Donahue: GOP Base is Racist (Now that Republicans signed onto the racial double standard)

newsmax ^ | 12/20/2002 | Carl Limbacher

[TLBSHOW]

Donahue: GOP Base is Racist

Now that the Bush administration and the GOP Congress have officially signed onto the racial double standard by which Trent Lott had to resign for making a racially insensitive comment but "N"-word using ex-Klansman-Democrat Robert Byrd suffers no similar sanction - Republicans can expect more of the same.

Even before the Lott resigned from the leadership, watching top Republicans roll over and play dead throughout the entire fiasco had already emboldened the loony left, which is now poised to use the same tactics that worked so well with Lott to trash some of the GOP's most precious symbols.

MSNBC talk show host Phil Donahue, for instance, did his best to dirty up Ronald Reagan and the entire Republican base Thursday night, and he probably would have succeeded but for the presence of WABC radio host and NewsMax.com contributor Steve Malzberg.

The exchange went like this:

DONAHUE: There's a lot of political scholarship out there about the Republican Party's two-pronged attack and approach to politics. You have Lee Atwater and the good old boys, kind of winking and nodding to their very, very right wing, we should say, racist base.

MALZBERG: That is such bull. The Republicans have a racist base is a disgrace for to you say, Phil.

DONAHUE: You're telling me...

MALZBERG: ... Republican Party had all this civil rights legislation they've put through since 1866.

DONAHUE: Wait a minute. Just a moment.

MALZBERG: The segregationist Democrats.

DONAHUE: Can I have a moment of your time?

MALZBERG: Sure.

DONAHUE: Ronald Reagan opened his campaign in 1980 in Philadelphia, Miss., a place where three white people were slain.

MALZBERG: And Ronald Reagan, was he a racist?

DONAHUE: Ronald Reagan and all of your candidates spoke at Bob Jones University, where you had better not be seen in an interracial dating situation.

MALZBERG: Wait a minute. You were so concerned with Martin Luther King's birthday, who signed it into law?

DONAHUE: I'm saying the Republicans do not want to learn.

MALZBERG: Who signed it into law - Ronald Reagan. (End of Excerpt)

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[ElkGroveDan]

Well let's get this discussion going then. I assume it's OK for us to say that the Dems are traitorous collaborators, what with Patty Murray's comments to day and all.

[Paul Atreides]

Hillary Clinton has been on, looking like a wet rat, running her cesspool mouth. Someone please blow these people out of the water!

[per loin]

Well let's get this discussion going then. I assume it's OK for us to say that the Dems are traitorous collaborators, what with Patty Murray's comments to day and all.

No permission is needed to attack Murray, but don't expect any Republican senator to do so. They are too busy me-tooing the Democrats on the subject of race.

[Paul Atreides]

McConnell and Kay Bailey Hutchison were just on FNC, replying to that cow Hillary's accusations about the Republican Party. The harshest tone that Hutchison could muster is that Hillary is "mistaken." Then, they spent the rest of the time justifying what the party has done for minorities.

[Benrand]

So this accepting the double standard crap means that instead of holding Lott to the fire for being a complete moron and acting unprofessionally, we should have just bitched about Robert Byrd and left Lott in there to turn the Senate leftward.

Hannity loses it here, he's too dumb to see it. It's a stupid argument right out of the Clinton playbook.

[unspun]

I confess, I'm "conflicted" about Phil. It would be nice if he weren't on the air, but maybe it's best for us that he keep on talking.

[Bernard]

Ands meanwhile Trent Lott can stay a Senator, be a pariah to everybody outside his state, and keep getting re-elected every six years. That way, he becomes the counterpoint to the Chappaquidick swim team in Mass.

[PISANO]

We will NEVER win with ANY NEWS MEDIA outlet (save Fox News), the only was we win is in the arena of ideas and implementation of those ideas. Sooner or later most people see through the likes of race baiters, gimmie shills and their sycophants in the press.

[TLBSHOW]

There was a chance to end the race issue and stopping the race card being used against the republicans and conservatives. That is what could of happened. Instead Rove and Bush back stabbed Lott because Rove is a moron.

Bush Stabs Lott

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/16/192223.shtml

[per loin]

McConnell and Kay Bailey Hutchison were just on FNC, replying to that cow Hillary's accusations about the Republican Party. The harshest tone that Hutchison could muster is that Hillary is "mistaken." Then, they spent the rest of the time justifying what the party has done for minorities.

I saw that. Disgusting. Are they students in Lott's advanced groveling course?

[TLBSHOW]

republicans are the rats now

[Walkin Man]

Anyone with an ounce of sense should have seen this coming! Lott was only the first, suckers! After all of these so-called 'conservative republicans' played the race card and got in bed with all the demoRat demagogues to knock off Lott, they thought the game was over. WRONG! Now the rats will use your own words and actions against you.

Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas, repub's!

[Benrand]

First, explain why lott jumped into bed with the race baiters instead of handling it intelligently.

See, that's what is missed by people like you and Hannity. You forget how Lott behaved. Frist will be immune to the race pimps. Lott would bend over in a heartbeat.

[PISANO]

Hannity loses it here, he's too dumb to see it. It's a stupid argument right out of the Clinton playbook

Hannity has explained that he treats the LOTT incident and the Democrat attacks on the ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY as being rascist as TWO separate issues. He says NOTHING to defend the former but defends our party with examples of the double standard on the latter.

[aristeides]

McConnell usually has spunk. Don't you think he's getting instructions from some higher source (i.e., White House and/or Frist)?

[Dan Day]

So this accepting the double standard crap means that instead of holding Lott to the fire for being a complete moron and acting unprofessionally, we should have just bitched about Robert Byrd and left Lott in there to turn the Senate leftward.

Exactly. Until Lott stepped down, any "what about Byrd, etc." on our part would have looked like Clinton's "everybody does it" defense, and sounded just as sleazy.

However, *now* that Lott has stepped down, we have clean hands, and can go after the Democrat racists (and double standard) with a vengeance.

[#3Fan]

You lost. Get over it.

[aristeides]

Lott groveled because the White House and neoconservative pundits insisted that he should.

When those Chinese intellectuals confessed to their thought crimes during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, were they the ones who were to blame, or were those who compelled them to grovel?