As you’ll recall, she’s not the 1st Democrat unpaid political operative to "sambo-ize" a picture of an opponent to a favored Democrat.
What is it with these racist Democrats? |
| |
Written By:
shark
URL:
http://
|
This only goes to show just how much some Democrats assume the Black vote is in their pocket. And yesterday(?), I saw Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were going to CT for Lamont.
Perhaps the SCOTUS was wrong to make Senators popularly elected. Especially when a state wide race is tramped with out-of-staters, like this. |
| |
Written By:
Neo
URL:
http://
|
"Perhaps the SCOTUS was wrong to make Senators popularly elected."
Neo, an idiotic amendment made Senators popularly elected, not SCOTUS.
FYI.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
| |
Written By:
Tom Perkins
URL:
http://
|
Perkins - Perhaps the SCOTUS was wrong to make Senators popularly elected."
Neo, an idiotic amendment made Senators popularly elected, not SCOTUS. If it was up to legislatures, you would see Legislatures rewarding senior career hack Legislators, bagmen, nepotic favorites. Some might be good - Gray Davis instead of Boxer, Sheldon Silver instead of Chuckles Schumer. Some awful - Patrick Kennedy instead of Jack Reed. George Soros buying a seat from Vermont. Nasties like Cruz Bustamonte and William Bolger could be Senators. And if it was a fuction of the State Legislative fiefdom, no way would a Kay Bailey Hutchinson, John Cornyn, George Allen, John Warner, Lieberman, Santorum, Obama, Sessions, Coburn, Coleman have any shot. I trust the voters more than I do my esteemed Democratic-dominant Legislature where corruption and cronyism are considered bona fides for senior leadership posts and moneymen are all but kissed on the ring when they meet with the State Reps.Jane Hamsher, who loves to belittle the right and Joe Lieberman while implying she just drips and oozes political savvy did what I consider to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen yesterday She’s a Hollywood producer. Meaning to get the job she had to be a card-carrying Leftist and willing tool of the Mogul’s agenda. Interestingly, she was the Producer of "Natural Born Killers" - a film that Lieberman pointed out was exemplary of the vileness of Hollywood, it’s cultural war against the American people. Hamsher defended her movie. So she has a grudge on ol’ Joe.
Even more interestingly, she made an even dumber move than slapping blackface on Lieberman when she wrote an insider book that broke Hollywood Omerta and criticized actual "Players", crippling her Hollywood career. Many believe she became a Far Left Blogger to help rehabilitate herself in their eyes.
|
| |
Written By:
C. Ford
URL:
http://
|
|
Perhaps the Republicans feel they have a dog in this fight because it was William F. Buckley who originally championed Lieberman’s candidacy against Lowell Weicker, the self-described "turd in the punchbowl of American politics." |
| |
Written By:
Kevin
URL:
http://
|
The blog “JustOneMinute” nails Ned Lamont in a blatant lie to the press. “Ned Lamont may make a great politico after all, since he seems to have already mastered a key part of the job - when in trouble, lie. Here he is in the WaPo ducking the Lieberman-blackface debacle caused by blogger Jane Hamsher:Lamont brushed past reporters Wednesday night in Bridgeport, saying: "I don’t know anything about the blogs. I’m not responsible for those. I have no comment on them." “Can anyone forget Lamont’s first ad, with the Mighty Kos himself peering through the Lamont’s living room window before bursting inside to meet the candidate himself? Good news - apparently, it can be forgotten, since Ned Lamont now knows nothing about the blogs.” “…here is Jane …directing Ned in a commercial. Gee, did she introduce herself and mention what she was doing for the campaign, or just start ordering him around?” |
| |
Written By:
Robert Fulton
URL:
http://
|
Unfortunately, Senator Lieberman’s campaign has used this in attempt to hurt Ned and score political points, mustering their own faux indignation in attempt to further distract from the issues important to the voters of Connecticut. That must be "faux indignation" because Lieberman isn’t capable of the real thing, what with his lack of nutroots endorsement. I mean, he couldn’t possible be authentically indignant about being portrayed as Steppin Fetchit by his opponent’s supporters on a high trafficed "media" source, could he? Now without Arianna’s blessing. No siree. |
| |
Written By:
Pablo
URL:
http://
|
My feelings about this whole brouhaha are mixed. I agree with McQ that a woman who parades as a political sophisticate went with a ploy that even most idiots would not fail to understand violates a taboo. Only African-Americans hold a “license” to use blackface in making any kind of point. The left itself has generated this orthodoxy, so she is hoist on the petard of her own ideology’s making.
