Time for the ‘Double’ Up
Before I continue, I just want to say that I cannot stand Ann Coulter. She is a detriment to the conservative side of the argument who goes for the shock rather than the point. I refuse to read her books because she has not proven that she can make her point without being over the line insulting. With that said, I also would like to point out that I am a big lover of intellectual honesty, something that liberals have yet to get a grasp on. Both are illustrated in this clip as I give credit to Ann Coulter for not only making a valid point, but calling out the Rev. Al Sharpton on his hypocrisy.
The fact of the matter is that Coulter is absolutely correct in stating that if Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada was a Republican, Sharpton would be calling for his resignation, and would not stop calling for Reid’s resignation until it happened. In fact, I think when compared to now former Senator Trent Lott (R-MS), Reid is getting off light. Lott said that America would be a better place had Strom Thurmond (who was a Democrat until 1964 for the record) would had been better if he was elected President in 1948. Still a stupid thing to say considering that Thurmond was running as a segregationist. What Reid said was a lot worse, nevermind the fact that he used the overly outdated term, “Negro.”
Allow me to take this time to publicly say that if you are a Black voter, pay attention to the double standard being applied to the Democrat party. Reid is basically getting a pass on what you would not tolerate from a Republican. If it was John McCain who said that Obama had no Negro dialect and is favorable as a light-skinned candidate, you would scream for bloody murder. If that doesn’t insult you, how about the fact that President Obama is brushing the whole incident aside as is Sharpton?
Let’s look at the two statements from these two gentlemen:
Al Sharpton is a statement (from POLITICO):
“While there is no question that Senator Reid did not select the best word choice in this instance, these comments should not distract America from its continued focus on securing healthcare or creating jobs for its people.”
In the meantime, Mr. Obama said (from MSNBC):
“He has apologized recognizing that he didn’t use appropriate language, but there was nothing mean spirited in what he had to say and he has always been on the right side of the issues. And the fact that we spend days of this instead of talking about the unemployment rate or talking about how we deal with critical issues like energy and health care is an indication of why I think people don’t understand what is happening in Washington.”
Mr. Obama…Rev. Sharpton. People understand what is happening in Washington. That is why they are uniting and attending tea party rallies and jamming the phone lines and inbox on Capitol Hill. What reasonable people do not understand is why are you and Sharpton trying to brush this away because Reid happens to agree with you ideologically.
This is not the first time that Democrats have sidestepped their own hypocrisy when it comes to race relations. Then again, what would you expect from a party that was active in the KKK. NAACP Chairman Julian Bond does have a point when he said Jim Crow became James Crow, Esquire. The only problem is that he fails to see that no matter the pedigree of Mr. Crow, he is still a Democrat, but I digress.
As I pointed out last year, Democrats are more than willing to attack Blacks who do not step inline with the liberal ideology, and Black Democrats are more than willing to defend their White counterparts in racist attacks. Maryland State Senator Lisa Gladden (D-Baltimore) said that party trumps race; which would probably explain why she gave a pass to her colleague Thomas Mike Miller (D-Calvert) who said at one point that current RNC Chairman Michael Steele was the personification of an Uncle Tom.
If you are Black and/or a registered Democrat, I would take a step back and take the whiff of the blatant and open hypocrisy coming from your party’s leadership. If you have seen the movie “The Truman Show,” think about the scenes where one person was trying to reveal the truth to Truman, the people who were in the know did their best to cover up the truth so Truman would not have a clue of what is going on. This is the exact same thing and you would be foolish to buy the bag of goods that Obama, Sharpton and any other leader in the Democrat party was trying to pass.
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I love Ann Coulter. Anyone who upsets the left is ok in my book.
I think she showed Sharpton that he was not that sharp after all.
He is publicly outed himself as a hypocrite by falling for the Harry Reid apology.
I am really tired at bozos like Sharpton and Jackson believing that they speak for ALL black people.
AfroCity, you know I am frustrated about Sharpton and Jackson and a certain person in Baltimore who shall remain nameless claiming to speak for ALL Black people. Outside of my feelings about Ann Coulter, I hope you and I agree on the basis that she did a public service by outting Sharpton as a hypocrite.