The “D” Stands For Demagogue
The freaks come out at
night. The demagogues came out on Martin Luther King
Day.
Democrat N.Y. Sen. Hillary
Clinton, perhaps looking to distract attention from
those pesky Code Pink protesters who`ve been dogging her
over the Iraq war, commemorated the holiday by pulling a
reverse Sister Souljah at race hustler Al Sharpton`s
pulpit in Harlem. The Canaan Baptist Church welcomed her
pandering with what the Associated Press described as
"thunderous applause."
When a Democrat politician
stumps at a church, you see, it`s "minority
outreach." When a Republican politician stumps at a
church, it`s a theocratic outrage.
Asked to explain the
difference between Democrats and Republicans, Hillary`s
response oozed with righteous flava (did Bill "Our
first black president" Clinton help her practice?):
"For
the last five years, we`ve had no. Power. At All. And
that makes a big difference, because when you look at
the way the House of Representatives has been run, it
has been run like a plantation. And you know what I`m
talkin` about. It has been run in a way so that nobody
with a contrary point of view has had a chance to
present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard.
The Senate`s not that bad. But it`s been difficult. It`s
been difficult."
Yes, Hillary, we`re living
in the antebellum South all over again. Forget the
existence of the raucous
Congressional Black Caucus. Pay no attention to the
ubiquitous Rep. Charlie Rangel on cable television and
radio airwaves. Look past the mainstream status bestowed
on the fanatical black separatist Louis Farrakhan, most
recently honored as Black Entertainment Television.com`s
person of the year. And ignore the true ideological
plantation mentality that punishes every prominent
conservative minority dissenter who strays from
leftist orthodoxy.
What racial demagogic
stunt will Hillary sink to next? Cornrows and a cameo on
Bush-bashing rapper
Kanye West`s next album? Go on, girl. Go ahead. Get
down.
While Hillary wallowed in
Farrakhan-esque rhetoric about Republican slavemasters
oppressing black people`s right to be heard, Democrat
New Orleans mayor
Ray Nagin paid tribute to civil rights and the fight
for equality by freely mouthing off about his racial
dream — a dream for a
divinely ordained "chocolate" New Orleans:
"I don`t care what
people are saying [in predominantly white] Uptown or
wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the
end of the day. This city will be a majority
African-American city. It`s the way God wants it to be."
Asked by a local reporter
for WDSU-TV in New Orleans to explain his remarks, Nagin
sniffed condescendingly: "Do you know anything about
chocolate? How do you make chocolate? You take dark
chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a
delicious drink. That`s the chocolate I`m talkin`
about."
Nagin reminds me of
something else on the Dairy Queen menu: Nuts. But watch
as the media swallow his weasel rationalizations whole.
These calculated moments
of Democrat demagoguery illuminate liberalism`s
three-decade-old moral bankruptcy on issues of race.
From the party`s
smearing of Clarence Thomas to the bigoted attacks
on Condoleezza Rice and Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael
Steele, to its opposition to school choice for
inner-city students and denigration of California
businessman
Ward Connerly`s campaign against government racial
preferences, to its latest desperate attempts to blame
racism for Hurricane Katrina and to portray Supreme
Court nominee Samuel Alito as a red-necked bigot, the
Left has offered nothing but slime and obstructionism.
Yet, there isn`t a day
that goes by without Democrats effectively using the
race card against their opponents in every political
debate ranging from education to border security to the
courts. It`s time for conservatives, Republicans in
Washington and minorities with half a brain to call
their bluff. Stand up. Defend your honor. Don`t let it
pass.
You know what I`m talkin`
about?
Michelle Malkin [email
her] is author of
Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.
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Michelle Malkin`s latest book is "Unhinged:
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