That said, I am most bemused to see Republicans carrying on as if racism is really the issue here. Everyone knows Jane Hamsher is not a racist, and she wasn’t making any kind of point approving of racism in what she did. Republicans, by contrast, have a long history of successfully exploiting racism as a tool in down and dirty political strategies, as one of that party’s campaign maestros, Lee Atwater, admitted — and for which he issued pained apologies as he was dying of brain cancer.
Jane was stupid. Those GOP partisans exploiting her gross misstep are hypocrites cynically exploiting her "racism."
|
| |
Written By:
Mona
URL:
http://
|
Here is an article to read on what place blackface holds in race issues.
To quote:Still, John Strausbaugh argues in the persuasive, provocative "Black Like You," blackface continues to hold an especially vilified place in American culture. "The swastika, the ’N-word’ and blackface, because of their special historical significance, are the ne plus ultra of hate speech," he writes. If you doubt that claim, ask the singer Stephin Merritt, who recently set off a small explosion in rock’s intellectual circles by stating that "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," from the disowned Disney film "Song of the South," is "a great song." Or, better yet, try an easier test — on a crowded subway car, pull out this book, with the close-up of a blackfaced minstrel on its cover, and see how you feel. To make that allusion (blackface) is to commit a racist act. No one should be justifying it here. The old, but republicans are racist too! double pfffft!
As to Hamsher’s unapologetic apology, the hell with her "Oh, sorry to offend" non apology.
And I see the townhouse appologizers (the M word) are here to counter spin this.
|
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
But, I am not sure what is more offensive, Hamsher putting Liberman (a jew) in blackface or calling his supporters LieberYouth.
Yes, I got the reference she was making about him. How nice. Maybe someone will defend that too. How very nice. |
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
Powerline’s pontifications about “the absurdity of Lamont’s effort to distance himself from the irresponsible left” are just plain funny. Right, Jane Hamsher transgresses PC boundaries, and that means a primary candidate is not sufficiently distanced from the “irresponsible left.” This, from a champion of the responsible party of Lee Atwater.
Spike Lee has made use of the blackface schtick, and he can get away with it because he is a liberal black man. Jane is white, so she can’t. It is that silly but true, and Jane should be well aware of it.
|
| |
Written By:
Mona
URL:
http://
|
Everyone knows Jane Hamsher is not a racist, and she wasn’t making any kind of point approving of racism in what she did. So your telepathic powers work on her as well as Glenn Greenwald? Amazing. Another in a long line of your defenses of the indefensible. Only African-Americans hold a “license” to use blackface in making any kind of point. The fact that you can type that line with a straight face just blows me away. Or this:Republicans, by contrast, have a long history of successfully exploiting racism as a tool in down and dirty political strategies, as one of that party’s campaign maestros, Lee Atwater, admitted — and for which he issued pained apologi es as he was dying of brain cancer. Here’s a fun history quiz for you. Know what party the first black U.S. congressman belonged to? Republican. How about the second? Republican. The first twenty-three black congressmen? Yes, ALL Republican.
The Democratic party was the party of slavery, and after Reconstruction, the party of the white power elite. I live in the South, Mona. You know, where the majority of the "African-Americans" live.
Robert "KKK" Byrd? Democrat. When David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, what did he run as? A Republican. And the GOP disavowed him and the local Republican party endorsed Edwin Edwards, who had already ducked a racketeering indictment and is now serving a (life) sentence in federal prison. Don’t bother huffing and puffing, I WAS HERE. Republicans sporting bumper stickers that said "Vote for the Crook - It’s Important" were all over the place.
Bull Connor? Democrat. Racial Segregation and Miscegenation laws? Pushed and passed by Democrats.
One would think that you would have learned by now that commenters here are more conversant with history than your average "Reason libertarian" Glennwald-groupie lickspittle. And yet here you are again, attempting to push the same tired act.
What are you doing here, anyway? Isn’t it time for Glenn’s tongue-bath?
|
| |
Written By:
Jeff
URL:
http://
|
|
Jeff, I don’t substatively engage "debate" at the level you descend to — e.g., your final two sentences. My link to Atwater’s admissions stands, but I’ll be ignoring you henceforth until you decide to interact at a decent level. |
| |
Written By:
Mona
URL:
http://
|
As for popular elections of US Senators...I trust the voters more than I do my esteemed Democratic-dominant Legislature where corruption and cronyism are considered bona fides for senior leadership posts and moneymen are all but kissed on the ring when they meet with the State Reps. That may be, but now the individual states have no representation. I think that we’ve all read of so-called "unfunded mandates" from the Federal government. Having the Senate represent the states was supposed to prevent such crud.
