by the Left Coast Rebel
Good friend and fellow blogging super-hero Cliff over at Another Black Conservative alerted me this evening to Beck's show today, a special about Moms and their special yet underappreciated standing in society. Of special note was the fact that Cliff's friend Mary Baker, also a super-blogger and conservative activist was to be on the show.......
Motherhood, as Beck notes, is the most important job in the country and is largely ignored and misunderstood. It is refreshing to see a media-icon relate to this.
Again, being a mom is the most important job their can possibly be, thank you Mom for teaching me this years ago......
Here's the Beck-show video, note Mary Baker, as mentioned -
Glenn Beck - "As a Mom", Mary Baker
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Now who can be anti-mom?
ReplyDeleteWow, why did it take so long to find your blog! Great work.
ReplyDeleteThe As A Mom group have their own website, natch www.asamom.org which has been modeled after the 912project. Great group. Haven't been to Mary Baker's blog yet but plan to.
Keep the fire burning!!!!
My Mom was a college educated woman, somewhat rare for her era, and yet she wanted nothing more than to be a mother and recognized it for the important job it was.
ReplyDeleteOne of her favorite sayings was, "educate your son and you've educated a man, educate your daughter and you've educated a family."
This segment just starts to touch on a major issue, but it doesn’t really go into it because it’s pushing an ideological narrative that says religion, rightwing ideology, and being a responsible citizen are linked.
ReplyDeleteThe big issue is how we take care of our children. The segment mentions one parent (Mom, in the regressive world) taking care of the children full-time and one parent working. The full-time parent might face pressure to do paid work instead of caring for the children. It is very undesirable IMHO to outsource caring for children so that both parents can do a lot of paid work. OTOH, it is also undesirable for one parent to give up his or her career altogether. My wife and I have worked hard to set up our business and job such that we can both care for our baby with only a part time nanny. We still don’t have a perfect system. It amazes me that before having a baby I never heard that much about this.
The ideological part of this is nonsense. You don’t have to believe in religion to responsible, industrious, patriotic, etc. I thought it was funny when one of the guests said when you become religious you stop discriminating on the basis of race. Often religion has been the basis of racism. Another guest said religion made her less extremist. That’s good for her, but there certainly are plenty of religious extremists in the world. The stuff about US values being founded on religion is a tired falsehood we’ve heard over-and-over.
I thought it was funny how they said running a business makes you rightwing. I do think sending in state and federal estimated taxes every quarter makes you think about gov’t spending more than if the money is taken out of your paycheck, but it doesn’t make you conservative in the political sense.