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Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: WH Communications Director Anita Dunn Disses Fox News

So much for “changing the tone in Washington.” After all, even Nobel “Peace” Prize winner President Golden Calf admits he’s essentially all talk and no action.

In a despicable, arrogant, and rather hypocritical display today, White House communications director (whatever the hell that is) Anita Dunn delegitimized the Fox News Channel as a bona fide news station. Among the gems shared by her with CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz (h/t: Breitbart, via Mediaite]:

Let’s be realistic here, Howie, they’re widely viewed as a part of the Republican party: Take their talking points, put ‘em on the air. Take their opposition research, put ‘em on the air. And that’s fine, but let’s not pretend they’re a news network the way CNN is.

The reality of it is FOX News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party.... What I think is fair to say about FOX, and certainly the way we view it, is that it really is more a wing of the Republican Party.

When [Democrat Chris Wallace] goes on FOX he understands he's not going on it really as a news network at this point. He's going on to debate the opposition, and that's fine. He never minds doing that.

You just can’t make this up, folks. It’s so hypocritical, given the fact that the alphabet networks, MSNBC, and CNN have been so overtly cheerleaders for anything pro-liberal/Democrat and particularly pro-Obama.

ABC, which gave Obama free publicity with his three-day infomercial on government-run health (s)care, is evidently a legitimate news network.

MSNBC, lined up from daytime to nighttime with overtly gaga-for-Obama liberal Democrats, is evidently a legitimate news network.

CNN, which actually fact-checked a Saturday Night Live skit teasing President Golden Calf, is evidently a legitimate news network.

CBS, who had to fire its star anchor for reporting fake documents as real for the specific purpose of destroying a sitting Republican president just weeks before an election, is evidently a legitimate news network.

And so on and so forth.

It’s one thing for liberal hacks from these stations to back the right. We’re used to that by now.

But for a White House representative to do it? This should chill the bones of anyone who loves liberty, free speech, and the free exchange of ideas.

Mary at Freedom Eden makes this valid point:

Dunn has just made the case for how important FOX News is as a watchdog on Obama and the U.S. government.

Indeed. Accuse me of reading too much between the lines, but this woman is dangerous. She’s an authoritarian and she’s power-hungry. She’s an enemy of free speech and an enemy of liberty. Like the rest of the Obama’s band of merry men and women. And the president himself.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: "Basterds" Actor Eli Roth Equates Sarah Palin to Hitler.

Pop quiz:

(a) Guess who got was equated with Adolf Hitler last week?
(b) Guess who couldn’t care less?

Answers: (a) Sarah Palin, (b) neither the mainstream Obamedia nor Democrat political figures.

It happened last Wednesday during a Time Out New York interview with Quentin Tarantino, director of the new movie Inglourious Basterds, and actor Eli Roth. The offending and completely out-of-left-field comment was made by Roth, who said:

[T]he first time I showed Nation’s Pride to 300 Nazi extras, even though they were in character, my stomach turned. I looked at Quentin and was like, “Oh my god, what have I done? I’ve started the fourth Reich and they're going to make me their Sarah Palin.”

Get it? Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, started the Third Reich. Ergo, the leader of the Fourth Reich? Current-day Nazi leader Sarah Palin.

So where’s the outrage? I thought simply equating someone’s National-Socialist policies to Nazi Germany was verboten. You’re likely to get derided by Katie Couric, Nancy Pelosi, even President Hope&Change himself.

It’s now five days after this loathsome and offensive statement was made and I’ve just done a News search on Google. Guess how many stories were reported by the networks or any of the cable stations? (a) Zero (b) Between 0 and 5 (c) Between 6 and 10, or (d) More than 10?

Answer: (a) ZERO

Guess how many times Nancy Pelosi or some other holier-than-thou Dem politician chastised this celebrity for calling a politician with whom he disagrees a Nazi? (Because apparently San Fran Nan is very sensitive about those things!). Answer: also ZERO.

The only web “news” source I found that wasn’t a blog was the Washington Examiner, in which chief political correspondent Byron York brought it up. Elsewhere on the web you’ll only find reports that the interview took place, and possibly a transcript of the interview itself. But with regard to Roth’s utterly inappropriate and irrelevent statement, no editorializing at all.

