Lies Transcend all Colours

Lies Transcend all Colours


 

The evil sin of lying does not come in any particular colour.  White men lie; black men lie and politicians of both colours do it all the time.



Over in the UK, US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is using South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson’s shout “You lie!” when President Barack Obama was pushing the benefits of his now epic fail Affordable Health Care Act, aka ObamaCare, as proof positive that dislike for the president comes down to “the colour of his skin”.

Winfrey, talking to BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz about her starring role in The Butler, which recounts the life of an African American man who grows up on a cotton plantation,  raised Wilson’s calling out Obama a liar as evidence that Americans don’t like Obama based on the colour of his skin.

“Asked if some of the challenges and criticisms faced by President Barack Obama were down to the colour of his skin, she said: “There’s no question.” (BBC, Nov. 13, 2013)



“She recalled an incident in 2009 when Mr Obama was giving a speech to Congress, and Republican congressman Joe Wilson called out “you lie”.

“Remember that?” she said. “I think there’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs.

“And that occurs in some cases, and maybe even many cases, because he’s African American. There’s no question about that. And it’s the kind of thing no one ever says, but everybody’s thinking it.”

There’s no doubt that it’s a big stretch that Winfrey knows that “everybody’s thinking it”.

While Winfrey spends much of her time playing “Gloria”, the wife of the American man growing up on a cotton plantation in The Butler”, countless Americans—including African Americans—struggle after ObamaCare has thrown them off their health insurance.  Anyone of them would tell you that reality is harder slogging than starring in the movies.

Winfrey made this startling comment during the BBC interview:

“I recognise the importance of knowing who you are and where you come from.”

Because he has effectively hidden behind who he really is, and with no DNA to track him,  is there any proof that we know who Obama really is or where he came from?

How American can someone working so feverishly to Fundamentally Transform America truly be?

Most significantly of all, how can being a Black American have anything at all to do with being a caught-in-the-act liar when it is an established fact that politicians of all colours so breezily lie?

Before pulling Joe Wilson’s statement out like an instant cue card during mainstream media interviews, Oprah should take the trouble to update herself.

It was back on September 9, 2009, when Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” when President Obama was waxing elegant about the benefits of his Affordable Care Act, now frightening millions of Americans as “ObamaCare”.

“Many in America were shocked that anyone would call the President of the United States a liar in such a forum as a presidential address to a joint session of Congress,” Richard Kline wrote on American Thinker.

“But, now, as we look back on 5 years of Barack Obama, we see that Obama and his Administration do lie.  And they lie a lot”.(American Thinker Oct. 26, 2013)

The Joe Wilson pointed out Obama lies are now documentation:

How about the infamous:  “If you like your current insurance plan, you can keep it period,” or, “If you like your current doctor, you can keep that doctor”?

What about, “Your premiums will go down an average of $2,500 per year”; “The cost of this national healthcare program will be less than $1 trillion?”

Then there’s “ObamaCare would not cover illegal aliens”; “ObamaCare would not cover abortions.”

These are not little white lies but gut-wrenching ones that destroy human lives.

Winfrey once again asserted that she had been lucky to be born in 1954 and never to have attended a racially segregated school in her native Mississippi.

“If I’d been born five years earlier, none, not any of the benefits that I’ve been blessed to be successful with would have occurred,” she said.

The fact is Winfrey was not born five years earlier.  The blessings and benefits she receives from the American people are astronomical.

Just like the Obama she tries to portray as a president unpopular only because of the colour of his skin, who breezed through a life of privilege compared to most other people, Winfrey shows ingratitude and resentment after a lifetime of privilege.  Obama paid back both black and white Americans who elected him by destroying their lives and their country.

The Big Question neither Winfrey nor Obama will never be asked by any mainstream media is this one: How was it possible to make it to the top as one of the most lucrative careers as a talk show queen in modern day USA,  and the other as America’s 1st and 2nd African American President if it all really comes down to just skin colour?”