Responding to an Al Sharpton Post and Where He is Now at MSNBC

I continue to get views and comments on my July 27th blog post,  MSNBC’s Higher Ratings with Al Sharpton every few weeks or so. This was a wait and see post, but a few folks went off the deep end, because I did not bash Mr. Sharpton’s racial politicking and social angst. Then there were responses in support of Mr. Sharpton. I am not one of his supporters and take issues with most of his dispositions, but I am not a hater on anyone and that includes Mr. Sharpton. I do listen often (Currently listening to some segments of Neil Boortz in Atlanta through the computer) to conservative/libertarian and liberal leftist talk radio to hear the arguments from differing political view points. Since the liberal leftist side is far less represented in talk radio, the local urban talk radio station is where I go to hear the liberal leftist arguments.

Philly’s urban talk radio has Al Sharpton on from 1:00-4:00 p. m. weekdays. I do not listen to his radio program in its entirety, but I do catch segments. That also goes for his weekday 6:00 p. m. TV program. Folks in my household who feel where he is coming from is not represented enough on TV are happy with the fact that he has TV program, but they never turn it on. I think they are representative in part of many out there on the liberal/left side. I say in part, because one family member is just too use to watching local news and the national nightly news during the 6 p. m. hour. But many on the liberal/left side just are not into watching news programming.

Al Sharpton started out getting decent ratings as a substitute host. The viewer ratings starved MSNBC jumped on the ratings boost right away by putting Mr. Sharpton on and dumping Cenk Uygur who had only been in the early evening time slot for only 6 months. Mr. Sharpton’s viewer ratings went down,  but he stills pulls in higher ratings than CNN’s John King every other day or so. Now if someone subbing gets better ratings than Mr. Sharpton, he will be gone too! But then, maybe his situation would get a different handling. See the ratings for Thursday and Friday cable news programming here and here.

I think MSNBC also gave Al Sharpton a program, because of the criticism of the cable news station being pro liberal and pro minority, but did not have any people of color hosting in the evening line up. The cable news station would see some damaging publicity and reactions if they dumped Mr. Sharpton and replace him with a non black: thus,  Professors, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry are probably the possibilities if Al Sharpton ever gets the heave-ho.

Taking a Blogging Break

I am taking some days off from blogging. If you are new to my blog, I have a vast archive of interesting posts and you can find interesting headlines in the political, cultural and spiritual realms in my twitter feed in one of the left sidebars. I will also start sharing the thoughts behind the comments I make to family members and liberal and lefty Facebook friends that drive them to distraction. I will return to blogging late August/early September. Thank you for stopping by Right Cogency.

The Reading of the U. S. Constitution

With the Republicans taking over the House portion of Congress, they have put new rules into place. One of them is having the Constitution read in full on Jan 6, after the 112th Congress convenes. Okay, you may feel that this is just ceremonial and has no real deep significance. But those behind this new rule say the goal is “to underscore the limited-government rules the Founders imposed on Congress – and to try to bring some of those principles back into everyday legislating.” It is not just to remind the Democrats, but also the Republicans who in the past have lost their way when it came to limited government. I think it is a good idea. Read more from here.

Let’s face it, many of us do not know what is really in the Constitution. For example, we blame presidents for spending when if we truly knew  the Constitution, we would know that the blame is misplaced. The President cannot spend without the authorization from Congress. Remember a Democratic Congress authorized the spending in the last 2 years of Pres. Bush. That is in article 1, Section 8, which also stipulates that Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes, not the President.

I finally received my pocket-sized Constitution and Declaration of Independence from the Heritage Foundation. It is free. Go here to get one of your own so that you can have it on hand for discussions and arguments on the Constitution and constitutional related subjects or just for your own knowledge.

Well, this post is supposed to be just an announcement, but I ended up blogging anyway. So the announcement is from this point on I am taking a few days of this Christmas week off from blogging. See you in the New Year.

Addendum: But please check in to see interesting headlines of choice in my Titter feed in one of the left sidebar columns.

Thankful for Free Speech: The Good and the Bad

I do not like the personal attacks I see coming from all sides in the political realm. Being on the conservative side, puts me against Pres. Obama politically, but not personally. I tend to view far more personal attacks on him and the First Lady from blogs, Internet columns, and on social networks such as Facebook than I see arguments against his policies. The same goes for politicians in general whether they be Republican or Democrat.

Nancy Pelosi vocalized viewpoints  such as “Abstinence is Harmful” and promoted legislation that me and many others were definitely not in agreement. But to call her pejorative female names, goes beyond the decency that was part of my upbringing and makes me who I am today. I can’t say that I am unhappy that she and the House Democrats got their walking papers. They were pushing the country through legislation that ignored lessening the growing deficit.

As much as I abhor the insulting juvenile verbal behavior of adults, I know it is part of our free speech rights, which I treasure.  Because of where I have come to stand politically, I get some personal attacks, but they do nothing to silence my free speech.  I am thankful to be able to say what I want to say on this blog. I can express that Pres. Obama and his administration are wrong in relation to any subject or legislation he is pushing through Congress without what happened to this blogger, happening to me, even if I chose to be personally insulting.

Welcome to My New Blog

Hello everyone! Welcome to my new blog, Right Cogency. My name is Bev and I am an older single woman of color who finally left the Democrat plantation in 2006 after being stuck there for over 30 years. I use to identify with liberalism as the historical vehicle that allowed me a person of color equal opportunity. Race had an overriding importance to me for so long, but not anymore. I am a Christian first. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. Today I live by and through Christ. I came  to see that liberalism does little to support biblical principles, and continued to cast me as a victim, which personally is not true.  I saw increasingly those of the liberal left persuasion excoriating, disparaging and rejecting Christ. Therefore, I stopped aligning myself with the liberal left.

You might be wondering what  catalysts are responsible for my going conservative. Well,  back in 2005, I watched part of the Vanguard II on c-span. It was  a panel of conservative blacks discussing  their conservatism. At that time, I only recognized Joseph C. Phillips who played Denise’s husband on the old Bill Cosby show and the author Shelby Steele  on the panel. I found myself agreeing with Mr. Phillips and the other panelists on matters of personal responsibility.

Sometime later, I came across a blog by  black conservative, La Shawn Barber, which I started reading  to see what made a black conservative tick. I later realized that she was one of the panelists of the Vanguard II. Ms. Barber’s blog back then concentrated on politics and culture.  I found myself agreeing with her more and more. Through her postings on Christians and their political alignments, I was convicted of being  on the wrong side with the liberal left. I started reading and listening to conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Star Parker, Walter Williams. I saw these people and other conservatives in a brand new light.

Right Cogency is a continuation of  my old blog, Conservative Minority. Please visit there and travel through the archives.  This new blog will deal offerings of the  political, cultural, personal, faith, and my then and now views in contrast. I will be blogging mostly 4 to 5 times a week. My Sunday posts will usually consist of music from diverse Christian music artists with related scripture. I can be critical, but I am not into personal attacks. I believe in dealing with the issues, not making fun of the opposing person’s physical appearance or insulting members of their family. In disagreeing and calling out what I see,  I am not hating as a few have accused me of on my former blog.  I welcome your comments and opinions whether they are in agreement or go against my right-sided views. I do ask that you please refrain from cursing and other vulgarities, and respond with dignified maturity. Be sure to check out my twitter feed  in the sidebar for various headlines of interest.  Well here’s to a new avenue of blogging.