Well, Maureen Dowd will be furious when she hears this one. It is
Ms. Dowd, as noted in my
column nearby, who said she heard Congressman Joe Wilson
really yell "You Lie...Boy!" in a racially derogatory fashion
even though she admits he only said the first two words. Her
point, of course, is that to refer to the President as a "boy" is
a racial insult.
In case Ms. Dowd -- or White Mo as we fondly refer to her in
these quarters based on her proclivity for judging people by skin
color -- saw the video linked
here she might, well, never write about it! After all, you
don't want to see Jimmy Carter actually call Mr. Obama "this
black boy" and get written up as an actual news event in the
New York Times, do you. As the rest of us learned
long ago, all the news really isn't fit to print.
Gene Koprowski, president of the Illinois Assembly, pointed us to
this video, courtesy of Frances Rice, in which the
illustrious Jimmy Carter during last year's Democratic Convention
refers to Barack Obama as "this black boy"... Rice, by the way,
is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, a lawyer and chairman of
the National Black Republican Association. She can be contacted
at: www.NBRA.Info
We all remember the media horror that ensued over this,
right?
Serious hat tip to both Rice and Koprowski.