{"id":149,"date":"2011-12-13T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T14:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/?p=149"},"modified":"2011-12-13T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T14:45:36","slug":"rocky-rudy-and-rudolph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2011\/12\/rocky-rudy-and-rudolph.html","title":{"rendered":"Rocky, Rudy and Rudolph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on my regular morning segment on Fox and friends I debated a college professor who postulated a premise that Santa in the song \u201cRudolph the red-nosed reindeer \u201c was a bully and the song encourages bullying, conformity, sexism, mocking, hypocrisy, exclusion, rejection and favoritism.<br \/>\nAs my readers know I have been on a campaign to eliminate political correctness from our culture for years. This debate illustrates not only why I hate it but just how idiotically insidious it actually is.<br \/>\nWe now have college professors teaching American kids that it is politically incorrect to, are you ready, offend a CARTOON character! That\u2019s right some liberal ideas are so funny they write their own punch line.<br \/>\n1st off, let me acknowledge that bullying is real and it should be eliminated from society when possible, but what did they really do to Rudolph that was so heinous? They didn\u2019t let him play in their games. What did he miss out on really huh? I mean, how interesting could reindeer games be? They couldn\u2019t include, balls, bats, rackets, dice, tokens, pencils, etc because reindeer don\u2019t have HANDS!<br \/>\nTrue they were mean to him but what you don\u2019t see is Rudolph going to the University thought police to demand the reindeer be institutionalized in sensitivity training. You don\u2019t see him suing Santa for creating a hostile work environment either. No, Rudolph took the old American concept of fighting through adversity!<br \/>\nInstead of being a victim he chose to be victorious. Instead of being broken he became braver. Instead of looking for excuses he enlarged his character. Instead of being a whiner, he chose to be a winner. Rudolph is an inspirational song about overcoming adversity no matter what the odds against you are and has been viewed that way for years!<br \/>\nYou see anyone can play the blame game and create a victim out of anything otherwise noble if that is their agenda. I\u2019ll prove it. I say that the Rudolph song is a metaphor for liberal, big-government bureaucracy. Santa is the president who is so powerful he can deliver a gift to every human on earth in one night!<br \/>\nThe elves represent the Congress and Senate that are so powerful they can build gifts for every human on the face of the earth! Yet between them they didn\u2019t have the foresight to anticipate foggy weather I the future and with all their magical potential they neglected to install headlights on Santa\u2019s sleigh.<br \/>\nConsequently they had to take from Rudolph, (representing the rich), what he had that they didn\u2019t and force him to lead the way pulling the rest of them along because of their incompetence. Notice they didn\u2019t fix the problem only allowed it to continue a little longer.<br \/>\nSo obviously Rudolph represents the complete failure of the Obama administration to build America, and of the Congress and it\u2019s inability to balance the budget! You see my friends, anybody can play the \u201cblame game\u201d if it suits their purpose and they have an agenda to accomplish. The problem is it passes the responsibility onto someone else and in the end; nobody comes out stronger than they were. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on my regular morning segment on Fox and friends I debated a college professor who postulated a premise that Santa in the song \u201cRudolph the red-nosed reindeer \u201c was a bully and the song encourages bullying, conformity, sexism, mocking, hypocrisy, exclusion, rejection and favoritism. 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From his Nashville stronghold, Stine is mounting his crusade against these hypocrisies, all of which are explored in his highly anticipated 4th album\/DVD, aptly titled \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWUSSIFICATION!' \"You know what offends me?... Offended people,\" says Stine. A staunch supporter of first amendment rights and foe of political correctness, Stine asserts that rights should be universally applied. \"In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.\" The strength of his conviction about our freedoms can be found in many places on WUSSIFICATION \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from \"Merry Christmas Too!\" (the right to celebrate religion) to \"At Least We're Not France!\" (the responsibility to take action as a country) to \"Spank\" (the ability to discipline our children the way we see fit). 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He is an excellent writer that has endured for decades.\" More current comedic touchstones are Brian Reagan, Paula Poundstone, Jim Gaffigan and Monty Python, among others. Fear not, true believers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with his brand new album, Brad Stine is here to save the world from WUSSIFICATION \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one politically-correct, offended person at a time!\"","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/author\/bstine"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}