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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
DNC playing their favorite card: the race card
Remember the big manufactured controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s comments on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown regarding Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb? For a refresher on it, see my post about it, which I should mention was my first political blog post.
Well the DNC are using comments Tony Snow made about the issue to try and paint him as a racist. First, Snow’s comments from 10/6/2003:
Now, to the issues. Limbaugh made two assertions: First, that Donovan McNabb (search) is an overrated quarterback. That’s a debatable proposition; I think he’s nuts on this one.
Then comes the claim that reporters are kindly disposed toward black quarterbacks. That’s possible: NFL bosses for decades refused to let blacks hold leadership positions on, or off the field and reporters know it.
In any case, the comment isn’t racist, but that didn’t stop political opportunists accusing Rush of bias. Two Democratic presidential candidates and Wesley Clark called for his firing. Some other politicians who know better — and you know who you are — also started hot-dogging.
Here’s the problem with the controversy: It is assumed that white guys, especially conservative white guys, have no right to talk about race. Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean (search) beautifully expresses the muddled sentiment: He has been calling for an open dialog about race, but he also called for Rush’s head. Well, he can’t have it both ways: Either you open the floor to people with whom you disagree, or you don’t.
Frankly, we need to open the floor. But we also need to open our eyes. Here’s the unmentionable secret: Racism isn’t that big a deal any more. No sensible person supports it. Nobody of importance preaches it. It’s rapidly becoming an ugly memory. If you want proof, open a Philadelphia paper tomorrow. If Donovan McNabb has a bad game, he’ll get ripped ruthlessly, just like any other signal-caller. Which means that Rush’s observation, if anything, was dated — and that the sports world has become sufficiently colorblind to judge players by their performance and not their skin color.
Now, the DNC’s twisting of his words (via Expose the Left):
DNC spokesperson Amaya Smith says:
“How can Republicans claim to be mending fences with the African-American community after hiring Tony Snow who just doesn’t get it”
Just goes to show that when it comes to playing the race card, the DNC will stop at absolutely nothing to paint conservatives as a bunch of eeevil racist hatemongers, even when 9 times out of 10 the person they’re accusing of racism isn’t even remotely guilty of it. Yet when it’s a member of their own party who is being blatantly racist, their silence says it all.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Confirmed via FoxNews: Snow will be announced as WH press sec. tomorrow
- DC grapevine: Snow “likely” to accept WH press sec. job
- Tony Snow in negotiations to become WH press secretary
- WH press secretary Scott McClellan has resigned
- The politics of fear: Hillary goes over the edge
- Media bias on display at WashPost in Coretta Scott King funeral reporting
- NAACP chairman makes GOP/Nazis comparison
- On group think and how it threatens our freedoms
- Black Democrats in MD make candid admission
- Former NCSU visiting prof calls for extermination of white people
- Race-baiting Democrats and the media’s complicity
- State rep gets more coverage than Rangel
- “We’ve gone from fire hoses to levees.”
- More nonsense from Charlie Rangel
- Media pushes “white guilt” angle
- Exploiting the Katrina tragedy
- The race card is officially on the table
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More of the “politics of personal destruction” from America’s favorite race and class warfare baiting, hypocritical racist party, the Democrats. At least the Republicans don’t have any KKK Klegal’s in office.
- As I mentioned yesterday the prospect of having to deal with a absolutely no-question straight shooting man like Snow at the daily babboon gaggles has the left in full flight panic. He brings an inpenatrable reputation, so they’re pulling out all the stops on this one. The problem they have is Tony will be on camera soon, after a two week laison process working with the outgoing press secretary, Scott McClellan, and he will be a very hard act to demonize. I hope they keep trying, and I hope they get nailed for it every time they do. I don’t think the morons of the driveby press, and the slithering Liberals in the shadows behind them fully realize just how popular Tony is with the Nation, and how badly they may get shot in their “Progressive” feet, but thats good.
- Maybe he can start each day by tossing out bananas and speaking large words slowly for the press pin-heads.
- Bang
Just wait until the left uncovers Tony Snow’s repeated educating the public on what a fraud Kwanzaa is. The moonbats will really go ape****.
As the sun begins to fade and the jungle calls from animals unseen, rise up throughout the jungle eve. A sticky, humid, almost alien atmosphere, causes a nauseous uneasy restlessness, among the hordes camped out on the shores of the larvae infested, stagnant pool inside the inner sanctum of the White House. Beads of sweat, form and drip from their bodies and fall like acid onto the surface beneath their feet. The sound and smell of chemicals burning is disguised, as the hissing and chattering of the feckless inhabitants drown out all sanity.
