O'Reilly Seeks to Destroy Georgia Republican Governor

[FirstFlaBn]

The comments I've read here really does cause one to wonder that maybe some of those southern Republicans may be (like Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond) just ex Democrats who liked segregation back in the day.

You really suck at innuendo. It's intellectually dishonest to make a vague charge against unidentified individuals. Anytime 'maybe' 'wonder' and 'may' appear in the same sentence it's a guarantee the writer has no factual basis.

The technique is as phony as the news reporters' use of "many people believe..." Have a problem with a comment? Well, address it then. Cheap shot at Lott and Thurmond, too, especially the latter. He hung on to keep the Pubbies from becoming the minority in the Senate and earlier played a huge role in making the 'R' word in the Deep South acceptable for use in mixed company. Maybe somebody should post the 1944 photo of him at Ste. Mere Eglise for you to criticize.

Nice job at group mindreading too. Do you do seances?

[TrexDogs]

But do you think the Governor of a state in which such a private event happens should have to stand before a firing squad for it?

I know you weren't asking me, but I wonder if equating this to a truly private event is quite the right anology.

Let's say that instead of going to my company's annual Christmas party, I decide to organize a separate, segregated one this year ... and further suppose there are enough boobs at my company that it becomes a pretty big one, say a whites-only Home Depot party, or whites-only IBM party, or whites-only Exxon party and it makes the press as such. As a shareholder, wouldn't you expect the company to at minimum issue a clear statement of policy on the matter? Would it matter if the party was held offsite, or if employees were buying tickets? I submit not. Remember, all employees are invited, except for the black ones of course, and we're not calling it a private cocktail reception, we're calling it (e.g.) the Whites-Only Home Depot Christmas Party.

By the same token these kids are having the Taylor County High School Whites-Only Prom. Not a private party at a friend's house ... a prom. This governor is the CEO of the state, the kids attend a taxpayer-funded school in his state, and he should act like a leader and not a wimp. No one's asking him to send in the Marines and forcibly shut down the event. Just to make a clear and unequivocal statement of policy ... it's called leadership, and his stakeholders (taxpayers) deserve that much.

[fellowpatriot]

Where did the idea that this private party was an 'all-white prom' originate? Does anyone know?

[faithincowboys]

An employer can also mandate urinalysis. An Employer can also enforce a strict dress code. An employer can monitor all calls and e-mails ( so can John Ashcroft come to think of it).


The CEO in this is the school Principal who can reprimand the kids, encourage a dialogue, have all kids attend a racial sensitivity symposium and on and on.

Do you want the Governor to intrude into the lives of the free citizens of Georgia to the degree that your post suggests?

The kids broke no law.

The Governor should make generic comments on racial unity, but to publicly denounce several dozen 18 year olds is not his place.

[TrexDogs]

Where did the idea that this private party was an 'all-white prom' originate? Does anyone know?

From the AP story in Post #23.

[TrexDogs]

Do you want the Governor to intrude into the lives of the free citizens of Georgia to the degree that your post suggests?

Intrude into the lives of citizens? I merely expect him to show leadership by issuing a statement of his policy. It's what leaders do. We can agree to disagree, of course, but this one's a no-brainer IMHO.

[faithincowboys]

By the way, in your analogy, how could Perdue fire these kids? Tell em, "Get outta Georgia by sundown!"

I think 6 months on the Chain Gang would begin to learn those teenagers, don't you?

[ffusco]

No one doubts that priveleged schoold are predominantly white, but that is classism, not rascism*, since anyone with enough wealth or status can attend.

*I assume that we live in a meritocracy and anyone can rise in status except possibly in some places where they they fly the flag of a defeated regime honoring those who fought gallantly for a perverted cause, defending the indefensible.


BTW: I feel sorry for a bunch of high schoolers that doesn't wan't half of the graduating class to attend its white-only prom. Shame on them and you.

[faithincowboys]

Ok, you're Perdue, how does your statement read?

[ffusco]

Bravo!

[faithincowboys]

Shame on me. Sir, I think their is something so vulgar about that. I have nothing to be ashamed of!

Isn't there value in diversity? So integration is only repuired of poor people. The rich, future leaders of our country can operate in all-white institutions. They disallow vouchers for poor minorities and relegate them to horrid public schools so as not to sully their private schools, and you defend that--Shame on you and them!

[ffusco]

"I hope that the Condi Rices of the world eventually overwhelm the divisive hacks like Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lees."

I 100% agree. Perhaps you are not an "apologist" but just a realist. A bit cynical though.

[ffusco]

They disallow vouchers for poor minorities and relegate them to horrid public schools so as not to sully their private schools, and you defend that--Shame on you and them!


I don't in fact. See #252 But you do generalize a bit, Youthful zeal?

[faithincowboys]

I want more biography on you. Your comments on the South indicate that you have no trouble peddling stereotypes.
Hatred for a group, a region-- how open-minded and thoughtful!

[TrexDogs]

Ok, you're Perdue, how does your statement read?

You really have to ask?

But what difference does it make how my statement reads? I don't have time for creative writing 101 and wordsmithing sample statements. It's Perdue's statement and leadership that's at question, not mine.

[ffusco]

Good For You!
Farmingdale H.S., Class of 87, Long Island, NY.

[faithincowboys]

Cynical?

And you believe no white Southerner is not a racist?

The great state of Alabama gave us Condi Rice-- of course, it had more to do with Condi's parents than Alabama!

[faithincowboys]

Dodge!

Don't waste your time, obviously you don't care about this issue as much as you pretend!

[EternalVigilance]

Oh dear, we agree again, you liberal you.

Embarrassing, ain't it?! ;-)

[spodefly]

Speaking as a Georgia native to O'reilly: Piss off, you blowhard!

I have never liked O'Rielly. He is a self-righteous ass. He should be back doing tabloid fluff for Inside Edition because he doesn't have the intellectual chops to present political matters in any useful way. He just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks ... whoever is on his show is incidental to giving O'Rielly a platform to run his mouth.

The Governor has nothing whatsoever to do with the decisions of some high school kids to have a private party. O'Reilly is grandstanding to feed his own ego, and I do not appreciate him using Georgia as a prop for his own aggrandizement.