Slurs fly from the Left

Boston Globe ^ | 12/28/05 | Jeff Jacoby

[raccoonradio]

NOTHING BRINGS OUT RACIST slurs like an ambitious black man who doesn't know his ''place." So when Maryland's lieutenant governor, Michael Steele, announced his candidacy for the US Senate recently, the bigots reared up. On one popular website, The News Blog, Steele's picture was grotesquely doctored, making him look like a minstrel-show caricature. ''I's Simple Sambo and I's Running for the Big House," read the insulting headline accompanying the picture.

This wasn't some white supremacist slime from the right-wing fringe. The News Blog is a liberal site, and the reason for its racist attack on Steele, a former chairman of the Maryland Republican Party, is that he is a conservative. Specifically, a black conservative. As far as too many liberals are concerned, blacks who reject liberalism deserve to be smeared as Sambos and worse.

''Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael Steele . . . are fair because he is a conservative Republican," The Washington Times reported. ''Such attacks . . . include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an 'Uncle Tom,' and depicting him as a blackfaced minstrel."

[raccoonradio]

Well, ONE voice of reason in the Boston Globe

[MNJohnnie]

Way to go Mr Jacoby! Nothing drive the Plantation Liberals more wild then an an uppity monitory peon speaking truth to power. I salute your courage Mr Steele.

[Rummyfan]

On one popular website, The News Blog, Steele's picture was grotesquely doctored, making him look like a minstrel-show caricature. ''I's Simple Sambo and I's Running for the Big House," read the insulting headline accompanying the picture.

Hypocrisy thy name is the left! Barack Obama, Cynthia McKinney et al are never subjected to this racist BS. Of course they are the 'right kind' of black.

[raccoonradio]

from article:
>>If this kind of toxic rhetoric came only from crackpots, it would be easy enough to dismiss. When it comes from pundits, celebrities, and politicians -- people whose views tend to get respectful attention -- it does real damage, and should be universally condemned.

>>But there was no universal condemnation this year for:

Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, who denounced President Bush as an ''evil maniac" and ''Führer"...

>>Syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant, who depicted Bush imploring a cosmetic surgeon to make him ''look like a leader" whom the ''herd" will ''follow . . . blindly and without question." The surgeon transforms him into a Hitler lookalike.

>>Rabbi Eric Yoffie of the Union for Reformed Judaism, another liberal who blithely compares conservatives to Nazis.

[End Times Sentinel]

I dunno, it's not THAT racist...

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Hatteras]

"Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael Steele . . . are fair because he is a conservative Republican,..."

Ted couldn't have said it better himself.

[Hill of Tara]

The behavior of these liberals is not surprising. I would have been shocked if those leftist hypocrites actually did accord Steele some respect.

[Muleteam1]

Every now and then the Democratic Party reverts back to their orgins of white hoods and burning crosses. "Keep 'em barefooted and stupid and in their place."

Muleteam1

[JewishRighter]

Is that really the image the posted?! OMG!!!

[End Times Sentinel]

Yup.  The original blog took it down, but not before Michelle Malkin grabbed it.  Suckers.

(Mandatory MM pic)

Owl_Eagle

(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,

 it was probably sarcasm)

[Chanticleer]

Great column!