Posted on 10/02/2011 6:55:31 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Bryan Preston
October 2, 2011
Seriously. Here’s the Post story, which once you get past all the history they try packing into it that has nothing at all to do with Rick Perry, is about a hunting lease that Gov. Perry’s family used, and which once had an offensive name that his family did not give it, but which was unfortunately somewhat common once upon a time. Once Perry’s family leased it, they painted over a rock with the offensive name on it to cover it up, and eventually turned the rock over to cover it further. So the Post has devoted its resources and space to tell the world about…a rock way out in West Texas.
Perry’s campaign disputes much of the detail in the Post story.
“A number of claims made in the story are incorrect, inconsistent, and anonymous, including the implication that Rick Perry brought groups to the lease when the word on the rock was still visible,” Sullivan said. “The one consistent fact in the story is that the word on a rock was painted over and obscured many years ago.
“Perry’s father painted over offensive language on a rock soon after leasing the 1,000-acre parcel in the early 1980s. When Governor Perry was party to the hunting lease from 1997 to 2007, the property was described as northern pasture. He has not been to the property since 2006.”
Sullivan also specified that the family has never “owned, controlled or managed” the property.
Just so we’re all clear, a hunting lease isn’t property you own or really have any meaningful control over. You lease it for hunting, and only visit it periodically. For hunting.
The Post knows all too well how this game is played. The original story will get major play, and while the follow up and its own climbdown will attract less attention, a lot of dust gets stirred up and most of it ends up on the Post’s target, in this case, Perry. What’s left in the mind of those who don’t follow the facts is that Perry is somehow associated with racism.
The Post, which ran dozens of stories over a single word in 2006 to sink George Allen, can be expected to stretch out this non-story about an old rock for the next year and a half. Just when Perry starts making a move in the polls or lands a solid punch on Obama, out will come some new revelation about the stupid rock in West Texas. It’s what they do.
Now Cain has said something people don’t like.
Not sure what one has to do with the other.
That, I believe, is exactly the point I was making.
No matter what the facts of the matter might have been, Perry's "you have no heart" comment was totally uncalled for. It represented a liberal defense of the policy.
And Cain's assertion of "insensitivity" against Perry is equally uncalled for. It's the same charge as a liberal might make.
Apples and apples.
He would be advised to.
The sooner, the better.
I have to agree with you, altura. I watched Cain on Fox News Sunday when Wallace asked him about it. His answer was disappointing but I was willing to let it go, figuring he’d correct himself later.
But I found out that he had also given a similar answer on another Sunday show today (ABC I think) with that Amanpoor woman. Since then I’ve heard nothing about him backtracking or apologizing to Perry.
He’s using it to smear Perry. In my mind he’s just as rotten as the Post story itself. I had liked Cain, but no more.
What's next? Will the Macaca Post attack anyone who owns an uncensored edition of Huckleberry Finn?
>>> BS on all the three things that you posted
BS on my point about it being a smear???
Look... maybe you didn’t see my point.
Obama and the liberals used race to get Obama in the white house.
They will pull out all the stops to keep him there using the same tactics times ten.
My point was not about Perry.
My point was about the power the liberals possess, and Cain’s ability to neutralize it.
Speak for yourself. I am from TX, and know he is a staunch conservative. You are entitled to your opinion, but if you are not from TX, then you know nothing about the man.
There have several different threads about this same story, which is a non-story. However, there is a Bachmann supporter, who has been spreading this over and over on several threads. Herman then makes comments without knowing the entire story. It seems like they are both carrying water for Romney and doing the dirty work so he doesn’t have to get his hands dirty. This is nothing more than a wide spread smear campaign.
“If the Post can get away with doing this to Perry, they’ll do it to anybody. What a trash newspaper.”
We don’t have to crawl up in a corner and let a newspaper, person or group get away with pure fabrications.
A lot of good minds are on this forum—Come on, help us set these morans see the light.
We had a great related discussion of this story earlier today on Free Republic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2786762/posts
They are as bad as the New York Times with their lies and deceitful reporting of the facts!
While I certainly don’t give any respect to The WaPo, it goes to show they must be really concerned Rick Perry is gaining momentum once again.
The race card is being shined up ready for play by the DemonRAT Left. Wait until they start calling Herman Cain a Token Black. Some of my black co-workers are all ready calling him a token black. This is how they marginalize the Republican Party in the minds of the electorate.
And what is very worrisome to me is that the Republican candidates are in danger of sinking each other without one shot fired by the DemonRATs.
Zer0 must be orchestrating the smear campaign by the media. He has to. The only way he can win reelection is to put down the other candidate. That’s how he won his U.S. Senate seat.
Zer0 will not win reelection by the merits of what he has done. He will win by building a smear campaign against the opposition.
The State Owned Media are gearing up for their battle against the American people and their conservative candidate for President.
Yep, they signal their fear with desperate smears.
And this certainly would be a "desperate smear" if there ever was one.
Hugh Hewtitt has a very good take down of it. It shows the extent to which the Democrats will go to attack Republicans. Stephanie McCrummen, a Washington Post based reporter formerly stationed in Nairobi has a history of fanning racial flames out of context.
In a move that was genuinely supported by people of all races in North Carolina, McCrummen earlier this year tried to paint tea party backed school board members as racist for restructuring a school busing program in the Raleigh area. Again, there were a large number of black residents supportive of the measure, but McCrummen’s reporting failed to get into that.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/10/02/maybe-stephanie-mccrummen-just-likes-using-the-n-word/
Well, the Republicans are going to have to work overtime to lose this one, because Obama is not really popular with anybody. I mean who REALLY thinks he has done a good job. Nobody if they are honest. I don’t much care who is the Republican candidate as long as they beat Obama. I kind of like Herman Cain the best because he knows who and where he is, and does not see to have a lot of personal ego in it. Its just get the job done. Which most people do not seem to know who and where they are.
Do you have that link? In case you don’t, here’s the link to the second time today Cain used this fake story to call Perry “insensitive” to blacks. It starts around 2:26.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-candidate-cain-calls-racial-slur-rival-perrys/story?id=14650708
I wonder when the media is going to get around to that LA Times video of Obama-Khalidi....
Hugh Hewitt! I saw this early today..
http://www.hughhewitt.com/blog/g/9a0e3365-d6f4-4919-8712-6f131ea89bad
Thanks Cas! I didn’t have the link, I’ll check it out in the morning. I’m headin’ to the barn, G’Night! :)
“I mean Cain really turned me off with his handling of this. He should have used his vaunted sense of humor and made a joke about something under a rock.
It was unfair and mean and kneejerk racist to make the comment that he did.
I really liked Cain and I’m not just saying that, BUT this turned me way off of him. We’ll see how he handles it in days to come. If he continues to pander and stick with his unfair attack over NOTHING I will cross him off my list.”
I believe the reason that Cain lit into this rock issue and implied that Perry was therefore potentially racist (guilt by association) because he hunted on a leased property that had the offending rock for some years (even though Perry’s father had painted it over), was to try to get back in the good graces of his fellow black brethren whom he had dished just a couple of days before by saying they were “brainwashed”. What better way to deflect criticism of himself for using that term against his black brothers than to attack a whitey (Perry) for racism.
Not a good look here for Cain. Big mistake, and I don’t even like Perry as a candidate, but this was a below the belt attack on Perry, and Cain shouldn’t have taken the media bait and then used it as a vehicle to deflect the criticism that has been aimed at himself over his “brainwashed” remark against his fellow blacks. Bad form.
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