Posted on 12/09/2004 2:52:04 AM PST by kattracks
Still furious about the election, liberals are lashing out at blacks. First it was Condoleezza Rice. But calling a Ph.D. who advised a sitting president during war "Aunt Jemima" apparently hasn't satiated the Democrats' rage. Even the racist cartoons didn't help.
So this week, they've turned with a vengeance to Clarence Thomas. Only the Democrats would try to distract from their racist attacks on one black Republican by leveling racist attacks against a different black Republican. If Democrats don't nip this in the bud, soon former Klanner and Democratic Sen. Bob Byrd will be their spokesman.
In the past few weeks, there have been nasty insinuations all around about Condoleezza Rice's competence for the job.
Democratic consultant Bob Beckel – who demonstrated his own competence running Walter Mondale's campaign – said of Rice, "I don't think she's up to the job."
Joseph Cirincione, with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (so you know they don't have an agenda or anything), said Rice "doesn't bring much experience or knowledge of the world to this position." This was reassuring, inasmuch as that was also liberals' assessment of the current president before he took office and he, to put it mildly, has been doing rather well.
The Kansas City Star editorialized that Rice "has not demonstrated great competence in the last four years," which is to say, Dr. Rice failed to be sufficiently clairvoyant to predict the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Columnist Bob Herbert sneered of Rice's nomination in the New York Times: "Competence has never been highly regarded by the fantasists of the George W. Bush administration." For example, these are the bumbling nitwits who conquered Afghanistan, the "graveyard of empires," and toppled Baghdad in less time than your average Jennifer Lopez marriage lasts. (Wait, I can't remember: Was it the Bush administration that hired Jayson Blair?)
So far, Dr. Rice has demonstrated her abundant competence only in academia, geopolitics, history, government, college administration, classical music and athletics. I eagerly await the Bob Herbert column in which he lists the subjects and pursuits he's mastered. If only Rice talked about her accessorizing like Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, she might impress the sort of fellow who writes for the New York Times.
Liberals at least give white Republicans credit for being evil. Rumsfeld is a dangerous warmonger, Paul Wolfowitz is part of an international Jewish conspiracy, Dick Cheney is "Dr. No." But Dr. Rice? She's a dummy.
In fact, after spending the last four years telling us that President Bush was an empty suit, a vessel for neoconservative fantasies of perpetual war, liberals have now found someone who is Bush's puppet: the black chick.
It's all so eerily familiar.
The late Mary McGrory, a white liberal, called Scalia "a brilliant and compelling extremist" – as opposed to McGrory herself, a garden-variety extremist of average intelligence. But Thomas she dismissed as "Scalia's puppet," quoting another white liberal, Alvin J. Bronstein of the American Civil Liberties Union, to make the point. This is the kind of rhetoric liberals are reduced to when they just can't bring themselves to use the n-word.
Most recently – at least as we go to press – last Sunday Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, had this to say about Justice Clarence Thomas: "I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court. I think that his opinions are poorly written." You'd think Thomas' opinions were written in ebonics.
In the same interview, Reid called Justice Antonin Scalia "one smart guy." He said that although he disagreed with Scalia, his reasoning is "very hard to dispute." Scalia is "one smart guy"; Thomas is the janitor. If Democrats are all going to read from the same talking points, they might want to get someone other than David Duke to write them.
On the Sean Hannity radio show, Democratic pundit Pat Halpin defended Sen. Reid's laughable attack on Thomas by citing Bob Woodward's book "The Brethren," which – according to Halpin – vividly portrays Thomas as a nincompoop.
I return to my standing point that liberals don't read. Harry Reid clearly hasn't read any of the decisions Justice Thomas has written, and Pat Halpin clearly hasn't read "The Brethren."
"The Brethren" came out a decade before Thomas was even nominated to the Supreme Court. The only black Supreme Court justice discussed in "The Brethren" is Thurgood Marshall. That's one we haven't heard in a while: I just can't tell you guys apart.
How many black justices have there been on the Supreme Court again? Oh yes: two. It's one thing to confuse Potter Stewart with Lewis Powell. After all, there have been a lot of white guys on the court. But there have been only two black justices – and Democrats can't keep them straight. Two! That's like getting your mother and father confused. I can name every black guy on a current National Hockey League roster: Is it asking Democrats too much to remember the names of the only two black Supreme Court justices?
In "America (The Book)," by Jon Stewart and the writers of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," the section on the judiciary describes how to make a sock puppet of Clarence Thomas and then says, "Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia!" On grounds of originality alone, Mr. Stewart, I want my money back.
But reviewing the book in the New York Times, Caryn James called the sock puppet joke one of the book's "gems of pointed political humor." Funny how the liberal punditocracy all parrot this same "sock puppet" line about Thomas year after year, almost as if they were sock pu-- oh, never mind.
