Georgia shows: There is hope in the vote ~ By Herman Cain

The Hermanator (as Herman Cain is affectionately known as) writes about the excellent opportunity this November to take back America. There are three things that we need to do, as he tells his audiences, readers, and radio listeners: Stay united, stay informed and stay inspired. He will be explaining those admonishments in this column. You will, if you want to see the REAL CHANGE coming this November! Just sayin'...

(By the way, be sure to see the column Joseph Farah wrote last Saturday regarding The Hermanator!)

...Not on our watch! The real change we want is coming in November.

The fight to take back our government is happening now. It is happening at tea-party rallies, conferences, town-hall meetings, in neighborhoods, get-out-the-vote drives, on the Internet and support for conservative candidates all over this country.

This gives me great hope for our vote in November.

By Herman Cain

Posted: July 26, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The frustration and anger by conservatives about the direction of this country continue to grow. Even many moderates are starting to wake up to the failed policies and lack of leadership by the Obama administration.

In the Georgia primary election July 20, Republicans cast more ballots than Democrats for governor by a two-to-one margin. The other races on the ballot also showed that significantly more Republicans voted than Democrats, but the highest office on the ticket is a most telling sign about what could happen in November.

"Could happen" is the operative phrase, because Republicans could take back control of Congress if conservatives get out and vote the right way in November. The results in the recent Georgia primary are consistent with an ongoing Gallup poll showing that conservatives outnumber liberals two-to-one. Moderates have a one-and-a-half head count advantage over liberals in the same poll.

I am not suggesting that Georgia is indicative of the entire country, but those results along with the Gallup poll provide a huge ray of hope for November.

The numbers are on our (conservatives') side, but we can't stay home! We are the biggest danger to ourselves and the future of this country if we do not actively support good candidates and encourage people to get out and vote in November.

I also encourage listeners and audiences to do three things if we are going to slow down the Obama-Reid-Pelosi socialism express in November 2010: Stay united, stay informed and stay inspired.

The recent accusation of racism by the NAACP toward the tea-party movement was an attempt to divide and intimidate these citizen activists. The big-government liberals also hoped the racism charge would discourage further criticism of the failed policies of this administration and Congress, as I discussed in my commentary last week. The accusation backfired because they had no credible proof of their claim.

Their baseless claim was highlighted by the baseless firing of a lady named Shirley Sherrod when then the NAACP, the White House and the Department of Agriculture had to backtrack and apologize after all of the facts were known. That incident diminished even further the credibility of the NAACP. This attempt to divide us did not work, but beware of future attempts, which start with name calling and false accusations.

Playing the racism card did not make people forget that the stimulus spending is not working and the economy is stalled. People are more informed than the Democrats think, because they think we are all stupid. Efforts by the White House to ignore Fox News did not work. Efforts to censor talk radio have not worked because people can distinguish between facts and hate speech as the liberals claim.

Stay informed because liberals love stupid people, and they hate the facts.

And most importantly, stay inspired. Liberals want us to give up. They want us to believe that our votes do not count. They want us to believe that we can't change control of Congress, and that the United States of Europe is inevitable.

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Calling tea-party people racist is a S.I.N. ~ By Herman Cain

Since this column was posted early Monday morning (7/21/10), there has been another episode supposedly concerning racism and the NAACP. Only this time, it was turned around, and it didn't quite work out the way it all started. Andrew Breitbart of BigGovernment.com had released a tape of a USDA worker, Shirley Sherrod, speaking at an NAACP meeting. It turned out to be only part of the story, though. Racist remarks were shown in the first video released, but it turned out to be totally out of context. Acting without all of the facts, Ms. Sherrod was forced to resign. Below is a video I am including from a segment on Glenn Beck's show on Tuesday, July 20, which will help to explain what happened:

Video provided by fearblocke

Isn't it strange how things work out? In this column, Herman Cain explains why the NAACP was calling the Tea Party Movement racist, even though they never had any evidence that the movement was racist whatsoever. And last Friday (Jul 16), Patrick Buchanan had this to say about why the NAACP was accusing the Tea Party of being racist: "Rescuing itself from the obscurity it richly deserves, the NAACP has found a way back onto the front page: Accuse the tea-party movement of harboring racists."

