15pm

    The sins of America pale in comparison to those of every other country on earth. That is why wherever people yearn to be free they look to America for salvation. Liberals will never understand because when they look with favor to other goverments on this planet they do so with there feet firmly planted on American soil.

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    • quarando
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:39pm

      It is not morally relevant whether we have committed fewer sins then other countries. That does not absolve us of anything. We have committed sins and we continue to commit horrific sins. We ought to take responsibility for them. period. No need to invoke the USSR or anybody else, let us take responsibility for ourselves without whining that some other guy was worse.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:53pm

      I don‘t have to take moral responsibiltity for anything I didn’t do nor assisted in. I don’t have to feel guilty for anything people did in the past.

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    • phil1765
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 1:07am

      quarando
      Why can’t we say things like other countries are worse? Everytime the prez opens his mouth he blames someone else for something, and because he is the leader aren’t we supposed to yearn to be like him? Give me an fing break, if you want to apologize for every damn thing that has ever gone wrong in any country in the world go ahead and waste your breath, but I can guarantee that the good that this country has done for every country in this world far outweighs the bad.

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    • IraHayesFlagRaiser
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 6:59am

      Who really care what these leftwing mindless anti-American make-believe people think! Actors play make-believe people. They live in a make-believe world, paid millions of dollars. And this makes them think that what they have something of value to say, something the American people want and need to hear? People like Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman and other black face you anti-white, anti-American bigots will someday realize that the American public no longer supporting people like these black bigot following the biggest bigot of them all OBAMA!

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:14pm

    First rip the scab off the sour, pour on a little salt then proclaim us great because we are healing, sort of.
    Where do they find these clowns?

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 9:24pm

      chicago just a guess

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    • CatB
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:56am

      Marxist colleges ..

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    • SREGN
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:02am

      The Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey School of Journalism.

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    • Jase
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:13pm

      I’m pretty sure they set up a hiring booth at the OWS rallies/riots.

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  • GoodStuff
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:13pm

    I wish conservatives would start calling this channel Comcast/MSNBC. We need to make Comcast embarrassed to be associated with this absurd channel. Go after the parent company.

    Oh, and if you get your cable from Comcast, cancel it! Stop subsidizing this crap!

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 7:37pm

      Cable TV/Dish TV are Communist plots. You don’t need them. You don’t need to waste your $ on them. There’s nothing really on worth watching anyhow.

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  • jdawg
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:12pm

    It’s not just MSNBC. Liberals and celebrities alike hate America, and proved it this Fourth of July. I think they should be forced to live in Cuba or North Korea.

    http://www.examiner.com/article/celebrities-liberals-mark-independence-day-by-slamming-america

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:11pm

      Oh, I get it, you’re one of those people who just loves their freedom and thinks that everybody is free to think whatever they like as long as it agrees with you, otherwise, they aren’t allowed to stay here. As a Liberal, I think you’re free to believe what you want, and you can even tell me to leave. But this is a free country and I don‘t have to agree with you or do what you say and I don’t think you should leave, you’re as entitled to be here as I am. But then, what do I know about free, I’m a Liberal.

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    • designbyinspiration
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 12:43am

      Wrong Desert rose, you are speaking anarchy (entropic destruction). If you are truly a liberal, and agree with obama, you are hiding behind Christ to push collectivism and subjugation – not independence. Christ wanted the individual to choose, not the government. He wanted compassion to well up and pour out of a persons heart, not the IRS to force ‘economic fairness’ and ‘governmental compassion’ to demand your compliance. We were BORN equal. After that, it’s up to you to rise or fall- THAT is freedom, and the ability for ones compassion to come forth only as it can, through their free will.

      Also, if you really are an active Catholic (I am), you would know that the Pope has written extensively stating that when a government creates and enforces the meter of what is compassionate, it is demonic. When the individual does it, it is Christ-like.

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    • freedoc
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:19pm

      Actually, Desertrose, your not a ‘liberal’ as that term means in Latin or its original definition. Your a ‘new’ Liberal—-a Democrat/Socialist who has ‘coopted’ the use of the term to SOUND like your for freedom, individuality.

      But your idea of Liberal only extends to what you, and the tyranny of your majority says, which is, ultimately: Do what we tell you, or die.

