Posted on 08/26/2014 5:41:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Asian Chamber of Commerce last week: "The Asian population is so productive. I don't think you're smarter than anybody else, but you've convinced a lot of us you are." In remarks videotaped by the GOP group America Rising, Reid also joked that he has trouble keeping his "Wongs straight." Then followed this apology: "My comments were in extremely poor taste, and I apologize. Sometimes I say the wrong thing."
Sometimes? Reid is being far too humble.
After the perfunctory apology, then comes the phase when Beltway solons offer explanations for why the Senate's top Democrat can be the author of many a faux pas without being branded as a creepy kook. The Washington Post's Aaron Blake wrote that Reid is "like Joe Biden; he's almost built up a gaffe immunity by committing so many small-ish gaffes."
Republican Sarah Palin's many ill-considered words define her in Washington. But Democrat Reid gets gaffe immunity. He just keeps running off at the mouth and then apologizing, but he never really has to worry about paying a heavy political price. He's a ruthless politician, yet Washington treats him as if he were this regular guy -- but with a tact problem.
Reid's comments to the Asian Chamber of Commerce weren't hateful -- unless, that is, you belong to an ethnic group that the sage of Searchlight, Nevada, believes is not so productive. These remarks are reminiscent of what he said in 2008 about Barack Obama's being electable as a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." In 2010, Reid had to apologize for his "poor choice of words" after they found their way into "Game Change," the groundbreaking expose of the presidential race written by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
Reid also dismissed Justice Clarence Thomas as an "embarrassment to the Supreme Court."
It must be so, because Reid is so enlightened about people of color that he ventured to opine in 2010, "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican."
In 2012, Reid charged that Mitt Romney "didn't pay taxes for 10 years." PolitiFact rated that claim "pants on fire" false -- but it served to muddy Romney's reputation under cover of Reid's gaffe immunity.
He once complained that Washington's humidity was so high "you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol." Well, he thought it was funny. Reid famously told a reporter that the death of Ted Kennedy would help Democrats pass health care reform.
Once, CNN's Dana Bash asked Reid whether he would vote for a bill to continue National Institutes for Health funding: "If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?"
Reid's answer: "Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own."
If a GOP Senate candidate said half the things Reid has said, then Reid would show him no mercy.
“Republican Sarah Palin’s many ill-considered words define her in Washington”
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Not gaffs. He’s just plum dumb
“Sometimes I say the wrong thing.”
Sometimes?!?!?!?! It’s been many decades since Harry uttered a single thing that wasn’t wrong....and that was on accident...and he was 10 years old...
I’ve said it before: Harry Reid is a senile old fool and needs to be forced into retirement.
Every time ha speaks his extreme Socialist Anti-American position is in poor taste.
Just the author’s opinion, nothing else
and evil
Dementia
He should have been forced into retirement a long time ago
very well said
You know - Like Tina Fey’s immortal non-quote of Sarah when she said “I can see Russia from my house!”
Much of the malarkey attributed to Sarah Palin, in my experience, is mangled quotes and non-quotes provided by the mocking of the liberal establishment.
Kind of like the fact that she used the phrase “death panels” to describe the actual death panels in Obamacare.
Reid’s “light skinned” comments about Obama were straight up racist.
What makes it racist is he sincerely thought he was being complimentary toward Obama on his likeability.
Those comments cleary suggest in his mind that he would not be as likeable if Obama was dark skinned and spoke with more of a “Negro dialect”
So I guess MLK was not presidential material by Reid’s standards.
The author is a “california conservative.” For a long time, and maybe still, she was the one token “conservative” allowed to write a column for the SF Chronicle, but was considered so dangerous that she had to be labeled a conservative by the newspaper. She’s actually tepid.
Almost as dependably as the morons lining up to vote for the demented bastard.
Why yes.... remember the ill-considered, "Death panels"? Oh wait..... that was a true statement, as is everything else she says!
Stupid MSM
Reid is a creepy, corrupt old man in contsant need of a soiled diaper change.
I betcha his little red rubber band bracelet says CTR instead of WWJD.
By whom?
It’s OBVIOUS that the elgible VOTERS like him; even if the powers that reside high over SLC apparently don’t care that he is a REALLY poor choice for an “I am a MORMON” video.
Give the man a break and realize what he has believed for a GREAT portion of his life!!
"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.
The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.
This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."
Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.
Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.
2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'
Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'
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August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:
(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)
1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson "The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."
We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood. According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented. |
Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:
"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.
The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."
(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).
When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:
"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."
When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:
"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."
(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)
Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.
“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.
At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.
One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.
(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)
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"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."
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