This Fight is Coming to Your Front Door ~ Ep. 1273 ~ The Dan Bongino Show®

From the Dan Bongino Show's description of this episode on youtube.com/Bongino or in his Show Notes:

In this episode, I address the growing pressure for Americans to subjugate themselves to destructive liberal narratives. Please, this is the time for strength.

There was a need for me to take a night off yesterday. Not sure exactly what it was that made me want to take take the night off. Perhaps it was the fact that my Coronavirus test came back negative, which I found out Saturday morning in an email. I just got the testing done with the deep, uncomfortable, nasal swab on Friday afternoon, and was told it would take 3 business days to get the results.  So, it was a rather happy moment when I got that email the next day! So, there was some celebration to be done Saturday night. Turned out to be a perfect night for doing a campfire in the good old firepit I built last Summer. No bugs, and a cool front that moved through, so it wasn't hot or muggy. Perfect, except for that brief rain shower that ended the campfire.  But, that may not have been the only reason that I wasn't writing this blog post yesterday.

Though it was Friday night when I saw this episode for the first time, the first segment was emotional for Dan to do, and it was emotional for me to see and hear.  I could tell that he was rather torn up inside with the events that took place, on a personal level, for Dan, his wife Paula, and his children.  He didn't say a lot about whatever it was, other than being pressured to give his allegiance to Black Lives Matter.  You and I know that will never, ever happen.    But that is where the title to this episode came from.  The fight came to Dan's front door.  You will have to watch the segment for yourself, and come to your own thoughts about it.  When I saw the episode, I decided not to come to any conclusions, but just to pray for Dan and the Bongino family.

What really stuck out to me was Dan's monologue in that first segment regarding police officers that lose their lives in the line of duty.  The Black Lives Matter protest chants about "frying them like bacon," and I can't even quote the rest of it, definitely does not sit well with Dan Bongino, or me, or any of us that believe that Blue Lives Matter.  It bothers me very much that when an officer is killed in the line of duty, and there aren't protests, and they barely, if not rarely, even get reported by the legacy mainstream media. Yet, the death of a law enforcement officer also affects many people.  Their children, spouses, family, work associates, and friends, also feel terrible amounts of sorrow. All lives matter.  That is the bottom line that I come to.

There is a lot more to this episode than just that monologue, and I pray that you will watch it all. 

SHOW NOTES for Episode 1273

Something Deeply Troubling Is Going On, Be Warned ~ Ep. 1266 ~ The Dan Bongino Show®

From the Dan Bongino Show's description of this episode on youtube.com/Bongino or in his Show Notes:

In this episode, I address a deeply troubling tip I received about the Swamp and their ongoing battle against President Trump. I also address the disastrous Rod Rosenstein hearing on Capitol Hill and the total collapse of the collusion hoax. Finally, I address the new movement to kneel before others to virtue signal.

Dan begins this episode by talking about the people that were kneeling, to atone for their long history of racism, owning slaves, making people who were Black Americans sit in special sections of restaurants, or at the back of a bus.  Huh?  In one of the videos I saw, not one of those people could have been around before President Lincoln freed the slaves, and then fought a long, bloody civil war for, in the hopes of uniting this country once again, and making all people FREE.  No, and I didn't see too many of those folks that were kneeling that were even old enough to see the days of segregation, or heard their grandparents calling Americans of African heritage "colored people."  Yes, I do remember those days, and I am ashamed that those things did happen, when I was growing up.

But, like Dan says, unless you are a racist, their is no reason for personal guilt.  We should not kneel before any man.  Like Dan, I only kneel before the Lord, and I have plenty to be repentant for, in God's eyes. Racism isn't one of my faults, though, thank you Lord.  Racism and anti-Semitism disgust me to no end.  There is a little back story to that.  When I was in Junior Highschool (now called Middle School), I was tormented by a bunch of bullies for being of a particular ethnic descent. 