So no discussion from the Katie Courics or Nancy Pelosis in our midst about angry Americans stirring up hatred against Sarah Palin.

That’s only reserved for people they support. Which would be Barack Obama.

Funny, because it’s Obama, not Sarah Palin, who demands blind allegience to the state—just like Hitler.

And it’s Barack Obama, not Sarah Palin, who supports the snuffing out of undesireable humans by aborting babies on one end, euthanizing the elderly on the other, and doing whichever applies to the weak, ill, or infirm—just like Hitler.

And it’s Barack Obama, not Sarah Palin, who has a vehement aversion to free market capitalism and has engaged in the hostile takeover of businesses of his choosing—just like Hitler.

So who’s the leader of the putative Fourth Reich again?

I don’t care, Eli Roth, if you’re a fellow Jew. No, wait, I take that back. I’m particularly offended because you’re a Jew and should know better. But you’re also a pompous elitist Hollywood lib. And when you’re a Hollywood lib calling Sarah Palin Hitler is as common as breathing. You not only owe Sarah Palin an apology, you could use a refresher course in history.

Eli Roth, you’re a schmuck, an insignificant nobody, a mental midget. But you’re loved in Hollywood and that’s all that matters to your worthless self. And you couldn’t pay me to see your hack acting in some movie. I’ve got way better things to spend my money on.

And to you politicians and media types: your hypocrisy and bias couldn’t be any more obvious.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Harry Reid Calls ObamaCare Protesters "Evil-Mongers"

I guess it wasn’t enough for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-La-la Land) to call ObamaCare protesters Nazis. Harry “The War Is Lost” Reid needed to one-up Madam Speaker.

Yesterday Eric Zimmerman at the Hill’s Briefing Room blog reported:

Town hall protesters are “evil-mongers,” says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)

Reid coined the term in a speech to an energy conference in Las Vegas this week and repeated it in an interview with Politics Daily.

Such “evil-mongers” are using “lies, innuendo and rumor,” to drown out rational debate, Reid said.

Drown out rational debate? The protesters are there to ensure debate, you nitwit. If the ObamaCare opponents weren’t there, the meetings would simply consist of power-hungry politicians delivering B.S. to a bunch of sheep. The protesters are the debate. And that’s what really bothers Harry Reid.

Now let’s talk about “lies, innuendo, and rumor.”

Who lied, innuendoed, and rumored that Rush Limbaugh called military personnel against the Iraq War “phony soldiers,” when all the while Rush was referring specifically to anti-war activists who feigned being soldiers?

That would be evil-monger Harry Reid.

Who lied, innuendoed, and rumored that the War in Iraq was lost and that the 2007 surge was not accomplishing anything other than creating more violence (consequently demoralizing our troops on the ground giving aid and comfort to the enemy)?

That would be evil-monger Harry Reid.

Who just last month lied, innuendoed, and rumored that the media was to blame for forcing an August deadline for voting on the health care bill, when that deadline was clearly set by Obama?

That would be evil-monger Harry Reid.

We can go on, but why bother?

Allahpundit at Hot Air observes:

Isn’t this actually the left’s line on the right in all policy disagreements? Pick any issue you like, foreign or domestic, and liberal conventional wisdom has some nefarious explanation available for the conservative position. Warmongering, racism, exploiting the poor, “controlling women’s bodies” — you name it, they’ve got an “evil” ulterior motive to account for it. I wonder why it took Reid this long to drop the E-bomb. He must really want to win this debate.

Not only that, but “evil” is such a strong word. When George W. Bush called Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an “evil empire,” I’m sure Reid joined his fellow Democrats in shunning such unnuanced black-and-white rhetoric. When Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” no doubt Reid was just as perturbed.

But American citizens who are tired of this runaway government bankrupting us to oblivion and siphoning away our civil liberties every minute they meet? They’re the evil ones to Harry Reid. Get it?

I’m so tired of politically-motivated control freaks like Harry “The War Is Lost” Reid. Please, Nevadans, vote this guy out as soon as freaking possible.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: David Letterman Jokes About Statutory Rape of Willow Palin

You’d think after the deletion of last week’s Playboy article fantasizing about raping ten conservative women, liberals in the entertainment world would get the message.

Yoy thought wrong. On Monday, David Letterman joked about fourteen year-old Willow Palin being “knocked up by NY Yankee Alex Rodriguez.” And his audience laughed.

