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When FOX News host Glenn Beck said during an interview with Katie Couric this week, “John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama,” his comments made headlines. Beck explained that “McCain is this weird progressive like Theodore Roosevelt was.” Beck laid out this view in better detail on his television program earlier this month: I am becoming more and more libertarian every day, I guess the scales are falling off of my eyes, as I’m doing more and more research into history and learning real history. Back at the turn of the century in 1900, with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential presidential contender in 2008, "seems to have a lot of anger" and voters usually do not send angry candidates to the White House, the Republican Party chairman said Sunday. "When you think of the level of anger, I'm not sure it's what Americans want," said Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican National Committee. Mehlman cited the New York senator's remarks on Martin Luther King Day in which she called the Bush administration "one of the worst" in history and compared the Republican-controlled House to a plantation where opposing voices are...

Ex-president Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary on Friday for claiming last month that the GOP-led Congress was being run like a "plantation," adding that he thought House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers." Asked if he agreed with Mrs. Clinton's comment, the ex-president told WCBS Radio's Peter Maer: "Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones." "It was more about the arbitrary and complete exercise of power and control," he contended." Clinton cited an unnamed farmer-turned-congressman from East Arkansas who told him he agreed with Hillary as well. "I wouldn't say we were slaves," Clinton quoted the...

Two elected Democrats took the occasion of Martin Luther King’s birthday celebration on January 16 to give race-baiting speeches before black audiences. One did it because he is stupid. The other did it because she thinks blacks are stupid.

As a Black Conservative author of “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation” I understand why Hillary Clinton used the plantation in a recent speech. Hillary Clinton’s use of the word “plantation” was appropriate for the democratic Senator from New York. As a member of the Democratic Party, Clinton is an expert on plantation management and the plantation Mentality. It was the Democratic Party that fought to keep slavery legal, supported the south during the civil war and supported the formation of the Klan. It was the Democratic Party that passed the Fugitive Slave Act, Black Codes, Missouri Compromise and the...

This year's Martin Luther King Day celebration was a wild and woolly collection of left-wing blather. In Washington, showing remarkable feats of amnesia that he was ever vice president in a corrupt administration, Al Gore gave a speech claiming President Bush was a law-breaking president and his illegal actions a threat to the survival of our democracy, an extraordinary accusation for even this man to make, given the same policies were executed by the Clinton-Gore administration. In New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin announced that God wanted New Orleans to be a "chocolate" city again. When challenged that this might make...

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), speaking at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, attended on the pretext of honoring the Civil Rights leader, but instead she dishonored his memory with her race-baiting comments. She sarcastically whined: “When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about.” Hillary continues to sound a Democrat theme - making race a divisive issue in America. Sen. Clinton - reared in Illinois - forgets that Repu-lican Illinois Sen. Everitt Dirksen, Senate...

Some media appear to be agitated by the remarks made by Sen. Hillary Clinton, which reference the Republican leadership as being 'like a plantation'. Such surrounds their perception of this statement as being offensive to African Americans. Which of the following most accurately reflects your feeling about this so called controversy: I am outraged by her remarks. Hillary 'gets it' the others are still lost 'Plantation' as a description of the Republican leadership is a severe understatement

Transcript of Fox News' Cavuto on Business show with Meredith Whitney and Herman Cain, January 21, 2006 NEIL CAVUTO (host): All right, we're back to go "On the Spot." Meredith, my friend, what have you got? WHITNEY: It will take more than a village to get Hillary Clinton elected in '08 after her comments on the plantation. She's doomed. CAVUTO: So the charge that Republicans ran Congress like a plantation, you think, hurts her? WHITNEY: Yeah. Offended just about everyone. CAVUTO: Maybe she's galvanizing, do you think she could be galvanizing her base? WHITNEY: Well, she galvanized blacks, she galvanized...

Hillary's Plantation By SHELBY STEELE Hoover InstitutionJanuary 23, 2006; Page A16Of course Hillary Clinton's recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a "plantation" was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly would have been a prime venue for her husband: a largely black audience on Martin Luther King Day. So, clearly, she was looking to connect with this most loyal Democratic constituency. But Mrs. Clinton is possessed of a tin ear precisely where her husband is all deftness and charm. Black audiences are beyond her. The room of black faces...

Of course Hillary Clinton's recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a "plantation" was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly would have been a prime venue for her husband: a largely black audience on Martin Luther King Day. So, clearly, she was looking to connect with this most loyal Democratic constituency. But Mrs. Clinton is possessed of a tin ear precisely where her husband is all deftness and charm. Black audiences are beyond her. The room of black faces that brings her husband alive, freezes her in overbearing rectitude.

