Martin Bashir has situational concern for race. His remarks from his program the other evening:

“It also showed how political leaders could be responsible for either encouraging better race relations or making matters a whole lot worse by using cheap and nasty slurs Now listen to some of the things being said by these republican candidates.”

He mentions only Republican candidates using two instances: the deconstructed false flag of race on Gingrich’s remarks, and the CBS story of Santorum’s remark.

Where, pray tell, was Martin Bashir when Democrats said all this?

Harry Reid:

… Obama — a “light-skinned” African American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” as he said privately.

Bill Clinton on Obama:

“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.”

Joe Biden:

“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”

Or this Biden classic:

“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

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Lemme get this straight: the media is talking about context. They want context!

They’ve never cared about context in the past. When a person talked like a racist there were no excuses, no context, no explanation, no recovery allowed or given. Ask any conservative who’s been wrongly accused of being a racist knows exactly what I’m talking about.  The list is long. Limbaugh, Beck, Allen, O’Reilley—on and on.

How about some context with the New Black Panthers, you media kings?

Finally, after years of knowing the video is out there of the New Black Panthers intimidating voters at polling places in Philadelphia and after weeks of seeing video of that same New Black Panther guy urging the murder of “crackers” and “cracker babies,” it’s now okay for the media to start showing the video.

They can now change the context of that video and instead of seeing it for what it is—they now put it in the context of right wing media trying to make race an issue. What the…?

They just needed something to justify changing the context. Because they think they have caught Andrew Breitbart in a racial ruse in regards to Shirley Sherrod they can now unload all their anger on Andrew.

Yes, it is anger, and it has been building for a long time. (more…)

When in 2003, Sen. Strom Thurmond passed away, the New York Times’ obituary headline read:

Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100

The paper then went on to justify this summation of a 100-year life and 56 years in politics as ‘foe of integration’ by citing his past sins as a racist and his history of opposition to civil rights.  Here are some of the bullet points:

• He was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1940s, recruiting 150 members and rising to the rank of “Exalted Cyclops” which he was elected to by unanimity.
• In 1944 he wrote: “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side … Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
• In 1946 he penned: “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here … and in every state in the nation.”
• He filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, personally speaking against it for fourteen hours.
• The only senator to have voted against the nominations of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the SCOTUS – the only two Black justices to be nominated on the Court.  He even enlisted the help of the FBI to find communist ties to Marshall to thwart the nomination.  He also opposed nominations of Blacks Janice Rogers Brown for US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State.
• On March 4, 2001 he announced that the problems of race relations are largely behind us, citing that ‘I’ve seen a lot of ‘white n****rs in my time’

So one can see why the Times would characterize him in a rather racist light no? It’s not a pretty picture.   Oh gosh, wait a minute.  My notes got all mixed up on my desk!  These bullet points are about recently passed on Democratic Senator Robert Byrd! (more…)

By some ironic twist of fate, the Senator from the Ku Klux Klan has died on the same day the Supreme Court — by a distressingly narrow 5-4 ruling — affirmed that the Second Amendment is incorporated, via the 14th Amendment, to the states, and that Chicago’s gun ban is therefore unconstitutional. In part, the ruling rested on the historical fact that African Americans were denied gun ownership in many places following Reconstruction, and thus were not fully free:

Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, who has written extensively on the Second Amendment, has just posted his reactions:

OKAY, having quickly skimmed the McDonald opinion, a few thoughts…

… it really is interesting how much emphasis the majority, and Justice Thomas’s concurrence, put on the racist roots of gun control. See this article and this one by Bob Cottrol and Ray Diamond for more background. And isn’t it interesting that this is happening on the same day the Senate’s last Klansman went to his reward?

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Treading carefully while not speaking ill of the dead, obvious questions should be asked in the ramp-up to our traditional glorification of elected royalty.

How would the media and liberal establishment today react to a GOP politician who was a former Klan recruiter? Seems to me a Republican with such a past would have been rightfully destroyed in the media prior to a primary, let alone sit unscathed by past associations long enough to be the longest sitting United States Senator.

In an attempt of post mortem damage control, CNN is covering for the legacy of Senator Byrd by including his quote that joining the Klan was “the greatest mistake of my life”, while showing little outrage of his 14 hour, 13 minute filibuster to kill the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which Democrats falsely and brazenly claim to have always supported. (more…)

Step aside Governor Palin. The MSM has acquired a new primary target, GOP Kentucky senatorial candidate, Dr. Rand Paul. The host of Sunday’s Meet The Press kicked off the campaign.  So let the spin begin.

Here’s what it sounded like, with Key Spin Language (KSL) underlined, as David Gregory opened the program with his brief monologue.

This Sunday: The politics of anger and the anti-Washington wave.

Anger is KSL. Anger is irrational. It conveys a heat level beyond resistance and opposition.  Anger is wrathful, hot-tempered and indignant. Anger is bad. That’s taught in kindergarten.

Here was Gregory’s intro for the first segment, which focused on Rand Paul’s recent controversial comments about the 1964 Civil Rights Act:

Democrat Albert Arnold Gore, Sr., who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act, with wife and Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.

Good morning.  Super Tuesday 2010 unleashed a new power player within the Republican Party.  But by week’s end, Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, found the spotlight a little too hot, canceling his appearance on this program and raising doubts about his prospects for the fall.

