Bee-ing Succinct

Can I have a little “haterade” with that radio?

Occasionally in the morning when I pry myself away from NPR, I listen to Big D and Bubba Morning Show. I’m guessing it’s a syndicated morning show, I’m not really sure.  But it’s your usual run of the mil morning radio show on my local country station. This morning they started a conversation about Barak Obama’s middle name is Hussein.

The conversation went a little like this…it’s a complete paraphrase.

“I’m always getting these forwards about McCain and Hilary.  Now I’m getting these forwards about Barak Hussein Osama.”

“You would think after all this time and media blast they could at least get his last name right.”

“I think that was intentional.”

“Oh.”

“Isn’t it crazy to think that this far after 9-11 America might elect someone with the middle name Hussein.”

When I heard this, I immediately starting shaking my head and I just couldn’t believe it.  If this was really an “issue” wouldn’t the media have blown it way out of proportion like “whacked-out” Britney Spears walking barefoot in the gas station and losing her kids? So what that’s his middle name.  It’s no secret that he has Muslim roots.  That a. doesn’t make him a bad person if that is the religion he chooses (and it has been confirmed that is not his religious preference) and b. doesn’t mean that his middle name of Hussien makes him a bad person (aka terrorist).  People don’t talk about McCain who survived a very horrible experience at war and say he must be f*ck*d in the head because he went through that. People see John McCain for the man that he is.  He’s smart, intelligent, well-spoken and a very impressive human being…He’s John McCain.  Barak Obama may hold the name but that does not discredit him as a person.  He has done some amazing things that have led up to the point he is out now. 

All in all, I just feel like having these types of conversations doesn’t aid in the discussion politics or our great country.  Why can’t we be proud that America had the chance to elect a black candidate or a female candidate?  The whole tone of the segment was a little negative.  It would be different if it were a different format show, such as political show, but this was a family morning show.  I think there are ways to have a conversation about a subject like this and I felt like these individuals did not handle it correctly.