Posted on 01/06/2014 8:25:25 AM PST by kristinn
Conservatives took the high road this weekend and boy don’t they feel good about themselves.
When MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry gave an emotional preemptive on-air apology Saturday morning to Mitt Romney in advance of his appearance on Fox News Sunday for a segment last weekend using a Christmas family photo that included the Romney family’s recently adopted black infant, conservatives rushed to Twitter to congratulate themselves for quickly accepting an apology that wasn’t meant for them.
Harris-Perry apologized, as she should have, for using a child for a political attack and for hurting the feelings of mixed-race adoptive families. What she should have included in her apology was what the segment was about: a race-baiting attack on Republicans and conservatives.
The failure of conservatives, including Mitt Romney, to push back on this illustrates why, in part, Republicans and conservatives consistently lose racial minority voters.
For decades, liberals have falsely painted Republicans and conservatives as racists. Election after election Republicans and conservative send up candidates who, with rare exception, fail to fight back at such poisonous tactics.
Liberal race-baiting doesn’t just affect politics it affects the culture and nation at large, breeding mistrust and racism where none should exist.
Mitt Romney had a golden opportunity today to call out liberals from Barack Obama and Howard Dean to Melissa Harris-Perry and the whole of MSNBC for smearing Republicans and conservatives as racists. He could have urged soul-searching by liberals to examine how harmful their race-baiting is to American society. Instead, Romney joined Republicans and conservatives in saying we should ‘move on’ and close the book on this episode.
For this Romney is being praised as gracious and “classy”. However, one can graciously accept an apology for a personal affront, but still discuss the bigger picture of liberal race-baiting.
You can’t win the hearts and minds (and votes) of minorities if you constantly allow yourself to be smeared as a racist.
Caleb Howe, writing at the Right Scoop, was one of the few to see the big picture in this incident:
So the only group due an apology yet to hear one, and who will almost certainly never hear one, are Republicans across the nation, who are caricatured and characterized as obviously racist every single day, based solely on their party affiliation. Unfortunately, as we’ll show later today in a follow-up post, the racist assumption about the right crops right back up in Harris-Perry’s show only a few segments after the above clip.
You show that you are a class act by not getting down to the same level as the vile scumbags who mindlessly attack you.
Yes, those class acts have proven so effective against Democratic villainy. /s
Poodles pitted against attack dogs....
The left considers the right “racist” for expecting all people in America to comply with some basic behavioral standards based on traditional values.
The left IS racist for expecting minorities to be incapable of complying with those standards due to inferiority.
Even with a child, you should have them admit they understand what they did wrong. Harris did not admit race-baiting was wrong—just that in that instance, she overreached and got slapped. She cried because she got slapped, not that she understands what she did was wrong.
The LEFT learned nothing.
Alex Wagner, Howard Dean and PP head Cecile Richards are beating up on Little Sisters of the Poor right now on MSNBC ‘NOW with..’
Yeah...that's worked out SO well for us. It always makes the low end news when you're the bigger man....and the drones love it. /sarcasm
Right....Tell me again which election Mr. Nice Guy has won recently
Well my dear, what do you think he should have said? I refuse to accept your apology.
Sincerely,
Henry VIII
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Henry, that's always been one of your problems---you have all the imagination of a tree stump.
And that's in addition to being fat and smelly.
Just finished reading a book on the Tudors-—my favorite period in English history. Love your screen name.
Still think MR handled the situation with class and finesse and the gentleman he is rather than getting into a pissing contest with a low life piece of trash from MSNBS.
Talk to you later, your grace.
Thank you. I love English history.
I understand your point, but IMO if Republicans were less gentlemanly (and cowardly, as in Boehner and company), Democrats wouldn’t have gained so much ground. We should have gotten tough with them decades ago. So now we have well-mannered Republicans who shy away from tough talk, and a country which is falling apart.
Stay warm tonight
SO Melissa Harris-Perry, isn’t she the woman who put on those tampon earrings? Maybe this family didn’t give a d$%^ about adopting a foreign kind, maybe they just wanted to give the adopted kid a better life, and the actual parent(s) a better chance than would have otherwise been had. What’s funny about her is that she gets mad when someone does what most libs expect some wealthy person to do in adopting or taking care of some poor kid. I get the impression that they’re a bunch of empty hypocrites, of course, that’s nothing new, honestly.
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