-
SEQUESTER: The Horror!
March 1, 2013 | 4 comments
-
SOTU Preview: Human Props, Budget Fights, and Wedge Issues
February 12, 2013 | 0 comments
-
Hello, I Must Be Going
August 14, 2012 | 18 comments
-
Weekend Political Wrap-Up, Paul Ryan Edition
August 12, 2012 | 16 comments
-
Esquire Blogger Sees Paul Ryan, Shreds His Safety Net
August 11, 2012 | 13 comments
The Spectacle Blog
Colbert King has written a disgraceful column smearing the Tea Party protestors and opponents of big government more generally as racists. It’s not the first example of this genre, but it is one of the most despicable.
The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar. They resemble faces of protesters lining the street at the University of Alabama in 1956 as Autherine Lucy, the school’s first black student, bravely tried to walk to class. Those same jeering faces could be seen gathered around the Arkansas National Guard troopers who blocked nine black children from entering Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957.
“They moved closer and closer,” recalled Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine. “Somebody started yelling, ‘Lynch her! Lynch her!’ I tried to see a friendly face somewhere in the crowd — someone who maybe could help. I looked into the face of an old woman and it seemed a kind face, but when I looked at her again, she spat on me.”
Those were the faces I saw at a David Duke rally in Metairie, La., in 1991: sullen with resentment, wallowing in victimhood, then exploding with yells of excitement as the ex-Klansman and Republican gubernatorial candidate spewed vitriolic white-power rhetoric.
Actually, all those “angry faces” have in common is that they are predominantly white. Someone whose racial obsessions run in the opposite direction from King’s — say, the owners of those sullen faces at the David Duke rally — would be similarly incapable of telling the difference between Rosa Parks and a race riot. “A black face is a black face,” they might say. No need to determine the justice of their cause.
Nearly two decades ago, before the term “fisking” even existed, Bill Buckley fisked a column by Carl Rowan attacking Clarence Thomas. Rowan said (I’m quoting from memory here, but the WFB column is included in the Happy Days Were Here Again anthology) that if you put a little flour on Thomas’ face and closed your eyes while listening to him speak, you would think you were listening to David Duke.
Buckley replied, “Only if you are as dumb as Carl Rowan.” Colbert King isn’t dumb. What he is engaged in here is much uglier than that.
View all comments (75) | Leave a comment
More Blog Posts by W. James Antle, III
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/03/27/colbert-king-shines-the-light
Follow us:
ADVERTISEMENT
The Spectacle Blog
Former IRS Commissioner Refused to Say That Targeting Conservative Groups is Wrong
Benjamin Brophy | 2:27PM
SPONSORED LINKS
FLASHBACK TO: 1995
-
Pope Culture
A man of faith in a godless age is hitting Americans where it hurts.
-
Why the GOP Does Not, Like, Totally Suck
Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O’Rourke talk sense to your kids.
-
Dames at Sea
-
In the Absence of Guns
In Britain, defending your property can get you life.
-
The Metaphysical Martini
-
Counting the Costs of Clintonism
The debacle of this president’s administration is both a cause and a symptom of the decline of American values. Unless Congress impeaches him, that decline will go on unchecked. An eminent jurist surveys the damage and assesses the chances for the recovery of our culture.
-
Chuck McHagel
It won’t take long for conservatives to scratch this presidential wannabe off their 2008 scorecard.
-
The Legacy of Old John and Mother Fresh-Roasted
-
It’s the Best Time of the Year
The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it?
-
The Bush Crack-Up
Was the President done in by the economy, or by the politics of the economy?
Clip of the Day
ADVERTISEMENT
Red Phillips | 3.27.10 @ 4:14PM
If you closed your eyes, why would there be any need to put flour on his face? I'm just wondering. :-)
Eric Cartman| 3.27.10 @ 4:44PM
See? Just proves Buckley's point - Carl Rowen IS dumb :-)
Patriot| 3.27.10 @ 4:42PM
Don't these liberal morons realize THEY are in power now? They aren't the victims, they are the oppressors!