For that matter, having the state legislatures elect/select the senators would provide a greater incentive for most people to pay attentioin to state level politics. |
| |
Written By:
Mark A. Flacy
URL:
http://
|
|
Very good point Mark. Voter participation in state level politics is depressing and I think if the stakes were raised a bit by returning the election of Senators to state legislatures, more people would take an interest. |
| |
Written By:
The Poet Omar
URL:
http://
|
Read a satirical critique of the battle being waged amongst Democrats in the Lieberman v. Lamont Senate race coined "The Hatfield’s & McCoy’s"...here:
www.thoughttheater.com
|
| |
Written By:
Daniel DiRito
URL:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
|
Mona-
"But they do it too" stopped being an accepted defense back in 3rd grade.
If you simply cannot condemn an act of insensitivity and idiocy bordering on racism (hey, it’s the world PC has created!) without uttering "But....." then maybe you should simply remain silent.
|
| |
Written By:
shark
URL:
http://
|
Republicans, by contrast, have a long history of successfully exploiting racism as a tool in down and dirty political strategies, as one of that party’s campaign maestros, Lee Atwater, admitted — and for which he issued pained apologi es as he was dying of brain cancer.
Here’s a fun history quiz for you. Know what party the first black U.S. congressman belonged to? Republican. How about the second? Republican. The first twenty-three black congressmen? Yes, ALL Republican.
The Democratic party was the party of slavery, and after Reconstruction, the party of the white power elite. I live in the South, Mona. You know, where the majority of the "African-Americans" live.
Robert "KKK" Byrd? Democrat. When David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, what did he run as? A Republican. And the GOP disavowed him and the local Republican party endorsed Edwin Edwards, who had already ducked a racketeering indictment and is now serving a (life) sentence in federal prison. Don’t bother huffing and puffing, I WAS HERE. Republicans sporting bumper stickers that said "Vote for the Crook - It’s Important" were all over the place.
Bull Connor? Democrat. Racial Segregation and Miscegenation laws? Pushed and passed by Democrats. Here Mona, now you respond to this since I’m reposting it and you don’t have to do the faux superiority act regarding Jeff.
|
| |
Written By:
shark
URL:
http://
|
I said this elsewhere, mark my words, the time will come soon when a major Democrat figures out they cannot win with this netroots albatross around their neck and then they will break with the Kos crowd very publicly.
It will be a Sister Souljah moment, and that candidate will pull ahead of the pack. And don’t be surprised if it is Hilary Clinton who does it. |
| |
Written By:
kyle N
URL:
http://impudent.blognation.us/blog
|
MONA: "My feelings about this whole brouhaha are mixed." Seems to me the mixture tests out at 95/05 standard liberal Democrat apologia content. Libertarian is as libertarian does. By that standard, you measure up as a pretty good liberal Democrat. OK, to you it is an important differentiation that you call yourself a libertarian and that you read [or read, I forget which] "Reason". Once again you are weighing in with a comment that one could expect from a liberal Democrat. I am just sayin’.
And Jeff, that tongue comment was very crude. Since La Mona has denigrated me for similar "non-substantiveness" I feel your pain.
Shark, why are you requesting another Mona strawman response? |
| |
Written By:
Robert Fulton
URL:
http://
|
And Jeff, that tongue comment was very crude. Since La Mona has denigrated me for similar "non-substantiveness" I feel your pain. What’s yer point? I notice you didn’t say it was WRONG or INACCURATE, just very crude. I just consulted the man in the mirror, and he gave me the double-thumbs-up. He feels no pain, therefore I feel no pain.Shark, why are you requesting another Mona strawman response? Likely for the same reason I respond to Mona’s foolishness - it’s good exercise. Rebutting Mona is kinda like working out on the heavy bag in my "man room." It’s a non-sentient object, so it’s not like you’re ever going to beat it, but it still feels really good to beat on it regularly.
Helps me wind down after a long day running my etiquette school. |
| |
Written By:
Jeff
URL:
http://
|
Yes, I even posted an article written in the New York times of a book about why it was considered a very bad thing. Off course that was ignored as well.
You can bet that if any right of center blogger had done what Ms Hamsher did, then a certain someone would have suddenly found it anissue with the applciation of a blackface image.
It seems that the political direction of the comment seems to have a lot to do with the response from that certain someone. One would almost think there was some degree of partisan nature involved here. |
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
capt joe,
You are lowering the level of discourse with your cynicism. It is no wonder that a certain someone refuses to substantively "debate" you.
