Could you imagine what would happen if Glenn Beck refused to shake a white liberal Democrat’s hand after browbeating her because he didn’t want her blackness to rub off on him?
The outrage would be righteous and warranted.
So should the outrage of a liberal talk radio host Thaddeus Mathews’ racist comment. Matthews’ browbeat black GOP Congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann, repeatedly swore at her and kicked her out of his studio. When she offered her hand, he refused to shake it, saying he didn’t want any of her whiteness to rub off on her.
Thaddeus Matthews is clearly a racist. That’s not hyperbole and it isn’t sarcasm. I know I make light of the thousands of charges of racism lobbed like indiscriminate character grenades at Republicans, but this is overt racism.
Matthews is doing what he and other liberals have charged Rush and Glenn and Sean of doing for years. He’s using racially charged rhetoric to rile up his listeners against a political party. In this case, he’s openly saying the black candidate for Congress is the slave to white masters in the GOP.
In his world, it isn’t possible that a black person could have opinions that differ from anything taught on the liberal Democrat plantation. If any black person displays a different opinion, “you are a Negro that is bought and paid for” by white folks in the Tea Party.
The Church of Latter Day Saint prohibited black people from being members of the priesthood until 1978 because it was believed they were the direct descendants of Cain and cursed. This prohibition was, according to this article from the Washington Post, a “direct commandment from the Lord.”
In 1978, the church had a revelation and the ban was lifted.
Mitt was a member of the church before and after the “revelation” and the Washington Post wants to know, “Is this going to be a problem for Mitt down the road?”
Gee, you think?!
The fact is, this isn’t a story about whether the racist history of Mitt’s church is going to be a problem. It’s the journalistic equivalent of typing, “FIRST!” in a comment thread. They know this is going to be discussed, and now that Mitt has won Florida and appears to be Captain Inevitable, they want to be the first on the scene to bring attention to his faith’s problem with black skin.
It’s obvious that’s what they are doing because, A) they barely discuss the election in the article, just the history of the church’s racism, and B) everyone knows whoever Obama’s opponent is is going to be painted as a closet Klan member. This part of Romney’s past will be a HUGE part of that in the coming months.
The only good part about that? After looking at what he has done to Newt in Florida and what, I personally believe, he did to Herman Cain, I think Romney et al. has the backbone to say, “You want to talk about the racism in my church? Let’s talk about the church Barry went to for 20 years then. Let’s talk about the white hate and antisemitism preached week after week by the man Obama called his ‘spiritual mentor.’”
Up next? Nevada, on February 4th. Then Maine has its caucuses on the 4th through the 11th. That’s weird. How does that work:
Like most Republican Party caucuses, there are two components to the Maine caucuses. First, delegates are elected from the attendees. These delegates later represent the caucusgoers at the state convention in May. Candidates generally provide slates of delegates to voters who are interested in supporting them, and voters can ask prospective delegates whom they support for president. A total of 3,867 delegates were selected statewide in 2008.[1] Then, a straw poll, called a presidential preference ballot, is taken of the individuals in the room. The results of this secret ballot are transmitted to the media, who use it as a “snapshot” of the opinions of Maine Republicans. Although the media report the results of the ballot, and assign delegates appropriately, it is the state convention that determines who actually goes to the Republican National Convention. Even after the state convention, all delegates remain unbound to any candidate.[2]
Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota start on the 7th. I have a dentist appointment on that day, then work that night. Should be a busy day.
Who am I voting for? Four years ago, I voted for Mitt Romney, but that was to stop John McCain from getting the nod, and because Fred Thompson had dropped out. This time, I’m not sure who I’m going with. I’m settling with whoever I choose anyway.
I was at work the other day when a co-worker asked me how my begathon was going.
“Not well.”
“Not well?”
“Nope. Worse year ever.”
“Really? That’s too bad.”
Then he opened his wallet and gave me three dollars. It was all he had.
It was three times what I am asking for from each person that donates.
If you can afford to buy your friendly All American Blogger a cup of McDonald’s coffee, which runs about a buck, then please consider donating it to my CPAC travel fund.
That way, I won’t miss it when awesome things like this happen in the blogger’s lounge:
All told, I need $800 to get me out there and back, plus a place to lay my head. Please donate:
Tina Korbe at Hot Air has a video of an interview Chris Matthews gave on WMAL, a radio station out of DC.
In the interview, Mary Kathering Ham confronts Matthews about the fact that he personally went on his show Hardball and warned the Tea Party could get violent. He initially denies it, but when Ham quotes him, he says he meant it at the time.
What he said after that caught my attention:
MKH: It seems like [the Occupy movement] is equally scary.
CM: Mary Katherine, I call them as I see them. That’s the best that anybody can do, is call them as I see them. I saw those people spitting on Congressmen. I saw them yelling at them. I saw a lot of the anger in the room. I remember what happened in ’63, I remember the violence and the atmosphere was terrible. The hatred of a president personally. Actually ad hominem. They hated the guy. I saw that level of hatred and I remember seeing it before. Of course I’m worried about it. Why do you think we have a Secret Service?
MKH: No, I agree with you.
CM: If you don’t think there was an honest fear of violence in that very hot period around 2010, that was real, I think you’re wrong. I think there was a real fear on the part of security people that it might get out of hand. The hatred was real and palpable.