My father was of Czech heritage, a full blooded Czech!  My mother wasn't, however, which made me only half-Czech, but I still had a Czech surname, of course.  That name alone made me a target.  Oh, it wasn't just classmates that tormented me.  There was at least one teacher that called me "Little Bohemie," in front of the other students in that Industrial Arts class.  I could walk down one of the hallways of that school, and dreaded every step, figuring some kid would either spit on me or slug me.  Yep.  It really was that bad.  Just because of my heritage, and being a little size-challenged.

So, there you go, it is amazing that I had to go through that anxiety, but I did get through it.  Things changed by the time I got to high school.  It helped that I had grown six inches, too.  (Long story that I'll tell you some other day.)  By that time, America was changing for the better, too.  Civil Rights, school desegregation, and all of that, were starting to happen.  No, we didn't see drastic changes in America over night, either.  There were still many people, on the wrong side, that fought against it as it progressed.  And then, as Dan will tell you about in the first block of this episode, Liberal Demonicrats came in control of all of the biggest cities.  There are a lot of people to blame for the plight of large minority populations in urban areas.  And it is not for the values that Dan, or I, or President Trump hold.  It was the people that developed a large amount of dependency on government, and the Demonicrats that held that carrot out in front of them, just to get votes.  Believe me, Dan crushes it in that segment.

Well, my personal experiences and thoughts about what Dan talked about were needed here.  But in regard to the rest of this episode, let me say it would be best for me to just let you go see it for yourself.  I had to hesitate before I wrote about this episode, not sure about what I wanted to say.  Obviously, it all came out in the way I wanted to tell you about my personal experience with bigotry and mistreatment, just because of my ethnic heritage!  Otherwise, I would have deleted this, and started over.  I can't even fathom, completely, what people of African ancestry have had to deal with.  Yes, there are still some very bad people out there, and SOME of them will eventually face another election.  We still have challenges facing us, obviously, but together, we can overcome them.  What would really be deeply troubling, is if we didn't try.  But kneeling down is not what is required.  Believe me.

SHOW NOTES for Episode 1266

CNN Goes Bundy-Trolling on Racial Issues & Gets Retort from Black Bodyguard They Don’t Expect ~ By Kyle Becker

The question is: What does the guy’s character have to do with the principle in play, anyway? Bundy’s story was not picked for his character, it was picked because it was an abuse of the federal government’s power.

The fact that so many think his story is nullified by his personal opinions goes to show how many in the American public there are who are simply incapable of defending their own rights whenever a leftist yells that he finds something “offensive.”

I still have no qualms about mentioning that a lot of what Cliven Bundy said the other day sounded very racist to many people, and that it is very likely that his diatribe did a lot of damage to the Conservative and Tea Party movements. But in Cliven Bundy's defense, there is a strong likelihood that the way he said the things he did had a lot more to do with his age than his character.

If we determine what he said as racist, it is because the of the way he tried to explain his views, and it sounded racist to the younger generations with the progressive mindset. The older generations have different ways to express their viewpoints, and it may sound offensive, but from their perspective, it has nothing to do with the way they treat and love their fellow human beings, no matter what race. Their articulation of the issue usually has nothing to do with their character.

I think that this story by Kyle Becker, and surely countless others in the blogosphere, does exonerate Mr. Bundy from the recent claims that he is blatantly racist as reported by some in the media. However, the damage was done.  It would have been much better if Harry Reid's vicious statements about Cliven Bundy and his supporters being domestic terrorists, or Reid's problems with ethics, had stayed in the forefront of the news. Just sayin'...

RELATED STORIES:

• April 26, 2014 ~ VIDEO: Cliven Bundy goes racist! (Or, did he?)

• April 25, 2014 ~ Black Marine says Clive Bundy is NOT a racist ~ From Kevin Jackson on The Black Sphere

• April 24, 2-14 ~ Bundy Hoax Exposed: Full Video Of Cliven Bundy’s Non-Racist, Pro-Black, Pro-Mexican, Anti-Government Remarks ~ By Josey Wales

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CNN Goes Bundy-Trolling on Racial Issues & Gets Retort from Black Bodyguard They Don’t Expect

By Kyle Becker

April 25, 2014

From the Independent Journal Review

Looks like there are plenty of level-headed black people who are waking up to how the lily-white lefty media try to play them:

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VIDEO: Cliven Bundy goes racist! (Or, did he?)