Mudslinging by leading Democrats, usually taking form these days as trying to brand Republicans as racists, confirms what I have been writing about for a number of years: the Democratic Party is running on an empty tank. Bankrupt of ideas, the only thing they have to offer is slamming the opposition and playing the race card. The latest case in point is Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Martin Luther King Day pandering to a black audience in Harlem, telling them that Republicans run the House of Representatives "like a plantation and you know what I am talking about." According to Mrs....

WASHINGTON In the past week, the Bush and Clinton camps have traded nasty words and asides in a series of exchanges with faint echoes of the 1992 presidential campaign. On the surface, the most recent skirmishing seemed to start with assertions by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, that Republicans were running Congress "like a plantation," and that the Bush administration would "go down in history as one of the worst." But strategists in both parties said the hostilities were more likely the opening shots of the 2008 presidential campaign season. ... The battle has been building for...

LET ME see if I understand. The junior senator from New York, who many believe is the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, went to the famed Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem on Martin Luther King Day. Standing where King stood when he preached the installation sermon for his dear friend the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, the junior senator said to the predominately black audience: When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what Im talking about. Beyond the GOP hyperbole that would like...

The latest installment in the Democratic Party’s attempt to divide the country came this week when their favorite daughter, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D – NY), used the occasion of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to stem the decline of Black people voting for their candidates. Democrats are justifiably frightened over the fact that in 2004 President Bush received between 12 to 16 percent support from African-American voters in battleground states such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Speaking this week at Harlem’s Canaan Baptist Church of Christ, Mrs. Clinton stated, “When you look at the way the House of...

by Mark Finkelstein January 21, 2006 - 19:12 Q: How does a lefty media maven know when he's gone off the deep end? A. When even fellow liberal Jane Hall laughs at him. Neal Gabler should take the lesson to heart, because that's exactly what happened to him on tonight's Fox Media Watch. The subject matter was the media's handling of Hillary Clinton's Plantation Declaration. Jane began with a surprisingly candid assessment of Clinton and her presidential ambitions: "She's clearly running for President and I think the media should quit going around that fact. She's tiptoeing around that fact. The...

Shooting yourself in the foot By David Limbaugh Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush. Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice - albeit a decidedly phony one - as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base. If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment,...

When Hillary Clinton used her Martin Luther King Day tribute to accuse Republicans of running Washington like an Old South "plantation" - she knew whereof she spoke. In fact, when Hillary and Bill ran Arkansas, Dr. King didn't even have a holiday in his honor - at least not all to himself. Instead, Arkansans celebrated a combination holiday that honored both King and Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general who fought to allow the South to keep blacks enslaved. And that wasn't the only example of the kind of plantation politics that characterized the Clintons' rule in Arkansas. According to...

    Race-baiters betray the King legacy By Tony SnowJan 20, 2006 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Let history record that the race-baiting industry died on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2006 -- courtesy of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's "Chocolate City" oration and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's "You know what I'm talkin' about" rant.  The race-baiting industry has been dangling on the precipice of comic irrelevance for some time. Jesse Jackson's embrace of despots -- most recently, Hugo Chavez -- has reduced him to bit-player status, and Louis Farrakhan's "whitey blew up the levee" act after the hurricanes removed all doubt about...

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could take a few les sons from Laura Bush if she really wants to run for president in 2008.</p> <p>The current first lady used the scalpel of ridicule to deftly cut the former first lady down to size by dismissing her "plantation" crack about Republicans as "a ridiculous comment."</p>

Senator Clinton’s Martin Luther King Day speech was perhaps the first gaffe in the 2008 presidential race. While it would be silly to characterize this mistake as a huge issue that is going to derail her candidacy, it does provide an opportunity to take a look Hillary’s candidacy and her chances for the Democratic nomination and the Presidency. For those unaware of Hillary’s “plantation” remark, this is what she said at Al Sharpton’s event to a predominantly black audience in Harlem: When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a...

Up until recently, the New York senator has been under fire from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party for refusing to join the call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and for her finely modulated criticism of President Bush. But there is a new tough-talking Clinton these days. At a Harlem church on Martin Luther King Day, she said that Bush's presidency would "go down in history as one of the worst" and that the GOP-controlled House "has been run like a plantation." In a post-New Year's Day thank-you note to donors, Clinton assured them she would fight for...

"I have in the past certainly, you know maybe, called somebody a name. But I have never used an ethnic, racial, anti-Semitic, bigoted, discriminatory, prejudiced, accusation against anybody. I've never done it. I've never thought it." That is what Hillary Clinton said in July 2000, after the release of the book "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" Among the details it contained was Hillary calling the campaign manager of Bill's 1974 Congressional Race a "f--king Jew Bastard." Hillary, who was running for the Senate at the time, also said about the book, "I...

