Open Threads

The Dumbest Thread Ever:

David Broder just said on Meet the Press that the Democrats were the big losers in the Trent Lott affair. The reason: “When the Democrats had a moral issue in front of them in the form of President Clinton, they denounced him” but refused to remove him from office. Yes, exactly David, because getting a blow job is more-or-less equivalent to supporting segregation. Bill Clinton’s actions harmed no one at all, whereas segregation was responsible for causing untold misery to millions of people over the course of decades. Sounds about the same to me.

A.) It misrepresents Broder.
B.) Broder is normally a liberal hack, but now he is being attacked vicisously by the Clinton kool-aid crowd.
C.) No one is capable of discussing Clinton rationally, and I am included.
D.) The lawsuit against Clinton was brought by the person who was harmed, so it is foolish to claim no one was harmed.
E.) Trent Lott is a bigot, but you can not blame segregation on him.

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Bad Timing, 101

Byrd said he is eagerly awaiting the Feb. 21 premiere of the Civil War movie “Gods and Generals,” which will include his cameo as Confederate Gen. Paul J. Semmes.

“My role is small, admittedly, and probably won’t earn me an Academy Award,” Byrd, D-W.Va., said. “But it was exciting to participate in a project that is helping to promote our nation’s history.”

Byrd also noted that the film seemed to be realistic- it was just like how he remembered the civil war.

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The Worst Smear Job Ever, or Democrat Racial Politics in Over-Reach Mode

You choose which title you like better. Check out this quote from the NY Times in an attempt to smear Frist for racially insensitive comments:

On at least three occasions in his first campaign in 1994, Tennessee newspapers reported that he accused his opponent, Senator Jim Sasser, of sending local taxpayer money to Washington, home of Marion Barry. Mr. Frist dropped the line after Mr. Sasser said he was using it to inflame racial resentment.

Also in that campaign, Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., Democrat from Memphis, demanded that Mr. Frist apologize to African-Americans for remarks that he and a supporter made. Mr. Frist, going to a largely black march against crime, had asked a worker to obtain imprinted pencils to distribute, requesting unsharpened pencils.

“I don’t want to get stuck,” he told the aide.

A supporter also said the bus was getting “deeper into the jungle” as it approached a black neighborhood.

So it is now racist to not want to send more money into an administrative sinkhole run by a crooked crackhead?

It is racist to not want to get stuck with pencils when handing them out?

It is racist when a supporter says something offensive?

Keep it coming guys. The moderates are going to give you race-baiters a nice swift kick in the seat of the pants if you keep this nonsense up. That this is a front page ‘profile’ by the NY Times is utterly laughable.

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The Quiz

I saw this quiz on another website, and all I could do was laugh because although it is accurate, it will do nothing to deflect Democrat criticism of Republicans. At any rate, the quiz first, via Cold Fury:

20th Century U.S. History final:

1) The Dixiecrat party was made up of Southern
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

2) Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures controlled by:
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

3) When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights efforts in the South, the governing powers that opposed him were of which party?
a) Democrat
b) Republican

4) In Arkansas, the governor who stood in the door of a schoolhouse to block integration was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

5) The president who ordered in the National Guard to dislodge the above-mentioned governor from the above-mentioned door was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

6) George Wallace was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

7) Lester Maddox was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

8) Although Republican Bo Callaway won a plurality of the vote, the Georgia Legislature installed Lester Maddox as governor. The Legislature was ruled by an overwhelming majority of:
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

9) As a bonus worth 50 points, which is the only one of questions above answered correctly with “b”?

Yes- The Democrats are the party with the more checkered past on all issues regarding race. I think they are wrong on race right now. In fact, if you ask the Democrat cheerleaders I spend my time talking to, there is not one racist in the Democrat party. They will claim to you, with a straight face, that all the segregationists left the Democrat party and became Republicans, so the Republican party now carries the baggage. One poster on the Daily Kos, a Georgian who is noramlly one of the more pleasant and thoughtful posters, inadvertantly summed up how the Democrats treat their complicity in race. Georgia was not racist, really, as compared to all those other states, because they had Democrat leadership, Democrat Senators, and a Democrat state apparatus. However, on election day 2002, when the voters chose Sonny Perdue and Saxby Chambliss and a republican state legislature (two state Senators switched parties, if I remember correctly), all of a sudden the state is a haven for racists. Same people living in the state- in fact, if anything, it has become more liberal with the influx of young professionals to the Atlanta region, but because the people did not choose Democrats, they are now jack-booted thugs and cross-burners. The rednecks and the racists won!! Interesting world view, hunh?

When I told her that my uncle lives in Buckhead (a part of Atlanta) and voted for Chambliss and is not a racist, the response was that Buckhead is a stronghold for the old Dixiecrats and Country Club Conservatives. She would probably be shocked to learn that my Uncle is a Quaker from Maryland. But hey- blind assertions and false assumptions have gotten the Democrats this far. It is enough to make you scream.

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Reaffirm This

The next person I hear say “Republicans need to re-affirm their commitment to racial equality” is going to give me the big one.

Re-affirm their committment means give us whatever we want or we call you a racist.

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I’m Not a Nice Guy, I Just Play One on the Net:

My favorite comment ever written about me:

After reading many, many of his posts, I’ve come to the conclusion that John Cole is not really a decent guy with an open mind, he just plays one on the ‘net. He’s been treated with extraordinary courtesy and respect here, and seems to return it with standard-issue freeper blather about the only real racists being Al sharpton and some other Democrats and how the Southern Strategy is a myth or doesn’t explain anything or something.

I have never said anything about Al Sharpton being the only real racist (he is a racist, however, as well as an established anti-semite, a liar and perjurer, a fraud, and a demogague- just not the only one out there), I never visit the Free Republic, and I have never said the ‘southern strategy’ was a myth. I also think I am a nice guy. Other than that, I agree with everything he has written.

This is what happens when you disagree with people who are so sure of their moral superiority, so convinced of their rightness, so convinced that they can merely stereotype their opposition or anyone who disagrees with them. They see precisely what they want to see, and delude themselves and slip farther into their own echo chamber. Irving Janis had a name for it. It was called Groupthink.

All of this, btw, has been prompted by me stating that the right thing happened with Trent Lott stepping down, and that it is just silly for the left to start inventing civil rights for the sake of partisan gain. I also mentioned that Patty Murray is an idiot. The most recent comment has labeled me as a ‘long-winded racist fool.’

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And People Take Advice From This Woman?

How awful. The mother of everybody’s favorite loudmouth physiologist, Dr. Laura, appears to have been murdered in her home. Her body has been rotting in the apartment for months, undiscovered, while her obnoxious daughter, the most odious of the family values mouthpieces, inflicts her cruel vision and disgusting version of pop psychology on demented listeners across the country.

Getting advice on family matters from Dr. Laura is as dumb as having racial sensitivity courses run by Trent Lott.

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