He just blew it all.... and now Harry Reid has something on him that none of us can deny..... Oh, Crap!

Now there is attention on Cliven again, and this time very negative, which takes the attention off of Dirty Harry for all the unethical stuff he's doing....

See my problem? I have some good stuff on Harry, but now I have to cover Cliven Bundy's statements.

The above is something I wrote to a friend in a Private Message on Facebook the night I posted this video, April 24, 2014. I had a real problem with what Cliven Bundy had said. My very first reaction was of total shock, and I was repulsed. There were many Conservative pundits that had the same reaction that I did. There was no way that Cliven Bundy could be defended, nor would anyone want to even try to spin it in a way that didn't sound so controversial.

While I still feel that what Cliven Bundy said sounded blatantly racist, there have been subsequent reports that his remarks had been edited and were taken out of context with what he was really meaning to say. While I have the intention to report on those newer stories, it does not take away from what I wrote to my friend in the text above. What Cliven Bundy said was to take the attention away from what was being reported in the days before his wayward remarks that you may not have heard since Mark Twain wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Just when there was highly critical information being reported concerning Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) problems with ethics that we could have been talking about, Cliven Bundy had to go and have his "rant."

The Cliven Bundy spiel was detrimental, but maybe for much more than just the racist connotations we initially believed. For that reason, I stand by the description that I wrote for this video. Just sayin'....

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Slamming for votes ~ By Patrice Lewis

The common hope for these politicians, what they're counting on, is the sheeple will believe their lies and vote for them. In other words, they hope the stupid people will turn out in force.

Patrice discusses the some of the methods being used to campaign this year, comparing them to the old trick of phone slamming where people had their long-distance carrier changed without their permission. Patrice explains: "Slamming is a common procedure among those who are desperate for something, whether it's obtaining new customers or garnering votes in the upcoming election. In other words, unethical companies (or candidates) will sink to the lowest level possible – including slamming – to obtain customers or influence voters."

Yes, I am sure that some people will vote based on lies told about candidates, but I am not nearly as worried about that as I am on voter fraud, or things like Illinois not getting absentee ballots to our military serving overseas. Or, like the video talks about  below, just a little "slammin'" could happen with how the military votes get counted (see at 2:45).  Just sayin'...

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Barring outright election fraud, only time – specifically, 10 days – will tell whether these slime tactics are successful or not.

Yet I'm optimistic. The existence and growth of the tea party demonstrates that lies are no longer working like they used to. The truth may yet set us free.

Slamming for votes

By Patrice Lewis

Posted: October 23, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010



Many years ago, my husband received a phone call from a long-distance telephone carrier. "Is this Mr. Lewis?" asked the representative.

"Yes," my husband replied.

"Would you be interested in switching to Xyz long distance service?"

"No thank you."

The representative thanked him and hung up. To our surprise, our next phone bill revealed that we had been signed up with the alternate long-distance carrier.

Furious, my husband called the phone service and asked them what the hell they thought they were doing, switching carriers without our permission. "But we have your permission," protested the representative. "We have a verbal confirmation that you wished to change carriers."

You guessed it – we had been "slammed" when this alternate long-distance service took my husband's "Yes" (in confirming that he was indeed Mr. Lewis) and cut-and-pasted his vocal reply into a false affirmation that we wished to switch long-distance carriers.

Needless to say, we switched back to our original carrier and locked in our service. We later heard that the long-distance carrier had a class-action lawsuit against it for its tactics.

Slamming is a common procedure among those who are desperate for something, whether it's obtaining new customers or garnering votes in the upcoming election. In other words, unethical companies (or candidates) will sink to the lowest level possible – including slamming – to obtain customers or influence voters.

It's becoming more apparent that incumbent liberal politicians are in deep doo-doo with regard to the upcoming Nov. 2 election. Elections (for both parties) have always been about smearing one's opponent, but this year the depths to which incumbents are sinking would be comical if it weren't so nasty.

