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January 17, 2006
Shrillary Panders to Reverend Al
Posted by Dave Blount at January 17, 2006 12:38 PM
Yesterday Hillary Clinton celebrated MLK Day by kissing the ring of Al Sharpton, the guy who along with Jesse Jackson is primarily responsible for reducing the civil rights movement to a tasteless joke.
Needless to say, her audience at Reverend Al's National Action Network was at the farthest edge of extreme. Lefty New York Attorney General and Governor wannabe Eliot Spitzer was taken to task for not having reinstated the law license of Alton Maddox of Tawana Brawley fame. Maddox was the guy who accused then-state Attorney General Robert Abrams of masturbating over photos of the phony rape victim Brawley. Shrillary pandered to this unsavory mob by insulting the President and by screeching this notable quote:
When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation and you know what I'm talking about...
Personally, I have no idea what she's talking about, and Hillary probably doesn't either. But her rhetoric didn't have to make sense, so long as it rubbed the kill-whitey contingent of the Democratic base the right way.
As Rep. Peter King (R-NY) pointed out:
It's always wrong to play the race card for political gain by using a loaded word like plantation. But it is particularly wrong to do so on Martin Luther King Day.
Meanwhile MLK is spinning in his grave. The Reverend Al and his cohort certainly don't want to be judged by the content of their character. Fortunately for them, that's not likely to happen in today's Democratic Party.
