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The Shattered Template In Arizona
Liberal media narrative fails: the racist lie from segregation to illegal immigration.
“You know, I tried to talk about good roads and good schools and all these things that have been part of my career, and nobody listened. And then I began talking about n….s, and they stomped the floor.” — Democrat George Wallace on his first, failed, race for Governor of Alabama
That sound you hear is a rare thing.
A liberal template is being shattered in Arizona. The template of race.
It’s an important liberal template too. Central to the success of one of the biggest of liberal myths. The myth? That the electoral successes of the Left throughout American history have had nothing to do with race, much less racism. That in fact all those angelic lefties out there just want truth, justice and the American way for white and black and brown and yellow and red and any other combination of hues on the color scale. Kumbaya. Divide by race? How insulting!
The truth, however — and that truth is reappearing vividly once again in Arizona — is that the American Left could not have made it to the 21st century without tying itself tightly to abject racism. It has secured political success in the past by playing every possible race card from supporting, in order, slavery, segregation, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan and racial quotas, while fiercely opposing the legal immigration of Asians. The latter were labeled by Democrats as “a servile race” whose presence was objectionable because “they had not sprung from the great parent stock.” Now, in the piece de resistance, the Left is using the race card with illegal immigration. And it is no accident that what began with racial appeals to whites (in opposing rights for blacks and legal immigration for Asians) moved on to racial appeals to blacks and now to brown-skinned Americans. The more the race changes, the more the approach stays the same.
The liberal media, but of course, is complicit. And, it is most import to understand, it has always been so. If liberals were the (literal) slave masters and segregationist bullies of America’s past (and they were), the left-leaning press was the plantation PR agent. They approached progressives and their use of race in such a starkly deceptive fashion as to be a pluperfect example of what this magazine’s editor in chief R. Emmett Tyrrell calls “the Kultursmog.” Tyrrell defines the term (in his new book After the Hangover) as a liberal “pollutant” which “contaminates such vast areas of American culture with Liberal prejudices and bugaboos.” There is no need to rehash here the details of all those Democratic Party platforms (26) that directly supported either slavery itself or segregation when they weren’t whacking away at Asians. Suffice to say the American Left has danced, tangoed, waltzed, and fox- trotted when not sleeping with every incarnation of racism in America from the beginning to this moment. Somehow, this just never made it into the news of the day as reported by all those Lefty journos, the cultural smokestacks never getting around to pumping this particularly cleansing truth into the political atmosphere.
Case in point (there are an endless number) is the New York Times’ handling of the death in 1924 of former President Woodrow Wilson, a hero then and now of the American Left.
The day after Wilson’s death, befitting the importance of a powerful president, the Times published a three page review of Wilson’s career. Three pages in fine print, beneath the headline Career of Woodrow Wilson as College Executive, Governor and President. There was not a single, solitary word that Wilson was not only a thorough-going racist, had avidly courted like-minded segregationists to get elected (carrying the 13 states of the “Solid South”) but had used his presidential power to both segregate the federal government and appoint rabid progressive-racists to powerful posts, such as Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. Daniels, on cue, promptly segregated the US Navy.
And of these decidedly important events which vividly illustrated the historic tie between the American Left and racists the Times reported: Nothing. Zero. Not one solitary word in a three-page, fine print career review.
The Times did have space for other headlines though during the so-called “Progressive Era.” They are unintentionally revealing of the American Left’s view of race.
“Woman Rescued from Negro”
“Woman Stabbed by a Negro”
“Negro Attacks a Teacher”
“Negro Kills a Sheriff”
“Negro Saves $30,000”
Got that? Not “Woman Rescued” or “Woman Stabbed” or “Man Attacks a Teacher” or “Man Saves $30,000.” Noooooooooo. It’s a Negro. Yet when a white man was caught sending bombs to three people, the headline ran: “Three Bombs His, Janitor Admits.” Race never made the story, the man’s ethnic surname identifying him as an Irish American. A white man.
This was — and is — the way the liberal media deals with race. It is a necessary base line for the success of the American Left. The Times was relentless in reporting blacks as perpetrators of all manner of bad deeds — because this supported the need for progressive-racists to appeal successfully for white votes. It worked. And when Woodrow Wilson died, the historical record of what he had actually done — the true nature of the relationship between the left and racism during the Wilson presidency — vanished. Right in front of the eyes of 1924 Times readers. Then again, how can something vanish if it’s never reported in the first place?
As time moved on, a strange similarity began to emerge as the Left finally engaged with American blacks.
Progressives presented big government to blacks in precisely the same way they presented it to white Southerners: tied tightly together to the idea of racial identity. Thus emerged a whole generation of progressive black politicians who were the mirror image of their white supremacist counterparts: each exploiting the combustible mix of racism and big government.
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Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Steve| 5.4.10 @ 6:23AM
Wow! When someone as muddled, blindered, and mainstream as Peggy Noonan gets it, you know it's done. Excellent overview, Mr. Lord. You understand well the motto of the Left: "No tactic too low, no means too foul, no lie too outrageous if it helps us gain power."
As for the Congressional Black Caucus....was Sen. Obama a member? I mean, being so white and all he might not have gotten past the color bar......
Alan Brooks| 5.4.10 @ 7:29PM
Still, Obama is going to win in '12, because the coming GOP sweep in November and resulting economic upturn will boost him to re-election.
This quote from a French economist at Institut d' Etudes Politiques says it well:
"... economics has nothing to do with virtue, which can kill an economy."
