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If the headline doesn’t make sense… good. Neither does this:

A civil rights advocate and talk radio host — with Al Sharpton’s support — is urging Americans not to spend money on Nov. 2 to protest the federal government’s handling of hate crimes as well as its handling of other issues like health care, immigration, the mortgage crisis and the war in Iraq.

…and eggs, milk, butter, and toilet paper. It seems that within a period of 48 hours, the racial cry against the “rampant” racism in America has turned into a grocery list of reasons to protest. Health care? Immigration? The mortgage crisis? The war in Iraq? If we’re collectively to spend no money on November 2nd, what are we raging against?

Where was this in Al Sharpton’s Atlanta speech on Tuesday, where he announced:

“We feel that the federal government has failed to intervene in the cases of hate crimes — swastikas and nooses,” Sharpton said. “Since the federal government won’t come to the people, we’re going to bring the people to the federal government.”

Sharpton was joined at Tuesday’s news conference by Martin Luther King III. Both noted what appeared to be a string of copycat crimes involving nooses following the well-publicized Jena 6 episode in Louisiana.

Warren Ballantine, a radio host appearing alongside Sharpton and King on Tuesday, also called for a “blackout” on Nov. 2, asking people to not spend money on that day in hopes of sending a message to the federal government.

The “blackout” and subsequent protest against racism in America is turning out to be a demonstration on everything; Hence, it becomes a demonstration against nothing. In a matter of 48 hours, the Jena 6 hypocrisy was not enough to illicit enough fervor, anger, and angst to fuel such a demonstration in Washington — or a “blackout.”

As such, the most bloviating hypocrites of our times have blended perceived racial incidents with a short list of other modern “ailments,” making said “blackouts” or protests an even sillier proposition. It is no wonder that Sharpton, Jackson, and Ballantine have no credibility.

[ On November 2nd, one editor of the Douchebag Report will be silently protesting the rising price of Heineken. ]