Barry gives Medal of Freedom to Tom Hanks, Vin Scully, and Ellen the perv. WHY?

[rightwinger]

Bill Gates got one too and that's ok. He's a tech businessman. But why give one to silly entertainers or athletes who have careers of ZERO social value.

Obama awards Medal of Freedom to a star-studded list of 21 recipients

nov 22 2016 The 21 men and women who stood awaiting the nation’s highest civilian honor Tuesday in the White House East Room represented Barack Obama’s particular vision of the United States: one where pioneering scientists, groundbreaking performers, crusading activists and unconventional artists chart America’s destiny.

President Obama has not stinted on handing out the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his time in office: He has bestowed it on at least 114 individuals, more than any of his predecessors. Nearly half of the latest honorees were artists, actors or musicians, including singer Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert Redford and “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels.

But there were also computer engineers and famous architects, as well as what the president called “rabble rousers” and philanthropists.

Why give our highest civilian honor for just breathing air? The reason for awarding the civilian equivalent to the Medal of Honor should at least Involve selfless, heroic civic effort. This would eliminate these ceremonies involving dozens of recepients that only cheapens the award.

Qualified for the award

• Martin Luther King for his work
• Bob Hope for entertaing the troops every year in war zones
• Inventing a polio vaccine

Unqualified for the award:

• Calling sport games
• A Lesbian coming out of the closet
• Rosa Parks
• Developing software for an O/S and becoming a billionaire over it
• Philanthropy if you retain the majority of your wealth
• Writing poetry that only an egghead would pretend to understand
• Standing in front of a mirror and asking "are you talking to me?"

You were kind of on track until you brought up Rosa Parks and Bill Gates

Rosa Parks was not an innocent tired old lady who just got off work taking care of a white family's kids. She was a political hack who was part of an engineered act to bring attention to an injustice. This was not of her doing., anymore than it was Neil Armstrong's doing to set foot on the moon.

I don't hate the woman, but she is no Amercan Hero. The women in the crowd who marched from Selma to face police dogs and clubs were more heroic. Who remembers them?

You're trying to compare actions with symbolism here. The meaning of Rosa Parks is less for what she did than what she symbolized. So the term "Rosa Parks" refers at least as much to a spirit as a person, but that person provided the inspiration.

Millions of blacks were forced into segregation on a daily basis

Rosa Parks was not the first to oppose segregation. Those before her were subjected to imprisonment, beatings and denial of future employment.
Many of those who became symbols of civil rights (Medgar Evers, Mississippi Burning) were murdered

Rosa Parks was a brave woman in an era when it was easier to just go along. She had no assurance she would become an American hero by standing up for her rights

 

[rightwinger]

Rosa Parks was an American patriot who fought for freedom.
She risked imprisonment, future employment and even her life in standing up for what was right

ALL Civil Rights protesters were American Patriots

Rosa parks did NOT fight for freedom. Like all blacks she fought for affirmative action special treatment for blacks and the persecution of whites. And she succeeded.

Civil Rights protesters were as big Anerican Patriots as our founding fathers. They had more of a reason to fight than those in the Revolutionary War

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Why give our highest civilian honor for just breathing air? The reason for awarding the civilian equivalent to the Medal of Honor should at least Involve selfless, heroic civic effort. This would eliminate these ceremonies involving dozens of recepients that only cheapens the award.

Qualified for the award

• Martin Luther King for his work
• Bob Hope for entertaing the troops every year in war zones
• Inventing a polio vaccine

Unqualified for the award:

• Calling sport games
• A Lesbian coming out of the closet
• Rosa Parks
• Developing software for an O/S and becoming a billionaire over it
• Philanthropy if you retain the majority of your wealth
• Writing poetry that only an egghead would pretend to understand
• Standing in front of a mirror and asking "are you talking to me?"

MLK didn't do anything of value. Another white-hating racist who said "take stuff from whitey and give it to me". He was also a moron who set some kind of record for the lowest GRE score in history. He was semi-literate and couldn't even count.

