Rangel's Repugnant Ravings

New York Post ^ | September 24, 2005 | New York Post Editorial

[TheForceOfOne]

On Thursday, at a town hall meeting sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, New York's Rep. Charles Rangel made a truly repugnant declaration.

Railing against President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, Rangel told a cheering crowd: "George Bush is our Bull Connor."

Bull Connor, of course, was the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner who in 1963 turned fire hoses and attack dogs on black civil-rights protestors, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On that day, he came to personify Southern racism.

Now, there's a significant temptation to dismiss Rangel's ravings as par for the course for the congressman. Earlier this year, after all, Rangel compared the Iraq war to the Holocaust. (Just to be clear, that would make Bush Hitler, and Bush's supporters Nazis.)

But it's not acceptable to hold Rangel to a lower standard, just because it's the standard he sets for himself.

[TheForceOfOne]

I'm about to post another thread, it shows the results or damage generated by the race hustlers who do everyone a disservice by spreading the hate.

I must also make clear that this isn't just a black bashing on my part. I think that anyone who promotes racial hatred is wrong period. Charlie and others who apply these tactics do it for personal gain at the expense of us all. There are many people out there who do promote good but that doesn't play in the MSM.

[selucreh]

Where! is Tawany Brawley?

[TheForceOfOne]

She-Wolf Pack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490613/posts

[Cobra64]

I demand the immediate formation of the Congressional White Caucus to represent me against the communist racist Congressional Black Caucus.

I agree. There should be a National Caucus for Male-White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant-Lefthanded-VastRightWingConspiratorial-WineDrinking-OverTheAgeof50-Republicans. It should be chaired by my heritage as an English-Welsh-German-Danish-(hyphenated)American!

[stumpy]

I'll drink to that (but there's Irish in my heritage)

[Cobra64]

I'll drink to that (but there's Irish in my heritage)

That's okay.

We're always looking for a few good folks who are Conservative-Male-BeerDrinking-CabbageGrowing-PotatoeFarming-Irish-Americans.

Do you want to co-chair the caucus? Or should I contact Jesse, Charlie, and Al?

LOL

[Jorge]

Rangel will always be a NOTHING.
And this kind of hysterical nut-case rhetoric only ensures it.

[stboz]

Is it so much to ask that something really bad happen to idiots like Rangel? I mean really bad....camel fleas, psoriasis.....feminine itching....nasty things...

[Burlem]

These folks are given too much airtime. They don't even have a clue about civility.

[SeaBiscuit]

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[TheForceOfOne]

Well, old Charlie finally appeared on Hannity and "The Crypt Keeper" tonight to defend his comments.

Did old Charlie stand up and defend his words? Of course not, he backpedaled just as fast as he could. I guess he felt the heat and got out of the kitchen.

Shot down in flames
Shot down in flames
Ain't it a shame
To be shot down in flames