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We’ll call it “Dumbonomics”: In the ‘Hot Topics’ segment on “The View” this morning, the ladies discussed a Washington Post story about a rock with the word “Niggerhead” written on it at the gated entrance of a hunting camp leased and frequented by Rick Perry and his father. Host Barbara Walters used the n-word while [...]
**Posted by Phineas Today’s Klavan on the Culture deals with something that has puzzled the Wise for nearly a century: just why do African Americans vote for Democrats in such huge numbers?? Ya got me. Maybe Andrew can explain it. RELATED: An excellent book on the Democratic Party and race. (Crossposted at Public Secrets)
**Posted by Phineas And this time she has company, in the form of two liberal (I assume) radio hosts who join her in mocking people who identify with the Tea Party, and Southerners in general. I’ll let them speak for themselves: Moe Lane absolutely destroys Sanchez on the factual errors she commits in this interview, [...]
The Washington Times writes about an explosive report released over the weekend by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that calls into serious question the neutrality of Eric Holder’s DOJ when it comes to racially tinged cases involving alleged offenses committed against white people by minorities (via Memeorandum): The Justice Department stonewalled efforts by the [...]
Race-baiting politics once again strike in NYC. Via the NY Post: Mayor David Dinkins encouraged voters to embrace a state Senate candidate because he looks “more like us.” “It’s important, it is so very important, particularly for the people of this district who vote on Tuesday to recognize how important it is to understand that [...]
Because the Democrats seem to play it any chance they get. The latest example comes from US Senate Majority Leader Harry “Pinky” Reid, who said publicly he couldn’t see any reason why a Hispanic would vote Republican: Get it? “Without us you campesinos would have nada, so shut up, get back on the hacienda, and [...]
Yippie: Former Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod announced Thursday that she intends to sue Andrew Breitbart for posting a misleading video of Sherrod that ended up costing her job. Sherrod made the announcement at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in San Diego. “I will definitely do it,” she said. Sherrod lost her job [...]
This will be the only post that mentions her at this blog today. Everything else I write about will be on a topic other than Shirley Sherrod. Please also consider this an open thread, in case you want to talk about her and the issues surrounding what happened last week. Or any other issue. In [...]
Thanks, Howard Kurtz: But for all the chatter — some of it from Sherrod herself — that she was done in by Fox News, the network didn’t touch the story until her forced resignation was made public Monday evening, with the exception of brief comments by O’Reilly. After a news meeting Monday afternoon, an e-mail [...]
Alana Goodman from Newsbusters files this disturbing report: Should there be a “gatekeeper” regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that’s what CNN promoted on July 23. Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the “mixed blessing of the internet,” and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers [...]