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The DNC’s Bold Lies
DNC website caught lying about party’s civil rights record: Wasserman Schultz, Virginia Senate nominee Kaine involved.
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Hmmmm. What might have happened between the time Jefferson left the White House in 1809 — and the time the video picks up — in 1920?
Specifically, neither the new history and issues sections of the Obama-controlled, Wasserman-Schultz-run DNC website, not to mention the video, ever whispers a hint that the Democrats:
- Supported slavery in 6 platforms from 1840-1860.
- Opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution
that successively wiped out slavery and gave both legal rights and
voting rights to black Americans.
- Supported segregation actively or by silence in 20 platforms
from 1868-1948.
- Opposed anti-lynching laws, specifically supported by the GOP
in four platforms between 1912 and 1928.
- Opposed the GOP-sponsored Civil Rights Acts of 1866, which
focused on legal equality for blacks.
- Opposed the GOP on giving voting rights to blacks in the
District of Columbia in 1867. The legislation was passed over the
Democrats’ objection.
- Nominated an 1868 presidential ticket of New York Governor
Horatio Seymour and ex-Missouri Congressman Francis Blair. The
Democrats pledged they would declare the Civil Rights laws passed
by the GOP “null and void” and would refuse to enforce them. They
lost to Ulysses Grant.
- Opposed the Enforcement Acts, three laws passed by the GOP
between 1870 and 1871 targeting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and
making it a federal crime to block the right of blacks to vote,
hold office, serve on juries and have equal protection of the laws
with whites.
- Opposed the GOP Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited
discrimination of blacks in public accommodations.
- Used the Ku Klux Klan as what Columbia University historian
Eric Foner calls “a military force serving the interests of the
Democratic Party.” Nor is there reference to University of North
Carolina historian Allen Trelease’s description of the Klan as the
“terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.” Nor is there mention of
the infamous 1924 Democratic Convention — the “Klanbake” as it is
known to history because hundreds of the delegates were Klan
members. The Klan-written platform mixed the traditional Democratic
message of progressivism and racism in the Klan-written
platform.
- Repealed the Civil Rights laws enacted by GOP Congresses and presidents, already damaged by the Supreme Court. When Democrats gained control of both Congress and the White House in 1892, the Democrats’ President Grover Cleveland signed the repeal on February 8, 1894.
None of this stark, vicious and frequently violent racial history, much of it detailed in Bruce Bartlett’s Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, is mentioned on the new website.
There is no polite way to put it. This DNC website presentation is a lie.
A deliberate, willful and very big lie. Hiding from the young, the innocent and the unwary the cold, hard and true facts of the Democratic Party’s horrific racial history.
As we noted in this space four years ago when the Democrats were preparing to nominate then-Senator Obama, America’s liberal party was ruthless then when it came to concealing the long, ghastly tale of their culture of racism.
Here’s the party’s history section as preserved on their website in 2008. Alas for the DNC, this fancy-tale is still findable on the web here.
As we wrote at the time, the 2008 party history skips neatly from pre-Civil War 1848 and picks up again when “the 19th Century came to a close.” Effectively skipping all the history noted above. This is the same formula adopted by the 2010 video, except the video moves the clock further back to Jefferson’s presidency before performing the same trick of skipping to the dawn of the 20th century.
The party made another version of this same lie when redoing their website for 2010, saying, as captured by the Romantic Poet’s Weblog:
“Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That’s why we’ve worked to pass every one of our nation’s Civil Rights laws….”
Now.
Given the sheer boldness of the lie — literally akin to writing a history of Germany that ends in 1933 and resumes in 1946, neatly skipping those historic trivialities of Adolf Hitler, the Nazis, and the mass murder of six million Jews (not to mention that small skirmish called World War II) — why is there any surprise, any surprise at all, at the recent repeated surfacing of the culture of racism — judging others by skin color — by Obama media allies and politicians?
This cultural rot has been the backbone of American liberalism and its political party the Democrats — for 212 years.
No wonder the DNC feels it has to lie.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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spike59| 9.4.12 @ 6:19AM
now suppose i was a lying sack of crap. ans suppose i worked for the DNC.
but i repeat myself
Moe Blotz| 9.4.12 @ 7:01AM
You would then be Debbie "Blabbermouth" Wasserman-Schultz.
