Comparing Rush Limbaugh To a Plantation Owner

In other words, as usual, the liberals devolve to name calling when they don't like someone. It's really irritating and wearing thin.

In this case it's a Pulizer Prize-winning author named Karen Hunter. She has such American classics as Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game, Don't Blame It on Rio: The Real Deal Behind Why Men Go to Brazil for Sex and On the Down Low: A Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep With Men. Somehow, MSNBC thinks this qualifies her to talk about a conservative talk show host who wants to buy a minority stake in a football team.

"I can just see the visions of plantation grandeur dancing in his head as we speak," Hunter said. "Yeah, it doesn't make you a racist to want to own a team. But, it does kind of with all his history question his power position over these players who make millions of dollars and his ability to be able to move them around, deny them contracts and do whatever he wants willy-nilly. It's the ultimate power position to be an owner of an NFL team."

Never mind that he is going to be a MINORITY owner. As in, not the only one. As in, not owning enough to make his opinion count.

You can find the original article here.

Bonus Time for Illegal Beliefs

Jacob Sullum at Reason Online writes about how the new hate crimes legislation, tacked onto a defense spending bill by Democrats, punishes people for their beliefs and chills free speech.

He begins by talking about the two people for whom the legislation is named and talks about what they have in common. Including that their killers were arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison or death, all without the benefit of hate crime laws, state or federal (emphasis mine).

He considers a hypothetical crime against himself:

"If someone hits me in California with a baseball bat made in Kentucky, that is not a federal crime. But if he does exactly the same thing while calling me a “dirty kike,” it is. No doubt the prosecutor also would deem it relevant that my attacker owned a dog-eared copy of Mein Kampf and belonged to a neo-Nazi group.

"Consider the impact of federalizing this crime. In California the maximum sentence for assault with a deadly weapon is four years. The state’s hate crime statute could extend that sentence by up to three years, for a total of seven. By contrast, the maximum sentence under the new federal law is 10 years. Hence my assailant could serve more time for his anti-Semitism than he does for his violence."

Not to mention that if the assailant is found not guilty in state courts, he can be tried again in federal court under this legislation. It's not considered double jeopardy; it's called dual sovereignty.


You can find the legislation here.

Ownership Decided Based on Ideology?

Rush Limbaugh wants to buy into the group that owns the St. Louis Rams (that's a football team, for those of you in Rio Linda).

Al Sharpton and DeMaurice Smith, the NFL Players Association executive director, have sent letters to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to complain. Smith is going even further by asking NFL players to speak out. Sharpton said Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments.

As someone who has listened to Limbaugh in the past, I can tell you he is not anti-NFL. He loves football. However, in 2003, Limbaugh worked briefly on ESPN’s NFL pregame show. He resigned after saying Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.

I don't see that being a racist statement. He was talking about the media, not about McNabb. It might have been racist if he had said McNabb was a good quarterback for a black man.

Limbaugh would be a limited partner — not the controlling partner or lead investor — in an ownership group that includes St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts.

You can find the original articles here and here.

A New Way to Look at Opposition to Obama

At the blog Angry White Dude, the Angry White Dude (AWD) poses an interesting way to look at opposition to Obama. His post is titled "If President Obama Was White...", he decries the race card being thrown down and demonstrates the absurdity of it. He says, "If President Obama was white, I’d:"

• Wildly endorse the stimulus bill.


• Love all of Obama's cabinet picks.


• Happily endorse all of the czars.


• Be proud that Obama apologized to all of the Muslims.


• Agree that the police are racist.


• Support the release of Muslim terrorists and agree with the prosecution of CIA officials.


• See the great leadership of a president who said he would curtail the lobbying power of special interests but who engages with them more than anyone else.


• Beam with pride when Obama shook hands with Ortega and Chavez.


• Use taxpayer money to buy GM and hand it over to the unions.


• Killing the missile shield in Eastern Europe without getting any concessions from the Russians.

