Carl Davidson – 9/19/15

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY; Carl Davidson; Facebook; September 19, 2015.

For your education and entertainment.  Be sure to read the comments as well.  The racist and sexist tone of these “analysts” is obvious.  If you don’t see the obvious, however, let me know.

Carl Davidson (KD): “THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Do all those millions of GOP voters (and a few Dem voters, too) really believe Obama is a Muslim Marxist born in Kenya? I doubt it. What’s not being said enough by the pundits, however, is that all these seeming terms of abuse are simply ‘code’ for the ‘N-word,’ which means, in the Trump fan’s view, that Obama, at best, only belongs in the White House as a butler. And the ‘proof’ that the code is correct is right there before your eyes, plain as day. You’re just hampered from saying it in public, which is why they also hate ‘political correctness.’”

KD responding to a comment: “No, I didn’t make it up out of ‘thin air.’ And there are many GOPers who are offended by racism, overt or otherwise. But it’s anecdotal. A good friend of mine went up to a guy at a table at a Tea Party rally. looking to buy an anti-Obama button. He says, ‘but we’re really against him because he’s a ‘N-’, right?’ ‘Of course,’ the guy answered. ‘We just can’t sell buttons saying that.’”  You can read more about this comment below.

I really wish KD would quit projecting his bigotry on the rest of us.  I’m beginning to wonder if KD is overcompensating for something he did in his youth.  In any case, let’s look at some real racist comments by KD’s political contemporaries instead of the imagined.

Referring to Ben Carson, Anthea Butler, a Penn associate professor of religious studies, tweeted, “If only there was a ‘coon’ of the year award.”

Bill Clinton on Mr. Obama: According to a Huffington Post article about “Game Change,” “In lobbying the late Sen. Edward Kennedy to endorse his wife, former President Clinton angered the liberal icon by belittling Obama. Telling a friend about the conversation, Kennedy recalled Clinton had said ‘a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,’ the authors paraphrase. A spokesman for the former president declined to comment on the claim.”

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) about Mr. Obama: Of “Game Change,” CNN reported, “The authors quote Reid as saying privately that Obama, as a black candidate, could be successful thanks, in part, to his ‘light-skinned’ appearance and speaking patterns ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’”  Mr. Reid apologized for his comments.

Mr. Reid on NPR (11/19/04) about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: “‘If they’--the Bush White House—‘for example, gave us Clarence Thomas as chief justice, I personally feel that would be wrong.  If they give us Antonin Scalia, that's a little different question.  I may not agree with some of his opinions, but I agree with the brilliance of his mind.”  Translation: White guy is “brilliant,” black guy is stupid.

Mr. Reid voted against Mr. Thomas’ appointment to the Supreme Court.  As a reminder, 41 of 43 Republicans voted for Mr. Thomas while all but 11 Democrats voted no.

On Meet the Press (12/5/04), host Tim Russert asked Mr. Reid, “Why couldn’t you accept Clarence Thomas?”  Mr. Reid replied, “I think that he has been an embarrassment to the Supreme Court.  I think that his opinions are poorly written.  I don’t--I just don’t think that he’s done a good job as a Supreme Court justice.”  Note the “his opinions are poorly written” comment.  It sounds like Mr. Reid wants a literacy test, just as the political ancestors/contemporaries of KD and Mr. Reid did.  FYI, Mr. Thomas’ opinions are well written; Mr. Reid thinks they’re “poorly written” because he can’t read through his bigotry.

If you wonder why the left has such hatred for Mr. Thomas – far beyond their hate of the other “conservative” justices, it’s because Mr. Thomas is guilty of being conservative while black.  Just as their ancestors, today’s Democrats do not tolerate blacks who “leave the plantation.”  Consider this comment by Mr. Thomas during his nomination hearings: “This is a circus.  It’s a national disgrace.  And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I’m concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kow-tow to an old order, this is what will happen to you, you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree.”  Even the NAACP let Mr. Thomas twist in the wind.  The national NAACP even went so far as to threaten to suspend officers of a local NAACP chapter that did endorse Mr. Thomas.  NAACP animosity for Mr. Thomas didn’t stop there.  Several years later the NAACP-Maryland planned to protest a speech by Justice Thomas to the Boys and Girls Club of Delaware.  The NAACP “justified” the planned protest by saying, “we cannot in good conscience stand or sit by and have him [Justice Thomas] come into our state as a role model for black youth without conveying our antipathies about him and his philosophies.”  Yes, you read that right.  The NAACP doesn’t consider a person who went from poverty as a child to U.S. Supreme Court justice to be “a role model for black youth.”