Daphne| 5.4.10 @ 7:47PM
Who cares about the economy when you have no virtue? We're doomed if the Leftists get their way. We won't die with a bang, we'll die with a whimper.
Even if Obama is re-elected, a Republican congress will strangle his Marxist ambitions.
Alan Brooks| 5.4.10 @ 8:39PM
As long as you understand, Daphne, that social progress is over and that means-- just to begin with-- bad schools are permanent.
Daphne| 5.4.10 @ 9:48PM
Bad schools are just one disaster you liberals have created, the inner cities are another.
Alan Brooks| 5.4.10 @ 10:04PM
You are not innocent either, Daphne.
But your pride will destroy you someday.
Alan Brooks| 5.4.10 @ 10:17PM
Will you say you are innocent? then YOU are the liar.
Bohred| 5.4.10 @ 11:48PM
Oh go frick yourself Alan. Stop trying to do an ego trip on everyone you meet. Don't you have any friends who put up with you?
You remind me more and more of a 20 something stuck alone with his masturbation and X-box. Time to grow up kid. Time to be brave. Go out and find your life.
Daphne| 5.5.10 @ 12:08AM
Alan's an old crapper screwed up and over by his crazy liberal parents--just ask him.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 12:56AM
"You remind me more and more of a 20 something stuck alone with his masturbation and X-box."
Don't allude to your your children or grandkids-- they are YOUR responsibility; if the youth of today are messed up it is not my fault.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 1:01AM
"just ask him."
Don't ask me anything, Daphne, ask your husband.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 1:02AM
... if you have one.
Daphne| 5.5.10 @ 1:33AM
Admit it, Alan--your parents were a nightmare and you know it. You said as much many times.
The same garbage ideology that messed you up has also messed up our children. I know you're not that braindead not to see it.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 1:37AM
Daphne, you have a personality disorder yourself
-- look at your comments.
Daphne| 5.5.10 @ 3:28PM
I'm getting under your skin, Alan, because you know I'm telling the truth.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 4:03PM
But you lie when you want me to infer you are innocent; you are no loving saint-- you are an angry wingnut.
Daphne| 5.6.10 @ 1:23AM
Not angry, Alan--that's just you projecting YOUR rage; at your parents, I might add.
I never said I was innocent; I'm just not as crappy as you! I don't lie, something a liberal like you doesn't understand.
dream on kook| 5.4.10 @ 11:11PM
he will not do what clinton did...he will not SIGN the bills that come out of the republican congress...he believes his own BS....that election will be about removing the one impediment to recovery and repeal...barak obama.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 12:59AM
"that election will be about removing the one impediment to recovery and repeal...barak obama"
You didn't predict Clinton's reelection, did you? Your crystal ball wasn't the best.
Daphne| 5.5.10 @ 1:35AM
Obama and his Marxist agenda will twist in the wind with a Conservative congress.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 1:38AM
And that is what happened to Clinton in '95-- but he got reelected.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 2:45AM
Why do ypu run a guy like McCain and expect to win? Or Dole?
What kind of people are you?
Daphne| 5.5.10 @ 3:30PM
You have a problem with reading comprehension; even if Obama's re-elected his 2nd term will be useless because of the Conservative congress.
You voted for a Marxist--you should be ashamed of yourself.
Alan Brooks| 5.5.10 @ 4:09PM
"You have a You have a problem with reading comprehension; even if Obama's re-elected his 2nd term will be useless because of the Conservative congress."
You have a problem with history comprehension; Clinton adapted himself to the GOP by 1996 or '97. Obama can do the same. And I did not vote for Obama in '08, but I will in '12 because I see the end of the Cold War has permanently disunited the GOP.
Daphne| 5.6.10 @ 1:25AM
Go ahead, vote for a filthy, lying traitor; that will be on your conscience, not mine.
RiverKing| 5.6.10 @ 1:04PM
Children! Children! Children!
Swap e-mail addresses, phone numbers, 0r whatever and go someplace else with your childish insults and bickering. The adults have better things to do than scroll past your nonsense.
Interloper| 5.6.10 @ 2:35PM
Who asked you, Bozo? If you don't like it, don't read it.
Tim| 5.6.10 @ 1:07PM
Obama win in 2012? You're hysterical. He lied to the American people about who he was, what he stood for and how he was going to govern. Period. Represented to be just left of center and as at the extreme edge of left. Now we know and we have about 1000 days left of him. Fortunately--most of those days won't be with a bent over Congress.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 6:33PM
Nice try, Gene, but it's past time for you democrats to put on your big-boy pants and admit that you democrats created and defended the slavery of Black Americans, passed segregation and Jim Crow laws and used lynching as a form of law enforcement in the South.
WE FREED THE SLAVES--NOT YOU!
You're also responsible for the ongoing destruction of Black Americans by instituting Liberal policies that have created modern plantations--our dead and dying inner cities.
You were cruel racists then and you are cruel racists now.
Gene| 5.6.10 @ 3:15PM
In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Southern Democrats were, by and large, conservative, not liberal. While it is true that Wilson was mainly liberal, he did have a Southern background and had racial prejudices - but most people have both liberal and conservative ideas.
This column is an example of the current conservative campaign to distort and rewrite history.
BTW, when a newspaper's headline reads:
"Former Boy Scout murders girl friend and her parents" is it showing bias against the Scouts or is it pointing out the absolute horror because of who committed the crime?
