Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Columnist Bob Herbert has made a career — a career! — out of the notion that the Republican party wins elections by agitating redneck racists. This much is not surprising to me. There is racism out there; there are also people out there who like to labor under the delusion that Republicans have a monopoly on it. There may not be enough racists to keep a columnist in business, but there are plenty enough among those who sustain the delusion to do exactly that, and with a hunger to constantly read about it.
No, what’s surprising to me, through the years, is how little evidence he’s used to keep this afloat. It comes down to 1) a speech Ronald Reagan gave in Mississippi, which must be interpreted exactly the way Herbert wants it to be; and 2) an interview Lee Atwater gave a college professor, with no other witnesses present. Just those two things.
Why link. Seriously, why bother. It’s what the man does constantly; it’s his business; he has nothing else to offer. You want a link, just watch him and wait awhile. It won’t be long.
Mr. Herbert, call your office. Your finely honed journalistic investigative talents are needed…just not where you expect them to be.
“There have been signals coming out of the Clinton campaign that have racial overtones that indeed disturb me…Frankly, I had a private conversation with a high-ranking person in the campaign … that used a racial line of argument that I found very disconcerting. It was extremely disconcerting given the rank of this person. It was very disturbing.”
The speaker is Congressman Rob Andrews, who challenged Sen. Frank Lautenberg for the democrat primary nomination for Lautenberg’s seat, and lost.
[Andrews] disclosed he received a phone call shortly before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary from a top member of Clinton’s organization and that the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning over Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans.
He says he’s speaking up now because “”I didn’t want people to think I was trying to win over Obama supporters in the primary.”
One guy, applying his interpretation to things, saying stuff. Plenty enough for Bob Herbert to discuss, heatedly, for a quarter of a century or more.
When it comes from the right place, anyway. Wonder if he’ll follow up. Heh.
H/T: Ace.
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A lady I work with (who is definitely not a Democrat) is from a family near Chicago that is strongly Democrat.
Now frankly, I don’t buy that American whites are racist … there are racist American whites, but their numbers have dwindled to background noise. They are frowned upon by most whites and have lost any meaningful power they ever had in that arena.
Still, to underscore the point about Republicans having a “monopoly on racism”, these Democrats in her family will not be voting for Obama … and in their case it is because he’s black. Not Republicans. People who vote Democrat every year.
I do know a handful of conservatives who are racist, but the vast majority of the ones I know are anything but.
I also know several powerful (in our county) Democrats and most of the racist jokes I’ve heard in the last several years (since I’ve known them) have come from their mouths. And no, they’re not repeating them so that we can all be appalled.
If you want to see where some real racism lives, look no farther than Obama’s (conveniently now “former”) church.
- philmon | 06/08/2008 @ 16:55