Curiously, of all the liberals launching racist attacks on black conservatives I've quoted above, only two are themselves black: the two who write for the New York Times. So I guess there are still a couple of blacks taking orders from the Democrats. Isn't there an expression for that? I think it begins with "Uncle" and ends with "Tom."
Ann Coulter is a bestselling author and syndicated columnist. Her most recent book is How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must).
Don't we have an Ann rule, where you have to post a pic of her? :)
Click on link in post #2...this is a double.
Democrat neurosis has become full psychosis. They rage and lash out at everything sacred and everyone righteous. Such is the evil of liberalism. They cannot admit to even the possibility that they are wrong....They must blame everybody else. How sick!
You no the black constituency has basically sold out to the Democratic Party. Instead of forcing the Dems to do something with substance to earn their support, they have basically thrown their allegiance to them while requiring nothing in return. That's why Dems feel free to bash any black conservatives because they have escaped the so-called plantation. When the majority of blacks finally wake up and realize that they need to hold the party they support responsible in order to gain that support, they will have a voice that is worth listening to. You don't hear the Dems blasting Hispanics the same way they do blacks who are conservative. Could it be that they realize Hispanics will hold them up to scrutiny and if they find them lacking, vote for the party that will address their needs. What Dr. Rice and Justice Thoomas have in common is through hard work they have made something of themselves. Instead of holding the Barry Bonds and Ron Artests up as role models to young blacks we should be holding these two up. They've earned the respect that is justly do them. So WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA and hold the Democrats accountable for their words and actions against black conservatives as well as black liberals. Bigotry is bigotry irregardless of your party affiliation.
Now, THIS is the way to start a morning. Ann is a classic - and remains the queen of conservative writers.
Somehow, she manages to top herself with every new column.
I'm just glad she's on OUR side!
Brilliant, simply brilliant!
I guess liberals will be demanding a new category for those stupid forms we all have to fill out, right under "Left-Handed-Pacific-Islander-with-Ambiguous-Gender-Identity", which shall be deemed "African-American-but-not-really-because-Registered-Republican".
The Dems know that if they drop to carying only 70% of the black vote they can kiss power good bye for ever. That is why they are so hysterical about maintianing this myth in the minds of the average black that all the rest of America is closet KKK, except the Dems, who will fight against all those mean racists so that blacks will ahve a chance.
Having Rice as Sec of State and Thomas top dog on SCOTUS just blows that myth out of the water and they know it.
So the Dems, being the actual heirs of the KKK, are resorting to their knee-jerk stereotypes of Rice and Thomas and they really think everyone is going to just swallow it and go on.
I think that they are pre-emptively falling for the Republican's maneuver, and are too ideologically blinded to realize it.
The old story of 'The Emporor's New Clothes' was written about people like the Democrat advisers. They all think that by repeating the same canards over and over, and if everybody joins in, then it is as good as true. All we need is an innocent child to point it out to everyone.
BTW, does Ann look better as the years go by or what?
I used to think she looked too skinny, but man, she is really a doll now.
I almost hate to say that, as her columns are great and what actually makes her stand out, but her and Michelle Malkin are as attractive as they are intelligent and it is such a treat to see them succede for some reason.
Lord, I sound like such a boy.
Did anyone hear the debate on Sean Hannities show between Ann Coulter and Bob Beckel before Thanksgiving?... She sliced and diced him like an expert chief at Benihana's...L.O.L.
Who is this, name dropper, Bob Herberts? I know who Jason Blair is but don't have the faintest who Bob Horberts is.
Both sides like the idea of legitimization via repetition; but, Coulter is dead on. Would be nice to see her prune some of the trash out of our midst as well. Wonder how she'd do.
Because you demanded them, once again, here they are -
This has got to be one of her best columns to date.
The role of the fictional "Uncle Tom" is so often misunderstood, particularly by Americans of African descent. Uncle Tom was a dignified and reticent personality, who even through all the insults and affronts visited upon him, still down at the center was a good and insofar as it was within his capacity, a generous soul, without vengeance for those who berated and beat upon him at every turn. For he knew, that to exact revenge was not his province, and that in Heaven, he would receive his reward. Likewise, those who called down this persecution upon him would pay the price in the next life.
"Uncle Tom" was Mahatma Ghandi before Mahatma Ghandi was born, and was meant to be the inspiration for all slaves to be acknowledged as human beings first, and only in unfortunate circumstances secondly.
A little overkill? Eats up HUGE gobs of bandwidth....
At least after the first half-dozen or so.
It's unfortunate that most dims will stop reading this after two sentences. They might learn something if they read the whole thing.
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