Is this starting to make sense yet? Well, the NAACP sure found a way to put it all in perspective with the Shirley Sherrod debacle, as did the White House. In their rush to show themselves as not being racist, they forced Sherrod to resign, before they learned that the comments shown in the original video was out of context. They all acted "stupidly," you might say, where they acted before they had all of the information, the same thing Obama had accused the Cambridge cop with doing in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (and another situation where Obama spoke before knowing the whole context of what had happened). Maybe it's time to just put race behind us, and that needs to include not accusing the tea party with being racist. Just sayin'...

Tea-party people are not racist. They are patriotic Americans who want the greatest country in the world to remain the greatest country in the world. We are exercising our right to speak out against bad public policy, even if the president is black.

This isn't about race. This is about results, and the results by this administration and this Congress are missing in action.

The NAACP has lost its relevance and its way forward. That's a sin.

By Herman Cain

Posted: July 19, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The NAACP is doing the dirty work for the failed policies of the Obama administration and the congressional Democrats. Accusing the tea-party movement as being racist shifts (S) the attention from the mishandling of the Gulf oil tragedy, the failed $862 billion stimulus-spending bill, the lack of private-sector job growth and an economy stuck on stalled.

The NAACP's accusation also shifts attention away from the problems in the black community, which they ignore (I) in their name-calling (N) rhetoric, such as increased high-school dropout rates, increased incarceration rates, increased out-of-wedlock birthrates and unemployment rates among blacks that are 50 percent higher than the national average.

Although my invitation to the NAACP annual convention in Kansas City got lost in the mail, I suspect there were plenty of speeches blaming George W. Bush and greedy capitalists for those problems.

When NAACP spokeswoman Leila McDowell says "hardcore white-supremacist organizations have participated in and occasionally lead tea-party rallies," the mainstream lapdog media jump all over such a blatantly baseless claim. When asked what the claim was based on, she said academic research on the tea-party movement.

Of the nearly two dozen tea-party rallies at which I have been a keynote speaker, I have yet to see or hear of anyone doing a survey, poll or research asking attendees if they were white supremacists. Nor has any of the tea-party organizers indicated that such research was ever requested or being done.

Although it was not a scientific test, at a Georgia tea-party event I attended July 16, which included a live broadcast of my radio show, I asked all of the white supremacists and KKK members to raise their hands. There were none. When I asked a show of hands of all the people who want the big-government spending to stop, the legislative abuse to stop and the coming tax increases to be stopped, more than 3,000 attendees almost cheered the roof off the place!

Since there have been thousands of tea-party and citizen rallies across the country beginning in early 2009, those researchers obviously attended the ones I did not attend. I would love to see the research, or hear or see one audio or video clip of a tea-party speaker uttering one racist word. It does not exist!

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Look who's talking ~ By Patrick J. Buchanan

Pat Buchanan weighs in on the NAACP resolution that accuses the Tea Party Movement of being racist. As we all know, the Tea Party is not racist. However, because we don't like big government, open borders (and that we are siding with Arizona), the socialization of health care and our economy in general, and the way the oil spill has been handled, the other side (Progressives) - with the media's assistance - tries to make it sound like we don't like Obama because he is black. "None of these issues has anything directly to do with race," Pat writes. "Jealous and the NAACP are trying to change the subject from Obama's failure to Obama's race, and from the failures of liberals to the motivations of conservatives." 

Of course, as we all know, it is just part of the Saul Alinsky strategy ("Rules for Radicals") to discredit the Tea Party Movement by denigration.

As I like to do when possible, I've included a video that I put up on youtube last week, which is very telling of the double standard of the Tea Party Movement detractors, and the NAACP in particular.

NAACP accuses Tea Party Movement with Racism

Video provided by TheREALjohnny2k

I have news for the Tea Party detractors. It ain't working. And by the way, if the NAACP also had a resolution condemning the NBPP and King Samir Shabazz, why wasn't that reported by the news media? Was the story just buried in the news, or did the NAACP fail to tell anyone (until the segment above on Fox News)? Just sayin'...

By accusing the tea party of harboring racists, the NAACP is, in effect, demanding that the party appear in a court of public opinion to prove itself innocent of an unsupported slander.

Sorry, that's not how things work in America.

Folks here are innocent until proven guilty, and name-calling is the last recourse of exhausted minds, to which attention need not be paid. The NAACP has become what Graham Green called a "burnt-out case."

As longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer observed, every great movement begins as a cause, eventually becomes a business, then degenerates into a racket. Time for the Ford Foundation to pull the plug on its subsidiary, whose time has come and gone a long time ago.

By Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted: July 16, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Rescuing itself from the obscurity it richly deserves, the NAACP has found a way back onto the front page: Accuse the tea-party movement of harboring racists.

At its Kansas City convention, NAACP President and CEO Ben Jealous declaimed: "Expel the bigots and racists in your ranks, or take the responsibility for them and their actions. We will no longer allow you to hide like cowards."

Is it not an absurd world we live in?

Here is an organization whose very name, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pronounces its goal – advancement through affirmative action, quotas, contract set-asides based on race – accusing another organization of being motivated by race.

Jealous might revisit the Sermon on the Mount.

"Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged. ... Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

If discrimination means favoring people or opposing people based on race, two questions arise. Is that not pretty much the job description of the NAACP? And when has the tea party advocated hirings, promotions or school admissions based on race?

In the South Carolina gubernatorial primary, the tea party backed a woman of Indian-American descent, Nikki Haley, who was raised a Sikh, over three white men with superior resumes.

In the GOP primary in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, African-American Tim Scott, with tea-party backing, routed Strom Thurmond's son three to one.

In Florida, the tea party vaulted a Hispanic, Cuban-American Marco Rubio, into so strong a lead over favorite Gov. Charlie Crist in the race for the U.S. Senate that Crist quit the GOP.

And the NAACP?

In the year 2000, the organization ran an ad using the daughter of James Byrd, the victim of a dragging death by white racists, to imply Gov. George W. Bush's opposition to a hate-crimes bill meant that Bush was indifferent to the lynching of James Byrd.

This was as nasty a piece of political advertising as has been run in our time. When or where has the tea party run such a despicable ad?

In the last month, the major story with a racial dimension has been the charge that Eric Holder's Justice Department dropped an open-and-shut case against members of the New Black Panther Party of Philadelphia, two of whom were caught on tape threatening and intimidating white voters in the November 2008 election.

Justice's J. Christian Adams, who resigned to protest dropping the Panther case, testified before the Civil Rights Commission that attorneys in the Civil Rights Division of Justice were told to ignore cases involving black defendants and white victims.

A tape has now turned up where New Black Panther Minister King Samir Shabazz, one of the two charged with voter intimidation, rants before a small crowd: "You want freedom. You're gonna have to kill some crackers. You're gonna have to kill some of their babies."

Perhaps we can hear from the NAACP on the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia. Perhaps we can hear more from the NAACP on the ugliest form of racism in America, interracial violent crime – which, according to FBI statistics, is largely black-on-white, not the reverse.

Remarkable. In the black community, the jobless rate is 15 percent, the dropout rate is sometimes 50 percent, the illegitimacy rate is over 70 percent, nearly a million black Americans are in jail, prison or juvenile detention – and the NAACP is passing resolutions denouncing some guys carrying signs portraying Obama as The Joker.

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NAACP, media owe tea party apology ~ By Jack Cashill

Jack Cashill picks apart the column written by William Douglas of the McClatchy Papers, with this headline: "Tea-party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman." It turns out that none of it was true. And then, on Tuesday, the NAACP passed a resolution "calling on all people to condemn racism within the tea-party movement."

I personally condemn and repudiate any racism, and I am sure most of the people in the Tea Party Movement do as well. However, after the media and the NAACP made sure that many people would believe the Tea Partiers are racist, they never bothered to mention or condemn the extreme racism from the New Black Panther Party, particularly Malik Zulu Shabazz. As you will see in the video below, Hilary Shelton, a VP at NAACP, said there was also a resolution condemning the NBPP. Oh, really? I see... Then, apparently. THAT was something the mainstream media didn't think was important enough to report. Just sayin'...

RELATED VIDEO:
NAACP accuses Tea Party Movement with Racism

Video provided by TheREALjohnny2k

Kudos to the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition for passing a resolution of its own, calling the NAACP resolution "a gutter tactic of attempting to silence opponents by inflammatory name-calling."

And kudos to the Kansas City Star for quoting it. Now, if its editors would only put their big-boy pants on and own up to their parent company's role in the original smear.

By Jack Cashill

Posted: July 15, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Blacks will know they have achieved full acceptance in America when the media begin to treat the NAACP as the hack left-wing political group it has obviously become.