They have to scream 'racism' to try to deflect our righteous outrage-- they know they're wrong.
melanerpes| 4.4.10 @ 11:26AM
The victim card is just another card pols play to hold on to power, obviously. But the "tells" have been telegraphing all their moves lately. I would advise these pols to start wearing sunglasses and duck-billed caps pulled down over their eyebrows. And stop fidgeting with your chips.
Mike| 3.27.10 @ 5:42PM
Didn't Rush Limbaugh say he would leave the U.S. if health care passed?
Is the lying sumbitch still here?
Nick| 3.27.10 @ 6:04PM
No, he didn't, Useful Idiot.
DrTomVoter| 3.27.10 @ 7:15PM
Streisand, Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin all said they would leave if Bush won. Mike, please let them know the result. And BTW, Rush said he would leave the country to get healtcare, not the country, you mindless drone.
Janice| 3.27.10 @ 7:50PM
And that stupid Susan Sarandon, ugh!
Everly Waverly| 3.28.10 @ 2:23PM
If I'm not mistaken, El Rushbo said he would go to Costa Rica to get his health care if need be. He never said he would leave the country, try bringing up the exact quote where Rush makes that claim, you can't...
john| 3.28.10 @ 9:45PM
Mike...You are typical of liberals. You cannot complete a sentence without using vulgar
epithets. Obviously your vocabulary is very
limited. I feel sorry for you.
Sean | 3.27.10 @ 6:08PM
I'll never understand how someone can denigrate the righteousness of the civil rights movement by using it as a tool for petty political gain.
Jeremiah| 3.27.10 @ 7:11PM
Sean, there's nothing petty about the huge unconstitutional power grab the democrats have just pulled off. The bustards are in it for keeps.
Pingback| 3.27.10 @ 7:37PM
Tea Party rally in Searchlight, NV draws 8-10 thousand « Sister Toldjah links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
rightwingyahoo | 3.27.10 @ 7:57PM
Rush said he'd go out of the US for health care. As I may well do, also.
Now, will they let him back in? Hmmm
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.27.10 @ 8:23PM
Hey rightwingyahoo,
Maybe Rush is scouting out places to set up a hugundous "offshore" broadcasting tower to fight the "fairness doctrine bs" heh!
Sort of like air America in Europe during the cold war firing broadcasts all over eastern Europe as far as Moscow.
Heh, he would actually start whole new industries, manufacturing radios that could pick up his signal, with a little sticker on the back..."Made in the USA".
Kidding aside, these communists, (pardon the shorthand), might very well issue travel restrictions and/or all other kinds of measures to prevent Americans from leaving the "system".
Hoo boy, wouldn't that be a kettle of worms?
Randy Gates| 3.27.10 @ 9:57PM
"Hoo boy, wouldn't that be a kettle of worms? "
Or a courthouse full of lawsuits. Or a barrel full of .45 ACP
cowgirl| 3.27.10 @ 10:44PM
Pardun me Old Tex, but I do believe you meant to say a can of worms. A kettle of fish is what's for dinner. :^)
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.28.10 @ 10:51AM
Hi cowgirl
Welcome to the conversations here.
...I just love to mix metaspores...and metaphors as well.
(snottily) Yes, all of we world renowned authors take pride in mixing metaphors. It is what we do.
(get a giggle. Go look up "meta then look up "spores"). ie:
...take that thought with a salty margurita...or four.
...Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man....Cialis.
...beauty is only skin deep...marry a Cayote.
...that is an old Indian saying I just made up.
...like my old dad used to say..."yes dear".
OK, you get the gist. You too can be a bestselling wordJones.
philfl63| 3.27.10 @ 8:10PM
Think about about. Race hustling is an industry employing countless numbers of coloreds. They do not have to get a real job or be productive. All they have to do is get on their soapbox and spout "racism, racism!", and they know that us stupid Caucasians will fold to their mendacity. This song and dance has been going on forty-five years too long. Those cynical, vituperative, opportunistic coloreds have two choices. They can get with the program and behave like good Americans grateful to live in God's land of freedom and opportunity, or they can relegate and confirm themselves as stupid darkies too foolish to be taken seriously as civilized human beings. Make your choice.
