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Mary Frances Berry Endorses Clark, Will Serve On Natl. Steering Committee (BWWAAA HAAAHAAA!!!)
Weasel Clark 04 ^
| 1/6/04
Posted on 01/06/2004 10:10:55 AM PST by areafiftyone
Little Rock - Sunday, at a "Women for Clark" event in Manchester, New Hampshire, Dr. Mary Frances Berry officially endorsed General Clark. Dr. Berry will serve as a member of the Clark for President National Steering Committee.
"I've never endorsed a presidential candidate before," said Dr. Berry. "But when I talk to General Clark, and when I listen to him, I can see him as a president for all Americans."
General Clark was thrilled to receive Dr. Berry's endorsement.
"For years, Dr. Berry has been a powerful voice for justice - in the classroom, in our courts, and in the halls of Congress. She's devoted her career to standing up and speaking out for those who all too often are not heard, and we're a better nation because of her work," saidClark. "Dr. Berry is one of the greatest civil rights leaders of our time, and it's a profound honor to have her on my team."
Dr. Berry is Chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Berry led the Commission's investigation of voting rights violations in Florida in the wake of the 2000 election. The United States Commission on Civil Rights investigates civil rights violations and works to ensure that all citizens are afforded equal protection under the law.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; clark; clintonistas; maryfrancesberry; wesleyclark
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To: cyncooper
This may not be a fair bet. The next appointment may belong to the democrats as the appointments rotate between the parties.
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:38:10 AM PST
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: Peach
>Another kiss of death
People say that Clark
is Clinton's candidate. If
they're right, remember
during Clinton's years,
decent people always thought
every new scandal
was the kiss of death.
But for Clinton they were like
cold, vampire kisses
and they all gave him
more support among his kind...
If Clinton's people
have switched their support
to Clark, "scandals" just feed them,
keep them "live" zombies...
To: areafiftyone
Ahh, yes...another winning edorsement from one of the Marxist voices from Pacifica Radio.
Washington Times ~ EDITORIAL July 1, 2001
Mary Frances Berry's 'propaganda mill'
"For more than 20 years in Washington, Mary Frances Berry has been so obsessed with perceived racism at every turn that the facts never get in her way. First appointed in 1980 as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by President Carter and named chairman by Bill Clinton in 1993, Miss Berry is one of the nation's premier race baiters -- which is saying a lot considering the antics of the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, her two most important allies. No perceived grievance has been spared her appetite for racial demagoguery.
Perhaps Stuart Taylor Jr., the former Justice Department correspondent for the New York Times and now the legal affairs columnist for the National Journal, has said it best. Under Miss Berry's direction, Mr. Taylor recently observed, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has become nothing more than "a propaganda mill for the victimology wing of the Democratic Party." Even by her low standards, Miss Berry has outdone herself in her commission's "investigation" of Florida's electoral procedures during last year's presidential election.
Condemning Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and Gov. Jeb Bush for being "grossly derelict" in conducting a statewide election pervaded by "a pattern and practice of injustice, ineptitude and injustice," the report endorsed by Miss Berry and the other five Democratic-appointed commissioners charges "widespread voter disenfranchisement" of black voters. But there's one glaring problem. It obviously isn't the fact that black voters, who comprise 13 percent of Florida's registered voters, managed to cast a disproportionately large share -- 15 percent -- of statewide votes. Nor, clearly, is it the fact that black voter participation in the 2000 election was 65 percent higher than it was in 1996.
So, what, then, is the problem? Well, the commission's report fails to provide any evidence proving a single incident of discrimination deliberately denying the right to vote of any eligible minority voter. Zero. Judging from Miss Berry's history, one could hardly be surprised. After all, despite the fact that Miss Berry holds a law degree and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and has been the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania since 1987, she has a record of making colossally foolish judgments.
With grateful acknowledgment to John J. Millier of National Review, who uncovered the gem, consider the hilarious observations that appeared in "Long Memory: The Black Experience in America," a book Miss Berry co-wrote with John Blassingame in 1982, the year, as it happens, that former KGB chief Yuri Andropov replaced longtime party boss Leonid Brezhnev as top dog of the Soviet Union's Communist Party. "Blacks shared so many of the economic goals of the communists that many of them might be described as fellow travelers," Miss Berry wrote. Yet, "Blacks remained cool to the communists," she admitted, ignorantly explaining, "Subjected to a massive barrage of propaganda from the American news media, few knew about Russia's constitutional safeguard for minorities, the extent of the equality of opportunity, or the equal provision of social services to its citizens."
Now, that statement is simply breathtaking in its ignorance, which probably was willful, making the view all the more abominable. Indeed, it explains how Miss Berry has self gratifyingly turned her commission into an instrument of agitprop that Josef Stalin would have appreciated. Consider also Miss Berry's observation about the condition of black Americans in the 1960s, the decade during which her formerly august commission played such a vital role through its scholarship in the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In "Long Memory," she observes, "The threat of genocide was real. It was roughly comparable to the threat faced by the Jews in the 1930s." Not only was Miss Berry content to allow her hateful revisionism to reveal herself to be a demagogue of the highest caliber, but she evidently had no problem revealing her utter ignorance of the evil of Hitler's Third Reich, a stunning self-indictment for a supposedly renowned historian.
