Finding Racism Everywhere

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Finding Racism Everywhere

Written By : McQ

You have to read Maureen Dowd’s column in full to understand how far the left will go to try to make any disagreement with this administration into racism. They still believe that the political correctness they’ve attempted to impose on the country over the least few decades makes that charge into a magic bullet they can use to stifle debate.

No matter how tortured the logic, now matter how spare the evidence, and despite how much evidence to the contrary they have to ignore, if they can swing it, the big “R” card is going to be played.

And of course it all emanates from the liberal premise that the right in the is country is obsessed with the president’s race and therefore all opposition against him is based in racism.

How does Dowd set it up? With her imagination, of course – assuming unspoken but racially charged words:

Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.

But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!

Of course that’s what she heard – she’s the racialist. She hears the word “racism” in the caw of a crow. She’d certainly have no problem imagining that’s what Wilson was really saying, would she?

And naturally, she introduces race immediately in a very subtle way with her description of the Republicans present. The use of “middle-aged white guys” is a sure sign that a racialist is about to pounce.

Then there’s this sweet little move:

I’ve been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer — the frantic efforts to paint our first black president as the Other, a foreigner, socialist, fascist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi; a cad who would snuff old people; a snake who would indoctrinate kids — had much to do with race.

I tended to agree with some Obama advisers that Democratic presidents typically have provoked a frothing response from paranoids — from Father Coughlin against F.D.R. to Joe McCarthy against Truman to the John Birchers against J.F.K. and the vast right-wing conspiracy against Bill Clinton.

One assumes the “shrieking lunacy” of the past 8 years completely escaped Dowd’s attention (it didn’t – she contributed to it), but her denunciation of what has happened this summer (and yesterday in DC) is he way of calling everyone both a loon and a racist: “I’ve been loath to admit the shrieking lunacy of the summer … had much to do with race.” But the implication is unmistakable – she does consider them to be about race, loath to admit it or not.

So now that she has the “you’re all racists” group tarring done, this is where she again works from some false assumption to bolster the case. She, of course, has the prefect foil for the task at hand – Joe Wilson. She describes him in lovingly racialist terms – member of the Sons of Confederacy (I wonder if she checked to see if he had ancestors that fought for the confederacy), wanted to keep the Confederate flag waiving on the capital, and apparently mistakenly denounced as a “smear” the claim that a black woman was the daughter of Strom Thurmond who she feels obliged to remind us ran as a segregationist candidate for President in ’48 (She conveniently forgets to remind us that Thurmond was a Democrat at the time then as well).

However now having set Joe Wilson up properly, she leverages that to make everything that has happened on the right this past summer to be tinged with race. And then she plays what she believes is the most damning bit of “evidence” to wrap it all up in a neat little Dowdified racist ball.

After extensively quoting James Clyburn of SC – who sees a racist behind every tree – she lays this out there:

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

The state that fired the first shot of the Civil War has now given us this: Senator Jim DeMint exhorted conservatives to “break” the president by upending his health care plan. Rusty DePass, a G.O.P. activist, said that a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was “just one of Michelle’s ancestors.” Lovelorn Mark Sanford tried to refuse the president’s stimulus money. And now Joe Wilson.

Rusty DePass? Who in the heck is Rusty DePass and why is he included with DeMint and Sanford, or even Wilson? Well, quite simply, without DePass Dowd has nothing. A little known political activist in SC, who has never successfully run for office (gee, wonder why?) makes a racist joke on his Facebook page and that somehow links DeMint, Wilson and Sanford to him? Does DePass’ inappropriate joke mean that DeMint’s opposition isn’t based in an understanding of the damage this president’s agenda would do to the country, or Sanford’s desire to not take the money isn’t rooted in his belief state’s rights without federal strings, or that Wilson’s outburst, as inappropriate as it was, couldn’t be about actually believing that he was being lied too?

Nope, they’re all racists trying to bring down the black president. It’s an amazing performance by Dowd, but it is so poorly crafted and unconvincing that even the White House has blown it off.

But this isn’t the last you’ll see this contemptible tactic used, believe me. The side obsessed with race is not the right. The side who makes everything about race is not the right. And, as with this example, the side that looks more and more desperate when it plays the race card is not the right.

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty tired of it.

[Crossposted at QandO]

http://regularguy regularguy

Ms. Dowd (I'm assuming she's never been married. Who, in Gods name, could ever put up with such a person?) has been a has-been for years. We are all well beyond the quivering masses terrified of being labeled racists and we aren't going to stand for this crap any longer. We don't care what they label us, we won't put up with the smears or the radical agendas of the left. That the administration took a wide berth of her latest swill was probably the only politically smart thing they've done in a while. That the administration is still trying to push through Obamascare despite the widespread opposition to it, demonstrates their politically suicidal inertia nonetheless. The sooner we're all rid of both Dowd and the administration, the far healthier our republic will be.
http://rightwingrocker.blogspot.com RightWingRocker

I lost my patience for it years ago …

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Maureen Down is the perfect example of a RINO. We don't need people like her in the party. They bring nothing to the table. Period.
Realpolitik

Finding Racism Everywhere

Is not difficult to do, as it is rampant in the USA. The entitlement of whites is endemic.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Racism is rampant on the left, just as sexism and fascism are there. Liberals can't help but look down on other races, people of color, etc. It is in their DNA.
Realpolitik

Posted by Dick_Nixon

dixon, "rampant in the USA" is the point. Thanks for agreeing.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Liberals are the source of the racial language in the discourse today. All criticism of their messiah is met with the cry of racism.