Ike| 5.6.10 @ 5:06PM
Your comment re: the Wilson-era newspaper headlines from the NY Times includes this revealing phrase: "...is it pointing out the absolute horror because of who committed the crime? " That's the entire point of that portion of the article: the "progressive" and Democrat NYT was "...pointing out the absolute horror [b]because of who committed the crime[/b]...". By the way, the alleged conservatism of the Souther Dems from the end of Reconstruction until LBJ's presidency wasn't small-government; the uniting "conservative" theme was "keep the African-Americans down"; reactionary, rather than conservative.
You cannot evade or dismiss the overt racism of the Democratic Party, historically. Which party wrote the Jim Crow laws? Had the KKK as their party militia to literally beat their opponents into submission? Prevented blacks from voting with poll taxes and literacy tests? Which party ended slavery? Do you suppose most of the dead Union soldiers from the Civil War were black?? You distort history, sir, but your own words are a rebuke to your thoughts.
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 6:21PM
Democrats--the party of: Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy and Sedition.
Nice bunch of liars and thieves, too.
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Deborah D | 5.4.10 @ 6:56AM
It's rather sad that an entire political party can't let go of the racist meme. An entire American political party seeks only to divide (but says it wants to bring us together). If that hypocrisy cannot be seen by those who follow this party, then they are truly the racists, aren't they?
Cris Worth| 5.4.10 @ 7:02AM
Let us not forget the '64 Civil Rights act which hard core Congressional leftists supported whole heartedly but exempted themselves from this caustic legislation.
Robert Pinkerton| 5.4.10 @ 7:19AM
Parallel to the line of this article is the need definitively to show the general public that Naziism (i.e.: German National Socialism) is a creature of the Left, authigenic to its habitat. More, its intellectual debts to American "Progressivism" should be traced and exposed: These are large, but passed over with averted eyes and buried in silence by the Left.
Ryan| 5.4.10 @ 9:31AM
ARGH. It's a continued stretch. Naziism is a hard-right line, NOT left. Always has been.
Political leanings aren't a line, they're a circle, with hard right-wing Naziism and Hard-left Stalinism being nearly indecipherable. The motivations are different.
loulou| 5.4.10 @ 10:11AM
Ryan, you're incorrect.
Nazis were far left socialists.
Godless far left socialists. Their motivations were the same as Stalinists--total control of the people.
Tim| 5.4.10 @ 10:36AM
Read your history, Ryan. The Nazis(National Socialism) were just as left wing as the communists. These were two left-wing ideologies competing against each other for power and control, plain and simple.
Hitler's and Mussolini's brand of statism was no different than Stalin's. If left(pardon the pun) unchecked, Obama's brand of statism is advancing along that same line.
Roy in Houston| 5.4.10 @ 12:06PM
Loulou & Tim:
You are both right. The primary difference between a facist and socialist/marxist though is that the facist wants to control people and their property whereas collectivists want to own both. Their motives are identical...redistribution of wealth.
uncle curmudgeon| 5.4.10 @ 3:31PM
The other thing the National Socialists were was homosexual; substantially more so than the German general population at the time. Our progressives have managed to turn this fact on its head as well. The Nazis liked their men manly and sent the girly-men to the camps. They were cruel, murderous thieves, so of course the progressives must lie to protect them. How sick is that?
Larry| 5.5.10 @ 10:32AM
Correct. The reason they loathed the Jews was because the Bible strongly condemns homosexuality. The only reason they didn't send Christians to the Death Camps was because there were too many of them in Germany at the time.
Coanan the Grammarian| 5.4.10 @ 12:18PM
Wrong, Ryan. Nazi = National SOCIALIST. It is and was big government, statist, and totalitarian . . . and anti-Jewish. What exactly makes it right wing? Nationalist? The Russians were nationalist. I don't get it. If nine out of ten boxes are checked for socialism and the tenth box isn't, how is Nazism right wing? And what is that tenth box that makes it right wing? Please tell us.
Gr0w1er| 5.4.10 @ 1:14PM
Read Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny".
Bydand76| 5.4.10 @ 1:28PM
Ryan,
Sorry but you are mistaken in regards to the "Nazi's" being a far right ideology.
The were almost one and the same with a few exceptions.
At one point even the Nazi's themselves compared Hitler to Lenin and even in Hitlers sick manifesto he quotes and exemplified Marxist themes.
Truth be told quite a few leftists here in America admired the social change occuring in Germany during the 1930'-40's. The Kennedy Clan being one of the most famous examples.
Anyways, there is a plethora of good reading material and subject relevant research out there to learn from.
Conservatism? That is about the furthest thing from what the Nazi's and Bolsheviks stood for.
Your circle comment sounds suspiciously like what Karl Marx said about the natural evolutions of political cycles? Not that I am accusing you of anything.
Just my two cents.
Pro Libertate!
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 1:43PM
The motivations and end-results are the same, Ryan: POWER & CONTROL.
Tyranny is the same regardless of moniker.
Bram| 5.4.10 @ 2:02PM
"Political leanings aren't a line, they're a circle"
In Europe maybe, certainly not in the U.S. Here we have a line. On the right side of the line are the Libertarians and Federalists. On the left are the Fascists, Socialists, Communists, and Democrats.
The Republicans are only slightly to the right of the Democrats and far to the left of the old Federalists.
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 4:44PM
Why did you omit Conservatives?
Hoppy| 5.6.10 @ 4:42PM
Their motivations are exactly the same - "All power and wealth and privilege to me!"
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 6:14PM
"All power and wealth and privilege to me," bleated the Democrats, Fascists and Communists.