[Crosstalk]
CM: I don’t think there was a palpable security fear. Who were the Occupy people after personally? Where was the personal hatred there?
MKH: Well, they were assaulting each other, and there were many cases where people were getting shot in the camps.
CM: Let’s be honest. We’re worried about the security of the President of the United States.
MKH: Alright, so that’s the dividing line. It felt like one side was allowed to be angry and the other side was not.
CM: The distinction here, the distinction was the concern. I was over at Arlington one time, at the Lee Mansion, I heard this guy talking about “the cause.” I was beginning to think, “Is this a real Tea Party kind of guy?” And I go, “What is this, ‘the cause?’ This isn’t the Civil War continued is it? Is this some, The Great Cause?” There’s a real level of national hatred of the president that I hadn’t seen before. Certainly not under Clinton, or under Dubya.
MKH: Under Dubya you didn’t see that? Are you? Oh Lordie.
CM: Oh it was there. The hatred, the Hitler mustaches. I hadn’t seen that before.
MKH: You didn’t see that during the Bush administration?
Another Host: I remember it.
CM: Well, you guys have a point of view and I’m trying to look at this objectively.
Let’s talk about the fact that Chris Matthews is more scared of this:
than he is of this:
Why is that?
Because the Tea Party people were fighting to limit the power of the elites. They threatened the power centralized in Washington.
The Occupiers aren’t trying to limit government power. They fight for it. They want more of it.
Like most leftists, Matthews isn’t concerned about the threat to the people, only the threats to the elites. That’s why, despite the fact that there have been more than 6,000 arrests related to the Occupy movement, they are still not a threat to the elites. They don’t damage the elite power structure. They defend it. The Tea Party fights to get government out of our lives. The Occupy movement supposedly fights to get corporations out of government. In reality, they and their sponsors want to replace capitalism with socialism or communism.
In every way, the Tea Party was a threat to the elites. In no way is the Occupy movement.
That’s why the Matthews doesn’t talk about it with the venom he and the other MSNBC hosts used when analyzing the Tea Party. The Occupy movement isn’t a threat to them.
They are only a threat to the people. And the people don’t matter.
In a move smothered in both overt racism, subtle code words and racist dogwhistle, designed to catch the attention of racists not even reading the report, the racist Congressional Budget Office said that the US economy was swirling the bowl in mid flush:
The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday predicted the deficit will rise to $1.08 trillion in 2012.
The office also projected the jobless rate would rise to 8.9 percent by the end of 2012, and to 9.2 percent in 2013.
These are much dimmer forecasts than in CBO’s last report in August, when the office projected a $973 billion deficit. The report reflects weaker corporate tax revenue and the extension for two months of the payroll tax holiday.
A rising deficit and unemployment rate would hamper President Obama’s reelection effort, which in recent weeks has seemed to be on stronger footing.
If the CBO estimate is correct, it would mean that the United States recorded a deficit of more than $1 trillion for every year of Obama’s first term.
What went wrong? We spent nearly a trillion dollars in stimulus and the unemployment was never supposed to get above 8 percent. The economy was supposed to turn around in 2010. That was the Summer of RecoveryTM.
I know I’m at risk of being called a racist, but since I am a white man and therefore racist, I don’t really hesitate in saying that the fault lies at the feet of the president and his far left economic philosophy.
It isn’t that we didn’t spend enough, as the Keynesian water carriers want us to believe. It’s a large, federal government that weighs the private market down with over-regulation and a tax system that encourages business to find a better country to headquarters in.
It wasn’t Obama that built this government. He’s just made it worse. It wasn’t Bush either. It was one president after another, one Congress after another, filled with moral busybodies who thought they were elected to create laws that stuck the federal finger in any pie it could find.
When the federal government makes America as attractive to business as someone else’s money is to a liberal, then you well see a recovery. Until then, don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed.
For sure, conservatives are sick to death of milquetoasts fighting by Marquis-of-Queensberry rules. No, we want a standard-bearer who’ll kick the left in the balls, smash in their kneecaps while they’re bent over in agony, and jump up and down on their crania when they’re lying curled up on the ground – starting with the media.
I think it’s one part. I also think if Fred Thompson showed half of this in 2008, he’s be running for re-election this year, but that’s me. I like Fred.
Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street movement threw condoms on Catholic schoolgirls, refused to allow a Catholic priest to give a closing prayer, and shouted down a pro-life speaker at a Rhode Island right to life rally on Thursday, according to its organizer. The event marked the third time protesters associated with the movement have disrupted a pro-life meeting in a week.
About two-dozen members of Occupy Providence hiked from Burnside Park to the 39th Annual Pro-Life State House Rally organized by the Rhode Island State Right to Life Committee on Thursday.
The pro-life organization’s executive director, Barth E. Bracy, told LifeSiteNews.com that, near the end of the rally, the Occupiers “strategically fanned out with military precision.”
That’s when they “started showering condoms down on some of the girls from a Catholic high school.”
They gathered around speakers at the podium, shouting them down or otherwise jostling them and members of the audience.
They are nothing but a mob of communist thugs and bullies.
This post at the American Thinker attempts to attach a great quote from The Federalist Papers to the TSA. It works, but when you read the quote, you’ll see it isn’t just the TSA.
It can be applied to so many federal programs. Here’s the quote:
“Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”
Fear is used to motivate us to surrender our rights all the time. The Founding Fathers knew this. Why have we forgotten?
