Posts Tagged ‘naacp’

Joe Biden doesn’t need $100k

Posted: July 18, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news, tea parties
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Joe Biden wisely stated that the tea party is not a racist organization:

“I don’t believe, the president doesn’t believe that the Tea Party is — is a racist organization. I don’t believe that,” Biden said. “Very conservative. Very different views on government and a whole lot of things. But it is not a racist organization.”

But then he BS on the Washington business:

A black Congressman walking up the stairs of the Capitol,” he said, referring to alleged racist epithets said to an African-American Congressmen by alleged Tea Party members during the apogee of the debate over health care reform.

Doesn’t provide any evidence, just repeats it, no 100k for Joe. On the Round Table on ABC Clarence Page plays that card and George Will shot him down big bringing up the 100k. Page changes the subject, no 100k for him either.

But when Palin’s response was brought up, what was actually said wasn’t touched on, only the “why doesn’t she just say she condemns any racism in the tea party.” In other words accepting the Tea Party is “racist”.

Good thing we have that good republican Nicole Wallace on that Panel to back up Palin eh?

Maybe it would be a good idea to have someone who has actually attended a tea party rally and supports it during such a discussion. Has Dana Loesch and Breitbart fallen off the face of the earth?

Glenn describes Biden as throwing the NAACP under the bus. I wouldn’t go that far, but it does further beclown them despite the best efforts of the majority of the ABC panel to make them relevant.

No Memeorandum thread yet, I’ll keep an eye on it.

Update: Looks like Biden could have used the dough:

The Federal Election Commission has penalized Vice President Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign $219,000 for accepting over-the-limit contributions and a discounted flight on a jet owned by a New York hedge fund. His campaign also was charged with sloppy record-keeping.

100k could help there.

Latest Examiner Column: Political Jujitsu The NAACP swings at the Tea Party, and gets thrown

Posted: July 17, 2010 by datechguy in examiner columns, internet/free speech, opinion/news
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My latest examiner column: Political Jujitsu The NAACP swings at the Tea Party, and gets thrown is now available. A peek:

The St. Louis Tea Party wasted no time responding even before the resolution was passed. Then a series of Black Conservatives denounced the NAACP, then Sarah Palin had a response that quoted Tim Scott, one of many Black Republicans running for congress this year. When the MSM picked up her statement they could not help but bring up Mr. Scott’s statement.

As always you can get this and all my Examiner columns here.

Some deaths are more equal than others

Posted: July 17, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Godfather 3 is the victim of comparisons. It is a better than average movie, but because the first two movies are two of the greatest of all time it looks much worse than it is.

There is a scene where two older ladies complain about Joey Zasa. How he allows trouble in the streets of the neighborhoods where their people live contrary to the Italian way. It leads to the following confrontation between Zasa and Michael Corleone:

Joey Zasa: “Yes, I take the blacks, the Spanish into my Family because that’s America.”
Michael Corleone: “And you guarantee they don’t deal drugs in those neighborhoods?”
Joey Zasa: “I don’t guarantee that. I guarantee I’ll kill anyone who does.”

Which brings me to this weekly standard story about the Violence in Oakland. Excusing the rioters. Don’t let the title fool you, although Heather MacDonald touches on the disgraceful conduct of Mayor Ron Dellums vis a vis the riots by page two she manages to get to what should be the real outrage:

A little over 24 hours after the destruction in Oakland’s downtown, a 30-year-old man was shot multiple times in East Oakland and killed. The next morning, another man was found dead in his car, also a suspected homicide victim. Neither of those killings received the slightest bit of attention from Oakland’s mayor or the activists who have been whipping up anti-cop, anti-society sentiment. The routine, daily bloodshed in inner cities is regarded as the ordinary course of affairs.

That is the true disgrace, daily bloodshed in the Black community that is left unchecked. The statistics are telling:

The hundred or so homicides in Oakland each year are part of nearly 6,000 murders nationally committed by blacks, mostly of other blacks, compared to just over 5,300 homicides committed by whites and Hispanics combined. (Blacks are 12.8 percent of the U.S. population, whites and Hispanics, 81 percent.).

Where is the outrage in the black community. Why does not the black leadership or the elite liberal opinion address this outrage, because it doesn’t fit their template of racism as the primary cause of the suffering of the Blacks in America. Much easier to attack the Tea Parties instead with all the sincerity of the environmental community.

Yet another side effect

Posted: July 15, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, tea parties
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This line from Glenn Reynolds proves that Ed Driscoll is a genius:

But the big news is that the story is now big enough that they have to try to explain it away, or change the subject, instead of just ignoring it. That means we’ve reached Phase Two.

Why is this story big enough? Because the NAACP attacked the tea party causing coverage that put people on the right, including Black Tea Party members on the air mentioning it. And all those outlets that refused to report this story and pretended it didn’t exist suddenly became aware of it.

When even the Washington post is calling it a bombshell with a memeorandum thread, this is bad news for the dems. (Of course we can’t allow that so the Post has apparently changed the headline since the thread began).

The more idiots like Shelila Jackson Lee keep this story alive the more it will hurt both the NAACP and the left.

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