My opinion of liberals was reinforced last week as I was channel surfing late one evening and happened upon Bob Beckel blustering about Dr. Ben Carson. As many of my regular readers are aware, I do not watch Fox News, but happening upon Beckel at that moment froze my finger just as it readied to click the channel button on the remote control.
Dr. Carson had accurately referenced elitist white liberals as being “the most racist people out there.” That was enough to set Beckel off. He objected to Dr. Carson’s assertion, and launched into a screed accusing him of being ignorant of history. But, Dr. Carson is not ignorant of history – rather it is Beckel who is attempting to deny history.
Beckel claimed that it was liberals who had gone into the South to march with Dr. King – not least of whom was his father. He claimed that his father was a “liberal who went into the South and was arrested 57 times in the civil rights movement registering blacks.”
The telling moment was when Beckel said, “It was liberals who have been on the forefront of every major”… and then caught himself. He did not finish his statement. And well it was that he didn’t because what he was about to assert was a damnable lie, and he knew it.
Read the rest of Bob Beckel Tries To Recast Racist Liberals
Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time: “Rich people pay something like 70 percent. And here in California, I just want to say liberals – you could actually lose me. It’s outrageous what we’re paying. It’s ridiculous.”
Sarah Palin’s wildly popular CPAC speech, punctuated by the Big Gulp swig heard ’round the word, has sparked a new late-night, post-CPAC trend … The Palin Liberty Pose.
TWEET – Reading the thousands of blogs, tweets, news stories and comments from Leftists saying Sarah Palin is irrelevant and not worth their time…
TWEET: 50,000 estimated in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’ first Angelus. Crowd very upbeat.
Michael Moore tweeted a fake photo of ‘Pope Francis’ giving Communion to Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. To his credit, Moore has acknowledged his error and told folks to stop circulating the picture.
Ben Carson told CPAC he got ‘nastygrams’ calling him the N-word after he criticized Obama. [50:51]
MSNBC host Toure, “I thank God and country that when I fell into a bad situation, abortion was there to save me and keep me on a path toward building a strong family I have now. And I pray that safety net stays in place,” Toure said @ http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-cycle/50591564#50591564
So “safety net” is the new euphemism for “abortion scalpel”? Got it.
Harvested at Twitchy:
Shorter Toure: Thank God I didn’t have to take responsibility for my adult actions and be a man.
Anyone who would seriously thank God for abortion doesn’t understand the Lord or abortion.
I kind of doubt God would say, You’re welcome.
Last September, Toure tweeted this gem:
Girls, get your abortions NOW in case the Republicans win.
He’s so on board with the founder of Planned Parenthood who said,
The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. – Margaret Sanger
I wonder if he knows about her OTHER progressive opinions?
Anybody who bothers to look up 1857′s Dred Scott v. Sandford decision will notice right away the court’s awful observation that if slaves were permitted to enjoy full citizenship rights, then they would — shock horror! — enjoy the right
“to keep and carry arms wherever they went.”
This, the court thought, would be disastrous.
The fear of blacks with guns is not, of course, new. The very first gun-control measures in American history were designed to keep arms out of the hands of blacks and Indians:
The Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies both prohibited the sale of guns to Indians in the early seventeenth century, and the “Black Codes” of the mid-eighteenth century required French colonists in Louisiana to disarm and beat “any black carrying any potential weapon.”
Many pre-Civil War state constitutions went further, reserving the right to bear arms … to “freemen,” which, naturally, meant whites. After their damnable cause was lost, the KKK picked up and ran with disarmament as a way of keeping blacks down.
As Adam Winkler has observed, “gun control” was “at the very top of its agenda.” The Democratic party’s “Black Codes,” which barred former slaves from owning guns in the (segregated) post-bellum South, were passed for the same purpose.
It is no accident that the first draft of the 1871 Anti-Klan Act contained a provision that made it a federal crime to
“deprive any citizen of the United States of any arms or weapons he may have in his house or possession for the defense of his person, family, or property,”
for that was exactly what segregationists set out to do.
