It’s Getting Wacky Out There
The race is heating up and it’s getting wild and wacky. Just check out some of these stories from across America and the world. I think you’ll see what I mean.
They are taking the election really seriously in the UK and, believe it or not, some people in the rest of the world don’t seem to think Obama’s is the One to restore our tarnished image abroad:
Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend ‘Believe’. The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting ‘I f***ing hate n*****s’ and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him… After pleading with the man to leave him alone, the married former street warden put the keys in the ignition and turned the engine on.The attacker then fired the gas-powered ball-bearing pistol three times, hitting the civil servant in the face, hand and shoulder.
Perhaps the criminal in this story is upset about the sub prime debacle, like those racist Republicans in the next story…
Frank says GOP housing attacks racially motivated
BOSTON (AP) - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation’s housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that’s racially motivated… by blaming the country’s mortgage foreclosure problem on efforts to expand affordable housing through the Community Reinvestment Act…
“They get to take things out on poor people,” Frank said at a mortgage foreclosure symposium in Boston. “Let’s be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn’t hurt them either, from their standpoint. This is an effort, I believe, to appeal to a kind of anger in people.”
This is one of the most annoying and dangerous developments in this election year. Those on the left are playing the race card in a big way. Any criticism of progressive candidates or policies is boiled down to racism or fear on the part of the, so-called, bitter clingers. Pathetic… but, effective in silencing the opposition. Fortunately, some will not be bullied this way and John Boehner inserts some sanity into the discussion:
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio called Frank’s remarks “a lame, desperate attempt to divert Americans’ attention away from the Democratic party’s obstruction of reforms that would have reined in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and helped our nation avoid this economic crisis.”
“Congressman Frank should retract his ridiculous statements and start taking responsibility for the role he and other top Democrats played in putting Main Street Americans in this mess,” Boehner said.
The longtime congressman is being challenged this fall by both Republican and independent candidates. He has been criticized in his liberal district for being one of the leaders of congressional efforts last week to win approval of a $700 billion Wall Street bailout plan.
I have to give credit where it is due and, on this account, the cast and writers of Saturday Night Live were able to distill the entire mess down into one skit. Evidently the powerful progressives outed in the skit have put pressure on SNL to edit the piece, but you can still see the transcript here, if you haven’t already. From the LA Weekly:
BecauseSNL labeled Herb Sandler and his wife Marion, the real-life former owners of Oakland’s Golden West Financial (aka World Savings), as “people who should be shot” and accused them of predatory lending that brought down Wachovia Bank even though no charges have been filed. NBC told me just now they never received any legal threat from the Sandlers. [Though the couple did give an angry interview to The Associated Press about the SNL sketch.]
Instead, the network claimed: ”Upon review, we caught certain elements in the sketch that didn’t meet our standards. We took it down and made some minor changes and it will be back online soon.” Specifically, NBC said it has edited out the chyron on-screen text, “People who should be shot” that appeared beneath the Sandler’ lookalikes, as well as the “allegations of corruption” made against the couple.
Remember this: In a progressive or liberal America, only people on the right or the religious or those who are a little different can be singled out, parodied and silenced. Kudos to SNL for courageously speaking truth to power, even if they were coerced to cave in the end.
Other examples of lunacy out there:
Black Congressmen Declare Racism In Palin’s Rhetoric