MediaMatters: For the better part of a week, conservatives in the media have been on a witch hunt for Kevin Jennings, the director of the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Led by Fox News, the right-wing media have claimed that 21 years ago, when Jennings was a 24-year-old teacher at Concord Academy in Massachusetts, he “cover[ed] up statutory rape” by not reporting to authorities a conversation he had with a student who told him about being involved with an “older man.”
The attacks on Jennings, the latest Obama administration official in the right’s crosshairs, have been disgusting, misleading, baseless, and at times pointedly anti-gay. [ READ MORE ]
One comment in the Huffington Post stood out. It reads as follows: “Of all the footage from all the cities on all the media, I witnessed not a single black or latino person in whole crowd.Isn’t that odd.If they are actually protesting the things they claim to be, doesn’t it stand to reason at least SOME of them should be minorities?”
I didn’t see any either, despite watching eight hours of cable and broadcast news across several networks, including Fox News. No surprise — the GOP is overwhelmingly white and male. A shrinking congregation of BIGOTS, RACISTS and NEO-NAZIS.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson takes note: “That was and still is the GOP’s bread and butter constituency. They vote, are outspoken on issues, bully and badger party moderates and dissenters, and when fully aroused can inflame millions of voters around the emotional wedge issues; abortion, family values, anti-gay marriage and rights, and tax cuts. GOP presidents and aspiring presidents, Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. and W. Bush, and McCain and legions of GOP governors, senators and congresspersons banked on these voters for victory and to seize and maintain regional and national political dominance. The strategy was simple; say and do as little as possible about civil rights, talk God, country and patriotism, use racially tinged code words and furiously court white males. The strategy worked like a political charm for four decades.”
Comically, some of these Tea-Baggers re-enacted the civil war, in yesterday’s proceedings — a war the confederate south lost to the north. Others roamed around chanting “Confederate Freedom Tunes” and waving a multitude of placards conveying violent smears, racist and awkward messages.
Among the messages: “The Audacity of the Dope,” “O Crap” and Obama as an acronym for “One Big Awful Mistake America.” Some messages were ugly (“Napolitano — Obama’s Gestapo Queen,” “Hang ‘Em High Traitors,” and a sign held by a young girl saying “Victim of Child Tax Abuse“). Others were funny (“Don’t Talk to Me! I Forgot My Teleprompter“). Certain ones had sinister overtones (“Tax Slavery Sucks,” and “Obama bin Lyin“). Then there was the guy holding a Cabbage Patch doll by its hair with the message: “My kid’s growth stunted by your stimulus.” “Hey Big Brother: Show us Your Real Birth Certificate,” said one sign in the rain-soaked crowd. “Blackbeard Obama, King of the Tax Pirates,” said another.
They cannot stomach the fact that a black man is occupying the white house. That’s what is itching them most. Obama’s win triggered a crescendo of lunatic racism.
Lone Star, Lone State? — The Governor of Texas threatened to secede: “Texas is a unique place,” he said. “When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that. “My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention,” he said. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we’re a pretty independent lot to boot.”
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In an article titled — “The Case Against Hillary Clinton,” Christopher Hitchens wonders: “Why on earth would Obama choose to put the Clinton family drama at the center of our politics again?”
I am wondering too!
It is rumored that Sen. John Kerry had campaigned hard for the post of secretary of state. Kerry, is not only more qualified than Clinton, but also, in 2004, he gave Obama such a huge dose of exposure, by making him the “keynote speaker” at the Democratic convention. The speech Obama gave won him the Chicago Senate seat, literally.
Barack Obama Speech at 2004 DNC Convention
Republican “maggot” Rush Limbaugh applauded Clinton’s appointment as “a brilliant stroke” by President-elect Barack Obama. So have many other prominent GOP recalcitrants.
Whenever a right-wing Republican applauds a Democrat, there is always something smelling fishy!
Hillary and Bill are “political prostitutes,” and I have an eerie feeling that these two will milk her secretaryship to the last drop — cruising world capitals, enriching themselves while pursuing their own political agenda.
I don’t see her lasting too long in the Obama cabinet. The Clintons are crooked!, although nowhere near the blatancy and crudeness of the Bush-Cheney Criminal “High Cabal”.
There will be a falling out somewhere along the line, and it will be an ugly mess.
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Politico contributors, guests on CNN and MSNBC join chorus claiming Clinton will bring “drama” to sec. of state office — Since initial reporting that President-elect Barack Obama was considering naming Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, many in the media have raised the specter of personal and political “drama” — which they claim follows Hillary and Bill Clinton wherever they go — negatively affecting the Obama administration. The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page acknowledged that the media are hoping for “drama” resulting from a Clinton appointment; Page responded to the question of how Obama is “going to keep the drama at bay” by saying: “Well, do we want that? We’re journalists.“
Meanwhile on Monday, Sarah Palin, The “Drilla From Wasilla” — still wearing “campaign clothes,” was busy rallying the BIGOT vote for Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ run-off election scheduled for Tuesday. Mr. Chambliss, the reprehensible Republican ‘chicken hawk‘ bigot, is likely to win this election tomorrow, after all, Georgia is largely, still a state drunk and groggy with confederate RACISM. The state of Georgia still has “lynching” laws in the books, including but not limited to gun laws meant to “Disarm the Negroes.” Laws which are not crime-prevention measures, but cleverly designed to perpetuate racism, oppression and white supremacy.
It will take a huge turnout of black voters to unseat this ReTHUGlican — to be precise, “Obama proportions.” Blacks make up just over 29 percent of registered voters in the state of Georgia, but, because Obama has not campaigned in person, for democrat Jim Martin, it is highly unlikely that the turnout of black voters will maatch that of November 4th.