"The smell of desperation and fear now hangs over the left," notes commentator Craige McMillan. "The left's agenda is a failure. With health-insurance rates skyrocketing, coverage shrinking and jobs evaporating, Democrats now campaign: Not on their accomplishments – for they'd rather we didn't remember. Not against Republican and tea-party ideas – for Democrats bring the same old tired, socialist failures to the debate. But instead they campaign with lies, innuendo, smears and character assassination."

But it doesn't seem to be working. Voters are increasingly undeceived by the empty promises made by all politicians. Since incumbents can't run on their records, their only option is to spread some slime.

Take the case of Florida Democrat Rep. Alan Grayson, who was caught making television ads in which he cut-and-pasted a speech his opponent, Daniel Webster, gave to make it seem as if Webster was a punitive religious fanatic. Grayson's only hope appears to be that there are enough shallow sheeple gullible enough to swallow his nonsense.

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Or take Oregon's Rep. Peter DeFazio, who is selectively culling items and events from his opponent Art Robinson's life to make Robinson seem like a "dangerous wacko extremist." There are dozens of similar cases cropping up all over the country.

The common hope for these politicians, what they're counting on, is the sheeple will believe their lies and vote for them. In other words, they hope the stupid people will turn out in force.

It's not just individual candidates. Public school employees are in on it, too, by providing students with mock ballots that blatantly list only Democratic candidates.

The tea party has become a popular target among the progressives, who are terrified that their wealth-distribution schemes may be disrupted. Because the tea party's biggest platform is greater fiscal responsibility and less government intrusion, somehow that is interpreted (and widely reported) by the progressives and their lap-dog media to mean we want to reinstate Jim Crow laws. They utilize the ever-popular "racism" lie without realizing that their accusations are merely a mirror they refuse to face.

"Liberals believe government, and plenty of it, is the only way racial minorities can survive in America," notes columnist Christopher Grey. "They think that without special help from the government, minorities would be unable to get jobs, have health care, feed their kids, go to school, or do much of anything."

The prevailing (if unsaid) attitude among liberals seems to be, "Awww, the poor widdle minorities … they need our help to get out of bed in the morning." Meanwhile, tea partiers are yelling, "Get busy and accomplish those things on your own!" – because they believe anyone CAN achieve these things if left to their own creativity and ingenuity … unless they're handicapped by government entitlements, of course.

So who has greater faith in individual initiative and who is working harder to preserve human dignity? Yet the accusations of racism continue. And the worst thing about being labeled a racist, as Burt Prelutsky notes, is that denying it gets you nowhere.

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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:

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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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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'...

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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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The boy who cried 'racist' ~ By Burt Prelutsky

Burt explains the one thing that the leftists do that is actually working (99.9% of their ideas NEVER work, but I digress), and it is as he writes, "One of the sneakiest, most despicable things left-wingers do is play racial politics, and when you call them on it, they get to brand you as racists." It seems so true, as we have learned. In fact, have you ever figured out why the Progressives like to call Tea Partiers, or for that matter, anyone that doesn't like President Obama, racist? It's kind of weird, isn't it? How many black people that didn't like George W. Bush were ever called racist? Just sayin'...

P.S. By the way, Burt, I love your new profile picture!

The unfortunate thing is that just as the Communists perverted the meaning of "comrade" and homosexuals perverted the meaning of "gay," the self-righteous leftists have perverted "racist." It no longer means a person who is racially intolerant, who would harm or subjugate another human being because of his skin color, but, instead, denotes someone who really is color-blind and who judges people solely on the basis of their character.

By Burt Prelutsky

Posted: May 21, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

By this time, I'm sure we've all seen those posters of George W. Bush captioned "Miss Me Yet?" I, personally, think things have gotten so bad in Obama's America that I wouldn't be surprised if we begin seeing those same posters springing up with Jimmy Carter's picture.

When I read that Sen. Dianne Feinstein had said, "I've gotten over 90,000 e-mails and faxes on the health-care bill and over 85,000 of them are against it. After all the debate we've had, I can't believe so many people still don't get it," I recall wondering if Obama's arrogance was a contagious disease for which there's no known antidote.

