Lt. Governor Dan Patrick Calls for the Firing of CNN Host

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who in my opinion is near virtually guaranteed to embarrass Texas any number of times before he leaves office, has started his campaign to push himself into the national spotlight. He started the crazy train by calling for the firing of CNN host Fredricka Whitfield.

Whitfield called the man who attacked the Dallas Police station "courageous and brave." It sounds pretty off base when heard out of context, but I know what she's going for. She's going for "ballsy." You may call it cowardly (and I would too), but let's say for a second that the Dallas Police were really bad people, in that instance you'd call a man who attacks them all alone "courage and brave" (and crazy, which was another word she used).

Whitfield apologized Sunday, but Patrick didn't let that keep him from trying to get some of the national spotlight by sending a letter Monday demanding that CNN remove the host.  (He also claimed in that letter that she hadn't apologized, which, as mentioned, she did.)

I said this in the case of the Frenship teacher and in the case of McKinney Officer Casebolt: we need to quit burning people at the stake every time they make a mistake. 

People can learn to be better and according to this guy Jesus, everyone can be forgiven. Talking live on the air is a treacherous thing and it is EASY to say the wrong thing. You have adrenaline pumping, people pointing at you, distracting you and so on.

I would also like to point out that this is another trick of perspective. You would call one soldier going after an army "brave." Just because you like the army doesn't change that. I don't believe for a minute that this lady meant this shooter was "brave" in a way where he was doing something "heroic." She was just saying it takes a lot of balls/crazy to do something like that. 

The word "brave" does not mean a person is in the right, it just means they are putting themselves out there against odds that are most likely against them.

I think a lot of this could be avoided if people would gain a proper vocabulary. She apologized, she doesn't work for Texas, let's move on.