Dan| 5.6.10 @ 2:36PM
It doesn't serve the interests of American conservatives to use the moniker "right" or "right-wing" in reference to themselves. Using the word "leftist" invites the use of "right-wing". First, the liberal establishment press in the US uses "right" or "right-wing" as pejoratives and rarely, if ever, refers to its allies as "leftists" or "left-wingers" though consistency and balance would require this. "Right" and "left" are historically European terms deriving from the French Revolution and have been historically connected to monarchists or fascists on the right side (and they are obviously not the same) and socialists or Marxists on the left. Conservatives in this country have had no historical connection with monarchy or fascism. Honestly I don't think that it is appropriate to link Americans who wish for a strict adherence to Constitutional principles as well as to free-market economics to either monarchists or fascists as the Constitution has nothing in common with them. The implication that liberals wish to make is that conservatism, taken to its logical conclusion, leads to authoritarianism and despotism. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Conservatives should never accept the language of liberals and socialists/marxists and describe themselves as "rightists".
Robbins Mitchell| 5.4.10 @ 7:21AM
If Barokeydoke and the Dems didn't have the race card to play,they would be holding a busted flush
Jim O'Brien| 5.4.10 @ 7:57AM
Would China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, France, Iran, North Korea, Ireland, Germany, Russia, Israel, Australia, et cetera tolerate 15 million non-tax paying, illegal immigrants from the United States? If we are unwilling to defend our border with Mexico against foreign intruders (at least some of whom may be terrorists), then why bother to send our troops to fight in foreign countries? Why bother to have laws at all?
Forever Marine| 5.4.10 @ 12:00PM
Amen
Gr0w1er| 5.4.10 @ 1:16PM
OUCH!! Truth hurts. Well said, Jim O'Brien.
martin j smith| 5.4.10 @ 8:05AM
While I believe that all os those on the Right who blast away at the Left Propaganda are doing a excellent job its still like David ( that would be the right against Goliath ( you can guess who that is ).
There is only one truly effective way to get the MSM's attention that is legal,difficult to do yet is the most effective. A selective Boycott of all TV ( yes even Fox ) for limited time periods on a day ( or days )when ratings would expect to skyrocket..
The pocket book, the bottom line is the only way that the media cares--they are amoral otherwise.
Yes I know boycotts are hard, they strech the imagination yet frankly I do not see major or significant change without an effort to give the MSM a run for their money litterally. Some might suggest large scale demonstrations led by Tea Party Folks but they would have to be humongous --in the millions of people to gain attention. This too is not easy. Who do you target ? So while I believe that what is being done should of course continue to have an effect beyond kvetching and hearing ones own echo is needed. One other thought, when the MSM get irritated then you know you are on the right track. So Rush,Sara P, and others who annoy the MSM are on the right track. Yet in my view more needs to be done. ,It would help if republican leadership were more aggressive with the MSM. Thus, the boycott at the bottom line the underbelly of all organisms this is what really hurts. Consider this avenue.
Old Soldier| 5.4.10 @ 8:18AM
It will end the day white guilt ends.
I don't suffer from white guilt and I don't believe I owe anyone anything because of my race - or theirs. Now that there is a black President, fewer and fewer whites are going to vote out of guilt.
Maybe the Obama Presidency was the crowning achievement and the end of white guilt.
Father of Marines| 5.4.10 @ 8:35AM
OOOH RAAAh to that!
Upon arriving in a Democrat stronghold some years ago, I was "taught" by a local Dem, that "they knew how to handle "those people"(meaning black Americans). And every day since has illustrated how slavery has effectively CONTINUED for black Americans, under "liberal" Democrat masters. A nearby Democrat mayor was even quoted recently...using exactly the same phrase, "those people", when reports about her pressuring the police to target blacks traveling through the municipality, came to light.
The word to "those people". STOP being played!
Petronius| 5.4.10 @ 1:28PM
The primary consideration of the white middle class voter is, "what will my family and friends think of me if I vote for _____?" The only weapon on this earth more lethal than a nuke is social ostracism.
Moe Blotz| 5.4.10 @ 8:30AM
Arizonans are lucky to have the need for locks only on their door. In New York's five boroughs the residents and businesses have to put locks on their window,yard fence,garage,and anything that could be carried away. I have locks on doors, windows,etc. here in Piney land.
Bob K.| 5.4.10 @ 8:31AM
Nobody; no columnist or politician, Republican or Democrat has mentioned the effect amnesty for illegals would have on our affirmative action culture.
These people and their children, millions of them, would immediately go to the head of the affirmative action lines. White males would be forced even further toward the back of the line. These new citizens would compete with with blacks, women, other "hispanics" and other culturally and gender deprived individuals for federal and state jobs, promotions, college scholarships, tenured positions in the gated academic communities and maybe even, but not very likely, for jobs in the media. Television will reserve it's jobs for the white, northern european hispanics of 100% Spanish heritage! No brown skinned hispanics with genes inherited from african ancestors and/or from american indigenous peoples need apply there!
Has anybody wondered why Spanish northern europeans from the Iberian Peninsula are members of this privileged class but their
neighbors from Portugal aren't?
Maybe it's because they have had centuries of experience exploiting their brown and black skinned brethren whose only connection to Spain is the language they forced on them and we need that experience here in the USA to continue that exploitation!
Warren | 5.4.10 @ 9:14AM
http://www.gorrellart.com/inde.....mp;id=1276
Red Yankee| 5.4.10 @ 9:24AM
Mr. Lord nailed it on the head with this comment...