And besides, LEE ATWATER, YOU HYPOCRITE. |
| |
Written By:
Jeff
URL:
http://repatriate.blogspot.com
|
|
Sorry, Jeff, irony does not communicate itself well in comments. |
| |
Written By:
Robert Fulton
URL:
http://
|
Republicans, by contrast, have a long history of successfully exploiting racism as a tool in down and dirty political strategies, as one of that party’s campaign maestros, Lee Atwater, admitted — and for which he issued pained apologies as he was dying of brain cancer. Lee Atwater certainly apologized for the Willie Horton thing, but not because it was dirty politics, but because he felt it made him sound like a racist, something he denied.The controversy escalated when Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen and former Democratic candidate and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called the ad racist. In 1991, terminally ill with cancer, Atwater apologized to Dukakis for saying that he would "make Willie Horton his running mate...because it makes me sound racist, which I am not." And historically, Jeff has a point. It wasn’t a Republican who stood in the door of Central High in Little Rock, but it was a Republican who used federal troops to enforce the law. It wasn’t a Republican standing against integration at the University of Alabama, but it was a Democratic Governor. It wasn’t the Republicans who filibustered the Civil Rights Act in 1957 and 1964, but Democrats, one of which was the mentor of William Jefferson Clinton and the other was the former VP’s dad.
Willie Horton may have been dirty politics, but it was Democrats who invented racial politics ... at least in this country. |
| |
Written By:
McQ
URL:
http://www.qando.net/blog
|
|
I got you, Robert - I just didn’t do so well communicating my own irony. Sorry. :) |
| |
Written By:
Jeff
URL:
http://repatriate.blogspot.com
|
Yes, black face. In 2007...
I thought that went out of style with Ted Danson. McQ, I will be amazed and disgusted to find that sort of thing going on next year, in 2007.
|
| |
Written By:
Wulf
URL:
http://www.atlasblogged.com
|
You know what Wulf, I thought about that as I was driving to Macon today and thought "I’ll change it when I get back". Then the day happened and, well, I forgot. But for some reason and I have no idea what it was, today I was a year ahead of myself.
Now that you’ve reminded me, I’m going to change it.;) |
| |
Written By:
McQ
URL:
http://www.qando.net/blog
|
I see that Ned Lamont is now saying something in a paraphrase of this: "Ah did not make commercials with that woman."
I heard that somewhere before but I just can’t put my finger on it. Maybe another couple of martinis and it will come to me. hmmm..... |
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
I suppose I should have posted the link about commercials. One too many martinis I think.
Here is Lamont and Hamsher chatting it up. He certainly knew her then. I guess she is roadkill now. You would think that after all the money she made for him, he could have recalled something. I guess ole Ned is going to be a good politician afterall. |
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
McQ,
Thanks for pointing out that it was due to Republicans, not Democrats, that the 1965 civil rights act was passed. It is amazing how few people realize that. Having grown up in Louisiana I find it astonishing how anyone can say with a straight face that the Democratic Party has some moral high ground to stand upon when it comes to race.
I also appreciate your defense of Lee Atwater. I was no big fan of he or Bush 41, but Lee Atwater was not a racist. He was a hard nosed political operative and, as I said, I am no fan. However, he was one of the Republicans of his era most comfortable with African Americans. Much more comfortable than Bush 41 or Dukakis. |
| |
Written By:
Lance
URL:
http://www.asecondhandconjecture.com
|
Found this.
Guess Hamsher had a different POV back then about blackface. |
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
|
Yes, it is delicious to see a race-baiter hoist on her own petard. Thanks for the link. |
| |
Written By:
Robert Fulton
URL:
http://
|
"...I do not, nor have I ever worked for Ned Lamont’s campaign."
"I answer to nobody and I operate entirely on my own volition. If you have a problem with something I’ve written, you know where to find me."
"However, at their request, I removed the image earlier today." |
| |
Written By:
ddubb
URL:
http://
|
Willie Horton may have been dirty politics, but it was Democrats who invented racial politics ... at least in this country.
Indeed, if I recall correctly it was Al Gore who first used Willie Horton against his fellow democrats , not Mr. Bush or any other Republican.
And, while I’m thinking about it, I find it interesting that the black faced Lieberman should be shown with the country’s self proclaimed first black president, Bill Clinton. |
| |
Written By:
Bithead
URL:
http://bitheads.blogspot.com
|
Indeed, if I recall correctly it was Al Gore who first used Willie Horton against his fellow democrats , not Mr. Bush or any other Republican. Al Gore brought up the furlough program, but he didn’t bring up Willie Horton by name. |
| |
Written By:
McQ
URL:
http://www.qando.net/blog
|
Al Gore brought up the furlough program, but he didn’t bring up Willie Horton by name.