Joellen| 9.4.12 @ 6:57AM
Or suppose I was a lazy, lying, sponging, hypocritcal, backstabing, unpatriotic traitor and suppose I worked for the DNC - but thus I too repeat myself.
Jack in Wi| 9.4.12 @ 7:13AM
There are 3 terrible old hacks running for the Senate this year as Republicans. Orrin Hatch in Utah, Tommy Thompson here in Wisconsin and Geroge Allen in Virginia. It is a sad commentary that these 3 guys are still stinking up politics. I have to vote for Thompson. His opponent is much worse. Allen is going to have a tough time. He has a tough opponent. I expect him to lose.
Stephie| 9.4.12 @ 8:34AM
I'm not fond of George Allen but I will vote for him over the lying viper Kaine who is nothing but an obama puppet.
And the lies in the article are not surprising. Moochelle said to an adoring crowd in CA after the immaculation, "we need to change our history and our traditions". And when the govt schools don't teach true history, they can say whatever they want. Not feelin' good about the election today.
spike59| 9.5.12 @ 5:41AM
Kaine, a 'tough opponent?' here in VA, he's a joke, another of ObaMao's little flying monkeys
Nancy in NC| 9.4.12 @ 7:56AM
One of the problems I see in my local GOP is little involvement in the primary. They keep letting the elite in Raleigh choose our candidates. But we are beginning to push back, and it sure ticks them off. Several primary candidates supported by the elite lost here in NC, and we are exposing their corruption and devious ways. Of course, the same thing happens on the national level, but we are pushing back there as well, but we were foiled at the convention. There are many young people coming into the GOP and they plan on changing the future. We can only pray they won't be corrupted along the way.
Track| 9.5.12 @ 2:51AM
Don't give up,Nancy. Politics is a very corrupt business. I've been asking people for 30 years when Roget's thesaurus would link politician and target as synonymous. Lets hope we can reclaim the party and the nation before it comes to that.
Derek Leaberry| 9.4.12 @ 8:25AM
If arguing over the long past is silly, arguing over the shorter past is often as pointless. For instance, many modernist Republicans like to point out that a larger percentage of Republican Senators supported the 1965 Civil Rights Law than Democratic Senators. Largely forgotten is that most of the Republican Senators of 1965 were of liberal vintage, would be condemned today by conservatives as RINOs, and couldn't be nominated today in a Republican primary. As for the southern supporters of segregation, almost all of them and their children and grandchildren migrated to the Republican Party in the forty-seven years since.
Surly Curmudgen| 9.4.12 @ 6:24PM
That is an old and long discredited canard. Republicans of the sixties tended much more conservative than today. The racists of yesteryear where Democrats and today are still Democrats. That is another example of a Democrat lying to further their agenda.
2Anglico| 9.5.12 @ 9:55AM
Thanks Surly, I tried to make a similar point but Spectator's website was malfunctioning.
I think mine was...BS Derek.
Von Mises Jr| 9.4.12 @ 8:26AM
I think we should give the Democrats the benefit of the doubt. They moved past hunting down blacks and enslaving them. Now they simply want to enslave everyone outside the political elite.
If they are unsuccessful destroying Middle Class home values with the Sub-prime crises, and can't force us into an Agenda21 work farm, then they will simply take the whole nation down with LIBOR rate swap scandal and trillions in national debt.
I bet in their well thought out plans that they get to keep their stuff.
spike59| 9.5.12 @ 5:42AM
oh, they're still enslaving them in Section 8 plantations, rationing out their food and clothes with EBT cards
Kwan| 9.4.12 @ 8:31AM
The "Big Lie" is alive and well in Democrat Party propaganda hocus-pocus. But don't expect the suckers, saps, and morons that slurp this hokum up to very much care. As long as dat dere gub-a-mint cheese keeps a comin deys OK wid it.
