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January 17, 2006
Shrillary Panders to Reverend Al
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 17, 2006 12:38 PM
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"I clearly fascinate them,” Gingrich said of the Democrats. “I’m much more intense, much more persistent, much more willing to take risks to get it done. Since they think it is their job to run the plantation, it shocks them that I’m actually willing to lead the slave rebellion.” [Washington Post, 10/20/94]
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at January 17, 2006 1:22 PM
And what's with that blue Chairman Mao jacket she's always wearing? Is it suppose to hide the fact that she's shapeless or send subliminal messages to her supporters that she remains a committed socialist?
Posted by: UncleBill at January 17, 2006 1:28 PM
There's a difference, Ronnie.
Gingrich's statement was an analogy to the underdog (Republicans) usurping the oppressor (Democrats), made at a time when the GOP was finally retaking power in the gov't.
Shrillary's statement is a thinly-veiled attempt to paint Republicans as racists.
Plus, at the end of the day, who really listens to either of these two gasbags? One's an idiot and the other's digging her own grave.
Posted by: Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds at January 17, 2006 3:07 PM
I'm sure you have heard the oft repeated "progressive" notion that we need more woman in politics, to give it a more civil air, and to focus debate more accurately. Apparantly, that's what women do. So, I'd like to claim today that Billory must be a man.
By the way, we've got a whole cabal of female liberal politicians in Canada who would just love Billory to lead them... as her rhetoric would fit in perfectly with theirs.
Female "progressive" politicians are giving conservative female politicians no challenge at all. With shrill neo-communist mucky mucks like Billory, any average women running as a conservative (republican) would look classy.
I've said here before, I'll say it again; let the "progressives" screech all they can, they do nothing but send more swing voters over to the GOP.
Posted by: Debris Trail at January 17, 2006 3:30 PM
Junior's quote only proves that it's really the Dems who want to keep Black America on the plantation. It's the Republicans that want to do the freeing.
Lol!
Posted by: Doug at January 17, 2006 4:09 PM
Hillary's quote is the same as what Uncle Bill says of Gingrich. If you read the rest of her comments -- beyond the soundbite -- you see she was saying the same thing Uncle Bill alluded to with the Democrats now the underdogs.
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at January 17, 2006 4:19 PM
This from a black man - pay attention, R.R. -
"The time for "plantation" rhetoric -- of an explicitly racial nature -- is over. Completely over. End of story.
First, as a quick aside, the left is really stretching in claiming that Gingrich's comments are the same as Hillary's. Not to defend a former boss, but the context here matters: He said those words in the course of a Washington Post profile of the man identified as the likely next Speaker of the House. If the context is about the majority abusing its powers when running a legislative body, then the partisan analogy holds.
But -- important difference. He was not speaking to a black audience -- or even obliquely referring to one; there was not an implicit racial connotation to his words. Yes, talking about plantations usually conjures up images of American slavery, but referring to oneself as the "leader of the slave rebellion," one could be referencing Spartacus as much as anything.
Hillary, on the other hand, made a clear -- "and you know what I'm talking about" line to a black audience. I'm actually a little surprised that those on the left whose eyes were raised when Ross Perot made reference in 1992 to "you people" when speaking to a Southern black audience, didn't find Hillary's implied "you people" just a little it pandering."
and here's the link -
http://raggedthots.blogspot.com/2006/01/mlk-ing-plantation-politics.html
Posted by: Laura at January 18, 2006 4:00 PM