That reminds me that William F. Buckley, Jr., once observed that, "Liberals claim they want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views." (emphasis my own)

He was also the conservative sage who once told a left-winger, "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting you really believe what you just said." Does a single day go by when most of us haven't wished to say those very words to Robert Gibbs? (emphasis my own)

One of the sneakiest, most despicable things left-wingers do is play racial politics, and when you call them on it, they get to brand you as racists. (emphasis my own)

For instance, affirmative action was created to give racial preferences to blacks to make amends for slavery and Jim Crow laws. But after nearly 50 years, try to suggest it's time to put racial quotas aside, and you will find yourself tarred as a racist.

For the past 30 years, Islamics around the world have targeted Americans, but suggest that they constitute a toxic menace and you're labeled a racist.

For the past quarter century, millions of Mexicans, who were not escaping political oppression, have felt entitled to stream across our border, to take advantage of our schools and hospitals, to fill our streets with drugs and flood our jails with criminals, and if we even complain about it, we're called racists.

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We are not terrorists, Ms. Whisler ~ By Anita Marchesani

Anita Marchesani points out the sheer absurdity of labeling people involved in the Tea Party Movement as racists and terrorists in a response to another columnist's article.

I tried to find Ms. Whisler's column so that I could link to it here, but upon a google search, and finding the link and then clicking on it, I got the message, "We are sorry the article that you requested is no longer available..." Apparently, for a fee, I could have searched the archives. (Not going to happen!) However, I did find that several people wrote comments about Whisler's guest column (that no long exists). You may want to check some of them out. They didn't seem to be too pleased with being labeled as terrorists and racists!

Oh, and by the way, from what I found in a little research, M. B. Whisler is a true-blue lefty. Huh.... Go figure.

And also, just want to say, excellent column, Ms. Marchesani!

Racism is a true problem. Tea partyers are not an example of racism, and promoting this idea is slanderous and extremely dangerous. Exaggeration and hyperbole equating conservatives with terrorists brings the conversation to a bizarre point. Again, it not only denigrates legitimate terrorist acts, but it implies that wanting fewer taxes, heightened personal responsibility and less intrusion is the same deadly mentality of flying planes into buildings, or blowing up a jet over Scotland. If a media outlet promotes these ideas, you are being grossly manipulated. If an issue is not being evaluated on all sides in a dispassionate manner, you are accessing irresponsible yellow journalism.

It sounds provocative and attention-getting to throw around destructive labels. But what is really being destroyed is the true meaning of race-hating and terrorism. Prudence and caution suggest that we think very long, and very hard about name calling. Ms. Whisler wonders, "Can we all get along?" Inciting hateful attitudes towards peaceful, law-abiding citizens contradicts a spirit of cooperation.

By Anita Marchesani

Updated: 04/16/2010 02:35:56 PM EDT

Last week in this spot, a fellow community columnist published an article that was offensive to so many good people here in York County that I decided to disregard my previous topic in favor of responding to Ms. Whisler's heinous, hurtful and wrong accusations.

In her column, Ms. Whisler likened tea party organizers to the Ku Klux Klan and to terrorists. She asserted that those of us who wish to return to the lawful society dictated by the Constitution and its constraints on the government are "destructive haters" who seek out the racist practices of the '50s and '60s. Further, she views tea partyers as "terrorists (who) are destroying and dividing our country."

As a group, tea partyers and 912 groups believe in limited government, as clearly described and explained by James Madison, et al, in the Constitution and the Federalist Papers. Patrick Henry reminds us that, "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people. It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." The more power the government has taken means that the people have not been adequate in restraining them.

The Constitution does not give unlimited powers to the government to do anything it wants. The Bill of Rights is only one portion of the document -- you might consider reading the rest of it, as well as a history of the Second Continental Congress. I hope that as a teacher Ms. Whisler instructed students to evaluate primary sources and not rely solely on what you are told about something. Actually attending a tea party would help.

