Liberal Lie #9 - Conservatives Are Racist; Liberals Are Tolerant: AlterNet's Racist Slurs Against Herman Cain

What must it be like to live in the world of a liberal/Democrat? A conservative/Republican merely looks at Obama funny and they're branded as a racist bigot everywhere from the pages of the NY Times to the news shows of CNN, MSNBC and the networks.

But when real racism shows its ugly head on the Democrat left -- and it always happens on the Democrat left -- it's like it never happened.

Are liberals just living in a fantasy world? Or are they that blind from their own hatred and intolerance that they are completely incapable of self-awareness?

In the past few months, black Congressman Allen West (R-FL) has been smeared with impunity in the liberal media. And a couple weeks ago dozens of "progressive" ralliers are caught on video gleefully wishing that black conservative Justice Clarence Thomas be lynched and/or "sent back to the fields."

But you wouldn't know that from following the Democrat-media complex.

Enter former Godfather's Pizza CEO turned radio host Herman Cain. Cain is a rising star in the conservative movement and very close to throwing his hat in the ring for the 2012 presidential run. Before this black man flies too high, however, the oh-so-tolerant left mobilizes to keep him down. Just like Thomas, West, Condi Rice, etc., etc.

Earlier this week Cain spoke at CPAC. (watch the fantastic speech at The Right Scoop.) Liberals, never ones to deal with reality well, couldn't understand how a black man could speak at a conservative convention without being spat upon or lynched or something like that. So here's how one prominent liberal website explains it:

Dana Loesch at Big Government informs us of this disgusting piece of "journalism" at the liberal AlterNet site. In it, Cain is referred to as a black "garbage pail kid" (?), a monkey, and a "race minstrel." (The author is evidently threatened by the presence of a strong, eloquent and successful black conservative as most liberals are of a strong, eloquent and successful conservative woman like Sarah Palin.)

This is your tolerant left on display, people.

Like I suggested above, to be a liberal is to live in an upside-down fantasy world. Up is down. Black is white. Right is wrong. And wrong is justified. And so you got Frank Rich at the ever-devolving NY Times can tilting at the windmill of imaginary Islamophobia while actual violence and hatred from Muslims toward Americans and all non-Muslims increases.

Similarly, you have the NAA(L)CP and media outlets like MSNBC decrying the non-existent racism of the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other such bogeymen. Yet when actual racism (and misogyny and violence and anti-Semitism, etc.) is spewed from the Democrat left virtually on a daily basis, don't come looking for these the self-appointed protectors of civil rights to cry foul. When liberalism is your agenda first and last, principle, integrity and common decency all go by the wayside.

Look for more racism against Herman Cain in the future. As long as strong, eloquent and successful black conservatives like him continue to gain national prominence, the racist Democrat left will be there to keep him down.

More reading at Power Line.
Ed Morrissey at HotAir.