Posted on 09/25/2002 12:53:23 PM PDT by GHOST WRITER
NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002 11:02 a.m. EDT
'N-Word' Dems Blast Armey for Jewish Comment
Democratic Party leaders, who barely hiccuped when one of their own elder statesman used the "N-word" in a nationally televised interview last year, are up in arms over comments made by House Majority Leader Dick Armey on Tuesday that they claim were offensive to Jews.
Speaking to Jewish leaders in Florida, Armey reportedly observed, "I always see two Jewish communities in America. One of deep intellect and one of shallow, superficial intellect."
He went on to suggest that Republicans have a deeper intellect and tend to take up "occupations of the brain" like engineering, science and economics, while liberals prefer "occupations of the heart," such as the arts, "because they want to feel good."
House Democrats wasted no time getting their angry reactions to the Associated Press.
"We're certain we speak for people for every religious and ethnic background in condemning the disparaging comments made by Dick Armey about the millions of Jews and other Americans who happen to disagree with his right wing ideology," complained Reps. Martin Frost and Nita Lowey.
The Democratic duo, both of whom are Jewish, slammed the Republican's remarks as "absolutely breathtaking in their ignorance" and a "reminder why the GOP's countless `outreach' efforts to minority communities always fail."
But Frost, Lowey and most other Democrats seemed a whole lot less offended last year, when Senate elder statesman Robert Byrd, D-W.V., blurted out the "N-word" twice in a March 2001 TV interview.
"There are white n----rs. I've seen a lot of white n----rs in my time," Byrd told "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow.
Clearly indicating his racial epithet was no slip of the tongue, Byrd insisted in the next breath, "I'm gonna use that word. But we all just need to work together to make our country a better country."
The reaction of Democrats remained muted two days later, when nationally syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin reminded her readers that, not only had Byrd been a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, but he continued voicing his repulsive bigotry long after leaving the domestic terror group in the mid-1930s.
In a letter Byrd wrote after he had supposedly renounced his Klan membership in the 1940s, he was still vowing never to serve in the military "with a Negro by my side."
"I should die a thousand times and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds," the leading Democrat explained in the missive.
As Malkin also noted, 20 years after Byrd described African-Americans as "race mongrels," he spent 14 hours filibustering against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He also voted against Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, the only two blacks ever nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Democratic Party's double standard on racial bigotry took another hit just yesterday, when an audiotape featuring former first brother Roger Clinton repeatedly using the "N-word" received its first national broadcast exposure on Sean Hannity's syndicated coast-to-coast radio show.
"Yeah, some n----r, some junior high n----r kicked Steve's ass while he was trying to help his brothers out," Hannity's 260 station audience heard the Clinton sibling complain.
"Steve had the n----r down," Clinton continued. "However it was, it was Steve's fault. He had the n----r down, he let him up.... The n----r blindsided him."
The Clinton videotape, which has never been covered by the mainstream press, was filmed when the former first brother was under surveillance in the mid-1980s for narcotics trafficking.
Reps. Frost, Lowey as well as other leading Democrats, including New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, have so far declined to comment on the Clinton "N-word" tape.
Could you please post the link to the original? This way we'll know it was not written by some ghost writer (just kidding). Thanks in advance.
What did he say that wasn't true? I personally (quietly) think of them as either Zionists or Socialists, although there are probably some who are Republican but don't support Israel. I don't know any. I only know of the Zionists (whom I support) and the Socialists (whom I hate with a white-hot fever, not to put it too bluntly.)
I know. I work in the humanities department of a major university. (-:
How do you have time to freep?
seperate = separate
Cut down on the science, take some English. :)
ROTFL!
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