Following Ms. Whisler's logic, promoting lower taxes, appropriate and lawful governmental restrictions, and a free market enterprise are racist and hateful ideas.

If you truly believe that dissenters are racist, then I respectfully suggest you might want to reconsider your definition of racism.

Labeling tea partyers as "racist" dramatically undermines the entire concept of racism. Saying it so often and so vehemently makes the word become meaningless drivel. I caution anyone who levels this horrendous accusation against friends and neighbors. Do we really want advocates of less government to be equated with racist Democrats who created Jim Crow? Have we come so far from racism that we have to manufacture new examples of it in the form of anyone who wants accountability and law-abiding governmental officials?

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I'm a racist for disagreeing with Obama? ~ By Herman Cain

If there is anyone that can explain why being a tea partier is not a racist, Herman Cain does it best. No, not just because he's black. It's because he understands what the meaning of the Tea Party Movement is, as do several of the other Conservative commentators that I've posted to this blog recently. I hope people are listening!

Tyranny is the suppression of disagreement and the control of people's lives through legislative and regulatory abuse of power. That's what the "tea-party people" are passionately against, and I will continue to echo those views as loudly and often as I can.


Rational American Citizens Interested in Saving This country are not the racists. We are the patriots.

By Herman Cain

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

© 2010

When someone calls me a derogatory name such as "Uncle Tom" or "sellout," I don't even flinch because it puts their ignorance and lack of intelligence on display. But when someone accuses me or others of being a racist because we disagree with President Obama, I get really, really, really angry.

I couldn't care less that they call me a racist. But I care a whole lot that they try to intimidate me into not disagreeing with Obama because he is African-American. To suggest we cannot disagree with our elected leaders for whatever reason is to suggest that we are a nation to be governed by tyranny.

My fuse was lit on this subject by a caller to my radio show last week. It was near the end of the show, and I almost made it without having to provide some gift-wrapped explanation to a liberal about her illogical and ridiculous accusation. My radio show producer describes this gift-wrapping technique as delivering a part of one's anatomy to them on a platter.

Her first question was why am I against health care? I am a survivor of stage IV cancer because God said "not yet," and because America has the best health care in the world. I pointed out to her that we do not have a health-care crisis in America. We have a health-care cost crisis. Obamacare makes the real crisis worse.

Her second intellectually challenged question was why do I associate with those tea-party people, who are the same ones that used to hang black people 100 years ago? I resisted the urge to point out that tea-party attendees were not alive 100 years ago and that most of the centenarians were probably at home watching the tea parties on TV.

Here's what I did say: I associate with tea-party people because I share their passionate disagreement with the escalation of big government, legislation and taxation without members of Congress reading the bills, and an arrogant disregard for the voice of the majority of Americans by President Obama

and the Democrats. The caller interpreted those disagreements as Obama bashing.

At that point I knew this was not going to be a logical exchange of perspectives.

This was a typical liberal who wanted to use race to defend Obama's unworkable health-care legislation and his other failed ideas. Liberals can't use facts and logic because the facts do not support the passage of Obamacare, or other failed ideas such as Cash for Clunkers or the manufactured concept of counting "saved jobs."

People who use race and illogical comparisons to segregation and slavery to defend Obama are the real racists. They resort to this empty logic when they are desperate to say something to refute the facts even if it does not make sense. It is also an attempt to silence and intimidate people, especially white people. According to their empty logic, that makes me a black racist against black people, in addition to an "Uncle Tom" and a "sellout."

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Land of the free – or land of the bureaucrats? ~ By Star Parker

Here I go again. Posting another story that contradicts what the state-run media wants you to believe: That the Tea Party Movement and Conservatives are just a bunch of racists... 

I am trying to do my best to help more people understand what the Tea Party Movement (a non-violent civil rebellion) is all about. And of course, for those that DO understand that Conservatives and tea parties are about wanting to keep our liberty, please make sure that you help me and Star and all of the great Conservative commentators get the word out - WE ARE NOT RACISTS! And this is the perfect column that makes that point!