    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fiery political remark Monday that the Republican House is like a "plantation" has triggered charges of playing the race card and a sharp rebuke from first lady Laura Bush, who called her comment ridiculous.     The New York Democrat's racial broadside during a Martin Luther King Day appearance at a Baptist church in Harlem continued to spark debate yesterday on both sides of the political aisle.     Black Democratic leaders such as Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois defended and attempted to explain Mrs. Clinton's remarks, saying she was referring to a "further consolidation of power" by Republicans in...

Hillary Clinton and the ‘White’ HouseBy Lee Harris | 19 Jan 2006 Hillary Rodham Clinton recently said that the White House under George Bush has become “a plantation,” and most of the black Democrats in Congress have endorsed her remark. Laura Bush, the presumptive mistress of the plantation, has called Senator Clinton’s remark “ridiculous, just ridiculous.” Now what put it into Senator Clinton’s mind to call the White House, where she herself was once the First Lady, a plantation? What is the basis of her analogy? Southern plantations were known for two things, one good and one bad. Let’s look...

In honor of Hillary Clinton's "Let my people go!" rant at a MLK event in New York, I believe that President Bush issue the following: The Emancipation Proclamation- For House Democrats November 7, 2006 By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, all persons...

Nearly three days after Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke her debated "plantation" remark, the Los Angeles Times has finally printed its first word about the controversy today (Thursday January 20, 2006).Tucked on page A8 of today's edition is "Clinton's Remark Criticized," a 495-word piece by Times staff writer Edwin Chen. The article begins with the eye-opening observation that Hillary's comment "continued making political waves Wednesday."Congratulations to the Times on such swift, cutting-edge news coverage ... (roll eyes) ...[Past related stories here and here.]

Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. -- A potential Republican challenger called Wednesday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to "do the honorable thing" and take to the Senate floor to apologize for saying the GOP-controlled House of Representatives is "run like a plantation." The former first lady's claim came Monday during an appearance at a Martin Luther King Day event in New York City and has drawn complaints from several Republicans. Current first lady Laura Bush said Wednesday the remark was "ridiculous." "Senator Clinton's race baiting by comparing the U.S. Congress to a plantation exploits those who suffered under slavery and it...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A potential Republican challenger called Wednesday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to "do the honorable thing" and take to the Senate floor to apologize for saying the GOP-controlled House of Representatives is "run like a plantation."

GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) by Mia T, 01.18.06           "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on...

When Hillary Clinton used her Martin Luther King Day tribute to accuse Republicans of running Washington like an Old South "plantation" - she knew whereof she spoke. In fact, when Hillary and Bill ran Araksnas, Dr. King didn't even have a holiday in his honor - at least not all to himself.

HILLARY'S PLANTATION The uproar continues today over the comments made by New York Senator Hillary Clinton at a Martin Luther King Day event on Monday. Or does it? Here is what she said: "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about." Oh really? A plantation! You don't say. And what does the line "and you know what I'm talking about" mean? Does she mean the Republicans in the House are the masters and the Democrats the slaves? Maybe she means that...

Sources close to New York civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton tell me that Hillary used his annual Martin Luther King Day forum to liken the House Republican majority's conduct of the House of Representatives to a "plantation" because she fears a Sharpton challenge in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary. Hillary also fears that if Sharpton were to challenge her, it could weaken her in a possible contest against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the fall, if Rice were to be the GOP nominee. "She is afraid of Condi," one of Sharpton's key people said. "She did not attend...

Trying to put out the fire that Hillary's "plantation" remark started, Dem strategist Elaine Kamarck might unintentionally have added fuel to it in a just-completed Fox News interview.

Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for describing the House of Representatives as a "plantation," saying he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters. The senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input." "There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which, if...

The freaks come out at night. The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King Day. Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton, perhaps looking to distract attention from those pesky Code Pink protesters who've been dogging her over the Iraq war, commemorated the holiday by pulling a reverse Sister Souljah at race hustler Al Sharpton's pulpit in Harlem. The Canaan Baptist Church welcomed her pandering with what the Associated Press described as "thunderous applause." When a Democrat politician stumps at a church, you see, it's "minority outreach." When a Republican politician stumps at a church, it's a theocratic outrage. Asked to explain...

Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush. Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice -- albeit a decidedly phony one -- as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base. If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment, he could almost sympathize with a woman saddled...

Laura Bush criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday for suggesting that the Republican-controlled House is run like a plantation where dissenting voices are ignored. "It think it's ridiculous — it's a ridiculous comment," Mrs. Bush told reporters when asked about the remark during a return flight to Washington following her four-day swing through West Africa. Clinton made the comment in Harlem at an event honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. She said the GOP was running the House "like a plantation" because ideas from the minority Democrats were not respected. The White House on Tuesday called the senator's...

