January 18, 2006
The "D" Stands for Demagogue
By Michelle
Malkin
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 raucus 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?
Copyright
2006 Creators Syndicate