Why? Just … why?

The righto-sphere is all over this one like flies on a rib roast. Jim Treacher at Hot Air comments:

I realize I’m just an inbred backwoods moron who can’t abide by any criticism of Sarah Palin whatsoever, but is this really the precedent we want to set for our politicians and their families?

After all, Samson Obama, one of the president’s many half-brothers, isn’t allowed in the UK because he tried to assault a 13-year-old girl. Are we to impose the Letterman standard there? Is it okay to make a joke like this?

“How come the First Family never invites Uncle Samson to visit? Because whenever Sasha and Malia sit on his knee, it takes six Secret Service guys to pry them off!”

Or how about this?

“Joe Biden keeps saying he’s not really sure where all that stimulus money is going. In other news, Ashley Biden’s coke dealer just bought Luxembourg.”

Hey, I didn’t say they were good jokes. But are they really worse than what Letterman just got away with on national TV? If so, why?

Read more commentary at Moe Lane to Malkin to Gateway Pundit.

By the way, if I were A-Rod, I’d be really pissed right now. 

Yesterday Letterman tried to smooth the problem over, first clarifying that he was referring to the rape of 18-year-old Bristol Palin, not younger sister Willow. (Thanks, Dave. That makes your joke just a little better.) EW.com also reports that he’s invited Bristol on his show. H/t Gateway Pundit, who quips:

Sarah Palin should send her husband Todd on the show instead. I'd watch that.

So would I.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Tom Brokaw Legitimizes Inane Comparison Between Holocaust and Israel-Palestine Conflict

... and Barack Obama’s response was scarcely better.

Comparing the actual atrocities committed against the Jews during the Holocaust with the imagined atrocities committed on the Palestinians by the state of Israel is the strategy of Jew- and Israel-haters worldwide. The offensive example of moral equivalency has been one of the modi operandi for demonizing and delegitimizing Israel througout its 60-year existence.

But apparently it’s more mainstream than we want to admit. On Thursday, while interviewing Barack Obama about his trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, NBC’s Tom Brokaw asked this inane question [h/t Hot Air via NewsBusters]:

What can the Israelis learn from your visit to Buchenward and what should they be thinking about their treatment of Palestinians?

To which Obama replied:

Well, look, there’s no equivalency here.

At this point, the Power Line blog commends Obama for rejecting Brokaw’s detestable premise.

And I too give Obama credit ... until the very next sentence he utters. I don’t think the folks at Power Line listened to what followed:

But I do think that given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through historic harships that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and purpose to seek a just and lasting peace and that, I believe, will involve creating two states side by side with peace and security.

So, first Obama says there’s no equivalency between the treatment of Jews (i.e., institutional persecution, rounding up for concentration camps, forced labor, starvation, torture, and mass murder) in the Holocaust and the treatment of Palestinians by Israelis (???). Exactly two seconds later he’s pointing his finger at the Israelis for failing to engage in a Middle East peace that is apparently desparately wanted by the Palestinians.

And I’m sorry, this was his message in Cairo too: First, after criticizing the practice of Muslims of denying the Holocaust—again props to Obama—he turns around and scolds Israel for being the barrier to a two-state solution vis à vis its treatment of Palestinians.

You want to teach a lesson about moral equivalency, President Obama? Stop making Israeli equally as accountable in the Middle East crisis!

Amazingly, no one I spoke to this weekend—and there were a lot of people; we had a party at our house—even knew about Obama’s Brokaw interview. Why is it only stuff that Rush Limbaugh says about Obama that makes for water cooler discussion?

Speaking of whom, there is probably no one who better responds to Brokaw’s outrageous question and Obama’s non-answer answer than El Rushbo, who on Friday’s show said:

I don’t know about you, this question outrages me, and the answer outrages me. … To his credit, Obama said, “there’s no equivalency there, Tom.” Then there’s always the “but.” That should have been the end of the answer …

Now, anybody who’s paid attention to this for the past 60 years knows that the Israelis have bent over forwards and backwards to try to come up and do things that the world has asked them to do to forge peace. They have given up land, they have been attacked. When they were attacked, they were victorious and they conquered land. They gave it back. 