      You only THINK your allowing freedom( as if freedom can be allowed, as opposed to existing as THE only essential human right). In reality, your ‘freedom’ is the freedom to expropriate the labor and capital of others.

      Yet another example of your ‘sheepherder’ mentality, is discussing how many folks listen to this balderdash, as if the number of folks doesnt reveal its ‘hive’ appeal to ‘free stuff, as opposed to its reason.

      Dumb is forever, apparently.

      Try following reason, instead of the herd, for once. Its rather invigorating. ‘

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  • Dano9375
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:11pm

    Well, I could have gone the whole day without reading this article about this particular anti american POS. Why would anyone want to watch this channel? This woman also thinks she is better than all of us because of her particular views. It is truly a shame that she was born in this country and feels the way she does. She could have been born in South Africa or even better, Iran and we can only wonder how she would view America with the life experiences she would have had in either of those places. I wonder if she knows why those men at Rikers were even there. I‘m sure she believes that it wasn’t there fault. She’s just another idiot on a network full of idiots watched be even more idiots.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 2:29am

      It was actually painful to listen to her. You know how some people say ‘You should try to listen to others’ point of view and not just your own.’ Well, I tried that last year. I did some ‘research’ which included paying a higher rate to Dish Network just so that it would include MSNBC because I wanted to hear for myself what kinds of things they were doing and saying. After two months of this, I began to develop ulcers and acquired a habit of screaming at the T.V. I decided not to waste any more money on it and switched back to my previous ‘Dish Network Package Deal’ which did NOT include these hideous freaks!

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  • DEFCON1
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:11pm

    MSNBC is like Saturday Night Live……..the difference being, the folks at MSNBC take themselves seriously. It is scary that individuals actually “think” like Harris-Perry…the lady is certifiable!!

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:11pm

    MSNBC is playing it’s life in prison shows today. The one on right now has 2 whites guys that dyed the whites of their eyes. On guy did red the other guy did blue.

    I guess this is what MSNBC thinks of the Red, White and Blue.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 11:34pm

      MSNBC still showing life in prison shows. I guess this is some kind of protest. Instead of showing Patriotic celebrations and fireworks they do programs of prison.

      We all know that MSNBC tells all their “people” what to say but, has anyone noticed the change in how they say it?

      I’ve been noticing this for some time now. It’s the way they position their mouths (Except Ed Schultz). They spread their mouths wider, right to left, and hold their tongues higher making them sound like they all have a strange new progressive way of speaking. I think they are being trained to speak like this. Weird……

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    • F.O.S. DIAPERHEAD
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:59am

      David Schuster

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:10pm

    Very inspiring, Melissa. I’m all tingly inside. Boy, without the Blaze, I would miss all these gems, ’cause I sure ain’t tuning in to MSNBC.

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  • merchantsailor
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:09pm

    As my name says Merchant Sailor been around the world seen many things and many different governments. Governments were the Police walked the streets with true automatic weapons with combat boots and helmets. Governments whose Police walked the streets who asked you for your papers and smacked and pushed around the people. Governments were chewing gum is outlawed yes chewing gum. This twit knows nothing only what some screwball professor has infected her brain with. Most likely she holds in high regard what happened in Cambodia in 1975 when the government slaughtered their own citizens for wearing glasses yes eye glasses. This country has grown by leaps and bounds in 236 years. People yell out racist they know nothing of racism nothing I tell you.

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    • TinCup
      Posted on July 9, 2012 at 3:22pm

      I hate to inform you, but I believe she is a professor at Tulane in New Orleans. I wonder if all students get a C in her class as that would be the only fair thing to do.

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  • SCARY313568
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:06pm

    Never trust a woman with a hyphanated surname

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  • RLTW
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:05pm

    I’ve known for a very long time that liberal/progressives are evil, this MS monologue attempts to bring up Americas demons with the intention of breathing new life into them. They want to fight shadows from the past that as a Nation we have righted and come to terms with.

    How much more must we pay, improve or apologize before people start taking individual responsibility for the here and now.

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  • Keconstitution
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:03pm

    It is high time we as Americans boycott the sponsors of this network all together! This sorry excuse for a citizen shouldn’t be calling America imperialistic when clearly she knows very little of our history or the definition of impealism!

    Wake up people!

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  • SCARY313568
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:03pm

    Never trust a woman with a hyphenated surname.