Off to the left, the now not so distant drum beat of tribal fools awakens the herds, flocks, gaggles and pods of the bloodthirsty even more, as they await the next feeding frenzy. Completely unaware of why or how they got where they are, they sharpen their pencils and hone their attack methods, stopping long enough to see if the batteries are still OK in the recorder. Never to use the quotes as they were heard but to provide the piecemeal lies for the lines of tomorrow.
Suddenly, a Tarzan moment unheard for years and for many of the ill-willed at the gathering, the first time to hear such a cry, as it rings out again even closer. They jockey for position and vie for an opportunity to be the first to tear viciously into the newcomer soon to be among them. They hurriedly check their laptops and go to the weather channel, for something is amiss in the misty jungle today! Then a bloodcurdling yell, followed by the copied yelps from the mass of inhabitants. What screams one and then another and another. What indeed, says the first to cry out. SNOW IS COMING SOON TO A JUNGLE NEAR YOU was all the weather report said, as he closed eyes, dropped his computer and reburied his own head, deeeeep into the recess of the nether regions…….
Just in case anyone missed it. Time.com printed this about Tony:
Just like Susan Estrich was talking about. This kind of stuff from Democrats is NOT going to win over the middle. The middle does NOT think after seeing Tony’s bio that Tony is an uncaring, racist individual or that he “doesn’t get it”.
Who doesn’t get it? The Democrats who wish to smear, make false allegations, name call, etc. It’s such a common pattern that you’d think Democrats would be able to see thier own behavior by now?
Maybe one day….
I dunno, there are some who would view teaching physics to the natives is cruel and unusual punishment…
Typical Leftist Attack Strategy
Those who they cannot Intimidate
They will try to Humiliate, Innundate and Obfuscate
Don’t these idiots understand that Tony don’t play that?
Jack.
- Forest, are you thinking about that opening for speech writer for Dean again?…..
- Bang
Just goes to show that DNC spokesperson Amaya Smith just doesn’t get it. Nor the rest of the Democratic leadersnip.
Since most of them don’t even know the definition of racism, their pronouncements on the subject simply show their ignorance.
“The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others” – is the actual definition of the word. Preferred, as it were. See the problem here?
The Dems, and the Race Pimps, prefer to define it as, “Discrimination or prejudice based on race.”
But in that last case, it is only they who decide when it is racism and when it is not. So, as usual, they are the self-appointed arbiters of right and wrong – both changeable words in the Leftist lexicon.
As a Philadelphia Eagle fan for nearly fifty years, I can speak to the problems of McNabb. Rush’s comments followed a season where the third-string quarterback carried the team to the playoffs, and was promptly forgotten in the hoopla of the return of McNabb from injuries earlier in the season. A.J.Feely – I think that’s the guy’s name – was relegated to a footnote, and the great McNabb was hailed as a returning hero. And the Eagles did not go to the Super Bowl.
Over-rated? I think McNabb was. May still be. Racist to say so? Hell, no! Unless you are a guilt-ridden Leftist with pudding for nads.
Tony Snow will kick some Lefty Reporter Butts! His attackers are A$$es!
Bang, I’ve got a real good speech for Dean. “Dean in a death roll with himself” or ……..
Actually Bang, your babboon parable was so graphic, I couldn’t stop myself.
If I was the guy that was to confront them, by visualizing them as babboons, I might even enjoy my job. Hopefully, I could keep a straight face.
- Its highly informative to watch the “triangulation” between the driveby media, hard left weasels, and Southern black caucus whenever it suits their common agenda. McKinney’s off the National radar for now, while the Capital police operation trys to figure out a way to punish her properly, but avoid giving her more press and “victimhood” opportunities, so they use Snows appoinment as a possible entry point to keep the race wars going.
- Its plain that the basic strategy of the Progressives is daily adgiprop, in any form or context they can manage it. The “AnyGate” scams have not really payed off; yes Bushs numbers are down but unfortunately the Dem’s, particularly in Congress, are down even further. In the end theres just no way for the left to hide an absolutely empty wagon when it comes to a party plan. the only plan they really have is “All Socialism, All the time”, and they absolutely know mainstream America will never go for that. So in the long run all the activism and polito-rag attacks will still be a loser at the ballot box.
- Bang
This comes as no surprise. The Democrats must play the race card at every opportunity, as they have nothing but their special-interest allegiances to sustain them even at the low ebb to which they’ve sunk.
Of course, for decades Democrats have been saying, outright or by implication, that to be a conservative or Republican is inherently racist. Ironically, if one were to go by behavior, it would be the Democrats who’d have some explaining to do. A racist is one who’s obsessed with race, no?
Funny how the Democrats play the race card every chance they get, but which political party has done the most for breaking down the barriers of race?
Clarence Page writes about TONY SNOW
His ending line is: