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Redstate
Reality
Check
By Erick Erickson
July 11th, 2013
Two
nights ago I posted my thoughts
on being on radio. I followed it up on radio yesterday afternoon. In
both, I
made this observation:
No
one likes people who talk politics
all the time. I’ve spent an entire segment once on the fine art of
browning
onions in butter. And you know what? It’s been a widely requested
segment of my
show for repeat airings. People care about more than politics and, on
radio,
they want to know the guy they’re listening to on the way home does too.
First,
it is absolutely true — I
spent 20 minutes on the radio talking about browning onions in butter
and how
cookbooks lie that it only takes 10 minutes. It has been a highly
sought after
segment of my radio show. But second, people were downright offended
that I’d
suggest there is more to life than politics. I’ve gotten angry emails
from a
lot of people on the left and the right.
When
I point out I find some things
the President does, like talking about sci-fi, endearing and find
Michelle
Obama to be a very beautiful First Lady, my conservative friends go
insane.
While I was at CNN they were convinced I had sold out to the liberal
media.
Now, at Fox, it just perplexes them.
When
I talk about my faith and my
views on gay marriage or abortion, liberals are convinced I must be
lying when
I say I have gay friends and pro-abortion friends and we get along just
fine
and they are wonderful people. Surely I must think they are going to
hell and
how could those people be friends with me. Folks, I think we’re all
going to
hell, but by the grace of God.
There
are subjects I do not tackle
with friends with whom I disagree because I value their friendship far
more
than I value my view on some subject that divides our ability to be
friends. As
a Christian, to me evangelism and sharing my faith is much more about
being a
good friend to someone, regardless of their faith or world view, than
about
being right in an argument or going to some beach in Mexico to work on
my tan
while I hammer a nail or two in a hut and speak Jesusese to a total
stranger.
The
worst thing about America is
the politicization of everything.
Why
the hell must I pick a side in
the George Zimmerman trial? A 17 year old boy is dead and a man who may
or may
not be guilty of murder is on trial but, even if not guilty, will never
again
be safe because so much outrage and so much politicization has been
poured into
the trial. A 17 year old is dead. Why am I forced, as a conservative,
to cheer for
the guy who took his life? And you people who support Trayvon…
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