Yep—it’s also part of why Sarah Palin had to be trashed far more than if she were merely a male VP candidate. (E.g., Paul Ryan)
The Left (and that includes the GOPe however much they deny it) don’t want minorities or women to begin to imagine that it is acceptable to think conservatively.
Liberals hate all conservatives. If you understand that, you won’t have to waste your time by throwing out the race card. Race doesn’t trump politics or give you special compensation by liberals.
I’m surprised that he’s surprised...
Talk is cheap.
Juan is still a dedicated far left liberal stooge so this "shocking treatment" hasn't shocked him enough to abandon the racist democrat party.
How can you be repelled by liberals' mindless hatred directed at those with whom they disagree but not see that their ideology cannot brook dissent because it is so flawed so as to be indefensible?
Democrat’s war on women.
The treatment Condi received is NOT a double standard.
It is the standard.
I’m sure when Juan is challenged on this he will standby what he said, then follow up with, however bad this may be, the Republicans are still the very worst racists.
All of this black feel sorry for me crap has reach the tipping point. Time to tell them to stick it where the sun don’t shine.
She didn’t get invited because she was conservative. She was invited because she was black. Rutgers in defense of their decision always mentions that she is black.
It’s recently occurred to me that there’s more behind this sort of liberal hate treatment than just philosophy. As the old saying goes, follow the money.
It would be interesting to see a tabulation of the following:
1. Number of speeches given by leading liberals over a 5 year period.
2. Awards given to those leading liberals over 5 year period
3. Speaking fees and other monetary considerations along with awards given those same liberals over the time frame
4. Source of the fees and monetary considerations, i.e., private money or money from taxpayer-funded institutions.
5. The same four metrics for GOP and/or Conservatives.
What I strongly suspect you’d find is that liberals have established a significant gravy train funded primarily by tax dollars, or by awards/speaking fees from businesses that benefit greatly from tax dollars, through which they pad their incomes when they are out of office, while waiting for future employment opportunities in the public sector.
Thus, any threat to that gravy train such as, for example, Ms. Rice becoming a popular college commencement speaker, must be shouted down to prevent all that taxpayer “gravy” from being siphoned off by non-liberals.
Liberals are very good at rewarding each other with taxpayer-sourced funds when they are temporarily out of power, and they’re also quite effective at protecting those funds from poaching by conservatives.
Note that I’m not including other obvious taxpayer-funded plums such as ambassadorships and university presidencies, but just speaking fees and monetary awards, and the source of funding.
I realize conservatives get money for their speeches as well, but I suspect the source of funding for said speeches tends to be private rather than taxpayer sourced.
It’s called Political Correctness and it’s infected many facets of public life, especially the ‘Rat Party.
Juan, as a dedicated leftist you need to get with the program.
The fact of the matter is Rutgers is full of racist faculty members.
And they ARE members.
They should get Colin Powell as a replacement. He’s sufficiently brain damaged to make the liberals happy.
This is nothing new. This goes back to the sixties when campus radical leftist/fascists decided that anyone who disagreed with them was evil and should not be allowed to speak. Just fascists being fascists.
Juan Williams had to state the obvious or he would have lost all credibility as a “journalist”.
IMHO