The Brushes We Paint With
Last night I briefly caught 60 Minutes on CBS. Bill O’Reilly from The O’Reilly Factor was being interviewed by Mike Wallace. I stopped and watched the segment, afterward I thought about the brushes we paint each other with.
While I’ve seen the O’Reilly Factor a few times, I haven’t watched it on a regular basis. The times I’ve watched I agreed with some of the things I heard and disagreed with others. But I certainly had concluded what I thought Bill O’Reilly would and would not care about.
I was fascinated to hear Reilly say, when questioned about by Wallace about various topics, that “Global Warming is here” and something like “to hear those idiots say it’s not, is ridiculous.” When talking about Iraq he said the Bush Administration, Rumsfeld in particular “totally underestimated what we would face after we got there.”
Whether we should have been in Irag to begin with wasn’t discussed, but I think on previous occasions he agreed we should be there.
My point is this, canvas already been painted by some as a liberal magazine. When asked for specifics no one has been able to tell us what is specifically liberal. I would find it hard to say we’re liberal because we don’t take political positions. I’ve been asked by co-workers why I think people have labeled us liberal to that I’ve replied “When you put art, environment and holistic practices into one package, it’s easy to label it liberal.”
I find it funny how painting people with the label brush is so easy. Go figure most people wouldn’t think Bill Reilly gives a damn about the environment, but maybe he does. No one would think he’d pick on the Bush administration to criticize the Irag debacle, but he did.
In that vein, maybe at canvas we’re not liberal or conservative, maybe we just want to help people live better lives and enjoy themselves while they do!
Labeling should stick to cans on the shelf in a supermarket and let people be judged on their actions and merits.
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I am finding myself in that someone vague category of generation x, not quite a boomer( I missed it by one year). My mother is, what some referred to as a “flower child” as I couldn’t think of a better thing to call a product of the 60’s who had a pretty wholistic view about life and spirtuality. All my growing up years I tried to get a way from it, and now, I find myself drawn to a healthier lifestyle–not just because my doctor said so (although, he did) but because I am terrified my children will grow up without a healthy parent, and also because I want my kids to have healthier lives–in mind and body. We talk about global warming issues, and my oldest daughter says all the time–”mom, I just don’t want to die too young, and I want my kids to know what polar bears are–not just read about them!” My husband and I plant trees as we see our neighbors take them down–we recycle as best we can–and still wonder if we are doing everything we can possibly do–
CANVAS can and will be taken seriously–one issue at a time. Please keep up the good work.
PS> CANVAS isn’t liberal–unless us mean liberal with the understanding of what we need to do to get us all to better world–one person at a time.
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