The Village Voice has taken it upon themselves to spell out the template that anything the tea party does regarding the manufactured Perry/ranch controversy will be considered racist.

I’m sure that the left and their agents in the mainstream media honestly and truly believe that Rick Perry is racist. That the tea party is racist.  They believe this not because of evidence, for which there is clearly none, but rather it’s their need to believe it.

The media has spent the last few years trying desperately to paint a picture of the tea party as disgruntled white men and their submissive wives (whom let’s face it, they probably beat) coming out with their Bibles to defend the values of the Confederacy and oust this President who “should be serving us coffee.”

They’ve mostly failed in this task, outside of already-committed leftists. At this point they seem to be just throwing the racism charge at the wall and seeing what sticks. This is of course evidenced by Janeane Garofalo accusing the tea party of being racist for supporting a black candidate or claims in the NY Times opinion pages that merely objecting to Obamacare is racism.

Now it’s Governor Perry’s turn.  I won’t go into the details of why the recent “evidence” of racism is ridiculous, Ali Ackbar already did an excellent job of that:

Perry’s father reportedly painted over the offensive language on the rock in question soon after leasing the 1,000 acre parcel in the early 1980s. Seriously. A 1,000 acre rental on a 42,000 acre ranch owned by a West Texas charity that assists homeless children. The Washington Post literally took an inch and made it a mile.

Suffice to say that it’s clear that this is just a gotcha game and that the claims have no real foundation.  As such, the leftosphere is instead setting the stage for the forthcoming narrative that the MSM will then embrace as either fact or by using their famous “some are saying” segue.

The Village Voice chimed in:

Rick Perry is between a rock (with a racial epithet painted on it) and a hard place. He’s the governor of a border state with an enormous Latino population, and his efforts to not demonize all of them as potential illegal immigrants have already left him castigated by the Tea Party.

See what they did there?  The tea party has already exposed themselves as racist in this writer’s mind and as proof he points to the opposition Perry has faced from them on his immigration positions.

But what if they reject Perry because of this manufactured controversy?  Not to worry.  That’s racist too!

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Oh, but he was speaking figuratively. Of course. Dig the #newtone.

I’m curious as to how Feingold plans to validate his freshman Marxism 101 accusation that billionaires got their wealth by stealing from the poor.

The Wall Street Journal in 2007 published a study which showed that the vast majority of the American wealthy are nouveau riche as their wealth is, on average, less than 13 years-old. Contrary to Feingold’s hysteria, these new wealthy are self-made entrepreneurs, not robber barons. They earned their money through commerce. Such success used to be celebrated as evidence that the American Dream still existed, that you too can start from nothing and make it anywhere in America so long as you have the will and persistence. What you put into it is what you get out of it. Since the breakdown of the American psyche by Marxist-loving liberals, the American Dream is now something of which successful Americans should be ashamed. How dare Americans who work hard reap any reward from their work! They should pay their fair share!

Except they do. They pay theirs, yours, and everyone else’s. Analysis of tax data shows that the top 5% pay 58% of all federal income taxes in the United States, while the bottom 50% pay less than three percent.

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While some people debate the merits of the current healthcare legislation in Congress, or attempt to expose corruption in our government, Max Blumenthal instead engages in character assassination using the most questionable sources.

Recently, as has been well-documented on BigJournalism, Blumenthal branded James O’Keefe a racist for attending a debate at which Jared Taylor spoke. He did this despite the fact that O’Keefe sided with Taylor’s opposition, a black conservative named Kevin Martin.

The video below summarizes Blumenthal’s Alinsky tactics and highlights clips from the most recent CPAC where he continues his viciousness. As Andrew Breitbart wondered, what does Blumenthal really stand for, if it isn’t for destroying people’s lives?

Yesterday the Village Voice published a piece “OPP: James O’Keefe, ACORN and Landrieu Stinger, Ran Racist Forum” which they erroneously claimed that James O’Keefe “organized a speaking forum for white supremacists.”  This Village Voice released this update this afternoon:

James O’Keefe and Race: An Update

The Washington Independent’s David Weigel has added some clarity to the story of James O’Keefe’s role at a 2006 “Race and Conservatism” event in D.C. that featured the controversial Jared Taylor, editor of the white nationalist American Renaissance magazine, as a participant.

In a previous post, “OPP: James O’Keefe, ACORN and Landrieu Stinger, Ran Racist Forum,” the Voice mischaracterized the event, saying that O’Keefe “ran” and had “organized” what we called “a racist forum.”

We also cited a Salon story by Max Blumenthal, “James O’Keefe’s race problem,” that talked about O’Keefe’s staffing a table that was “filled with tracts from the white supremacist right.” We mischaracterized the role in the event of the Leadership Institute (O’Keefe’s employer at the time).

Weigel, who says he attended the event, points out in a post this afternoon that it was “a debate, not a forum for Taylor.” (more…)

It started with a blog post at something called One People’s Project, in which someone named Daryle Jenkins claimed:

(In 2006) ..there was this white supremacist forum that we had called attention to and eventually attended that featured American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor and National Review’s homophobe extraordinaire John Derbyshire. It was originally supposed to be held at the building of the conservative activist organization Leadership Institute until it was forced to move to another location…..

There was also a photographer there, and lo and behold this picture has surfaced of a now familiar face attending the forum - James O’Keefe.

O’Keefe was manning a table at a forum of suit-and-tie Nazis.

A DC area photographer snapped a photo of O’Keefe as he maintained a literature table near the panelists.

The photograph that One People’s Project shows as its proof (above) is cropped and just shows O’Keefe from the shoulders up.  It doesn’t show that he is sitting at all, let alone at a table, let alone “manning” the table at the event apparently hosted by the Robert Taft Club.

Max Blumenthal — son of Clinton apparatchik “Sid Vicious” Blumenthal — at Salon.com picked up on the story and extrapolated even more: (more…)