In a rant about the Hobby Lobby opinion, Mr. Reid said, “The one thing we are going to do during this work period, sooner rather than later, is to ensure that women’s lives are not determined by virtue of five white men.”  Justice Thomas – one of the “five white men” - is black.  Mr. Reid’s spokesman said it was only “a mistake, and he knew right away.”  I was born at night, but not last night.  Mr. Reid meant to say exactly what he said; he did not misspeak.  To the left, if a black is not a lefty, he’s not really black; he’s an Oreo, black on the outside but white on the inside.

Actor George Takei (Star Trek’s Sulu) referred to Mr. Thomas as a “clown in blackface” a few months ago.  Mr. Takei is a homosexual and he didn’t like Mr. Thomas’ opinion regarding the same-sex “marriage” case (Obergefell v. Hodges).  Though Justice Antonin Scalia joined in the Thomas dissenting opinion, Mr. Takei chose to attack only Mr. Thomas.  Mr. Takei subsequently apologized.

After the 2010 SOTU speech by President Obama, lefty MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews said, “I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.”  How could Mr. Matthews have been more insulting?  It’s similar in thinking to something VP Joe Biden said (next paragraph).  Here’s Mr. Matthews’ full comment: “I was trying to think about who he was tonight. It’s interesting; he is post-racial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. He’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country and past so much history in just a year or two. I mean it’s something we don’t even think about. I was watching and I said, wait a minute, he’s an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people and there he is, president of the United States, and we’ve completely forgotten that tonight — completely forgotten it. I think it was in the scope of the discussion, it was so broad ranging, so in tune with so many problems and aspects and aspects of American life. That you don’t think in terms of the old tribalism and the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard, a very subtle fact. It’s so hard to even talk about it. Maybe I shouldn’t talk about it.”

Then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) said of Mr. Obama, “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.  I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”  Insulting much?

If you believe KD, righties don’t like political correctness because it restrains our use of ethnic, racial, etc. slurs.  That was news to me.  When I think of political correctness, I think of things like participation trophies, elimination of honor rolls, referring to an illegal alien as an “undocumented immigrant,” hyphenated Americans, and so on.

Now let’s look at KD’s “I didn’t make it up out of ‘thin air’ comment.  I sent the following e-mail note (9/19/15).

“If true, it’s unacceptable.  Please provide me with the details so I can call this alleged incident to the attention of the relevant Tea Party group.

“specific Tea Party group - There are a number of groups with ‘Tea Party’ in their name, so I need the name of the specific group your friend encountered.

“date of the ‘Tea Party rally’

“location of the rally

“approximate time of day

“description of ‘guy at a table’ and his name if known”

KD replied (9/20/15),

“My friend would not like his name handed over to the Tea Party, for obvious reasons. So as an anecdote, you can surely ignore it or trash it, if you like. Or you can test it yourself. Next time you go to a Tea Party rally, and see a table selling Confederate memorabilia, go up and try the ‘experiment’ and see what result your get.”

I replied (9/20/15),

“I assumed your ‘friend would not like his name handed over to the Tea Party;’ that’s why I didn’t ask for it.  I asked for a description of the Tea Party guy (‘guy at a table’) and his name if known.  What about the rest of the info I asked for?  Surely that would not expose your friend.”

As of the “last updated” date at the top of this page, KD has not replied.

This appears to be the first time KD told this story, but I could be wrong.  If the incident really happened, why would KD not publicize such a bombshell when it happened?

As for KD’s recommendation I try his “experiment,” I’m not a 24/7 activist like KD so I don’t make it a habit to attend rallies.  The one and only Tea Party rally I attended was in 2009 and no one was “selling Confederate memorabilia” or displayed/wore Confederate symbols.  Based on his recommendation, it appears KD attended the Mary Mapes school of journalism when it comes to burden of proof.  In that school of thought, it’s not the author’s job to prove he’s right; it’s the reader’s job to prove the author is wrong.

Given my experience exposing KD’s “tall tales,” I suspect the name of KD’s “good friend” is Harvey.

In Peace, Friendship, Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity. <g> 

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