This post is a good read and I recommend it. If you truly believe the opposition to Obama is based on race, ask yourself if these same people would be happy to see this kind of behavior from a white president. If you can honestly answer "no" to any one of these points, you have proven the case against racism.

Say It Ain't So, Bill

Bill Cosby, one of America's most loved comedians, has come to support Jimmy Carter's assertion that opposition to Obama is race-based.

Say it ain't so, Bill.

I have to disagree. Check out this post to see what I think of the race baiting going on right now.

But I still love you, Bill.

You can find Cosby's letter here.

Obama and Racism

I, for one, am tired of being called a racist. You will notice that any time a white conservative disagrees with Obama or any minority, he is a "racist". It doesn't matter if the disagreement is legitimately over policy or statements. To me, this tells more about the liberals than the conservatives. They are the ones quick to judge based upon skin color or ideology.

We have been hearing over and over through the health care debate that the reason people disagree with Obama's plans is because of deep-seated racism. Chris Matthews, Kai Wright, Contessa Brewer and more are throwing the race card down like it's the winning hand (1).

And now we have Jimmy Carter weighing in. "I think people who are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African American.

"It's a racist attitude, and my hope is and my expectation is that in the future both Democratic leaders and Republican leaders will take the initiative in condemning that kind of unprecedented attack on the president of the United States," Carter said (2).

"No one wants to be called a racist," said Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene. "These right-wing groups are convincing people that Democrats and anyone who supports Obama will be called a racist if they speak out" in opposition. "They are trying to draw a racial line in the sand. They are playing the race card to oppose Obama's policies by preemptively saying that he is playing the race card." (3)

Let's not forget the election, okay, folks? According to Wikipedia, "white alone" as a demographic makes up 74% of the U.S. population (4). Obama would not have been elected if whites were racist.

But here's the truth. "What Democrats are trying to do is shame white independents, who voted for President Obama in 2008 but are now uneasy about his policies, into supporting these policies to prove they are not racist," said Republican pollster and strategist David E. Johnson, who worked on Bob Dole's 1988 presidential campaign (5).

Obama, to his credit (wow, I can't believe I wrote that!), has distanced himself from Carter and those who say opposition to him is race-based. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that the president does not believe the criticism of his policies are based on the color of his skin. (6)

Americans aren't buying the BS, either. Only 12% believe opponents' motivations are race-based (7).

Obama has the chance to turn this into a good debate. He needs to call off his dogs on the left and encourage true, honest, open debate. Says Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, "I think it colors, if you look, this debate on health care, in a very unfortunate way," he said. "It diminishes real instances of racism that still exists in this country."

Steele called on Obama to "shut this part of the conversation down."

"If we're going to be having a conversation on health care and energy policy, we do not want to be tainted by race. The president has an opportunity to correct former President Carter and to move us beyond this particular ugly spot." (8)

This whole debate, and the fact that people are turning to racism to combat it, shows why we won't have open, honest debate on any issue. Liberals have to call names because they know their ideas don't hold up under scrutiny.
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The Congressional Black Caucus Says Joe Wilson Is Encouraging the KKK

Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) said Tuesday that people will be putting on "white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside" if emerging racist attitudes, which he says were subtly supported by Wilson, are not rebuked. He said Wilson must be disciplined as an example.

"Emerging racist attitudes"? Who here can find one instance of people disagreeing with Obama because of his race? Who has said anything about skin color?

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote,
"I've been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer ... had much to do with race. But Wilson's shocking disrespect for the office of the president -- no Democrat ever shouted 'liar' at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq -- convinced me: Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it."

Uh, excuse me, Ms. Dowd. Someone did call Bush a liar, and it was a Democrat. Representative Pete Stark (D-CA), said:

"The Republicans are worried that we can't pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where you going to get that money. You gonna tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war. You don't have enough money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement...

...But the President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress." (emphasis mine)

You can find the video here.

I would say that what Pete Stark said about Bush is way more heinous than anything said about Obama so far.

The original article can be found here.