How I Discovered Gabe Delahaye

Here's how the story starts.

I get into a raging fight, via Facebook messaging, with my half-brother several hundred miles away. He's taking pot-shots at me, in his snide veiled way, so I drop a few Hydrogen bombs on him. I tell him how my problem has always been that I've grown up in a family of abusive backward hillbillies that are cruel and stupid.

Boy, did he not like that. He called me a girl, the p-word, and gay (except he used the q-word). I let him know that he just proved my point.

I won't go into full detail on that altercation, let's just say I said my piece.

Here's the thing. I've tolerated bigotry my whole life. The irony. My mother often made racist remarks, still does; and at the same time I was taught to be hyper-sensitive to others' feelings. So, I tolerated the ignorant bigotry around me, so as to not offend the offensive creeps.

My Dad was from the Philippines and my Mom, well, is a backward bigot. Most people don't think she is, but she is.

And I was moved, by her, to a backward town full of backward, unaware, blatantly bigoted, ignorant, half-witted cornballs. Pretty tired of it, still live here.

There are plenty of examples I could give as far as the exemplary ignorant remarks I've heard while living here, it's quite prevalent. However, I want to talk about Gabe Delahaye.

But first, I want to talk about Jeff Dunham. He's an unfunny ventriloquist, who has (or had, not sure) a show on Comedy Central.

I'm watching the Biography channel, and a documentary about Jeff Dunham comes on. I'm watching it, I'm looking at Mr. Bland Man, pale and boring, yucky and unfunny, and I'm thinking, "This guy makes me think of all of the dim-witted bigots I've dealt with in this town."

Well, what do you know: Much of his humor, and puppets, target ethnic groups, clearly racist and mostly not funny. I mean, even without the stupid bigotry, this guy would be just Velveeta-boring and bland. Loser to the full extent of Loser-hood.

So, I get curious. Has anybody else noticed? I can't be the only one. I hope not.

So, I turn to Google. I Google, "Jeff Dunham racist..."

Lo and behold, by golly, gee wilikers, I get hits!

I see a Huffington Post article that says Jeff Dunham is racist, a bigot, etc. with a link to the full article.

The full article leads to Videogum.com and a piece written by Gabe Delahaye. This guy is brilliant and edgy. He pulls no punches. He laid into Dunham pretty good. What I can say is that what Delahaye says in the article is what I feel about the people in this town I live in. Here's what Gabe says.

I know what all the arguments are: "You're just being politically correct." That's one of the arguments meant to justify stupidity. No, I don't care about political correctness. What I have a problem with is ignorance, brutality, unconsciousness, backwardness, division, alienation, and abuse. Justify it, but it doesn't do away with the fact that these creatures are wastes of flesh and breath, scummy knuckle-draggers that need to wake the eff up. Sorry, but this is just not 1953.

So, here's to you, Jeff Dunham.