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On the day after his historic primary win, National Public Radio rabidly went after Rand Paul, the newly minted GOP nominee for Kentucky Senator, trying to make him out to be a KKK sympathizer or perhaps a racist that would have agreed to keep Jim Crow alive and well in 1964. This rabid, left-wing attack is uncalled for and, further, is meant only to stir anti-Republican hatred and not to help voters discover anything relevant about nominee Rand Paul.

Nearly at the top of the interview, the host of NPR’s All Things Considered tried to paint Mr. Paul as some sort of hater that would have opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Catch this loaded and irrelevant question by NPR:

You’ve said that business should have the right to refuse service to anyone and that the Americans for Disabilities Act, the ADA, was an over reach by the federal government, would you say the same by extension of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

Paul gave a very good reply but the best thing he said was that he hadn’t read through the entire 1964 legislation because it had been passed 40 years ago and didn’t have any role in today’s campaign. And that is just it, isn’t it? The 1964 Civil Rights Act is ancient history as far as current politics goes. It is fully accepted and is not a law in dispute, nor does it have any part in current political discussion. The law is fact, the legitimacy of which no one questions. Talking about the 1964 Civil Rights Act is not relevant at all to today’s issues.

Of course, that wasn’t good enough for NPR as the hack who was interviewing Paul harped on and on trying to get Paul to say he wished that blacks in America were still forced to live under Jim Crow. In fact, the NPR interviewer wasted most of the interview trying to out Paul as a racist. (more…)

Once upon a time former Governor, Presidential candidate, and Chairman of the Democrat National Committee called the GOP the “White Party.”  CNN commentator Lou Dobbs took Dean to task for his language.

So was Dr. Dean, and those among the Left who share his understanding of history, accurate?  Is the GOP the party of white people?  Let’s test the good doctor’s diagnosis.

Fifteen questions follow.  The correct answers are provided at the end. No peeking!

Question #1.  During whose administration did the signature of an African-American first appear on U.S. currency? During that of a Republican or a Democrat President?

Question #2.  Was the first African-American diplomat appointed by a Republican or a Democrat President?

Question #3.  Was the first African-American popularly elected U.S. Senator a Republican or a Democrat? (more…)

As you all watched the Bowl Championship Series title game between Texas and Alabama, consider that this could be the final game where some degree of freedom exists in who actually plays in the game.

Reliable sources tell me that senators are lining up to make demands for future BCS Bowl Games. Of course, these demands have not yet been made public because the negotiations are taking place in a secret location, in a closed building, behind a locked door, and the senators are reportedly hiding under black sheets — just like in the top-secret “health care” reconciliation process now underway.

Say goodnight, Ben

Apparently – and you heard it here first – Ben Nelson (D-Lame Duck, Neb.) has had told Harry Reid (D-Dead Man Talking) that he’s excited about the prospect of free Medicaid forever, but since the issue is insurance, he wants the Nebraska Cornhuskers to be guaranteed a BCS Bowl game forever or until he needs a hair transplant, whichever comes first. Plus, he’d like that one second taken back off the clock in the Nebraska/Texas game that put Texas in the Championship Game.

Typically, Reid praised himself as a brilliant negotiator and said Nelson could have his “Cornhusker Guarantee” by getting his team in the new Forever BCS Series, but that he could not take the second off the clock. Reid then reportedly said, “This has to be done in the spirit of bi-partisanship, there are Republicans in Texas. Besides, I want to use the word “bipartisanship” in a sentence I actually mean.” (more…)

The president of the United States is a “light-skinned” man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”  That, at least, is the carefully considered opinion of soon-to-be-former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, quoted in a forthcoming book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change, about the 2008 election of Barack Obama.  The thing is, Hapless Harry meant it in a good way.

At least he did until now, when the news of the explosive statement found its way into The Washington Post and Politico.  Already reeling in his hopeless, doomed-as-Chris-Dodd campaign for re-election this fall, the Sage of Searchlight no doubt thought he was being complimentary in his usual clueless, white-guy-of-a-certain-age way.  After all, when Harry was growing up, “Negro” was the polite term you used to show you weren’t a racist, and as for light-skinned, well, we all knew what that meant.  Why, the next thing you know, Unhorsed Harry will be describing Obama as “a credit to his race.”

The authors write: “Reid was convinced, in fact, in fact,that Obama’s race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.”  Gee, that sounds a lot like what Geraldine Ferraro said, and her reward was practically being drummed out of the Democrat Party.

This isn’t the first time the scrappy little Mormon boxer has found himself on his keister over race.  He had some ‘splainin’ to do when the seat-warming, monument-building senator from Illinois, Roland Burris, explicitly charged him with racism for trying to block indicted Gov. Rod Blagojevich from appointing an African-American to replace Obama in the senate.  Watch and listen to Harry dance as David Gregory grills him on Meet the Press:

But there’s bigger game afoot than one pathetic little man’s attempt to cling to his rapidly diminishing power.  With Dodd and Byron Dorgan having defenestrated themselves, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin, two of the nastier people in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, are busily greasing the skids for obvious Democrat losers like Reid, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu and other endangered-species types. (more…)