Yet a senior USDA official thought it more
expedient for that organization to divest itself of a valued and
competent official than to be mentioned, O horror of horrors, on Glenn
Beck's show on Fox. Sen. Dick Durbin was wrong. It isn't the banks that
own the place; It's the momentarily powerless right wing and Fox
"News", with the right wing a rectum loaded with methane and Fox the
amplifying flat wooden bench.
As further proof of the Obama administration's cowardice, the Wa Po article did us the favor of reminding us of Joe Biden's incredibly fallacious and out of touch recusal from calling the tea party movement what it is: A semi-literate, gun-clutching, glorified serial flash mob organized under false pretenses by right wing money men and rotten to the core with racism. In fact, this is what Biden said:
It's the kind of comment made by someone who, on seeing a Klan rally walk past their home, would say to their spouse, "Looks like Macy's is having a white sale."
Despite having thrown one African American after another to the wolves of the Great White, Right Wing Blogosphere, the Obama administration remains under an inverted microscope, pinned in place under the lens by a glass ceiling through which it can never hope to break.
Van Jones was thrown out of a job despite Glenn Beck not providing a single shred of proof of him being a Socialist to justify it (and would that be so bad? We have an open Socialist in the Senate in Vermont's Bernie Sanders). The Rev. James Wright, glory-seeking blowhard though he was, was essentially fired as Obama's home town pastor in spite of speaking the truth about our nation's racist, terroristic roots. ACORN, dedicated to the empowerment of inner city residents who happen to mainly be ones of color, was hysterically defunded by an almost all-white Congress without apology. Meanwhile Obama, who was elected largely through its GOTV efforts, serenely looked on after Breitbart's protà ©gà ©, James O'Keefe, misrepresented himself and "exposed" a "murder" "scandal" that was eaten up uncritically by Fox and other media outlets.
Later,
O'Keefe and three other Republican activists were arrested and charged
with attempting to break into Senator Landrieu's office with the
intention of tapping into her phone lines. He got off with a slap on
his lily-white wrist.
Yet, in spite of Breitbart's unbroken track record for being a feloniously fallacious Republican fuckstick, these people of color were pilloried without being given the benefit of any doubt, no chance of proving their innocence while professional prevaricators such as Breitbart, O'Keefe, Glenn Beck and others are not asked to assume the burden of proof in the slightest and were given every benefit of seemingly no doubt.
All things considered, it's surprising that Obama didn't throw future Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor under his already blood-slicked bus wheels when right wing bloggers, Rush Limbaugh and several white Southern GOP senators tried to tar Judge Sotomayor with the brush of racism just for belonging to La Raza and being informed by cultural upbringing (Once again, as with Ms. Sherrod, right wingers went back into the mists of time to dig up a ten year-old speech that Sotomayor had delivered). Years before, not a word was uttered by either they or the utterly worthless MSM when it was learned that Samuel Alito, also a Princeton alumnus, belonged to CAP, a racist, misogynistic organization devoted to keeping minorities and women out of Princeton.
But perhaps Obama held onto her like a hot potato because it would've projected badly on him and his judgment for turning his back on such a high profile nominee. Van Jones and Shirley Sherrod had no such prestige in their respective jobs that they could use as career armor.
So who's really being racist again? Is it the Obama administration? Oh, absolutely. But the targets of their intolerant, misinformed discrimination are the same as Breitbart's and Beck's: Innocent and largely competent people of color, people with whom, on those two counts alone, Obama has absolutely nothing whatsoever in common.
As further proof of the Obama administration's cowardice, the Wa Po article did us the favor of reminding us of Joe Biden's incredibly fallacious and out of touch recusal from calling the tea party movement what it is: A semi-literate, gun-clutching, glorified serial flash mob organized under false pretenses by right wing money men and rotten to the core with racism. In fact, this is what Biden said:
"The president doesn't believe that the tea party is a racist organization. I don't believe that. Very conservative, very different views on government and a whole lot of things. But it is not a racist organization."
It's the kind of comment made by someone who, on seeing a Klan rally walk past their home, would say to their spouse, "Looks like Macy's is having a white sale."
Despite having thrown one African American after another to the wolves of the Great White, Right Wing Blogosphere, the Obama administration remains under an inverted microscope, pinned in place under the lens by a glass ceiling through which it can never hope to break.
Van Jones was thrown out of a job despite Glenn Beck not providing a single shred of proof of him being a Socialist to justify it (and would that be so bad? We have an open Socialist in the Senate in Vermont's Bernie Sanders). The Rev. James Wright, glory-seeking blowhard though he was, was essentially fired as Obama's home town pastor in spite of speaking the truth about our nation's racist, terroristic roots. ACORN, dedicated to the empowerment of inner city residents who happen to mainly be ones of color, was hysterically defunded by an almost all-white Congress without apology. Meanwhile Obama, who was elected largely through its GOTV efforts, serenely looked on after Breitbart's protà ©gà ©, James O'Keefe, misrepresented himself and "exposed" a "murder" "scandal" that was eaten up uncritically by Fox and other media outlets.
Yet, in spite of Breitbart's unbroken track record for being a feloniously fallacious Republican fuckstick, these people of color were pilloried without being given the benefit of any doubt, no chance of proving their innocence while professional prevaricators such as Breitbart, O'Keefe, Glenn Beck and others are not asked to assume the burden of proof in the slightest and were given every benefit of seemingly no doubt.
All things considered, it's surprising that Obama didn't throw future Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor under his already blood-slicked bus wheels when right wing bloggers, Rush Limbaugh and several white Southern GOP senators tried to tar Judge Sotomayor with the brush of racism just for belonging to La Raza and being informed by cultural upbringing (Once again, as with Ms. Sherrod, right wingers went back into the mists of time to dig up a ten year-old speech that Sotomayor had delivered). Years before, not a word was uttered by either they or the utterly worthless MSM when it was learned that Samuel Alito, also a Princeton alumnus, belonged to CAP, a racist, misogynistic organization devoted to keeping minorities and women out of Princeton.
But perhaps Obama held onto her like a hot potato because it would've projected badly on him and his judgment for turning his back on such a high profile nominee. Van Jones and Shirley Sherrod had no such prestige in their respective jobs that they could use as career armor.
So who's really being racist again? Is it the Obama administration? Oh, absolutely. But the targets of their intolerant, misinformed discrimination are the same as Breitbart's and Beck's: Innocent and largely competent people of color, people with whom, on those two counts alone, Obama has absolutely nothing whatsoever in common.
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