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Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 06, 2010 7 Comments

Hate Springs Eternal, by Paul Krugman (emphasis mine):"Racism, misogyny and character assassination are all ways of distracting voters from the issues, and people who care about the issues have a shared interest in making the politics of hatred unacceptable."Racism, misogyny, character assassination, and the politics...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 05, 2010 18 Comments

The Washington Post, among other mainstream media outlets, relentlessly stokes claims that Tea Partiers are racist.Eugene Robinson accuses almost everyone who opposes the Obama agenda -- but particularly those active in the Tea Party movement -- of being motivated by racism and prone to violence.Jonathan...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 11 Comments

I was waiting for this ruling, because I could not stand living in a world where it was illegal to wear baggy pants so low that your ass showed.From Britain, our window into the future where underpants get to see the light of day (emphasis...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 04, 2010 42 Comments

The core of Democratic Party political strategy is falling apart. As reported by The New York Times, Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races:Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 03, 2010 24 Comments

Nah, that would be too easy, and relatively painless compared to weighing in on the "Harvard Racist E-mail" controversy.Haven't heard of it? Join the other 99.999% of Americans. But in the law-related blogosphere, the controversy is all the rage the past few days.For various versions...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 01, 2010 11 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:It has been eight days since the Governor of Arizona signed the immigration law. A few tweaks have been made in the wording of the law since then, but...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 30, 2010 8 Comments

... if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 19, 2010 10 Comments

For two years, opponents of Obama's agenda have been painted by the mainstream media, left-wing blogs and Democratic leadership as racist and extremist white supremacists.The charges are malicious and false, as documented here dozens of times.So what happens when there is a real white supremacist,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 17, 2010 4 Comments

Mea Culpa -- The second incident referred to below was by Kelly O'Donnell, not Norah O'Donnell. My mistake, corrected below. The point remains the same.-----------------------------------This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:Tonight is a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 11, 2010 8 Comments

In early March I wrote how the Southern Poverty Law Center had exaggerated regarding the alleged presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Rhode Island as part of SPLC's report on a "surge" of hate groups.Specifically, I pointed out that SPLC claimed the Ku Klux...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2010 7 Comments

Many of the criticisms of Michael Steele have been unjustified.The hoopla over $2,000 spent by an RNC staffer at a "sex-themed" club without Steele's knowledge or permission, may have made interesting headlines, but it was not probative of Steele's Chairmanship of the RNC.Today, however, Steele...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2010 3 Comments

Frank Rich has been at the lead of the cabal of Democratic operatives, mainstream media columnists and left-wing bloggers who have engaged in a deliberate year-long smear campaign to paint opposition to Obama's agenda as inherently racist.Rich's most recent column, It’s a Bird, It’s a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2010 17 Comments

This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:As those of you who follow this blog know, almost every Saturday I highlight the use of the race card for political purposes.The use of the race card for...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 02, 2010 11 Comments

Another day, some more agitation by the Obama administration and Agitprop by the mainstream media, this time directed by Obama himself at Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk radio hosts.This country is boiling over, after over a year of a strategy of crazy, in which...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 01, 2010 6 Comments

Oh, how the columnists at the NY Times and the left-wing blogs desperately want a militia threat with which to beat law-abiding citizens over the head in the name of Obamamania.Sorry to disappoint Count Frankula and the other fear-mongers and race-card players, once again (h/t...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 29, 2010 7 Comments

The anti-Zionist fringe nut who threatened to kill Eric Cantor was an Obama supporter and campaign contributor.You know exactly what I mean when I say, "Can you imagine if Norman Leboon threatened to kill Obama and Leboon were a McCain or Tea Party contributor?"We would...

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