What is new today is we can no longer continue the illusion of having our cake and eating it. We can no longer afford to be both a big-government entitlement state and a free, creative and prosperous nation. It's the prosperity created by our freedom that has financed the entitlements. But now the entitlements are overtaking and strangling our freedom.

So now is a time of choosing. We're either going to remain the land of the free or transform into the land of the bureaucrat.

The antipathy of activists toward Mr. Obama is not about how he looks but what he has done – that he has chosen and imposed on us the path of bureaucracy.

By Star Parker

Posted: April 03, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Like chewing gum stuck to the heel of your shoe, racism seems to be stuck forever to American public discourse. No matter what we do or what happens, somebody will find a racial motive.

Democrats have passed government health care with no Republican votes. Their leadership threatened and bribed their own members to eek out a majority. They resorted to an arcane procedure that maybe 100 people in the whole country can explain in order to pass a massive bill that polls show a majority of Americans don't want.

The federal government, for the first time ever, will force every American to buy, with a big chunk of their income, a product designed by government bureaucrats, with an army of IRS agents snooping on each of us to make sure we did it.

And how are many liberals explaining why so many Americans are ticked off?

It's because our president is black. It's about racism.

I'm steamed. And even though I happen to be black – I've even spoken at some-tea party rallies – I still must be a racist.

Obama's approval rating has dropped from 70 percent when he was elected to 50 percent today. His disapproval has skyrocketed from 10 percent when he was elected to 42 percent today.

Per the Washington Post, in January 2009 58 percent of Americans said that the Obama presidency helped race relations. By January 2010, this was down to 40 percent.

Has this wave of disillusionment with Obama been driven by a sudden realization that the man Americans elected president is black?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's approval has dropped from 41 percent in January 2009 to 36 percent today, and her disapproval has risen from 42 percent to 54 percent. Is she black?

Were the raucous town halls last summer – which fueled the growing tea-party movement – where irate constituents gave their representatives a piece of their mind about Obamacare racially motivated?

Care to understand what all this is really about?

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How I filled out my Census form ~ By Joseph Farah

Joseph asks why the 2010 Census needs to know your race. And that, I agree, is a very good question. I can't see any benefit or need to know.

Let's not fall into the traps of the past by thinking we're somehow immune to the injustices of the past.


Indeed we are all of one race in God's eyes – the human race.

By Joseph Farah

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

© 2010

Fortunately for me – and maybe for the government – I got the short-form Census questionnaire.

Judging from the questions, it seems the government is primarily obsessed with tracking racial information about the U.S. population.

Besides the names, ages and sex of each person living in households, the rest of the questions have to do with race.

• There's a special section dealing with those of Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin. Why, I don't know. 

• Next, participants are asked to classify themselves as white, black, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Other Asian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Native Hawaiian, Gaumanian or Chamorro, Samoan or other Pacific Islander.

• Lastly, there's a checkbox for some other race.

I checked that last box and wrote in HUMAN.

Why?

Because I believe, Like Martin Luther King Jr. did, that America ought to be a color-blind society in which men and women are judged by their character rather than their skin pigment.

Because I believe that people shouldn't treat each other differently based on the color of their skin, especially the government.

Because I believe it is of no consequence whether someone is black, white, brown, red or Guamanian and that it is, quite frankly, none of the government's business asking questions like that anymore than it would be for an employer in the private sector.

Ask yourself: Why these questions?

What does it have to do with congressional apportionment?

That's the purpose of the Census, after all.

That's why it is authorized in the Constitution.

Why all these other questions – even on the short form? Why is this essential information for the government to have? What is the purpose? Can someone explain this? Can anyone come up with one valid reason for this obsession over racial and national identity?

This is America.

This is the great melting pot.

This is the land of assimilation.

Why the official race-consciousness?

Is this as distasteful to others as it is to me?

