Once again, Sen. John Kerry avoids getting stuck in ‘tar’ trap

Boston Herald ^ | Friday, July 25, 2008 | Howie Carr

[GQuagmire]

Here is the political question of the morning: When is the term “tar baby” not a racial slur?

Answer: When a liberal Democrat uses it.

If you’re a Republican and those two words pass your lips, stand by for a barrage, no matter what the context. Just ask Sen. John McCain or ex-Gov. Mitt Romney or late White House spokesman Tony Snow. Over the last couple of years, they’ve all had to issue groveling apologies for mentioning the old Uncle Remus character. But that didn’t stop “outraged community leaders” from tearing into them as arrogant and out-of-touch.

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Can't get the link to work.

Guess I need more coffee this morning.

[GQuagmire]

Here is the column.......

Here is the political question of the morning: When is the term “tar baby” not a racial slur?

Answer: When a liberal Democrat uses it.

If you’re a Republican and those two words pass your lips, stand by for a barrage, no matter what the context. Just ask Sen. John McCain or ex-Gov. Mitt Romney or late White House spokesman Tony Snow. Over the last couple of years, they’ve all had to issue groveling apologies for mentioning the old Uncle Remus character. But that didn’t stop “outraged community leaders” from tearing into them as arrogant and out-of-touch.

Which brings us to Sen. John Forbes Kerry, a recidivist user of the two bad words. He did it again Tuesday on MSNBC, and nothing happened. The outraged community leaders apparently couldn’t be reached for comment. Have you seen a single headline or even a tiny item about this terrible racial slur on national television (if you can call MSNBC national television).

Here’s what happened: Sen. Kerry was being interviewed by MSNBC reporter John Harwood. Liveshot was asked about McCain’s statement earlier that day in New Hampshire that Barack Obama would rather win a political campaign than a war.

Kerry began talking and talking and talking. You know the gasbag drones on. Liveshot is a one-man wind turbine. Finally, about a minute into it, he throws out the T-word:

“So, I think John is trying to throw that big tar baby out there.”

Tar baby? Why, why, why that’s racist! Just to utter the phrase shows that he’s a - oh wait, I forgot. John Kerry is a Democrat. Never mind. Needless to say, his friends in the mainstream media would never, ever utter a discouraging word about their hero, any more than they would mention Obama’s description of the “57 states,” or his service on the Senate Banking Committee (which he doesn’t serve on).

Imagine the cacophony of moonbats on MSNBC if, say, Mitch McConnell had said that:

Chris Matthews: “My leg is tingling, Keith. He didn’t just say ‘tar baby.’ He said ‘big tar baby.’ ”

Keith Olbermann: “Even O’Reilly wouldn’t go that far! Let’s play that again.”

But just in case some mean-spirited type happened to overhear Kerry’s racial slur, er, misstatement, the Kerry camp decided to issue a statement. They issued it on Daily Kos - I kid you not, the moonbat Web site.

How do I know this? Because Liveshot’s spokesman sent me a link to the statement, which, of course, didn’t come from the extinguished statesman himself, but from one of his minions:

“I just spoke to Sen. Kerry about this. He meant that McCain is throwing mud and hoping something sticks. He said it was an inappropriate and unartful phrase, and wanted to let all of you know right away that he shouldn’t have used the term.

“Disclaimer: I’m Sen. Kerry’s Internet Director.”

And that was it. A non-apology apology, not from the senator, but from his Internet director. And only to the moonbats. The subsequent silence has been, well, deafening.

I’m not suggesting that using the phrase “tar baby” is a mortal sin. It’s not, anymore than using the word “niggardly” makes you a racist. Kerry’s free ride on his PC faux pas is noteworthy only because of the contrast with what happens to Republicans who get “caught.”

Same thing with every kind of “scandal.” Sen. Bob Byrd uses the N-word on Fox and nobody mentions it, even though he used to be in the Ku Klux Klan.

And how many of you read about John Edwards’ narrow escape from National Enquirer reporters earlier this week in an L.A. hotel? Nothing, unless you’ve been surfing the Internet, or listening to talk radio. Even the liberal bloggers have been remarking on the remarkable silence on Edwards’ hypocritical tomcatting, as compared to the 24/7 coverage of Sen. Larry Craig’s men’s-room ramblings last year.

I guess I don’t have to tell you that the difference between the two isn’t so much sexual orientation as it is the word “Democrat,” which inoculates Edwards from the toxic reporting that doomed Craig, R-Idaho.

Oh, and by the way, this wasn’t the first time Kerry used the dreaded slur, er, misspoke. Back in 2004, he was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer - another dying PC organ of the mainstream media - as saying that he was told taking up the POW-MIA issue would be a “tar baby.”

Of course he got away with it, which is why he said it again this week. Being a liberal means never having to say you’re sorry. Just send out your Internet director to do it for you. It leaves ever so much more time for windsurfing off Nantucket.

[Crawdad]

OK, here's the deal.
Since the press will not cover such utterances by democrats, a few prominent Republicans such as Limbaugh or McCain should make the exact statements as quickly as they can after them dem.
Of course many members of the press, who did not hear the dem’s same quote because it wasn't covered by their brethren, will report the Republican's statement as racism, sexism, etc.
The republican simply refers the press to the original uttered statement by the dem. Bingo.
We have always said in instances like this “tar-baby” quote, “Man, if a Republican had said that, all hell would break loose.”
Well, let's find out.

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Link is working fine.

[calex59]

Actually, it is their own fault if they apologized, they should have just told the MSM to shove it and that they had nothing to apologize for. A tar baby is like a Trojan horse and is not racial at all.

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[y6162]

John F-ing Kerry = dolt

[Maceman]

It's the same with Democrat executive serial sexual harassers who get a pass from the media when they lie under oath in order to defend themselves against sexual harassment lawsuits (and who have been CREDIBLY accused of rape by very believable victims) get a pass.

And it's also the same with white former Klan member senior senators who get a pass when they go on national television to demonstrate their evolved racial sensitivity by graciously acknowledging that not all "niggers" are black. (Where were the headlines and public outrage on THAT one?)

[libertarian27]

Great article, Howie Strikes Again!

[DesertRhino]

Zipppeddoooooo da ,,, zipppedy- A ,, my oh my what wonderful day!!! RUN RUN for hills,,, its another offensive scary thing!