Israel is a nine-mile-wide country at its narrowest point. Israel can see all of its neighbors from the Golan Heights. Now, the idea that the Israelis are the ones that have to do something here to seek a just and lasting peace is offensive as possible. Because, you see, the Limbaugh Doctrine, peace results from one thing, and that’s victory. 

We have been going through this mess of Middle East peace for I don’t know how long, and back in the 90’s, Bill Clinton gave Yasser Arafat everything Arafat was demanding, and he still rejected it because Palestinian leaders do not want a state side by side with Israel. They want no Israel. Everybody involved in this knows that. All of this is such a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n’ roll political game. 

That question by Brokaw is an indication of the government-run media’s impression of the Israeli-Palestinian fight, that there may as well be the Israelis engaging in their own reverse Holocaust now. I get really frustrated. The Israelis do not bomb themselves on buses with Palestinian kids aboard. They don’t strap their four-year-olds with bombs and send them into the Palestinian territories and say, “Blow yourself up, kid.” They don’t do these things. It happens to them. 

And then when they fight back, they’re accused of atrocities. They sit there and they’ll take a barrage of missiles launched from Lebanon for days and not do a thing, then they’ll respond and all of a sudden the world says the Israelis are reacting out of proportion. What they mean is the Israelis should aim their missiles as horribly as the Palestinians aim theirs. These Hamas missiles and Hezbollah missiles from Lebanon mostly miss their targets but they’re still harassment and they still pose a great threat. The Israeli missiles don’t miss the target; the world gets mad. I don’t know how they keep their patience. 

I don’t know how they keep their decorum, but I’ll tell you this. This whole business of President Obama saying, “Well, you know, given the extraordinary moral traditions of Judaism, the potential power of empathy that arises out of having gone through such historic hardships, that will ultimately give the people of Israel the strength and”—ultimately? Ultimately? You mean eventually? As though they’re not existing with strength and a sense of purpose now?

You know, you can say what you want. I don’t care what you think of the Israelis. And I don’t care what your religious attitudes are toward the Israeli people. But there’s one thing that can’t be denied, and that is that they have been, as a race of people, subjected to holocaust and genocide throughout much of their existence, and it has not torn them apart; they have not lost their moral code; they have not lost their sense of decency. None of what Obama implied about them here is true, that they somehow have to summon that? That’s the reason they still exist today, is because they have not fallen apart as a result of all that’s happened to them. One day after delivering a speech that talks about all the contributions to the world from Islam and all of it was made up!

… Barack Obama’s got something against Israel. Now, if you look at who mentored him, Jeremiah Wright, you’ll find there’s a guy who’s got something against Israel. Louis Farrakhan? Not only does Louis Farrakhan have something against Israel, he’s got something against the Jewish people. …

Damn right!

You know, I’ll bet if I showed this text to any liberal Democrat Jew who loved and supported the State of Israel—and as oxymoronic as that sounds, there are many of them—they would probably agree with it. Then I would tell them it was Rush Limbaugh who said it and they would pass out …

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Specter Blames GOP for Kemp's Cancer Death

That Arlen Specter wasted no time blasting his former party, did he? What a classy guy.

“If we [= Republicans] had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.”
— Formerly Republican Senator Arlen Specter.

From the Washington Times:

In a Specter hints Kemp died of GOP agenda
By Tom LoBianco | Monday, May 4, 2009

Mr. Specter, responding to a question from CBS’ Bob Schieffer over whether he had let down Pennsylvanians who wanted a Republican to represent them, said he thought his priorities were more in line with those of the Democrats. [Gee, ya think???]

Mr. Specter continued: “If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.”

What an obnoxious statement. It’s reminiscent of when John Edwards promised in 2004 that if John Kerry were elected, Christopher Reeve would walk again. Nothing but mean-spirited, emothion-based, politically-motivated drivel.

Virtually all of us, myself included, have friends and relatives with cancer and who either survived or succumbed to it. Cancer-stricken celebrities abound. But never have I heard anyone say that some cancer victim would have been alive today if it weren’t for the misplaced priorities of an opposing political party!

By this loathsome comment, Specter not only insinuates that the GOP has blocked cancer research and typically puts other priorities over human life (a Democrat fallacy), but he also suggests that the only way to achieve such a medical milestone as a cancer cure requires government action (another Democrat fallacy).