"Progressives presented big government to blacks in precisely the same way they presented it to white Southerners: tied tightly together to the idea of racial identity. Thus emerged a whole generation of progressive black politicians who were the mirror image of their white supremacist counterparts: each exploiting the combustible mix of racism and big government. "
Majito| 5.4.10 @ 9:37AM
there aren't two groups with more racists tones and feelings than those of african and latino ancestries. they can scream all they want but there aren't that many latinos who do not despise blacks right out of the box...also there aren't that many black fathers that will welcome to dinner a non-black stud that wants to marry his daughter (anybody seen 'guess who's coming to dinner'? remember the black taxi driver's remark to the girls statement: 'it doesn't matter that you're white honey'...the eavesdropping cabbie said...'oh its gonna matter'....being an native born american with latin dad(and growing up in colombia) i speak with an accent (never wanted to remove it) and the worst racists remarks directed at me have been either from white liberals, blacks and even latinos. the white rednecks snide statements i kind of brush them off, unless they want to get physicial...bottom line the minority groups are the most racist...don't let them scare you with labels...when somebody tells me i'm a racists, my reply is: 'yes i'm, so what?...some white dude 'threatened me' with calling the ins and my reply was 'why do you hate your mother so much? you know they're coming to get her out of here for being at the corner for too long'...i'm not afraid of labels and right of center folks need to stop being afraid of being labeled by the folks who are more of what they're calling you. instead formulate your responses to answer them without apologizing for somebody's deeds...when black start talking to me about slavery and such, i always ask them..which african country do they miss or wish to be living? so yes that was a period of western civilization culture that does not bode too well but like the inquisition, it's been over for more than a century...it isn't the rule of this land anymore...although slavery throughout africa is still practiced to this day. now you don't hear them addressing this...only that kunta kinte was harshly treated by some white dude more than two hundred years ago
Yosemeti Sam| 5.4.10 @ 10:18AM
Yo - Majito.
I hear you.
The unaffectionate terms of Cracker and Gringo - are not lost on me!
majito| 5.4.10 @ 11:57AM
i saw the gringo word and just thought to drop a little trivia in here...during the early part of the XX century, many bandidos came across the rio grande to pillage and steal...most notorious of them was Doroteo Arango (aka Panch0 Villa), to many mexicans their George Washington. The US response was to send Grl. Black Jack Pershing and hundreds of US soldiers to try and capture these thiefs...their uniform was for the most part olive drab...the local residents will scream 'green go home' (a newer version has been 'yanqui go home')...so gringo was later adopted...so that's what that mean...green go home...of course they don't want the greenbacks to home...:)
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.4.10 @ 9:59AM
Mr. Lord,
Good article. Thanks.
What are the numbers now...the percentages of Americans getting news and commentary from the new internet and alternative media like radio?
Jeffrey Lord| 5.4.10 @ 10:18AM
Ken....
I don't know the numbers precisely but I know this. Fox alone is beating the pants off its competition combined. Talk radio, from Rush at the top down to the local talk radio folks around the country (I've been on about 100-plus of these shows from Maine to Oregon and the hosts are outstanding...funny, smart, sharp questions) plus the magazines like TAS (NR, Commentary, The Weekly Standard) plus papers like the WSJ, the New York Post, Washington Times and then the Internet, Breitbart.com and Drudge and countless others. Combined this is a magnificent New Media...or what I call the Virtual Newsroom. Everybody understands what's going on. We are all self-starters. We also know why people like Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, Beck, Fox etc are targeted - because they are making a huge impact. They know what they are doing - and do it well, which is why it is so much fun to just listen, watch or read. This is a huge fight, and all of us...and that us includes you, Ken, and all our readers....are needed on deck everyday. And we're all present and accounted for! Thanks for being here!
Anthony| 5.4.10 @ 10:02AM
Don't forget, the Congressional Black Caucus denied Congressman J.C. Watts admission to the club. Not only was he not black enough, he was CONSERVATIVE.
This article dove tails nicely with an article over at the American Thinker entitled "Palin and the Leftist Elites".
The most intolerant, bigoted, and iron fisted people in this country are the leftist elites.
martin j smith| 5.4.10 @ 10:05AM
Let me add to Bob K. No one talks about the costs of immigration reform to everyone. Plust the effect of importing millions of semi to illiterate poor with limited work skills. Plus the impact on the job market generally plus the effect on our nation sociologically and politically. These are all too complicated for the masses to grasp--except when it hits them in the face.
loulou| 5.4.10 @ 10:19AM
Let's be frank: The illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America are lumpenproletariats. They have absolutely nothing to offer this country except a few years of unskilled labor.
No other country in the world would willingly let in such immigrants.
Truth to Power| 5.4.10 @ 10:09PM
All Western countries are doing the same thing.
Missy| 5.5.10 @ 12:19AM
And they're all dying.
loulou| 5.4.10 @ 10:14AM
And now we hear of the harassment and attacks on Asians by Blacks in San Fransisco.
Now what do we do? Who trumps whom?
Ron Leon| 5.4.10 @ 10:25AM
Check out this link. Paul Theroux is a great travel writer, and certainly not a right-winger, but he explains why the protesters of the Arizona law are all wrong.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/b.....s-so-what/
Jeffrey Lord| 5.4.10 @ 11:16AM
Ron...
Thanks for this link. That's a great piece. I blogged it over in the AmSpec Blog column with a hat tip to you. many thanks.
