Harry Reid: "I'm not racist, look how many black friends I have". And other liberal hypocrisy.

[s.rwitt]

In yet another instance of utter hypocrisy by the left, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is being defended by liberals country-wide after racially insensitive comments he made on the electability of Barrack Obama during the 2008 Presidential election have come to light. Many here may remember the case of Trent Lott who was forced to resign from his position as majority leader after making some racially insensitive comments due to condemnation from both the left (of course) and the right. Unsuprisngly, liberals have come together to repeat the same talking points in an effort to save Reid from the same fate they forced upon Trent Lott and others they deemed "racially insensitive".

This, along with the apparent total condonment of Bill Clinton's remark that a few years ago "Obama would have been getting my coffee" serve as yet more evidence that you can get away with murder as long as there is a (D) next to your name.

By now most of you have seen Harry Reid's reported remarks, from a book on the 2008 election, enthusing that Barack Obama could be a successful presidential candidate because he was "light-skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." The real story here is the Left's hypocrisy: Reid has committed a sin that would be unpardonable by anyone but a Democratic politician.

election. But in any event, the better analogy is to George Allen, Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis, James Watt, and others who lost their jobs due to comments that were not so much racist per se, but rather racially insensitive.

Reid's not the only one even this week - the same book quotes Bill Clinton saying that a few years ago, Obama would have been getting him coffee

while Rod Blagojevich, the twice-Obama-endorsed gift that keeps on giving, tells Esquire Magazine:

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived.

Nor is this Reid's first offense. Among Reid's long laundry list of petty personal insults aimed at distinguished public servants - notably excluding former KKK member Robert Byrd, whom Reid called an "unusually brilliant man" - Reid said of Clarence Thomas:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...3A+CBSNews.com)

And his defense (the "Look at all my black friends" thing):

Gregory went on to say that people close to Burris were suggesting that "Reid doesn't want an African-American to succeed Obama." Reid gave a lengthy and impassioned defense of his history of promoting black Senate politicians. Anyone accusing him of racism, he concluded, is "part of the Blagojevich spin."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_155080.html

[xcorps]

Heh, the double talking of the liberal statists in this country is great comedy. Greek comedy, because they somehow manage to get themselves reelected.
Doesn't matter if they drive women into sea and leave them for dead or take millions in illegal dollars from their husbands corporations for elections. Got a personal relationship with a company VP when you happen to chair the house committe that has oversight of said company? No problem. Even if said company takes the country into a nosedive because of failed oversight.

Yay, libs.

[mongrel]

Let us fart in his general direction.

[s.rwitt]

Agreed.

We need to get a time sync though for maximum effect. And coordinate direction. It'll be kind of like Islamic prayer except with fart rays centered on Nevada.

[Gromovnik]

So what did he say?

[s.rwitt]

Read the OP....

Including the quoted parts.

[Gromovnik]

Read the OP....

Including the quoted parts.

That's not so bad... and it's the truth, isn't it?

[Phier]

That's not so bad... and it's the truth, isn't it?

Since when has American racial politics ever involved the truth?

[xcorps]

Since when has American
politics ever involved the truth?

Edited for troof.

Let's try and not edit within the quote -- it can be confusing and I am certain that Phier would like to be quoted properly:

Since when has American racial politics ever involved the truth?

-- VP

[s.rwitt]

The issue here isn't what he said. Personally I don't think it's that bad. The issue is the way the left, those now defending him, have treated people who have made similar or even more mild comments in the past. They crucified them.

[MaryPoppinCaps]

The issue here isn't what he said. Personally I don't think it's that bad. The issue is the way the left, those now defending him, have treated people who have made similar or even more mild comments in the past. They crucified them.

Tell me again how this is an exclusively leftist action?

Hypocrisy is not synonymous with liberal any more or less than it is conservative. Yes, he's obviously being an idiot here but my only qualm with your post is that you seem to think that only the left is guilty of such actions. They are as dumb as any other party; it's human qualities you should be criticizing instead.

[Big War Bird]

I especially like Bill Clinton calling obama a coffee fetcher. In fact I will exculsive call obama, "coffee fetcher" until it ceases to amuse me.