Patriot| 3.27.10 @ 10:03PM
Hey, philfl63, 'real' conservatives don't use the words 'colored and darkie', stupid friggin' troll--but filthy liberal racists like you do trying to impersonate us. You liberals don't give a flying damn about minorities; they're just votes for you, cynical bastard.
Your liberal plantation politics keep our black citizens on your inner city plantations--no matter how many trillions of dollars we pour into the war on poverty.
People like you are destroying our country and you can go to hell for all I care.
Ebony'nIvory| 3.28.10 @ 6:50PM
Patriot:
"Hey, philfl63, 'real' conservatives don't use the words 'colored and darkie',"
Course we use those terms, when we are talking about pencils and papers.
Or what about playing a piano?
You can't play a tune with just the white keys, you also need the dark keys.
Patriots| 3.29.10 @ 3:16AM
Nah, Conservatives don't use the word 'darkie'--that's a word you liberal plantation politics playing losers say. You are the real racists, after all.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.27.10 @ 8:30PM
philfl63,
Alas, (sadly), many of my business friends are terrified of hiring a black person. Descrimination litigation is EXPENSIVE, no matter how silly the claim.
That hurts me, and worse, it hurts fine black people who just want to "be with the program".
RBW| 3.27.10 @ 8:46PM
Hey, Ken (Old Texican) I think that was Radio Free Europe.
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.28.10 @ 7:01AM
RBW
Thank you. Of course it was RaDIO fREE eUROPE
I had forgotten...senior moment there.
Marie| 3.27.10 @ 9:29PM
Racism is now aimed at the 'angry white male.'
Virginia3678| 3.27.10 @ 10:19PM
Well, I guess that I can relate now to real victims of racism, who were hated just for being who they were and the color of their skin.
Mr. Colbert King apparently hates me because of who I am (a Tea Party supporter) and the white color of my skin. Not because of what I've done, but because of what I think. So be it.
No big surprise that the real racists project their hatred onto those Americans who would stop this march towards tyranny. I could not care less about the color of President Obama's skin - nor the color of Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid. They ALL need to be removed from office before we are bankrupt and shackled.
Jeremiah| 3.28.10 @ 1:57AM
Too bad the liberal race hustlers have forgotten the wisdom of MLK: " I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will NOT be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Too bad, indeed.
Johnno| 3.28.10 @ 2:03AM
What's so interesting is that democrats were the slave-owning racists of yesteryear and they are the racists of today. What's with them?
They haven't changed a bit--and neither have we; we're still fighting their racism.
Liberal Reader| 3.28.10 @ 12:47PM
Indeed. I wonder why blacks vote Democrat in such large numbers.
They must be idiots.
Margie| 3.28.10 @ 4:35PM
It's because they are lied to. With a little help from their friends, like you.
Repent, LR!
tonypal| 3.28.10 @ 6:09PM
Not idiots, just wrong.
SoCon| 3.28.10 @ 6:38PM
Indeed, Fascist Reader, your cruel but heartfelt words prove your contempt for black Americans.
We know what you think of minorities--they're just more democrat votes.
Seamus O'Brien| 3.28.10 @ 7:11PM
The Democratic Party is the party of race obsession. It is natural that the obsessed will gravitate towards it.
wodiej| 3.28.10 @ 7:08AM
Sadly Johnno, many people do not realize the facts in your comment. The liberal south were the ones who wanted to keep black people in chains, not conservatives. Conservatives freed black people and are still trying to. Sadly, the liberals still black people "enslaved" but the minorities just don't realize it. It's called POVERTY.
