We Red Staters can get offended, too

Easily offended people offend me.

I’m tired of them going off on God, Big Macs, SUVs and WMDs.

We Red Staters get offended, too – although we’re too busy earning a living to squawk in a letter to the editor.

I’m offended, for example, by school Christmas concerts that feature songs about penguins, snowflakes and Frosty the Snowman but not a single word about the Christ Child. By “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas.” By Target giving the boot to Salvation Army bell ringers. By downtown merchants in Denver refusing to allow Christ-centered themes and songs in their annual Christmas parade.

By the relentless attack by the American Civil Liberties Union on Boy Scouts, Christmas displays and all that’s godly in the public square.

I’m offended by soulless corporations like Kaiser that cut benefits and insurance for dependent retirees. By activist judges who conjure a right for gays to marry out of whole cloth. By the media’s inability to control their liberal bias. By airport security guards pawing grandma and her wheelchair because this P.C. country doesn’t have the guts to profile legitimate targets: Middle Eastern men in their 20s.

By Bush Hater Alec Baldwin playing American military hero Jimmy Doolittle in the 2001 flick “Pearl Harbor.” By the sewage flowing from Planet Hollyweird. By Michael Moore’s propaganda. By Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton breaking the unwritten protocol of ex-presidents to denounce administration policies during a time of war. By liberals who whine about moving to Canada and never do.

I’m offended that Dan Rather wasn’t fired as the CBS news anchor after his bald-faced attempt to smear the president with bogus documents. By “I support the troops, but I’m opposed to the war.” By hard-lefties, like cartoonist Ted Rall, who use racial terms and stereotypes to attack Condi Rice and get away with it. By those who forgive Bill Clinton’s peccadilloes but not Clarence Thomas’.

By the bumpersticker: “No one died when Clinton lied.” By the media’s refusal to uncover anything good happening in Iraq when Aussie blogger Arthur Chrenkoff provides a dozen or more pages of “Good News from Iraq” every week or so. By public schools who eschew the important role religion played in the founding of this country. By Christmas displays before Halloween.

I’m offended by the daily slaughter of 4,000 unborn babies per day in this country under the Orwellian guise of “choice.” By laws that allow an unborn baby at full term to have his or her brains sucked out before delivery. By the media dubbing pro-abortionists in a positive light as “pro-choice” but pro-lifers in a negative light as “anti-abortion” – and distorting abortion polls to favor the pro-abortionists.

By the exclusive teaching of the debatable theory of evolution when 62 percent of the country believes creationism should be taught, too. By Ten Commandments monuments being removed from courthouse lawns. By the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of atheist Michael Newdown that the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the separation of church and state.

I’m offended by news organizations, like Reuters, which use terms like “insurgents,” “militants” and “rebels” to describe terrorist thugs who behead innocent people and fly jets into skyscrapers. By comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam. By animal activists who see little difference between worms and people. By Marxist college professors who impose their views on gullible captive students.

By entertainers who believe Americans care about their political views, including: Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Dixie Chicks, Eminem, Ben Affleck, Warren Beatty, Annette Benning, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Laurie and Larry David, Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kirsten Dunst, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Laurence Fishburne and Gina Torres.

I’m offended by judges who interpret the First Amendment to defend pornography but not school prayer. By respondents to a democraticunderground.com poll who overwhelmingly replied that 11/2 (Election Day) was worse than 9/11. By a calculating NBC photographer who incited Arab Street by filming a wounded Marine dispatching a possum-playing terrorist in a Fallujah mosque.

I’m just getting started. But I’ve probably bored you already with my list of gripes. No one wants to listen to a whiner.

Maybe that’s another reason George W. Bush was re-elected by a record number of votes.