[motiv-8]

I especially like Bill Clinton calling obama a coffee fetcher. In fact I will exculsive call obama, "coffee fetcher" until it ceases to amuse me.

This is what kills me. You have both Clintons completely on Obama before the elections, his own Veep calling him out for being utterly unqualified for the job before the election, and then suddenly nobody remembers any of it. It rivals Cheney's own penchant for forgetting own words and actions.

Blago can enjoy pretending to be black all he wants in prison.

Funny, considering it was the Republicans that pushed the civil rights movement. How quickly it is forgotten.

Very interesting how many more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats.

[Nietzsche]

Very interesting how many more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats.

This breaks it down.

Percentage wise, more Republicans supported the Act than democrats. Yet the spectre of racism hangs over the party. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be historical revisionism perpetuated by a fraudulent media?

[Phier]

This breaks it down.

Percentage wise, more Republicans supported the Act than democrats. Yet the spectre of racism hangs over the party. Why do you suppose that is? Could it be historical revisionism perpetuated by a fraudulent media?

One party made them equal, the other gave them handouts.

Handouts > equality.

[motiv-8]

This breaks it down.

Percentage wise, more Republicans supported the Act than democrats. Yet the spectre of racism hangs over the party. Why do you suppose that is?

A legacy of racism amongst the Southern Democrats of old, perhaps, though given that American political history is not my forte, that could (and I would wager is) an inaccurate association. The Civil Rights Act definitely shows, I think, that the fault line wasn't partisan, but geographical, which shouldn't be too surprising.

Could it be historical revisionism perpetuated by a fraudulent media?

Media? No. Literature. Listen mang, I wrote my senior thesis on the bombing of Hiroshima, so you certainly don't have to tell me about liberal revisionism. However, average student of history that I am, I also learned that such a thing had a rational grounding, however mindlessly carried away it got. It's a legacy of the distrust in government generated by the Vietnam era. It would seem however that as that generation grows older and starts to die off, the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction, as seen by the recent decade's flurry of conservative-based American historical literature.

The truth, methinks, is in the middle.

Tell me again how this is an exclusively leftist action?

It's not, but that's not the point. The forum needs a little bit of left-hatin' to bring Balance to the Force. Gotta keep everyone grounded.

So...the democratic party is supposed to hang Reid out to dry? Its ing politics. Yes, the party of old white country boys is always going to be treated differently in cases like this. No amount of genius is ever going to change that image of them, no matter how unrealistic it might be. But the last thing the GOP needs is a pity party...

And the numbers during every single election, don't support the idea that minorities automatically support the democrats more. In fact, until the last election, they supported the GOP in larger numbers. Personally, if I were in the GOP, I would be looking to what we did wrong, instead of pointing fingers.

If you want to cry about this, so be it, I'm not going to.

Sadly, it's this kind of level-headedness about the situation which gets you called a cheerleader and/or apologist.

[Phier]

And the numbers during every single election, don't support the idea that minorities automatically support the democrats more. In fact, until the last election, they supported the GOP in larger numbers.

Sadly, it's this kind of level-headedness about the situation which gets you called a cheerleader and/or apologist.

No one is calling Barnaby a cheerleader

[Nietzsche]

If it had been Ron Paul, Sharpton, Jackson et al would be crying for his head and Obama would give us some platitude about how racism doesn't belong in the country. Liberals have lived by different rules since the 70's. Funny, considering it was the Republicans that pushed the civil rights movement. How quickly it is forgotten. Now, in order to cover for the liberals own historical racist ideals, they smear the other side with blanket statements about "rich, white men" wanting to destroy minorities. This country makes me sick. Think I'll move to China. At least their the hypocrisy is honest.

[Syriana]

If it had been Ron Paul, Sharpton, Jackson et al would be crying for his head and Obama would give us some platitude about how racism doesn't belong in the country. Liberals have lived by different rules since the 70's. Funny, considering it was the Republicans that pushed the civil rights movement. How quickly it is forgotten.

Indeed.

How quickly it is forgotten that Martin Luther King was actually a Socialist.

[s.rwitt]

One party made them equal, the other gave them handouts.

Sounds about right.