How do you know you have beaten a liberal in a political discussion? He calls you a racist.

Race, race, race, it is all the left has. Their messiah is a failed POTUS, making Jimmah Carter look like George Washington, and all they have left is trying to force people into supporting him under the claim if you don't, you are a racist.

The left in this country, the biggest racists on the planet.
Realpolitik

Posted by Dick_Nixon

And yet, dixon, racisn by white people is rampant in the country. That's the salient point.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

And yet, dixon, racisn by white people is rampant in the country. That's the salient point.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 20:17:01

Didlo that's bullshit to the Nth degree. I dare you find racism among 5% of Americans.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by bthewolf

2009-09-13 20:18:44

Now now. All liberals are racist, so the number is a little higher than 5%.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

All liberals are racist, so the number is a little higher than 5%.

Posted by Dick_Nixon

2009-09-13 20:37:04

Despite the polls I doubt more than 5% are really liberal enough to meet our standards!!!
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Nixon throws anyone stupid enough to vote for Obama in the same category as people who hate others on the basis of their skin color. Both are equally stupid. Sort of like Nazi worshippers like fwankie, who greatly admires Hitler.
Realpolitik

as people who hate others on the basis of their skin color. Posted by Dick_Nixon

Which includes millions and millions and millions of whites who consider they have an entitlement because of the color of their skin.

And, dixon, it includes you.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

And yet, dixon, racisn by white people is rampant in the country.

Yes, racism by white liberals is rampant in this country. I agree completely.
jasamc

And, dixon, it includes you.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 20:58:35

Presume much, raftboy? I realize that, hidden behind the rafts in the MWR office, all you hear are voices, but you know nothing about us to assume that we are white. Conservatism doesn't recognize race.

Of course, you are a liberal, you are a racist (as proven by your comment), so you believe that everyone feels like you do.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

All liberals, white and black, are racist. Nixon is sorry if this offends everyone. The truth should not offend, it merely is the truth.
tblrk2006

I am only entitled to what I have earned through work….nothing more, nothing less. Too bad realpolitik lacks the work ethic to achieve.
http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 20:58:35

Since you know Jack and Shit about anyone's race hear but we've published, you can take your bullshit assupmtions, and personal racism, and shove them up gaping A$$, Dildo.
nactx

So easy for Dowdy and those like Realpolitik to call me (and the rest of us) a racist while sitting behind a keyboard. Please come to East Texas and call me this to my face.

COWARDS who hide behind a word and lousy politics

Obama needs to MAN UP and admit that 99% of these accusations are baseless. Like Joe Wilson said "You lie!"
arthur_branch

I figured this would happen. Cross the O'ssiah and you are RACISTS! Never mind the fact that he believes in a philosphy that has been proven to fail, never mind the fact that he has brought chicago thuggery to national politics, never mind the fact that the majority of his constituents do not beleive in his views of what this counrty should be… naw… we are all RACISTS!

If that makes me a racist… then so be it.

BTW… us middle aged guys, black, white, brown, red or yellow, pay the majority of taxes in this country. Since we are paying for it, I say we should have a say in how the country is ran and we will have our say come 2010.

Is not difficult to do, as it is rampant in the USA. The entitlement of whites is endemic.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 19:52:48

Were you born stupid or did you have to work at it? The country elected a black leader for president over an old white guy. Where is the rampant racism?
CoolCzech

"Surrounded by middle-aged white guys ?"

Oh, NNOOOOOoooooo!!!!! NOT Middled Aged White Guys!!!!!

Tired of past-Middle Aged self-loathing White Liberals?

Join the freaking club.
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

Oh, NNOOOOOoooooo!!!!! NOT Middled Aged White Guys!!!!!

Nobody expects the ~~Spanish Inquisition~~ Middle Aged White Guys!
http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

The entitlement of whites is endemic.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 19:52:48

Including you?

PWNED!
CoolCzech

Is not difficult to do, as it is rampant in the USA. The entitlement of whites is endemic.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 19:52:48

Proof?
http://www.2008news.com jimg

You have to read Maureen Dowd’s column in full …

Thanks, but no thanks.
CoolCzech

Is not difficult to do, as it is rampant in the USA. The entitlement of whites is endemic.

Posted by Realpolitik

2009-09-13 19:52:48

In which particular way have you been entitled?
jimb123

In which particular way have you been entitled?

Posted by CoolCzech

2009-09-14 14:36:51

It can't be in brains or logic…

/sarc