Black Dem Blasts 'Plantation' Hillary Clinton A high profile black Democrat in New York City is blasting Hillary Clinton for playing racial politics with her Martin Luther King Day tribute, saying her use of the term "plantation" was "condescending" to African Americans. "I think her speech was contrived and condescending," City Councilman Charles Barron told ABC Radio's Sean Hannity on Tuesday. "I don't like the idea that she used 'plantation' with a black audience," Barron complained. "I think that's a very serious analogy and I understand when we [blacks] use it from time to time. But that has been a...

So Hillary Clinton thinks the House of Representatives is being "run like a plantation." And, she added, "you know what I'm talking about." First of all: Think about what a weird coincidence it is that Hillary would have made these remarks in a black church in Harlem on Martin Luther King Day. What are the odds? Did she even know it was a holiday? Bravely spoken, Senator. I haven't been this surprised since finding out Hollywood likes a movie about gay cowboys. As Hillary explained, the House "has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view...

Laura Bush on Hillary's plantation remark: 'I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment'... Laura on Nagin's remarks: 'I don't think I can really speak for God, I'm not really sure. On the other hand I think he wants New Orleans to be rebuilt; he wants people who lived in New Orleans before to come back and I do too'... Developing...

On Martin Luther King Day, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) Chose To Divide Americans:On Martin Luther King Day, Sen. Clinton Said: "[The House Of Representatives] Has Been Run Like A Plantation, And You Know What I'm Talking About ... It Has Been Run In A Way So That Nobody With A Contrary View Has Had A Chance To Present Legislation, To Make An Argument, To Be Heard." (Sen. Hillary Clinton, Remarks In Harlem, New York, 1/16/06)Click Here To Watch Video Of Sen. Hillary Clinton's "Plantation" Attack "Asked If She [Hillary Clinton] Regretted The Comment, The New York Democrat Said, 'Absolutely Not."'...

**** Sen. Hillary Clinton's plantation speech earns her an A-plus in racial politics and a F-minus in presidential acumen. James Ring Ossining ***** Just when we thought Harry Belafonte and Sens. Ted Kennedy and Chuck Schumer had created the all-time low points in public spectacles....... Her hostile and vitriolic plantation-politics speech was all about her, not him. This aging generation of frustrated Democrats and their decades of self-serving agendas gave America 9/11. I have a dream that there might be a few young and inspiring voices in the Democratic Party who will find the courage to tell these egotistical, morally...

Funny, I always thought that part of Doctor King’s dream was the coming of a day when nobody would notice the color of anybody’s skin, a day when their accomplishments would speak for themselves.

Yonkers, NY: Today, Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Spencer called on Senator Clinton to do the honorable thing and apologize for her racially divisive comments. "Senator Clinton's race baiting by comparing the U.S. Congress to a plantation exploits those who suffered under slavery and it trivializes the brutality of a dark period in American history." Said Spencer, "People make mistakes, and when they do, honest people quickly recognize it and apologize. For Senator Clinton not to apologize over 48 hours later can only lead voters to think she really meant and stands by these racially divisive remarks. This is very...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ A potential Republican challenger called Wednesday for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to "do the honorable thing" and take to the Senate floor to apologize for saying the GOP-controlled House of Representatives is "run like a plantation." The former first lady's claim came Monday during an appearance at a Martin Luther King Day event in New York City and has drawn complaints from several Republicans. Current first lady Laura Bush said Wednesday the remark was "ridiculous." "Senator Clinton's race baiting by comparing the U.S. Congress to a plantation exploits those who suffered under slavery and it trivializes...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday defended Sen. Hillary Clinton for describing the House of Representatives as a "plantation," saying he felt her choice of words referred to a "consolidation of power" in Washington that squeezes out the voters. The senator told CNN's "American Morning" he believed that Clinton was merely expressing concern that special interests play such a large role in writing legislation that "the ordinary voter and even members of Congress who aren't in the majority party don't have much input." "There's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House in which,...

President George W. Bush's staff are mad as hell and they're not taking it anymore. They charged that the junior senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton was "out of bounds" when she said Monday that the Bush administration was "one of the worst" in US history and compared the Republican House to "a plantation." The former First Lady said this at a rally in Harlem to honor Dr. Martin Luther King. Senator Clinton shared the stage with Rev. Al Sharpton and New York City Councilman Charles Barron who once said he'd like to walk up to a white man...

With her bizarre claim that the House of Representatives is "run like a plantation," Sen. Hillary Clinton has turned a harsh spotlight on herself. Speculation is hot and heavy about why she made the inflammatory remark on the holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., especially when she has been taking steps toward the political center. As with all things Clinton, the conventional wisdom is that the moment was calculated. Appearing with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other far-out Dems, this theory goes, she was feeding the crowd red meat to get its applause and Sharpton's approval. She obliged,...