Ron Leon| 5.4.10 @ 11:58AM
And, kudos to you for a very smart article!
George S| 5.4.10 @ 11:09AM
More and more people are rejecting Obama solely on content of character instead of color of skin, thus coming full circle from Dr. King. This effectively ends the civil rights era and the Leftists know it. So it is no surprise to turn the guns in the direction of immigration-based racism to keep the process of control ongoing.
Bill Hussien O'Stalin| 5.4.10 @ 11:35AM
It goes beyond racism and class envy. It's called collectivism and racism can only succeed with collectivism. Under collectivism the individual is subject to the whims of the political agents of the power elite. Racism and other forms of group activity are simply social cleansing agents that act to destroy the individual and therefore individualism. The state becomes supreme and ever more powerful. Here are some quotes to ponder.
Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”
“The Only Path to Tomorrow,” Reader’s Digest, Jan. 1944, 8.
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group . . . and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force—and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism.
The Virtue of Selfishness “Racism,” The Virtue of Selfishness, 128.
Fascism and communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory . . . both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist principle that man is the rightless slave of the state.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal “‘Extremism,’ or the Art of Smearing,”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 180.
The philosophy of collectivism upholds the existence of a mystic (and unperceivable) social organism, while denying the reality of perceived individuals—a view which implies that man’s senses are not a valid instrument for perceiving reality. Collectivism maintains that an elite endowed with special mystic insight should rule men—which implies the existence of an elite source of knowledge, a fund of revelations inaccessible to logic and transcending the mind. Collectivism denies that men should deal with one another by voluntary means, settling their disputes by a process of rational persuasion; it declares that men should live under the reign of physical force (as wielded by the dictator of the omnipotent state)—a position which jettisons reason as the guide and arbiter of human relationships.
From every aspect, the theory of collectivism points to the same conclusion: collectivism and the advocacy of reason are philosophically antithetical; it is one or the other.
The Objectivist Leonard Peikoff, “Nazism vs. Reason,” The Objectivist, Oct. 1969, 1
Tim| 5.4.10 @ 11:58AM
The "Truth" is so refreshing!!
NavyBrat | 5.4.10 @ 12:23PM
Ah, yes. The Congressional Black Caucus. That bastion of Black Liberation Theology that applies their Marxist ideology to racist politics. The same group who's members have run blockades in Gaza, been arrested for doing so. The same Castrophiles (as Mona Charen describes them) who ignore the inherent racism & brutality of that regime. These people are charlatans of the first order. They are traitors to Dr. King's memory & the efforts of countless others who strove for the goal of a colorblind society. These people are scum. Right up there with the Klan & the Neo Nazi arseholes.
Here's a good article from Ms. Charen on the subject:
http://townhall.com/columnists.....ments=true
And then there's this from Townhall as well, written by Humberto Fontova, about how well the Castro regime treats its black dissidents:
http://townhall.com/columnists.....ist?page=1
Yes, these are the noble & magnanamous actions of the Congressional Black Caucus. These pukes have more in common with Winnie Mandella than they do with Fredrick Douglas & Dr. King.
Robert Brennan| 5.4.10 @ 12:36PM
Great piece and if I may pile on a little with an "irony alert," Obama identifies himself as African American on his census form. He is using the same standard of measurement for this categorization as the ante bellum South did. "one drop of African blood made you black."
krj| 5.4.10 @ 1:40PM
Let's start a fund to send all Illegals to Disneyland. One way tickets.
Dixie Pixie| 5.4.10 @ 1:42PM
Is It possible for the Liberals to be even more openly Bigoted against white people?
I think we are only seeing the start of it.
Question, which came first?
Did Liberal Bigotry create the Main Stream Media propaganda or did the MSM propaganda generate the Liberal Bigotry.
somnolence| 5.4.10 @ 1:52PM
You can tell that all the money spent on public education has been a failure when folks believe that a Nazi or Fascist equals a politically idealistic right-winger. A Nazi is a NATIONAL SOCIALIST, a decided person of left wing ideology. It continues to be intellectually dishonest for many professors and teachers to be stressing otherwise.
betw| 5.4.10 @ 1:56PM
It simple. While I support legal immigration (with FIRM assimilation/Americanization), I also favor reducing legal immigration and deportation of all illegal immigrants, period.
We have a weak economy with unemploymnet expected to remain around 10% for years to come; we do not need to import 100,000 people into our country each and every month.
And the fundamental issue is Mexico. We can't accept half of their population. Just can't. I'm all in favor of trying to help Mexico but they need to change their economics to one that fosters business enterprise and thus job creation.
In fact, Barry needs to learn that economic lesson too.
Reduce all (especially Muslim ) immigration for 5-10 years, then we can revisit the issue.
Seek| 5.4.10 @ 2:28PM
Conservatives who denounce "liberal racism" overlook something. Whenever we use the language and substance of Leftism -- even if to discredit the opposition -- we effectively endorse that opposition. Knowingly or not, we're saying that racism is to be punished at all times, at least when liberals appear to be guilty of it. Earth to conservatives: There are worse things in this world than racism. One of them is shutting down intelligent discussion of race so as to attract a "black vote" that conservatives never have gotten and never will.
By the way, what was so bad about George Wallace? He was, first and foremost, a Southern populist in the mode of Huey Long, Tom Watson and Ben "Pitchfork" Tillman, only less corrupt. Class resentment, far more than race, motivated these politicians. If blacks were an enemy at all, they were a good deal less so than the Washington, D.C. bureaucracy and large corporations. Maybe that's why blacks voted heavily for Wallace in his successful run for governor in 1982.