 

[Pogo]

Rosa Parks was an American patriot who fought for freedom.
She risked imprisonment, future employment and even her life in standing up for what was right

ALL Civil Rights protesters were American Patriots

Rosa parks did NOT fight for freedom. Like all blacks she fought for affirmative action special treatment for blacks and the persecution of whites. And she succeeded.

Yuh huh. So you're saying she was uppity and didn't know her place in the back of the bus. Doesn't that tell is a world of revelation we already knew.

Hey, should she have been shot too? You know, like speeders?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Civil Rights protesters were as big Anerican Patriots as our founding fathers. They had more of a reason to fight than those in the Revolutionary War

HAHAHA. Are you insane.?? Civil rights protesters are just a bunch of white-hating racists demanding white people give them more welfare and affirmative action.

 

[Pogo]

MLK didn't do anything of value. Another white-hating racist who said "take stuff from whitey and give it to me". He was also a moron who set some kind of record for the lowest GRE score in history. He was semi-literate and couldn't even count.

You wanna see a semi-literate who's never done anything of value ---- just check this out.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Rosa parks did NOT fight for freedom. Like all blacks she fought for affirmative action special treatment for blacks and the persecution of whites. And she succeeded.

Yuh huh. So you're saying she was uppity and didn't know her place in the back of the bus. Doesn't that tell is a world of revelation we already knew.

I don't care where blacks sit on a bus. My quarrel is with affirmative action, the govt mandated persecution of white men and the biggest hate crime in america. That's what rosa fought for.

 

[Pogo]

Rosa parks did NOT fight for freedom. Like all blacks she fought for affirmative action special treatment for blacks and the persecution of whites. And she succeeded.

Yuh huh. So you're saying she was uppity and didn't know her place in the back of the bus. Doesn't that tell is a world of revelation we already knew.

I don't care where blacks sit on a bus. My quarrel is with affirmative action, the govt mandated persecution of white men and the biggest hate crime in america. That's what rosa fought for.

Actually she had nothing to do with that.

Affirmative Action began, depending on how you count it, either with Richard Nixon's "Philadelphia Plan" (1969) or with Reconstruction's "Forty Acres and a Mule" a century earlier. Rosa Parks wasn't even on that bus. But you certainly were on the short one.

 

[rightwinger]

Civil Rights protesters were as big Anerican Patriots as our founding fathers. They had more of a reason to fight than those in the Revolutionary War

HAHAHA. Are you insane.?? Civil rights protesters are just a bunch of white-hating racists demanding white people give them more welfare and affirmative action.

Actually, it was the whites who were demanding special treatment.

When they were no longer assured of their privileged place in society, they rioted, murdered and resorted to terrorism

 

[Pogo]

Civil Rights protesters were as big Anerican Patriots as our founding fathers. They had more of a reason to fight than those in the Revolutionary War

HAHAHA. Are you insane.?? Civil rights protesters are just a bunch of white-hating racists demanding white people give them more welfare and affirmative action.

Actually, it was the whites who were demanding special treatment.

When they were no longer assured of their privileged place in society, they rioted, murdered and resorted to terrorism

And that started a century and a half ago -------------- before buses existed.

Not having buses, these cretins of the same mentality ShitSpitters spews here started persecuting blacks for the crimes of, say, walking into town.... looking a white person in the eye.... having the temerity to seek employment and actually expect to get paid for it.... and they would randomly get whipped, beaten, hung, even skinned, all as intimidation tactics. And Shitspitters expects them to "know their place" after all that. As already noted --- revealing, but not of anything we didn't already know. What a pathetic waste of human protoplasm.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Obozo has turned the MOF into a participation trophy.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

I don't care where blacks sit on a bus. My quarrel is with affirmative action, the govt mandated persecution of white men and the biggest hate crime in america. That's what rosa fought for.