Now, alas, my hometown Kansas City Star treats the NAACP meeting here in KC as though it were the 2,000th annual reunion of Jesus and the 12 apostles.

Yesterday's headline reads, "NAACP resolution addresses tea parties." It should have read, "NAACP resolution smears tea parties." In the opening lead, the reader learns that the NAACP passed a resolution overwhelmingly on Tuesday "calling on all people to condemn racism within the tea-party movement."

This presumes, of course, there was racism to condemn. A more inflammatory AP article – "NAACP accuses tea party of tolerating bigotry" – cites the incident that provoked the resolution:

U.S. Reps. John Lewis, Andre Carson and Emanuel Cleaver said some demonstrators, many of them tea-party activists, yelled a racial epithet as the black congressmen walked from House office buildings to the Capitol. Cleaver, D-Mo., also said he was spit on.

This kind of nonsense may have passed muster as news on day one, but let me please reiterate what we have learned since. Please share the following with your local news outlet.

On the afternoon of March 20, the day of the Obamacare protest, Andre Carson walked along with Rep. John Lewis and one other person from the Cannon Office Building across Independence Avenue to the Capitol.

At the Capitol, Carson told reporters what happened en route. Fortunately, the audio exists. As Carson explained, the three were "walking down the steps" of the Cannon Office Building when they "heard 'n-word, n-word,' at least 15 times, hundreds of people, and Capitol Police finally became aware and started protecting us."

When questioned on specifics, Carson reduced the hundreds of people to "maybe 15," who were shouting "Kill the bill, then the n-word." Added Carson for dramatic flair, "Yeah, I expected rocks to come."

On the return to the Cannon Office Building from the Capitol, a larger contingent of the Black Caucus chose to avoid the tunnel, which they would normally take, and brave the racist, would-be rock throwers. They also carried at least three video cameras among them.

The Caucus members passed without incident until they reached the steps of the Cannon Office Building. There, an inattentive Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., flanked by a police officer, walked right in front of a man who had been screaming "kill the bill" through cupped hands for at least the previous 10 seconds.

Cleaver appeared to get caught in the vocal spray. Videos would show a visibly angry Cleaver poke his finger in the man's face.

Roughly 90 minutes after the alleged spitting, William Douglas of the McClatchy Papers posted an article with this inflammatory headline: "Tea-party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman."

Douglas appears to have interviewed the "congressman" in question, civil-rights icon John Lewis, but Lewis does not give him what he wants:

Lewis said he was leaving the Cannon Office Building to walk to the Capitol to vote when protesters shouted "Kill the bill, kill the bill," Lewis said.

"I said 'I'm for the bill, I support the bill, I'm voting for the bill,'" Lewis said.

In his very next line, Douglas makes a reference to Andre Carson. "A colleague who was accompanying Lewis said people in the crowd responded by saying 'Kill the bill, then the n-word.'"

Douglas immediately follows the Carson reference with the following:

"It surprised me that people are so mean and we can't engage in a civil dialogue and debate," Lewis said.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., said he was a few yards behind Lewis and distinctly heard "nigger."

"It was a chorus," Cleaver said. "In a way, I feel sorry for those people who are doing this nasty stuff – they're being whipped up. I decided I wouldn't be angry with any of them."

Given the video evidence, we can see Douglas' reporting for the Democratic agitprop it is. Lewis never hears the word "nigger." If he had, Douglas surely would have shared it with the reader.

Curiously, Douglas quotes Carson on the most lethal of the slurs but attributes the quote only to "a colleague." Does Carson have a reputation for lying? Or does Douglas fear that by citing Carson, he admits into evidence his preposterous claim about crowds of screaming bigots? Or both?

Instead, Douglas slides the burden onto the Rev. Cleaver who claims no more than to have heard one person say "nigger" one time, a claim that will be much harder to disprove than Carson's.

Douglas then takes Cleaver's "chorus" quote and makes it sound as though he heard a chorus of slurs when surely Cleaver said no such thing. The reader is left with the impression, however, that Cleaver is "the colleague" who heard "kill the bill, then the n-word."

Douglas also implies that Cleaver was walking with Lewis from the Cannon Office Building to the Capitol when this happened, but he was not.

Cleaver accompanied Lewis only on the way back, which suggests that there should be evidence of racial slurs both coming and going. Despite Andrew Breitbart's offer of a $100,000 reward for such a video, none has emerged either coming or going.

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