IIRC, neither did Bush 41. |
| |
Written By:
MichaelW
URL:
http://
|
Likely for the same reason I respond to Mona’s foolishness - it’s good exercise. Rebutting Mona is kinda like working out on the heavy bag in my "man room." It’s a non-sentient object, so it’s not like you’re ever going to beat it, but it still feels really good to beat on it regularly.
Written By: Jeff Really?
Robert "KKK" Byrd?
“Robert "KKK" Byrd”
!?
How shrewd you must be perceived to be.
One would think that you would have learned by now that commenters here are more conversant with history than your average "Reason libertarian" Glennwald-groupie lickspittle. And yet here you are again, attempting to push the same tired act.
“lickspittle”
!?
What are you doing here, anyway? Isn’t it time for Glenn’s tongue-bath?
This is your “working out on the heavy bag”???
What this is has to be what only can be described as an exhibition of a repartee welterweight.
Take a seat, junior.
|
| |
Written By:
PogueMahone
URL:
http://
|
Mona-
"But they do it too" stopped being an accepted defense back in 3rd grade.
Written By: shark
Followed immediately with…Republicans, by contrast, have a long history of successfully exploiting racism as a tool in down and dirty political strategies, as one of that party’s campaign maestros, Lee Atwater, admitted — and for which he issued pained apologi es as he was dying of brain cancer.
Here’s a fun history quiz for you. Know what party the first black U.S. congressman belonged to? Republican. How about the second? Republican. The first twenty-three black congressmen? Yes, ALL Republican.
The Democratic party was the party of slavery, and after Reconstruction, the party of the white power elite. I live in the South, Mona. You know, where the majority of the "African-Americans" live.
Robert "KKK" Byrd? Democrat. When David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, what did he run as? A Republican. And the GOP disavowed him and the local Republican party endorsed Edwin Edwards, who had already ducked a racketeering indictment and is now serving a (life) sentence in federal prison. Don’t bother huffing and puffing, I WAS HERE. Republicans sporting bumper stickers that said "Vote for the Crook - It’s Important" were all over the place.
Bull Connor? Democrat. Racial Segregation and Miscegenation laws? Pushed and passed by Democrats. Here Mona, now you respond to this since I’m reposting it and you don’t have to do the faux superiority act regarding Jeff.
Written By: shark
Shark must be in the third grade.
|
| |
Written By:
PogueMahone
URL:
http://
|
MONA: "My feelings about this whole brouhaha are mixed." Seems to me the mixture tests out at 95/05 standard liberal Democrat apologia content.
Written By: Robert Fulton
Really, Robert? Is what Mona wrote a 95/05 standard liberal Democrat apologia? Let’s have a look again, shall we?My feelings about this whole brouhaha are mixed. I agree with McQ that a woman who parades as a political sophisticate went with a ploy that even most idiots would not fail to understand violates a taboo. Only African-Americans hold a “license” to use blackface in making any kind of point. The left itself has generated this orthodoxy, so she is hoist on the petard of her own ideology’s making. Standard liberal Democrat apologia?
Hardly.
Once again you are weighing in with a comment that one could expect from a liberal Democrat. I am just sayin’.
Written By: Robert Fulton
Once again you are weighing in with a comment that one could expect from an obtuse, chimerical antagonist. I’m just sayin’.
|
| |
Written By:
PogueMahone
URL:
http://
|
I think the Horton thing was way overblown, but...Indeed, if I recall correctly it was Al Gore who first used Willie Horton against his fellow democrats , not Mr. Bush or any other Republican. ...you do not recall correctly. To this day, no one has found any quoted interview or recording showing Al Gore mentioning Willie Horton’s name during the 1988 primary campaign. More here. |
| |
Written By:
Jon Henke
URL:
http://QandO.net
|
Well, the he said she said of the political spectrum is predictable but the points are:
- she was wrong
- she hasn’t appologized
- she wrote (I put the link earlier) up a post previously decrying Laura Bush after Bush said she liked Eddie Cantor and Hamsher tied that into a general attack tied to Bush approving of blackface somehow.
- Hamsher has a long history of saying nasty crap (worse than Michelle Malkin) about people she does not like. The rape joe gurney and the blackface incident being mild. |
| |
Written By:
capt joe
URL:
http://
|
Oh, you wicked, wicked little man. I could crush you like an ant, you know. But I have far more important fish to fry.
So many of the opposition to demonize, marginalize, and treat as Other, so little time.
*sigh* Sometimes I do believe I’m going to choke on all this tolerance and diversity crap.
Toodles! |
| |
Written By:
The Hamster
URL:
http://www.villainouscompany.com/vcblog/
|