JimP| 9.4.12 @ 8:36AM
I agree with Mr. Lord that the Democrats are lying, but I'll play Devil's advocate, be fair and balanced and offer another very likely explanation. I do believe that F. Lee Bailey, or an equally talented criminal defense attorney, could present a strong case arguing that the Dems are not liars, but just supremely ignorant of history. You know: "57 states", FDR talk to the country on television, etc. Now that I say that it occurs to me that a good attorney could argue instead that the Dems are not guilty by reason of insanity. When I think of DWS or Nancy Pelosi I always think of insanity. Anyway. This is my good deed for the day. I've been "nice" to the Dems.
Ned Ferguson| 9.4.12 @ 8:54AM
As long as Lincoln as deified and depicted as an honest man of unassailable character, the Republican's don't have a lot to complain about as far as rewriting history is concerned. That's all I'm saying. Both Democrats and Republicans have regrets over slavery, but it was Republicans who destroyed federalism forever, killing hundreds of thousands of fellow countrymen in the process, all while abandoning the conventional restraints on conduct in times of war. Why don't we all be honest about our history, or is that too painful?
Alej| 9.4.12 @ 8:28PM
Absolutely correct, sir.... especially as concerns Lincoln.
2Anglico| 9.5.12 @ 10:32AM
Ned, the Founding Fathers entrusted the Executive with Commander in Chief status to put down "insurrections", not just to conduct foreign wars. Lincoln used the power he was AUTHORIZED to use by the Constitution. At Gettysburg, Lee came within a whisper of totally destroying the Northern forces. If that had happened, he would have been able to march his Army into D.C. (82 miles), virtually unopposed. War is a nasty business so you will have to excuse President Lincoln for "abandoning the conventional restraints on conduct in times of war", HE HAD TO WIN or the U.S. would have CEASED to exist!
As far as the destruction of Federalism goes, direct election of Senators, activist judges and Socialist Presidents AFTER Lincoln (notably Wilson and FDR), did FAR more damage than Lincoln. After all, Lincoln died as a result of the war too.
Lastly, Lincoln's successor, Johnson, was impeached because he wanted to follow Lincoln's policy of "reconciliation" with the South. The Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South, much like Germany was punished after WWI. That worked out well, didn't it?
Cobalt| 9.4.12 @ 8:55AM
When you see Debbie Wasserman Schultz on TV, just hit the mute button on the remote control.
She is toxic.
JoeB| 9.4.12 @ 12:17PM
On June 19, 1964 The Civil Rights Bill was passed by the U.S. Senate. Quoting from the NY Times : "Voting for the bill were 46 Democrats and 27 Republicans. Voting against it were 21 Democrats and six Republicans. " If it were not for the Republicans in the Senate, the bill would never have passed. BTW.. all the Democratic votes against the bill came from Southerners (except Byrd) .
Alej| 9.4.12 @ 8:31PM
"BTW.. all the Democratic votes against the bill came from Southerners (except Byrd) ."
As Ned's following post shows, they were the far-seeing ones.
Ned Ferguson| 9.4.12 @ 6:19PM
BTW, voting against the CRA does not make one a racist. There are very good, principled arguments against such laws. In toto, the act has done more harm than good -- but you can't say things like that in an age of mind-numbed robots and easy sound bytes.
"When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was being debated in Congress, its opponents claimed that it would lead to discrimination against white people. Its supporters declared that it meant no such thing and added new provisions to make sure that it meant no such thing. That was the law that was passed." -- Tom Sowell
Well, they certainly were lying through their teeth, weren't they? Sowell further points out that the act has had little practical effect on minority employment. In fact, the sense of entitlement has arguably produced the opposite effect.
WhatAboutBob| 9.4.12 @ 7:10PM
Good points, Jeff. You forgot one rich source of anecdotal evidence that the Dems are racist to the core: Woodrow Wilson.
Starting with segregation of the armed forces, screening of "Birth of a Nation" in the White House, and numerous other episodes for which the "Party of the People" should be ashamed, but never is.
greatj| 9.4.12 @ 8:20PM
Wasserman Schultz repeats over and over and over forever the same lying nonsense and attacks then when someone asks her a question she never answers it but goes on and on again.Frankly Wasserman Schultz is disgraceful and unwatchable.
Surly Curmudgen| 9.5.12 @ 5:55PM
D.W.S. HMM DWS drunk while stupid.
