Emmy Awards ratings tank as Linney says community organizers formed the U.S.

If George Washington had waited on community organizers, we'd have tea breaks instead of coffee breaks in the U.S. (White House image)Sunday the Emmy Awards went up against the Dallas Cowboys-Green Bay Packers game and not surprisingly, Emmy ratings tanked. We’ve been treated to some of the political content, and it should come as no surprise that the “Tinselati” lean left. One of the most brain-dead comments I’ve ever heard came from Laura Linney. She thanked community organizers “who helped form our country.” Memo to Linney: Americans aren’t stupid. Just come out and say, “Vote for Obama.” We do appreciate honesty.

As a bona fide, lifelong community organizer, I could write a book about taking care of your neighborhood. I’d like to shed some light on what worked for one community we lived in after we bought our first house.

First and foremost, we took no government money. Second and foremost we were a motley assortment of races, creeds and incomes. We had a small neighborhood and we banded together. When we saw drug dealers selling crack on the corner, we called the police—every time. If we saw a crime committed, we filed a report. We contacted regulatory agencies for rental housing to make sure standards and laws were met. We vested ourselves in our community and kept it strong for our children. Of course we didn’t have the motherland mindset towards the federal government that some do.

We didn’t practice entitlement. We practiced accomplishment. If our founding fathers AND MOTHERS had waited for community organizers, our national anthem would be “God  Save Our Queen.” And we’d still be waiting for a charter.

American citizens are just too smart to listen to political tripe clothed in an acceptance speech from an intellect that, if challenged, wouldn’t fill a coffee cup. The Emmy Awards audience continues to shrink because most of the performers are irrelevant and if we want to see politics, we can tune in to stations that do politics 24/7, or better yet, hop onto the Web. Sound harsh? Jolly good, then.