Thank you posting this viable piece of visual evidence which demonstrates on so many levels how the left works.
As I said on my about page, the last refuge for scoundrels of the left is to play the race card. This is the key to understanding the liberal mind and more. The issue of race dominates American politics more than half a century after the civil rights struggle was settled because it offers a rationalization to liberals for their failed policies. God players, liberals' egos compel them to impose their will on the whole of society. When that experiment results in systemic failures, as it inevitably must, and hundreds of thousands of Americans go to the streets to protest, the liberal invokes race to cover his (or in this case, her) own sins by discrediting Americans.
The protesting Americans on the streets of our country are saying to the liberals, stop playing God with our lives and the lives of our children. Look at the mess you have made. The liberal does not want to stop playing God, he cannot stop playing God, he is compelled by his original sin to play God with the lives of your children. His justification? Garafalo's justification? Your racism.
White guilt explains much of the psychosis which overcame the discernment of millions of Americans and put a singularly unqualified and potentially tyrannical man in the White House. White guilt motivates liberals, it is natural that they assume that it would motivate normal Americans.
The entire psychosis about race which afflicts the American soul has riven our country and dominated its politics as no other single issue. A God player is not about to relinquish such an effective tool to tinker with all our lives.
Once the race card is played, the liberal need not inquire further into the nature of the protesters' complaints. He need not concern himself with the real and human need of our citizens to live in freedom from his soft (or ultimately, not so soft) tyranny. He need not defend himself at all because once the race card is laid down all arguments are trumped and all debate simply stops. The God player is left free to play God.
The leftist presumption, conservatives are racists and we are not, permits them to engage their egos without restraint because racists are undeserving of any consideration whatsoever. It permits them to rationalize that the ends justify the means. A very dangerous state of mind in a God player who comes anywhere near power.
In this context let us examine what might be thought of as an offhand reaction by Olbermann:
OLBERMANN: What happens if somebody who's at one of these things hurt(sic) somebody?
Garofalo's. response reveals that she did not get Olbermann's cue where to go with that question. The question was asked in the context of her prior comments about violence and the Ku Klux Klan. Olbermann is no doubt informed that the extreme leftist Southern Poverty Law Center successfully invoked the civil provisions of the RICO statute to gain a judgment which bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan and effectively put it out of business. Olbermann is suggesting that an act of violence by some demonstrator on the street can be connected, without the need to show actual conspiracy, to news outlets like Fox News which he says sponsored the Tea Parties.
Fox news can then be sued under civil RICO and multiple millions of dollars in punitive damages recovered.
Olbermann unwittingly revealed how the left is thinking and the revelation is breathtaking and frightening. Here racism is to be invoked to silence free political speech. Rico provides the tyrant with the tool to end opposition. Employed against racists, Olbermann never doubts for a second that his end justifies the means. The Olbermann's of the world are waiting only for some marginal protester to commit some act of violence and they will pounce.
Witness the excessive press coverage of the reaction to the tea bags thrown over the White House fence. When John Kerry did it with somebody else's medals, it was considered an act of patriotic resistance to a despotic regime. Now it is considered a hate crime against a black man. One would think a bag of deadly germs had been thrown over the fence.
Keith Olbermann will die utterly self-righteous, cloaked in his belief that he is righteous and conservatives are wicked because we are racist and he is not. This mindset enables him to indulge the very sin he and Garafalo unjustly accuse conservatives of committing, permitting themselves to be ruled by passion and prejudice. It is not the conservative mind which is impervious to reason, but the liberals mind which is in thrall to his original sin: He would be God.
If liberals inquire disingenuously in their self-righteousness why I use the name and avatar of Nathan Bedford Forrest, I do it for liberty. Yes, even their liberty. I stand by the sentiments expressed on my about page.
I wrote this in 2007 about the race card, and how it might help Obama to the White House (which seemed quite far-fetched at the time):
Deval Patrick seems to be running into some tough sledding in his first months after his landslide win as governor of Massachusetts. Part of the reason is that he's not as corrupt as the permanent Democrat majority in the legislature, and they are trying to show him who's boss. The major reason is, of course, that he is spectacularly unqualified for such extensive executive responsibility. He seems like a smart guy who has spent all his time in affirmative action jobs and thus has never been shaped or developed by criticism.
He shares many features with Barack Obama, the first term Senator from Illinois, who, I agree, stands an excellent chance of being elected President despite HIS spectacular lack of qualification for such a complex administrative and executive position.
What they have in common is that they are black, but they are not "black politicians". They do not owe their offices to black votes - not even a little bit. Yes, each got a large black turnout, but each won absolute and large white majorities, and each would have been elected even if every black voter had stayed home or even voted for their opponent.
Now, this fact is curious in that it appears to contradict the standard Leftist model of group voting. Any white voter who is not a communist (and there are not many of those) would have had every reason to oppose Patrick, or Obama, on simple self-interest grounds. Both Patrick and Obama are far, far to the left of even their own leftist parties of origin. Both come from, and support, a system which rewards blacks and punishes whites. Both will act, in office, in a way which is inimical to the interests of whites, both individually and collectively.
So, as they say, "whazzup"? What accounts for Patrick's huge white majorities in a state with a small black population? What does this portend for Obama's presidential aspirations?
In the Howie Carr column [yesterday], Mr. Carr says, "But everybody wanted to overlook the obvious fact that the guy was utterly unqualified. The electorate just wanted to feel good about itself. The voters, or at least 56 percent of them, figured if Deval got in they would feel less guilty - about what, I have no idea."
What Mr. Carr means by "I have no idea" is, I assume, that most of the electorate never discriminated against blacks personally, never belonged to the Klan, grew up in a historically anti-slavery state, supports hiring blacks into all sorts of government and other jobs, goes along with "active anti-racism" in their public schools, etc. etc - so what do they have to feel guilty about?
This question - why are whites in 2007, especially young whites, SO guilty that they flock to candidates like these nobodies?
The answer, I believe, is that they are expressing a neurotic conflict. Everything they know from outside of their own heads tells them that blacks and whites are the same - except in professional sports, where blacks are superior. Every black person they are taught about is a hero, or a victim of whites. But their experiences as they grow to voting age and beyond bring them into contact with more than a few actual blacks. This is the first generation for which this is true.
They search everywhere - at school, at work, listening to music, watching the news, and (especially) walking home after dark for the blacks who are just like them. They send their children (when they are very small, at least) into venues where they will be in contact with large numbers of blacks. But as they grow and develop into adulthood, the search for blacks who are like whites becomes to some degree frustrating. What can this mean?
To some of them, it means, "I am a racist". But most of them have sufficient self-regard to know this is not true. They can't discuss this among themselves. They can't talk to their teachers, or their parents, or to their husbands or wives. They can't read, or see, or hear discussion of this phenomenon. But it's real. What to do? How can they, as Senator Obama says constantly, "heal"?
Well, they can vote for Deval Patrick or Barack Obama, that's how. The Boston Globe ran a piece before the November election which revealed much, much more than they intended. Listen to the wife of an out-of-work union plasterer in Massachusetts. She said her husband was unemployed because illegal aliens were doing all the work. Deval Patrick wants to facilitate and to protect from Federal action illegal aliens, But she's voting for Deval Patrick. Why? "I don't know. He is so well-spoken".
Well spoken compared to what? To nigg***, that's what. She's voting for Deval Patrick because she thinks blacks don't speak well, and she feels guilty because she thinks that.
This guilt over one's own white thoughtcrime is the rocket fuel in Barack Obama's spaceship. Can it carry him to the White House? Perhaps.