Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, July 23, 2010 9:29:54 PM
Timing is everything, and the synchronicity of the bogus NAACP-racist rant against
the Tea Party, the amateurish Obama administration handling of the Shirley Sherrod
debacle and Tucker Carlson's revelation of journalist Spencer Ackerman's sinister
and conspiratorial comments on the now defunct listserv Journolist reveal just how
deep the American left has mired itself in incompetence, irrelevance, unethical
behavior and outright bigotry. They are drowning in a cesspool of their own creation,
and the more they flail, the deeper they sink.
One thing that is now clear is that accusations of racism against the Tea Party are
not grounded in any objective evidence, but simply in the left's desire for it to be
reality. Already hoist on their own petard for showing a sign at a Tea Party rally
that said "White Racist and Proud Of It," while failing to show the liberal plant who
carried it surrounded, shouted down, humiliated and expelled by rally participants,
the leftist media agenda took a terminal hit with the Ackerman disclosure. Ackerman,
a writer for the Washington Independent, counseled other journalists to deflect
criticism of Barack Obama by calling Karl Rove or Fred Barnes racists. Most telling
was his lack of preference for which one, for he spiced the comment with a question.
"Who cares?" Later, he suggested ramming a conservative's face through a plate glass
window and leaving him bleeding on the sidewalk so he would "learn what it's like to
live in fear." He claimed to be speaking metaphorically.
In other words, journalism has sunk so low that it no longer matters what is said or
whom it is said about as long as it advances the liberal agenda and inflicts damage on
conservatives. Lying swine like Ackerman deserve little ink. But the revelation of the
leftist media's tactics discredits the labels they attempt to attach to their targets. There
is no doubt that there are racists in the Tea Party. There are also racists in the two
major parties. In fact, it seems that some of the biggest racists work at the Justice
Department and in the White House. But everyone already knew that the racist
tag, like "Nazi," was woefully overworked, and now they know that it has no merit
in fact but is only a dishonest tactic of a desperate group whose star is falling like
a rock.
Inconsistency, hypocrisy and denial do little to bolster the stock of an organization
or an administration. NAACP President Ben Jealous' contention that the group was
"snookered" by FOX News is laughable for one simple reason. The NAACP has
possession of the whole original tape. Is it FOX's fault Jealous didn't review it
before leaping to condemn Shirley Sherrod? And supposedly the White House
called for Sherrod's firing because they thought FOX's Glenn Beck had gotten hold
of the story and was going to run with it. One couldn't find a spatula big enough to
scrape the egg from Robert Gibbs' and Barack Obama's faces when Beck did the
research they should have done and came out in support of Sherrod.
Then came the hand-wringing, the finger-pointing and the denials. Sherrod was
exonerated and offered a new job with the USDA. Vilsack and Obama couldn't
apologize enough. But wait! Did they fail to note that in her "story of redemption"
Sherrod talked about sending the farmer "back to his own kind?" Just what "kind"
is that Ms. Sherrod, President Obama, Attorney General Holder? Because if you
condone splitting black and white into two different "kinds" then you confirm the
argument made by real racists, and prove beyond a doubt that you are one of them.
And let's don't forget that even though Sherrod eventually did the right thing, she
bragged about intially withholding "the full force of what I coulddo" from the needy
white farmer. And her biased rationale further showed when she confessed realizing
that it was not a conflict between black and white, but one between those who have
and those who don't. So, then, it's not fine to discriminate on the basis of race, but it
IS fine to discriminate by class. Barack Obama and USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack
should be cursing the day they ever heard of ShirleySherrod. And in private, they
probably are.
Lost in the shuffle is right-wing gadfly Andrew Breitbart who initially released
a segment of the noxious video. The MSM is, as usual, dumping on Breitbart, and
Shirely Sherrod is threatening to sue him. But Breitbart contends that the release
of the video was not at all about Shirley Sherrod, but about the presence of virulent
racism at the gathering of an organization that had just finished denouncing others
for it. It was the old business about not throwing stones if you live in glass houses.
But the left is so bent on political correctness and preserving appearances that
they -- the NAACP and the White House -- missed the whole point and jumped on
Shirley Sherrod. It is sheer hypocrisy to say "shame on Breitbart," without, in the
same breath, saying "shame on Vilsack, Obama and Ben Jealous," who are the
real culprits here.
But the spectre of November is looming dark and ominous over the left. They are
drowning in a sea of public disgust and animosity at their vapid and failed agenda,
and unless they can do better than the tawdry and transparent cabals of Ackerman,
Jealous and Obama, they will be washed away by a tsunami of voter vengeance.
The clock is ticking.