Indeed, Miss Berry has never let the facts get in her way. She poured gas on the racial flames of the great hoax of mass burnings of black churches in the South. She interjected herself into the riot conducted by black students at a Decatur, Ill., high school football game, only to be made to look like a fool when the videotape showed the suspended hooligans in action. Miss Berry has been so busy race-baiting that she has exercised virtually no managerial control over the commission she chairs.
In 1997, four years after she became chairman, the General Accounting Office (GAO), an investigative arm of Congress, issued a scathing report declaring her commission to be in "disarray" and unable to accomplish its mission. The GAO described an agency that lacked even the most basic management oversight and often took years to produce obsolete reports, and was unable to account for its spending. Predictably, Miss Berry blamed her predecessors. Miss Berry's incompetent reign is technically scheduled to terminate Dec. 5, 2004. That means President Bush will have the power to replace her before the end of her first term.
Miss Berry, imitating the old Soviet politburo machinations that so obviously intrigue her, has attempted to finagle an expiration date of Jan. 21, 2005, which would put her out of Mr. Bush's reach in the event a Democrat succeeds him in 2005. One of the best things Mr. Bush could do to improve long-term race relations is to let the race-baiting Miss Berry know that her attempted subterfuge will not stand. The sooner he lets her know to have her bags packed by Dec. 5, 2004, the sooner she can begin her inevitable cries of racism."
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:44:03 AM PST
by
cwb
(ç†)
To: areafiftyone
She's devoted her career to standing up and speaking out for those who all too often are not heard, and we're a better nation because of her work," saidClark. "Dr. Berry is one of the greatest civil rights leaders of our time, and it's a profound honor to have her on my team."The woman is a hateful, charmless, rude dictator. She is unable to do anything but humiliate and disrespect any person with whom she disagrees.
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:50:07 AM PST
by
Dolphy
To: areafiftyone
Berry and Mugabe: Separated at birth
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:51:10 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Any musical with a PBY-5 Catalina in it can't be all bad.)
To: martin_fierro
OMG - that is too funny!
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:53:06 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
To: Phantom Lord
I hope it doesn't belong to the democrats. Her term ends in 2005!
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:53:20 AM PST
by
cyncooper
("The evil is in plain sight")
To: areafiftyone
Vote for Wesley, or I'll crush you under my heel!
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:56:14 AM PST
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
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posted on
01/06/2004 10:56:55 AM PST
by
mhking
(My brother and I had never seen The Belt........but we had heard about it....)
To: areafiftyone
" "Dr. Berry is one of the greatest civil rights leaders of our time, and it's a profound honor to have her on my team."
Translation: My chances of winning the Democratic presidential nomination at this point are so slim that I'll take anybody!
To: mhking; areafiftyone; hellinahandcart; NYC GOP Chick
I thought for sure she would have endorsed Tawana Sharpton.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:05:48 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Excellence in Shameless Self-Promotion)
To: Phantom Lord; deport
Though I have little to no faith that President Bush was ashcan her at the end of her term. I am willing to make a wager that he does not. After the way she treated his appointees, there is no way he'll reappoint. It'll be right after reelection, what'll he care? There are already four Republicans on the panel, so he'll have to replace her with a right-leaning "independent" (MFB is technically an 'I'.)
Bush appointee Jennifer Braceras would be a good candidate to run for something in Massachusetts some day. Her term ends in 2007.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:13:20 AM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Abolish the food tax)
To: areafiftyone
Clark for President National Steering Committee.This Committee sounds like a cattle drive. "Head 'em up, move 'em out." The new battle cry for clark.
Looks like she's been designated the cook on the wagon train to Washington.
To: cyncooper
Her term ends in 2005! Thats the problem I was speaking of before. The Plum Book lists her term as ending sometime in December. She personally decided to list her term as ending the day after inaguration 2005. So if Bush and others really wanted to push the issue, they could have a court decide and boot her before the end of his term.
Though the slow pace with which courts operate, such a move would be useless.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:44:00 AM PST
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: areafiftyone
One by one, the Clintonistas slither into the Clark campaign.
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:46:55 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard Dean - all bike and no path)
To: JohnnyZ
There are four republicans, three democrats and one Independent..... Berry list herself as the independent.... I don't know who's turn it is to make the next appointment. It usually alternates, President then Congress which alternates Senate/House. I don't who's term is up next nor who has the next appt.
The President appoints the Chairperson but it must be confirmed by the Commission members...
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:47:38 AM PST
by
deport
(..... DONATE TO FREEREPUBLIC......)
To: areafiftyone
I would guess the weasel never heard of berry before this.
FMCDH
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posted on
01/06/2004 11:56:06 AM PST
by
nothingnew
(The pendulum is swinging and the Rats are in the pit!)
To: Phantom Lord
Hopefully. Though I have little to no faith that President Bush was ashcan her at the end of her term. I am willing to make a wager that he does not.I hope you're wrong -- and I hope that he appoints Abigail Thernstrom to that position. That'll be a *major* upgrade!
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posted on
01/06/2004 12:13:15 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(no longer sneezing, but still fairly cranky and sick right now :( ....)
To: areafiftyone
What's next? Peter Deutsch? Robert Wexler? Carol Roberts?
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posted on
01/06/2004 12:15:36 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Every man dies. Not every man really lives")
To: areafiftyone
OMG, it just doesn't get much better than this, does it????
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posted on
01/06/2004 12:16:54 PM PST
by
Howlin
(Bush has stolen two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
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