Posted on 01/13/2003 7:08:40 AM PST by an amused spectator
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, Cynthia Tucker published an editorial piece entitled Bush snubs black voters with Pickering.
In this column, Tucker takes on the issue of Bush's renomination of Charles Pickering for the federal bench. She claims that "Pickering's recent record suggests a glaring racial insensitivity. An example is Pickering's handling of a 1994 cross-burning case."
Tucker asserts that after burning a cross in the yard of an interracial couple, "...[Daniel] Swan and his friends, not content with mere symbolic violence, fired shots into the occupied house that just missed the couple's baby. I can't imagine Pickering demanding a lesser sentence for a black man convicted of a similar crime against whites."
On January 9, 2003, Byron York, National Review's White House correspondent, published an article entitled The Cross Burning Case: What Really Happened.
In this article, he also addresses the issue of what exactly Daniel Swan did at the scene of the cross-burning incident. However, York is apparently working with a completely different set of facts:
"While it is not clear who originally suggested the plan, it is known that the 17-year-old appeared to harbor some sort of hostility toward the couple; on an earlier occasion, he had fired a gun into the house (no one was hit). Neither Swan nor Thomas was involved in the shooting incident [my emphasis]."
As for me, I just want to know what the rules of engagement are.
If this is OK for Cynthia, can we all just start making stuff up about our political enemies and transmitting it as fact?
Perhaps we could demand equal space from the AJC to publish things that we make up about our enemies? ;-)
You know, you're right. She becomes all outraged and bristly about the "shooting". If I were her, I'd be careful of incorporating stuff from Sid, Joe or Gene in my columns.
It would be fascinating to inspect her inbox, before the date that she wrote this piece.
Unless the piece is about Republicans, who eat babies in between stealing food and medicine from old people while they are looking for rain forests to burn and small dogs to kick.
Evil conservative bastards!!!
ROTFLOL!! Yes, we ARE - LOL, again! Always ruining the dummycrap's days by shining the light of truth on their BS! We are SO unfeeling and insensitive - ROTFLOLUTRDOF (Until Tears Run Down Our Face).....
I'd like to see THIS printed widely about Pickering in this case.
However, I do note that there can be a disparity between those who take a plea bargain (usually to lesser charges) and those who take a case to trial--they expose themselves to high sentences.
In the meantime, Joe Lieberman officially began his hopeless quest for the Presidency, today. I deal with him in my present UPI column, first link below.
Congressman Billybob
Click for latest column on UPI, "Three Anti-Endorsements" (Now up on UPI wire, and FR.)
As the politician formerly known as Al Gore has said, my book, "to Restore Trust in America"
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