TC the Terrible

Damnit. The race card is being played again.

This time by the alleged victim of the alleged Duke lacrosse team rape case. It really pisses me off when every pundit in North America turns every crime into a race thing. Why can’t it just be about a handful of rich jerks thinking they could get away with rape because their daddy’s have a shit load of cash?

Let’s not forget to mention that she was hired to perform exotic dances for a house full of strange men. That folks is a nice way to say that she was there as a stripper. Plus, she has a minor criminal record already. This is not a stellar witness for the prosecution and not one that the new feminist movement wants to stand to closely with.

That does not make up for the way she was treated at the party. Even strippers don’t deserve a beatdown. I can’t figure out why rich kids would want to hire a stripper when their usual pieces of trim would have put out just fine for them. But they did, so they did and now they need to go to jail for what they did. The doctors at the ER said she had been raped both front and back, and that’s just wrong.

But for fuck’s sake, be right because you are right. Not because of your damned skin color. That’s taking the easy way out.
The cruel truth of this whole thing is that the DA let the rich daddy’s take the case away from him and now all he can do is play the damned race card. Welcome to O.J. 2006 people.

What’s the water cooler conversation at your office today? I’ll bet that no one is talking about Charlie Brown Gibson taking over the news desk at ABC. There’s not even much talk about how the sidekick of the DC sniper is turning bitch on his one time mentor. Is there anybody talking about Iran maybe wanting to play nice with their new nukes? Well, there’s some of that in our office, but it comes in second to the real hot topic.

McPheever vs Soul Patrol.

I’ve said from the start (yes, THE WOMAN forces me to watch this crap) that Taylor Hicks is the only contestant I’d pay to see sing. But I’ve also said from the start that I’d pay to see Katharine McPhee take her clothes off while she sings. We sort of got that a couple of weeks ago when her dress popped open. That performance got her a few thousand extra votes, and hopefully some grooming tips for ‘down there’ as well. I wonder if it might not have been the factor that kept her on that week since she sang so horrendously.

Still it’s amazing the amount of time and energy that show takes up. If the government really is using the media to distract us from the real problems of the world then this is a key part of the plan. I will be glad when it’s over tonight. Taylor Hicks will have won and go on to cut some pop piece of drivel that we’ll all forget about by next season. Kat will be on her way to Broadway and obscurity. Then the rest of us can get back to doing the Lord’s work of curing cancer and solving world hunger.