Robert Franklin Williams’s classic work, Negroes with Guns, tells a tale of the KKK’s systematic attempt to disarm black Americans — and of the National Rifle Association’s work in forming a counter-group called the “Black Armed Guard” — as late as the as the 1950s.
As Williams points out, it was guns in the hands of his family that saved their lives and allowed them — literally — to fight the KKK and their allies.
ESPN has suspended commentator Rob Parker for comments he made regarding Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III last Thursday on ESPN’s “First Take.”
Parker questioned Griffin’s “blackness.”
“Is he a brother or a cornball brother? … We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he’s a Republican, which, there’s no information [about that] at all. I’m just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue.
DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association, told The Washington Post in an email Friday:
“Robert can certainly take care of himself. Nonetheless … people need to be held accountable for the offensive things that they say.”
A small sampling of the oh-so-gracious “We Won!” tweets by the oh-so-grateful recipients of free-crap and supporters of our post-racial president (I don’t really need a /sarc tag here, do I?) …
Oct 29, 2012 Hair of the Dog with Stephen Green on Pajamas Media
In this clip [2:40], Andrew Sullivan says, “If Virginia and Florida go back to the Republicans, it’s the Confederacy … entirely. You put a map of the Civil War over this electoral map, you’ve got the Civil War.”
Andrew, buddy, learn some actual history, wouldja? Please?
The Republican Party was created for the express purpose of ending slavery. The first Republican presidential candidate lost, but the second one, Abraham Lincoln, won. (Surprised, Andrew? Didja think Lincoln was a Democrat?)
The Republican Lincoln had three main opponents, because the Democratic Party was unable to agree on whether slavery should be expanded into new states or not.
Northern Democrats nominated Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, who had supported the 1856 Supreme Court’s Dred Scott Decision, which ruled that people of African descent were neither U.S. citizens, nor protected by the Constitution.
Southern Democrats nominated the pro-slavery incumbent Vice-President, John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, who won the states of the Deep South as well as the border states of Maryland and Delaware.
Some southern Democrats joined the Constitutional Union Party which nominated former Senator, Speaker of the House, and Secretary of War John Bell of Tennessee. Although a slaveowner, Bell was one of the few southern politicians to oppose the expansion of slavery into new states.
When our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, won the election, Democrat-majority slave states seceded rather than accept him. When war broke out, Douglas supported the Union; Breckenridge and Bell supported the Confederacy.
After the war, the Democratic Party benefited from white Southerners’ resentment of the Republican-imposed Reconstruction and dominated southern politics with a solidly white-supremacist platform that included all those things (e.g., Jim Crow laws) that today’s Democrat fear-mongers run around bleating Republicans want to bring back.
The thing is … Republicans can’t “bring them back” because they were never REPUBLICAN POLICIES. They were products of the Democratic Party.
And the guys under those white hoods? They were Democrats.
The KKK or Ku Klux Klan is the name of three distinct movements in American history which advocated white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through terrorism.
The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army. A secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies, seeking to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans. In 1870 and 1871, the federal government passed the Force Acts, which suppressed Klan activity. However, new groups sprang up and started a fresh round of violence aimed at suppressing blacks’ voting and running Republicans out of office. These contributed to segregationist white Democrats regaining political power in all the Southern states by 1877.
The second Klan was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1915. Because of urban industrialization and increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread out of the South to the Midwest and West. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church.At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation’s eligible population, approximately 4–5 million men. Internal divisions, criminal behavior by leaders, and external opposition brought about a collapse in membership and it finally faded away in the 1940s.
The third Klan emerged after World War II and was associated with opposing the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation. During the 50s and 60s, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor’s offices, as with Democrat George Wallace of Alabama.
And what does the face of the Democratic Party look like now that most of them don’t wear those white hoods for their violent partays?
Michael Moore, MoveOn.org Create Most Offensive Campaign Ad Ever
So, Andrew, would you like to rethink your stupid remark?
Or would you prefer to squinch your eyes shut tight, put your fingers in your ears and chant “Obama! Obama!” really, really LOUDLY? It’s your choice cuz, hey, it’s a free country (for now).
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