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The blood libels against 'birthers' ~ By Joseph Farah

By Joseph Farah Posted: August 07, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 When I was interviewed by the BBC last week about my campaign to find the truth about Barack Obama's eligibility for office, I told the interviewer I believed a clear majority of Americans now were deeply suspicious he is hiding something more than a birth certificate. The interviewer didn't dispute that. But she asked me if that could be the result of latent racism by the American people. Latent racism? The American people voted to elect Barack Hussein Obama by a slim but clear majority. The only evidence of racism in that election was among black voters who cast 95 percent of their ballots for Obama. The white candidate received only 51 percent of the white vote. I guess now we're supposed to believe that in the last eight months, white Americans have reverted to their old racist ways again. Now they're trying to rid themselves of the black guy they mistakenly elected last November by coming up with an excuse. I will admit the BBC interviewer was polite and respectful. She didn't directly accuse me – the de facto ringleader of the "birther" movement – of having racist motivations. But others are painting with a pretty broad brush. They say "birthers," those who actually care about the integrity of the Constitution, are not only racist, they are cognitively deaf, dumb and blind, out of touch with reality and akin to flat-earthers. Take, for example, the New York Times blogger Stanley Fish – please! In a piece ostensibly about how professor Henry Louis Gates was right and Obama was right and the stupid Cambridge cop was wrong, he explained the motivation for all of us seeking the truth about the birthplace of Barack Obama is pure, unadulterated bigotry. He talked about the way Chris Matthews of MSNBC waved a copy of Obama's phony birth certificate in the air for several nights running, demanding: "What do you guys want? How can you keep saying these things in the face of all evidence?" "He missed the point," explained Fish. "No evidence would be sufficient. … It isn't the legitimacy of Obama's birth certificate that's the problem for the birthers. The problem is again the legitimacy of a black man living in a big house, especially when it's the White House. Just as some in … Cambridge couldn't believe that Gates belonged in the neighborhood, so does a vocal minority find it hard to believe that an African-American could possibly be the real president of the United States. "Gates and Obama are not only friends; they are in the same position, suspected of occupying a majestic residence under false pretenses," he continued. "And Obama is a double offender. Not only is he guilty of being Housed While Black; he is the first in American history guilty of being P.W.B., President While Black." No, I think Fish misses the point. [CONTINUE READING]

The race-baiters' manufactured bigotry - by Patrice Lewis

A great description of this story was written by itsafunnything on digg.com: "A heart-lands look at racism. And a common-sense rebuttal of race-baiting. The Author points out what those of us in fly-over country understand. Racism is no longer a threat. It's a tool." | digg story Both the description above and the story are well said and written. The fact is, it isn't too often that people will write about this subject, for the very reason that was the subject of this commentary.

We are also faced with the extraordinary assertion from far too many quarters that, if we don't vote for Sen. Obama, our reasons must be racist. It couldn't possibly be because we don't want a socialist president. It must mean we don't like black people, or at least we don't want black people in positions of power. Oh please!

Of course, you'd have to read the entire column to completely understand what Patrice is saying. You see, what Patrice also writes hits home. It is how I feel, and for that matter, how I've always felt:

With few exceptions, nearly everyone in this country has the opportunity to rise up on the socio-economic ladder by making sound, sensible choices. It doesn't matter what your skin color is. If you pursue educational opportunities as vigorously as possible, don't break the law, dress and speak in a manner preferred by employers, defer having babies until you're mature, married and employed, and other such choices (yes, choices – it's up to you and within your power), then it's almost assured that you won't be held back from your vocational ambition on the silly basis of skin color. The only thing holding someone back at this point is attitude.

That's right. It's about attitude, choices, ambition, and it all comes down to character. It is NOT about race, unless somebody uses it as an excuse. And then, like Patrice says, who is the real racist? The bad news for Democrats, and most of all, for The One, is that if the Obamassiah loses, it won't be because of his race. It will be because of his liberal leftist Socialist game. I'm very glad that Patrice wrote her column on this, as she hits it right out of the park. Patrice exposed their scheme to slant the playing field in their favor. What was written in this column needed to be said. The final words in this column says it like it is:

Racism is a horrible, intolerable and (frankly) stupid concept with no more validity than the idea that blondes are dumb and Frenchmen make better lovers. That it remains with us at all is more the fault of those who profit by it than those who still believe it. Let's do our best to eliminate it on all sides, shall we?

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