Magic Eight Ball| 3.28.10 @ 12:29PM
This dreck is all of a piece of the great Liberal narrative that the legacy of Jim Crow is not that of the Democrat Party. In this narrative, all the racists left the Democrat Party after enactment of civil rights bills in 1964 and 1965. And so, according to the narrative, the Democrat party was reborn and untainted by its original sin of white supremecy. Whatever is left of that sin was carried to the Republican party when Dixie started voting R.
This is why these allegations of racism and incipent rage and violence are such red meat on the Left. It allows them the comfort of their false mythology but at the same time putting political opponents on the defensive.
How to combat it? Laugh at it. Laugh at how foolish these reports are. The Tea Party leaders are mostly women. How does that fit the narrative of Angry White Men? Did Right America inculcate Jim Crow values into two generations of American women?
No. What makes these idiots on the Left afraid is that the narrative doesn't work anymore. They are supposed to lead the peasant revolts. All of those on the Right are supposed to be blithely unaware of their opression due to false consciousness. In the pea wit brain of your uncritical and unreasoning Leftist, all of this does not compute. If it did, it would destroy the comforting stories they tell each other.
Intervenor| 3.28.10 @ 1:42PM
For people who claim they are not purple with rage, both the author of this article and his followers are letting a lot of racist invective and virtual spittle fly.
Colbert King is a person who was deemed a second-class citizen for the first half of his life. He observed segregation up close and bore the abuses. Like John Lewis, the civil rights leader and Congressman tea party protesters called the n-word last weekend, he knows of what he speaks. People can learn from these voices of wisdom, or they can try to demean them, try to put these 'uppity blacks' back in 'their place.' Lil' Jimmy Antle has chosen to try to do the latter.
Margie| 3.28.10 @ 4:44PM
Bologna.
Patriot| 3.28.10 @ 6:40PM
The only racist remark on this thread was made by a liberal, moron. Try reading the posts before you make your stupid claims.
Jeremiah| 3.29.10 @ 3:21AM
Intervenor, stop the lies about the n-word--you have no proof.
Le Cracquere| 3.29.10 @ 8:28AM
So now it's time to reap the rewards, make second-class citizens of others, indulge one's own taste for abuses, and wallow in the base pleasures of putting others into "their place."
Irony 101: Colbert King and John Lewis may have spent the early years of their lives treated as second-class citizens because of the color of their skin. They have passed the latter parts of their lives actually BEING second-class citizens--and third-class men to boot--because of the content of their characters.
Oldefarte| 3.28.10 @ 3:27PM
This MORON [Colbert King] no doubt also moaned and groaned over the ravages of Hurricane Katrina that wiped out metropolitan New Orleans ["....Those were the faces I saw at a David Duke rally in Metairie, La., in 1991: sullen with resentment, wallowing in victimhood, then exploding with yells of excitement as the ex-Klansman and Republican gubernatorial candidate spewed vitriolic white-power rhetoric..."]; but his racially-biased/prejudiced cries of anguish would be restricted to the urban areas of New Orleans [aka, THE CHOCOLATE CITY] only, not the suburboned areas of New Orleans such as Metairie [which King would term 'honkey-white] What a GD HYPOCRITICAL IMBICILE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeremiah| 3.29.10 @ 3:19AM
Screw you and your crappy jerseys--hope you go bankrupt--Obama butt-kissers.
Yosemeti Sam| 3.28.10 @ 10:38PM
May Colbert King know where that Mao Zedong
White House Christmas tree ornament is sheltered?
Surely from his bro network he'd know whats' up with that - not so?
Rosie| 3.30.10 @ 7:46PM
You people are nuts. All of you. I live in the South, I love the South. and btw I lived outside the South. Racism is ugly, it's mean, and it's living in black hearts as well as white hearts. By the way, the black people I know are not the ones you creeps are going on about. They are funny, kind, responsible, and do not hang on Colber Kings/Abernathy, Jackson/ etal's words. My god, you are all dopes. The term colored went out 30 years ago... so your are right about the Troll.