Nick| 5.5.10 @ 5:47PM
Seek,
Huey 'Kingfish' Long?
The guy who put the "crook" in "Crooked Louisiana?"
If you want any idea of what a Long presidency would've been like, just look at Bubba the pervert and Shrillary the Hut's administration.
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somnolence| 5.4.10 @ 3:24PM
Huey Long was a socialist who advocated "share the wealth." In some ways he was more liberal than FDR.
Margie| 5.4.10 @ 3:49PM
Articles and authors like this one, are the reason I keep coming back to AmSpec. Thanks, Mr. Lord.
Truthful, unafraid and exposing the Left's hypocrisy and lies.
"Thus emerged a whole generation of progressive black politicians who were the mirror image of their white supremacist counterparts: each exploiting the combustible mix of racism and big government. Nowhere has this approach been more prominently displayed then on Capitol Hill, where the Congressional Black Caucus has emerged blessed by the liberal media, with the progressive-racism formula burnished to a finely polished glow."
Ooo hoo! How DARE you?!
Love it.
SoCon| 5.4.10 @ 4:50PM
He's great, isn't he, Margie? JL has been a favorite writer of mine for years; he's so smart and so decent--and he always hits the nail on the head.
Liberals are racists, always have been.
Clinton nee Publius| 5.4.10 @ 4:51PM
Racism is a distraction; it serves an important purpose in the liberal-progressive movement and that purpose is to prevent an honest accounting of what has actually been accomplished by the liberal-progressive movement.
Racism allows for multiple benefits to be gained from one simple line of conduct:
(1) It causes a visceral reaction in minorities - especially Black Americans and this tends to make them extremely angry. When you are angry, you aren't thinking, you are just reacting and this is very, very important to the liberal-progressive movement; and
(2) It changes the argument from being about an objective outcome measurement (like a liberal program that has been completely bankrupted by liberal mismanagement or flawed policy design) that liberals cannot win under any circumstances to a subjective measurement which liberals can have a chance of winning because it is about how you feel, not what you did; and
(3) The racism charge puts off the time of being held accountable while the ensuing argument is settled as to who is a racist (always white people) and who is not (anyone who is not a white person). This is very convenient for public spats between political opponents when the actual record of liberalism suddenly becomes the subject.
(4) It enforces party discipline and serves as a wake-up call to jerk Black American voters back into line who may be questioning the luxurious lifestyle that 45 years of Democratic Party policies have actually created for Black America.
Of all of these issues, the last is the most important as government and their liberal allies in the media no longer enjoy an exclusive lock on the flow of information. Prior to deregulation of the airwaves in 1988, Congress was owned by the liberal-progressive movement and they were free to do what they wished, as they controlled the information and America thought it was getting a good deal. Talk radio, cable television and the Internet have destroyed this monopoly and now Americans can access the Internet and instantly fact-check every statement a politician makes (and quite a number of them do). This places liberals at a tremendous disadvantage as an objective review of the last 45 years of liberal social welfare programs and an objective review of the last 100 years of liberal economic policies would uncover a truly astonishing fact; liberal policies fail 100% of the time - in every instance where they are tried they fail and the economy is forced to recover in spite of the damage these policies do and not as a result of any so-called beneficence these policies are said to have provided. The New Deal is the prime case in point. For more than 50 years we heard the mantra that the New Deal saved America and pulled us out of the Great Depression only to learn that the unhinged spending and taxation actually made the Great Depression last the entire decade and beyond.
This is what is in store for the modern liberal-progressive movement and they know they are in trouble. My advice to conservatives and libertarians the world over is to grow a thick skin, because; if you thought race-war politics was bad now, get ready to see it go to a whole new level as the Democrats get more and more desperate to distract people from what has happened in order to prevent the disaffection and continuing loss of Black American voters. As sure as God made little green apples, this is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better at all. Remember why it is happening and you can stop it sooner rather than later. React and play the "I'm not a racist," game with the liberal and you will lose. It's as simple as that.
Nick| 5.7.10 @ 8:37PM
Clinton nee Publius,
Excellent analysis.
Don't go toe to toe with a liberal. Use Jujutsu.
Mattled| 5.4.10 @ 5:06PM
Mr. Lord,
Reading Reagan's diary right now---in the middle of 1984. Haven't seen your name mentioned yet. Unless I missed it (kind of annoying how Brinkley put some of the writings in smaller print he didn't feel were that significant?).
How about the media Mr. Lord? Start a billboard campaign with the anchors faces on them (on I-95) and YOU LIE across their foreheads.
I'll donate!!
Joe B| 5.4.10 @ 6:42PM
Jeffrey Lord suffers from mixed consciousness. Republicans cannot peal blacks and browns away from Democrats for a simple reason: Democrats are willing to buy their votes with welfare and affirmative action. Republicans seemed to be unsure whether they should get into the bidding, but why bother. Democrats invented entitlement spending. It's what they do and every black and Hispanic knows it. Republicans need to reconnect with their base: small government whites. The only way to keep Democrats from becoming permanently entrenched is to bust the wheels off their entitlement and affirmative action bandwagon. This requires doing two things: following the Sailer strategy of explicitly appealing to white voter interests; fighting for an immigration moratorium -- immigration is just a Democratic tool to import Democratic voters and turn the nation into an apathetic Diversocracy.