Affirmative Action began, depending on how you count it, either with Richard Nixon's "Philadelphia Plan" (1969) or with Reconstruction's "Forty Acres and a Mule" a century earlier. Rosa Parks wasn't even on that bus. But you certainly were on the short one.

Hey stupid.. You mean rosa didn't call it affirmative action. But that's what she was fighting for. It's what blacks are always fighting for. Blacks know full well they are mentally inferior and can not get good jobs on merit. THINK, you miserable white-hating wretch.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Not having buses, these cretins of the same mentality ShitSpitters spews here started persecuting blacks for the crimes of, say, walking into town.... looking a white person in the eye.... having the temerity to seek employment and actually expect to get paid for it.... and they would randomly get whipped, beaten, hung, even skinned, all as intimidation tactics. And Shitspitters expects them to "know their place" after all that. As already noted --- revealing, but not of anything we didn't already know. What a pathetic waste of human protoplasm.

If that happened it was hundreds of years ago. But TODAY we have a govt that forces businesses and colleges to deny rights to white people. And haters like you say great.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

the washington times has a great article on how obama has devalued the MOF.

Medal of Freedom not what it used to be

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Did some research and turns out Bush gave them to Paul Harvey and Julia Child and BILL COSBY!! HAHA

List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients - Wikipedia

 

[Pogo]

I don't care where blacks sit on a bus. My quarrel is with affirmative action, the govt mandated persecution of white men and the biggest hate crime in america. That's what rosa fought for.

Affirmative Action began, depending on how you count it, either with Richard Nixon's "Philadelphia Plan" (1969) or with Reconstruction's "Forty Acres and a Mule" a century earlier. Rosa Parks wasn't even on that bus. But you certainly were on the short one.

Hey stupid.. You mean rosa didn't call it affirmative action. But that's what she was fighting for. It's what blacks are always fighting for. Blacks know full well they are mentally inferior and can not get good jobs on merit. THINK, you miserable white-hating wretch.

Poor Shitspitters. All alone in the hole he dug hisself on Thanksgiving, nothing better to do than troll the internet and trash Rosa Parks, a historic figure who's shoes he's not qualified to lick..

 

[Roudy]

Bill Gates got one too and that's ok. He's a tech businessman. But why give one to silly entertainers or athletes who have careers of ZERO social value.

Obama awards Medal of Freedom to a star-studded list of 21 recipients

nov 22 2016 The 21 men and women who stood awaiting the nation’s highest civilian honor Tuesday in the White House East Room represented Barack Obama’s particular vision of the United States: one where pioneering scientists, groundbreaking performers, crusading activists and unconventional artists chart America’s destiny.

President Obama has not stinted on handing out the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his time in office: He has bestowed it on at least 114 individuals, more than any of his predecessors. Nearly half of the latest honorees were artists, actors or musicians, including singer Bruce Springsteen, actor Robert Redford and “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels.

But there were also computer engineers and famous architects, as well as what the president called “rabble rousers” and philanthropists.

Well, considering Hussien got the Nobel peace prize for doing absolutely nothing, he figured that before he leaves office, he might as well hand out even more meaningless feel-goody awards to as many liberal nutjobs as he can.

 

[bodecea]

So this is what FOX told the 'tards to cry about today?

You'd think they'd have given them something less stupid to whine about.

It's it amazing...their Orange Fuhrer wins the Presidency and they still aren't happy unless they can be whining.

 

[bodecea]

Proper spelling is 'ellen degeneres' and DEGENERATE is very close to her last name and her DEGENERATE lifestyle . I mean , hey its a heck of a coincident in my opinion . Higher powers may be involved in her being named 'dengeneres' Pogo !!

Oh dear....need a tissue, sweetie?

 

[ShootSpeeders]

It's it amazing...their Orange Fuhrer wins the Presidency and they still aren't happy unless they can be whining.

HAHA. Feeble attempt to change the subject noted.