If anything proves once and for all that Arlen Specter was a liberal Democrat in Republican clothing, this loathsome comment would be it.

Good riddance to this waste of space—in the Republican Party or otherwise.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Bill Keller Exposes His Broken Moral Compass

“Saving the New York Times now ranks with saving Darfur as a high-minded cause.” —Bill Keller, executive editor of the NY Times, April 2, 2009

Only to a left-wing ideologue does the saving of a political propaganda rag for his side equal saving hundreds of thousands of poor Africans being macheted by a murderous Afro-Arab militia. He really believes this. I’m sure he does. Why else would he say it?

 

This is the moral backwardness we live with these days, folks.

(Pic credit: StopTheACLU)

Profiles in Liberal Ignorance, Hatred and Intolerance: Bill Maher [UPDATED]

Below is an exchange between Bill Maher, his liberal guest Michael Eric Dyson, and his conservative guest Andrew Breitbart from yesterday’s “Real Time” on HBO. Maher and Dyson are truly revolting and Breitbart is magnificent in standing up to his host’s ignorance, hate, and intolerance. Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters provides the following transcript and commentary:

ANDREW BREITBART: Right now if you look online you’ll see that “Atlas Shrugged” and Ayn Rand’s books are, are, you know, flying off of the bookshelves, of the virtual bookshelves …

BILL MAHER: Well, so’s ammo in Oklahoma.

BREITBART: Right, well okay...

MAHER: Oklahoma’s out of ammo because they’re afraid that Obama and his Negro army are going to come and get you.

BREITBART: Who’s afraid of, who’s, where’s this racism coming from? I haven’t seen this online. [Of course you haven’t, Andy. See, liberals can make up stories about white racism from whole cloth. No facts need to get in the way of liberal fairy tale.]

MAHER: Well, the racism is coming from Rush Limbaugh. It’s taking root in Oklahoma.

Imagine that. But there’s more, for when Breitbart took offense Maher laughed.

Even better, after Maher’s other guest, Georgetown professor and liberal talk radio host Michael Eric Dyson, elaborated on why Limbaugh is a racist, Breitbart pointed out that nobody was a bigger defender of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas than Limbaugh.

This elicited uproarious laughter from Maher and his audience.

Breitbart then deliciously acknowledged the crowd’s response: “Thank you MoveOn.org, I appreciate that.” [Nice one, Andy! Love it!]

Maher disgustingly replied: “Clarence Thomas, a, a black man who does not represent 95 percent of black people.”

Once again, Breitbart correctly took offense:

That’s bulls**t … You’re allowed to have independent thought in this country. And this kind of intimidation by the black studies intelligentsia crowd that, that intimidates black people who are conservatives … [Again, a brilliant retort, but wasted on liberal bigots like Maher and Dyson.]

Maher then asked an amazingly stupid question: “You think black people are intimidated from being conservative?”

Ummm, Bill, you just intimidated black people from being conservative by laughing when Clarence Thomas’s name was brought up and insulting him with your claim that he doesn’t represent 95 percent of black people.

Unfortunately, Maher is so filled with hatred towards conservatives—and, of course, black conservatives—that he missed this obvious hypocrisy.

Of course he did, Noel. Didn’t you know that only conservatives can be ignorant, intolerant, intimidating racists? And that black conservatives are simply white-ass-sucking traitors to their race?

What a disgusting and small-minded creep Maher is. If this is what passes for acceptable, intelligent thought from the Left side of the fence, they have no business complaining about anything Rush Limbaugh says. And God help you too if you send your child to a university like Georgetown, where black racists like Dyson teach.

UPDATE: A Free Republic reader "johnny reb" posted this comment: 

Just got back from the gun show at the Tropicana here in Vegas most of the ammo (.223,.308,9mm ) was sold out by noon. Funny thing though there were lots of black people there buying and selling guns & ammo everyone was having a great time and not one hint of any conflict except toward left wing politicians.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment: Chucky Schmucky Schumer Smacks Down the American Plebes

And let me say this to aaaall of the chattering class that focuses on those little, tiny—yes, porky—amendments: The American people really don’t care.

That, my friends, is the sound of elitism.

That is the sound of the drunkenness of government power.