Finzi Holst| 9.4.12 @ 9:51PM
The Federalists, with the desire for a strong central government and central bank, were more in keeping with the Democrats of today. The Democrat Republicans of Jefferson are far more in keeping with Republicans, or more's to the point to conservatives and libertarians, with the desire for a small central government and states' rights. Of course the current Democrat party would get it "wrong" (aka lie), just as they lie about the Democrat role in racism, striking down civil rights and the Republican's role in fighting racism and supporting civil rights.
On the plus side, more and more people are coming to understand the above.
Tarmangani| 9.4.12 @ 9:56PM
The democrats also harrassed the first black congressmen, who happened to be republican, elected after the war between the states. And the democrats, led by LBJ, fought Eisenhower's civil rights act.
E.T.| 9.5.12 @ 12:33AM
This is also taught in schools. Tell a lie often enough. I hope everyone relays this to all your liberal friends.
Sonderegger | 9.5.12 @ 3:29AM
The DNC website in both its history and issues sections is literally wiped clean of any reference that this is the party that spent platform after platform after platform building a culture of racism.
Playing the race card, as it is politely called today.
There is zero indication on the revamped DNC website that not only are those first lines in each section blatant untruths, but that http://www.chaussuresfree.com/ in those "more than 200 years" the party was a ferocious supporter of every race-judging idea imaginable, including slavery, segregation, and lynching.
Big Bob| 9.5.12 @ 6:40AM
Lying has various levels of pathology. A 2- or 3-year old usually lies cuz he/she don't want a whoopin. A teenager might lie to impress a peer. An unfaithful spouse lies to avoid be caught, which is different from worrying about the punishment, as a 2-year old might. On the other hand, a serial liar has very very different pathology. After watching dinesh's movie, 2016, this president's lying is pathological in the purest sense of the word. He is angry, bitter, jealous, and selfish, all at once. Some might label him a narcissist. But whatever the pathology, the lies are there to promote an agenda he is committed to that he would NEVER be able to advance if he told the truth. The American public has been caught offguard, (or some of them have been, anyway) and have a very difficult time believing that one person could lie so easily and quickly without any shame whatsoever. We thought Billy Clinton had the corner on that. But he couldn't hold a candle ideologically to Mr. Clinton. Thus, we have a little boy, still trying to convince someone that he counts, trying to run a country into the ground in order to satisfy a childhood insecurity. At the most primeval understanding, I think that's what we have. Shame on us if we give him another 4 years to try to prove himself.
Bill8472| 9.5.12 @ 9:21AM
Speaking of the Democrat Party and its reputation during the era of slavery, what was the party plank of the Democrats during the 1860 Presidential election? I know that the Democrats stood for a recognition of the slaveholding Confederate States of America and a peace treaty ending the Civil War in the 1864 Presidential campaign, during the height of the fighting. I know (as they continue to do in contemporary times) that they portrayed the Republican candidate as an ape, but I don't know what their position was just as the Civil War was beginning to brew up in 1860. Did they support South Carolina's secession declaration? The continuation of slavery in the United States?
I know that even in 1964, the Democrats didn't show a stellar strength of spirit in backing legislation intended to guarantee blacks their civil rights, and that was over a century later.
obadiah| 9.5.12 @ 1:09PM
Republicans argue that Democrats are corrupt, dishonest and pushing ruinous policies. Republicans are correct in their arguments.
Democrats argue that Republicans are corrupt, dishonest and pushing ruinous policies. Democrats are correct in their arguments.
America is fortunate in having two political parties both of which are correct in their arguments.
Big Bob| 9.5.12 @ 1:26PM
And wait, let me guess...right there between the two corrupt parties, is you!! Obadiah the genuine one!! Somehow, I find that a bit of a stretch. In fact, I find those who see no difference and blame both parties, to be naive and indecisive!! Good thing there were none like you among our founding fathers!!!
Dr. S| 9.10.12 @ 11:39AM
You forgot to mention the first "lie" perhaps not as bold as the rest of them. Jefferson was a member of the Democratic Republican party, an ancestor to both the current Republican and Democratic parties. Perhaps if Obama were facing a Whig opponent, it would be appropriate to call on Jefferson.....