The lies are big, bold and prominent.
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has
been caught. And the website scandal may also impact the Virginia
U.S. Senate race that has former Governor Tim Kaine as the
Democrats’ nominee against ex-Senator and Governor George Allen.
Why?
As reported in all manner of media outlets in September of 2010
(here
at the Huffington Post, here
on The Today Show and here
in a 25-minute presentation at George Washington
University posted on YouTube) it was then-DNC Chairman Kaine
on whose watch the new DNC website was launched.
Now the fibs are the centerpiece of the Democratic National
Committee’s revamped Obama-saluting website as the Democrats gather
for their Charlotte convention. And Wasserman Schultz, of course,
is the DNC chair — succeeding Kaine —by the grace of the Obama
White House. Which certainly had the ability to block or change the
contents — and hasn’t.
What are the lies?
Lie Number One: Check the “Our History”
section, found here of the
DNC’s website. See it? The history section — now written to
reflect the history of the Obama administration — begins with this
breathtakingly bold lie:
For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for
civil rights…..
Lie Number Two: Then check here to see the
DNC’s “Issues” section on civil rights. That section begins with a
second bold lie. This one:
Democrats have a long and proud history of defending Civil
Rights and expanding opportunity for all Americans.
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 in those “more than 200 years” the party was a ferocious
supporter of every race-judging idea imaginable, including slavery,
segregation, and lynching.
Kaine even agreed to a
short video version that begins by briefly saying:
Democrats are the party of Jefferson, who declared that we
are all created equal. And we worked long and hard to make that
real.
The video immediately skips from Jefferson — to the 1900s.
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.
