Posted on 04/04/2008 11:19:21 AM PDT by meandog
Since the 1960s, bigotry has undergone an aesthetic makeover. Today, the most pernicious racists do not wear pointy hoods, scream epithets and anonymously burn crosses from behind masks. They don starched suits, recite sententious bromides and stage political lynchings before television cameras. For proof, behold the mob stalking Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
Wright has long delivered fiery (and occasionally outrageous) sermons, to little fanfare. Now, though, a gang of thugs is inflicting a guilt-by-association blow to Obama by excoriating his spiritual adviser for three specific declarations.
Sean Hannity, Fox News' own George Wallace, turned a fire hose on Wright for his church's focus. "[The church] is all about the black community," Hannity thundered, claiming that means Wright supports "a black-separatist agenda."
Pat Buchanan billy-clubbed Wright for saying, "God damn America." The MSNBC commentator, who avoided the draft, implied that Wright, a former Marine, lacks sufficient loyalty to country. Out of context, Wright's exclamation was admittedly offensive. But remember: It punctuated a speech about segregation. Buchanan, nonetheless, unleashed, deriding "black hustlers" and insisting descendants of those "brought from Africa in slave ships" owe whites a thank you. "Where is the gratitude?" he asked.
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I guess saying God Bless Hitler would be OK if it was in the context of discussion how evil Jews really are.
The worst bigots of the past 30-40 years have been all the rabid racist demagogues of the Wright-Sharpton-Jesse variety, and their media enablers such as the ass-clown writing this column.
Oooh, that sounds uncomfortable.
Sirota really doesn’t grasp the concept of the double standard. He should read up on it.
The Wright rantings didn’t wake me up near as much as the supporters that came out of the woodwork.
This author/asshat is just another one.
But, I encourage them, I WANT them to come out of the woodwork. It’s time everyone else woke up to this grievance mongering, ungrateful, racist asshatism that has gone ignored for too long.
David Sirota is a board member of Progressive States network, a “nonpartisan group”...*ROFLMAO*
Progressive label on a
“Liberal” label on a
Socialist label on a
can of COMMUNIST crap.
Yeah, they're usually clad in FUBU apparel
This Liberal White Guilt thing seems to be catching.
I really liked this tasty morsel:
.” Similarly, according to Mother Jones magazine, Hillary Clinton belongs to the “Fellowship” — a secretive group “dedicated to ‘spiritual war’ on behalf of Christ.”
Well, if those spiritual warriors at Mother Jones said so, I reckon it must be true.
I wish Wright would answer that!
“Sententious bromides”? Isn’t that used to make meth?
Thats like asking why rich white kids take drugs and join ANSWER and chant anti-US slogans at rallies.Whats wrong with THEM?They have the world at their fingertips so why are they bitching.
Seems like it is human nature to never be satisfied.Blacks are no different.If Obama is elected and Democrats maintain Congress,most will still say a black man can’t make it in America.
I know thats not logical.But its reality.
A very good question.
I wonder what Wright's opinion of Zimbabwe would be? Is that all whitey's fault, too?
Exactly which sins and omissions are absolved by service in the US Armed Forces Mr. Sirota? Because there's a long list of lunatics with "demonstrated patriotism", to quote a Chicago Tribtoon editorial, who would like a do over.
Lee Harvey Oswald (USMC), Charles Whitman (US Army), Jeffrey Dahmer (US Army), and Tim McVeigh (US Army)? How about “demonstrated” patriots like John Muhammad ("The Beltway Sniper"), Arthur Shawcross, Randy Kraft, Dennis Rader ("BTK"), Howard Unruh, Robert Lee Yates, Gary Heidnik, Charles Cullen, Charles Ng, Henry Louis Wallace, Julian Knight, Courtney Mathews & David Housler, Daryl Keith Holton, Wayne Adam Ford, Richard Marc Evonitz, veterans all. I’m sure those victims and families who survived the horrors unleashed by these lunatics won’t be so inclined as David Sirota to overlook their misdeeds.
You can wrap a flag around a stinking pig, but he’s still a pig and he still stinks.
Obama and the media missed a golden opportunity to have an honest talk about racism. That honest talk would have began with calling Wright’s sermon what it is: “black racism”. There is no such thing as “reverse racism”.
No.
Sirota, what a dweeb. looking at that guy, and reading his BS, is there any doubt, that people like him , would vote for obama even if he came out and said “I’ll turn this country into a 3rd world pit, and give what’s left to the UN”
they would do it just so they can tell themselves: “golly, I sure glad I’m not a racist, I proved it by voting obama”
I saw some white puffy faced guy in the grocery store yesterday shopping with his “lady”.....he had on an OBAMA button......I sooooo had to control myself.
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