DaveS| 5.4.10 @ 7:45PM
Joe B: you have it only half-right. The Republican base is an American base - not a white base. Everything the Dems do is a mish-mash of expedient decision-making that promotes, at the time, their power. The Dems have lived not 50 - but 150+ years on racism: set asides, reparations without the name, etc. Until the 1940s, blacks voted for, or neutrally, Republican. Why? The party of slavery had nothing for them but chains, denial and harassment. Koreans with skills who've waited three years to get into America are fools: they should have gone to Mexico and then crossed the border from there (if they can avoid the drug cartel and Mexican law enforcement (oops, same thing) bullets. And the President of Mexico should be shamed and ignored for perpetrating myths about American racism: if Mexico is so great - with terrific natural resources - why are people leaving? Hooray for Arizona - whose law really just parrots the unenforced federal provisions.
Truth to Power| 5.4.10 @ 10:08PM
The race obsessed will always stay in the race obsessed party. When they tire of this or see the light they will have an option. By the way many of the race obsessed are white and have always had a home in the Democratic Party.
DaveS| 5.4.10 @ 10:22PM
So, if you (as seems implied) assert that some of the race-obsessed are non-white, I'd be happy to agree. When the dictionaries of the future have 'excuse' as a synonym for 'race,' then we'll have it.
Joe B| 5.5.10 @ 12:05AM
Look, a holier than thou color blind attitude will only get you dispossessed and politically disenfranchised. Race matters: a lot.That is why Democrats changed our immigration laws in 1965 -- to elect a new people who want socialism.
Bloc voting by ethnic group is a sad reality of our political system and, for that matter, every political system. The only way to get what's best for all out of any political process is to forge a nation where a solid majority of people come from a single ethnic background.
SoCon| 5.5.10 @ 12:17AM
I'd rather live with people who share my ideology and my view of life than my race. The thought of living with a bunch of crazy white liberals makes me want to gag.
Derek Leaberry| 5.5.10 @ 8:39AM
Mr. Lord writes like a naive, liberal college boy. Among other things, he likes to use the word "color blind." I know of no one who is "color blind" unless they are actually blind. And yes, most conservative voters(not inside-the-Beltway scribblers) who are against Third World immigration are anxious of becoming minorities in what had been a 86 % white country when I was born in 1960. Most don't hate but they are not "color blind."
As for Mr. Lord's coming to know of Bob Tyrrell's term Kultursmog, he is at least twenty years late. But I guess Mr. Lord was in diapers when Mr. Tyrrell first coined the term.
Interloper| 5.5.10 @ 3:33PM
Derek, you're a grump! Lord's article was an excellent read; give a rest will you?
Tim*| 5.5.10 @ 4:49PM
So then , will you be naming a group , which isn't color blind & just why you think illegal invaders are to be allowed to spit at The United States' Sovereignty ?
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Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 5.6.10 @ 1:36PM
We've have only to look at the western European countries to see where we are going.Greece, the birthplace of democracy, is ungovernable. Big government,UNIONS. I wonder if the gov is using taxes to breed demos on welfare.
MattZ| 5.6.10 @ 2:03PM
Hyperbolic, imflammatory and misleading: this article is quite the trifecta of journalistic nonsense.
I suppose the nut cases here still think that today's GOP, many of whom would seek to deny American citizens their Miranda rights, is the standard bearer of Lincoln. I doubt it.
MZ
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 2:40PM
Projection is a pillar of leftist thought.
Hyperbolic and inflammatory describe your useless post perfectly. Miranda rights for terrorists, nitwit?
You can return to your traitorous attempts to destroy our country now, libtard.
MattZ| 5.6.10 @ 5:19PM
Sorry, after reading your shrill reply, I should have called it sophmoric and dismissive, CONSERVETARD!
There, I totally burned you, over the Internet, no less!
MZ
REMEMBER NOVEMBER!| 5.6.10 @ 6:17PM
Yeah, like you so totally burned me! Grow up and get a job, loser. Change your dirty diaper, too.
Augusta| 5.7.10 @ 12:03AM
Superb analysis Sir. Many Black Conservatives have been writing excellent articles and books dispelling leftist revisionist history. A popular excuse among the left when confronted with their sordid past, is that all of the offending racist Democrats were from the South, and the South alone. Therefore, ipso facto - racism is really a conservative tendency. How's that for mental gymnastics? Truly sad. While we are reclaiming history via the new media, the battle needs to be fought in the schools - particularly urban schools. The Left controls education because they're terrified that if young black students find out the history of the Democratic Party, and that MLK was a Republican, they might vote accordingly. More conservatives need to enter the school system despite union objections. We need to be the administrators that choose the textbooks. We won a big victory in Texas recently with textbook choice; [Texas provides books for much of the nation's public schools]. But we need to stop the left from warping our kids - the greatest victory.
Missy| 5.7.10 @ 1:52AM
What's so tragic is liberals created the dead and dying inner cities that trap so many minority folks, and as of yet, minorities have not held them accountable. I'm so sorry for the young kids who grow up in those hopeless cities; so many precious young lives are wasted. It's wrong.
Dan| 5.13.10 @ 2:03PM
Yes, in their surpassing compassion and enlightenment, the liberals have deigned to create these hellholes of rampant crime, drugs, corruption, failing schools and decay of every kind. Dutifully, the inhabitants of these hellholes cast their vote unwaveringly for their liberal political masters, when a conservative establishment would have made needed changes long ago. How misguided these people are! But yes sadly the children are left to repeat their parents' misery.
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