That is the sound of the detestable smarmy Chucky Schmucky Schumer of NY telling us what he thinks of the American people.

In 10 seconds, Chuck Schumer illustrated what your government thinks of you. You are either the “chattering class,” merely a bunch of insignificant rabble-rousers. You are simply nuisances, like flies annoyingly buzzing around his nose. Or you’re just a bunch of easily manipulable sheep who are really too stupid to care what the government is doing behind your back.

Either way, Schumer’s message to the American people is loud and clear: F**k off.

See the YouTube video clip here.

Incidentally, would you buy a used car from this clown? No. Then why a stimulus package pork bill?

Reader Loud Lion sent in the following letter, which he sent to Schumer’s office:

Dear Senator Schumer:

Please note that as an United States citizen, and a proud taxpaying one at that, I do care about these Pork Amendments cluttering the so called “Bail Out” Economic Stimulus package.

Please remember what it is like to be an honest wage earner, and not a power monger/broker. While all roads lead to Rome, Rome burned under the weight of the errors of the politicians. Please realize that throwing money at a situation does not always fix it. If you want to hold onto the Congress (which as architect of the 2006 midterm takeover I am sure you are) realize that Congress needs to be in tune with the American Public, and not the wishes of the Democratic Party.

If you too would like to tell Schmucky you care, click here for Michelle Malkin's blog, where she posts all the relevant contact info.

Michael Eden at the Start Thinking Right blog adds:

A trillion seconds ago, human beings were pretty much all living in caves. And this Porkulus package will be over $1.3 trillion with interest.

And, according to Democrats, Americans don’t really care if a bunch of it is pork - or some politically correct liberal euphemism for “pork.”

This Porkulus will create massive permenant government spending to fund new programs.

The Congressional Budget Office says that the “stimuls” is worse than doing nothing at all. And in fact the “Why Worry About Pork Act of 2009″ will undermine the economy and reduce GDP in the long run.

Americans don’t really care about pork?

As the saying goes, “Apathy is one of the gravest problems facing our society. But unfortunately, nobody cares.”

Yes, and let me also add something that El Rushbo says from time to time: America's most expensive commodity is ignorance.

So I guess, in a way, Rush and Schmucky are right.

Welcome to the future, suckers.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment of the Day: Rosanne Barr

Rosanne Barr was so nice to give a little advice to Bruce Springsteen on her blog [H/T Jammie Wearing Fool]:

The Boss oughta demand during his half-time appearance this Sunday that Obama stop bombing Pakistan (which even President Karzai of Afghanistan has requested) and stop funding the Israeli war machine!

TELL OBAMA TO STOP BOMBING PAKISTAN AND MAKE ISRAEL STOP BOMBING GAZA!!!!

Wow. I knew Rosanne Barr was a left-wing wacko, but I didn't know she was a self-hating Jew too. Yes, you read that right. Don't give me that, "She's just bashing Israel, not Jews in general."

Although, ya know, she might be right about that Pakistan thing. Hey, even a stopped watch is right two times a day ...

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment of the Day: At Obama Inauguration Joseph Lowery Sees Nothing but White Racism

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around… when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.” 

— Rev. Joseph Lowery at the inauguration of Barack Obama.

Excuse me?? When white will embrace what is right? Hey, I don’t care if you’re a reverend or not. I don’t care what your civil rights background is or who you marched with. That was an a-hole comment, and you were an a-hole to say such a thing during a historic event which took place only because whites did do what was right.

Joseph Lowery, like so many of his ideological ilk, are still stuck in the 1950’s and 60’s. According to them, no progress has been made. Even though the guy is standing at the swearing in of the first black president in U.S. history.

This statement spoiled the inauguration; it negated everything that led up to Obama’s election by practically pretending that it never even happened. It was despicable and offensive not only because it was inappropropriate, but because it was untrue.

Tommy Oliver at the site Race 4 2012, says:

According to the poll, roughly 70% of African Americans feel that MLK’s dream has truly been fulfilled, which is a truly staggering number, even by today’s standards. On the other hand, only 45% of the white population feels that the dream is fulfilled.

So while a clear majority of African Americans feel that they have an equal opportunity to succeed in this country, only a minority of white people feel that way. Leave it to the Reverend to remind them that he is among the 30%. You can find the rest of that 30% by reading the membership lists of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Rainbow/Push Coalition, The Black Panther Party, and whatever group Al Sharpton is now attached to.