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  • jp54
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:03pm

    This is like celebrating your anniversary by focusing on all your mistakes or your child’s birthday and talking about all their faults “Happy birthday you little failure”. Unbelievable.

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:11pm

      Happy Festivus…I got a lot problems with you people!

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    • chalkdust
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:29pm

      Couldn’t agree more with your assessment JP. I like the the Blaze editorial last paragraph, not worth debunking this pseudo intelligent commentary. But I will speculate on the so called networks issues. Guilt, psychosis and the heart of their non-sense thinking is ego. We are so much smarter than you mixed with liberal guilt equals MSNBC. If you judge them by the product they put out, the building must be filled with all kinds of mental disorders.

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    • bbhouston
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 7:00am

      Nice summation JP….That’s it perfectly.

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  • sirgilligan
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:02pm

    I have kept a detailed diary of everything I have ever done wrong. I read it every morning before I leave the house. I have kept the same diary on the actions of my wife and children. I also rehearse all of the failures, short comings, and mistakes every morning. I can’t understand why we are so depressed. Just kidding, but really, MSNBC is ridiculous.

    If I try to describe the amazing “goodness” of the United States of America then I will be accused of being simple minded not recognizing the “whole” truth. Well, those accusations mean nothing to me.

    The United States of America, and its foundation upon the Constitution and rule of law, with the noble and grand idea that man is subject not to kings but willingly submits to law, and that God has endowed us with this high office of self government, this United States of America, is the greatest country in the world. Period.

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  • yougottabekidding
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:02pm

    Truly unbelievable

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    • msbets
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 4:37pm

      I didn’t know the bit*h in the redhouse had a seester!! must be It’s twin bit*ch.

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  • khutch1965
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 5:01pm

    These people on MSNBC are so miserable and depressing, they are filled with hate , filled with anger and they spread their sickness with lies and games making others feel like crap. I pray when Oblamer loses- and pray he does lose- The people from MSNBC get a real life and stop all their complaining, whining , hating, blaming, lying and mostly likely their drug or alcohol addictions . I really do wish they could have a happy life and grow up.

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  • unsafe
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:59pm

    If they are so un happy here then get the h#ll out . The boat goes both ways go back to the country of your choice, but get out of the USA.

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    • CK1911
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 9:50am

      Agreed. For a place that sucks so much, there sure are a lot of people trying to get in here.
      Maybe when Romney gets elected, all the lib-tards will hold true on their promise to leave the country.

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  • Ohello
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:56pm

    Genocide is right, 356,000 murder of American children, Extreme child abuse. Just think of all those people that would feel guilty in Ohio if they had passed the anti abortion law !! What we’re guilty of murdering our children in Ohio? Not so, Government says its ok and Government is God to people of Ohio.

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  • Treaty
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:55pm

    No video embeded

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:54pm

    god is this woman wierd or what? the hate is all over her lumpy mug…shes a perfect fit for the anti american basement level ratings channel know as msnbc

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    • DesertRose1960
      Posted on July 4, 2012 at 10:34pm

      You might want to refresh your knowledge of English grammar and punctuation before you go calling a professor “wierd”. You might also want to check her ratings before you go crowing about them being in the basement. MSNBC pulls in about 300,000 viewers during the day on weekends. Check it out for yourself at http://www.tvbythenumbers.com. And before you go and do that, you might want to check out Glenn Beck’s ratings at Quantcast.com. According to this site, The Blaze attracts about 400,000 viewers a day, but his ratings are down. GBTV.com only gets about 60,000 viewers a day.

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    • wildbluyonder11
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 10:52am

      @desertrose, assuming I believe your numbers (I haven’t verified them), those 60,000 GBTV viewers actually PAY for that access to that one specific channel. MSLSD is free with your cable subscription. Also, based on how some of these “ratings” outlets operate, some “viewers” are merely people who just happened to stop on that channel accidentally. MSNBC is going down the drain.

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  • voodoolife
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:54pm

    I bet their 23 viewers all cheered…

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  • Ron Staiger
    Posted on July 4, 2012 at 4:46pm

    Exactly why MSNBC has such high ratings!

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    • Stelex
      Posted on July 5, 2012 at 8:57pm

      The first amendment alows this POS to spew venom. But its the Network MSNBC, NBC and Comcast that give this thing a venue. Focus on the venue not the orator. Its time people…….Wake UP

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