Race 4 2012 reader “Lori” got her frustration out, writing:

That was no prayer! That was a preachy sermon by a high and mighty racist. It was so offensive to me. I am not the sensitive type but to make victims of every color except one and infer that the one color had yet to do anything right well it just was so wrong. It attributes motives to white people that they don’t have. It makes a mockery of real victims of racial bias of days gone by. The guy is living in the last century. There is no apartheid anymore. I know no one who is bigoted or prejudicial or stands in the way of another based on race. Discrimination no longer exists on a systematic level. In fact you would have to look very hard to find a single instance. The only racists left in America are some extremist klan members in hiding. The guy totally ignores 50 years of progress and enlightenment. Give it up already. This is a new day, and has been or else Obama would never have been elected last November. Wake up and embrace the new America. Stop looking at the ghosts of days gone by. This sort of rhetoric is divisive and indefensible. Get over it already.

Hear hear!

Lowery’s statement, followed the crickets chirping in the studios of the otherwise over-sensitive liberal mainstream media, just goes to show that whites will never win. They’ll never be able to shed the guilt of racism of those who came before them decades and centuries ago, even though the ancestors of most whites in America today either (1) did not engage in racist acts or thoughts, and/or (2) weren’t even living in America in the first place!

Andrew Roman, who blogs at Roman Around, sticks in his two shekels about Lowery's comment. Read his post here, as well as a follow-up post where he responds to the comments of a disagreeing reader.

Welcome to the post-racial era, suckers.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment of the Day: Harry Reid Doesn't Like the Smell of the Crowd

Something stinks in Washington, and it’s Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. 

“My staff tells me not to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it’s true.”

Umm, yeah, Mr. Reid, your staff was right: You should have kept your filthy mouth shut.

But that’s not all. The ever-thorough Gateway Pundit has discovered that Reid has said something like this before!

“Mr. President, someone wanting to visit the Capitol today, there is no place for them to gather. They gather—it used to be out on the East Front—now they gather on the West Front. And the people who work here joke about you can always tell when it’s summertime because you can smell the visitors. And what we mean by that Mr. President—they stand out there in the high humidity, heat, sweating, and it’s really—there’s no place for them to go.”

To which GP retorts: “Maybe they could set up a sprinkler and hose them down before they entered the confines?” Or, as GP reader “Dirty Harry Reid” writes:

The stench in DC is from the residents. And you’d think an asshole who represents a state which only exists as a playground for tourists to gamble, bang hookers, get lap dances and gorge on buffets would be a little more circumspect.

Ain’t it the truth.

Who the heck does this piece of excrement think he is? Why is it that Democrat politicians seem to be so comfortable in their positions of power and so confident that their seats are safe come election time that they can utter these detestable statements?

Look at that other piece of excrement, Jack Murtha from Pennsylvania. Just prior to getting reelected, he called his own constituency rednecks and racists. And who can forget a couple years ago he called the Haditha marines cold-blooded murders, and even after they’ve been acquitted has refused to apologize.

Harry Reid, John Murtha, and even our self-important and arrogant president-elect represent everything that’s wrong with American politics. Their attitude drips with a condescension and elitism that is so typical of today’s Democrat Party.

Welcome to hope and change: They are the holier-than-thou elites; you are the great unwashed masses.

Liberal Stupid-Ass Comment of the Day

Here’s a new segment. Hope you like it. There’s probably gonna be a lot of them!

First quote out of the gate is a doozy:

“War Machine.” The best song on the new CD, it starts with a slow, lumbering, tank-attack beat and quickly builds to atom-bomb intensity, with Angus shredding his guitar as if it was the U.S. Constitution during the Iraq War.

Classy. (By the way, shouldn't it be “as if it were”?)

The burning question “Who said this and in what context?” is answered by James Taranto in yesterday’s instalment of “Best of the Web Today”:

As you might have guessed, that’s from a review of the new AC/DC CD.

Well, that figures. More specifically, the review appeared in the Entertainment section of yesterday’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune and was penned by Chris Riemenschneider.

Congratulations, Chris. Rock on! You sure know your Constitutional Law and American History. (That’s why they made you the music reviewer.)