Tag: racism
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Rush is no racist. Yeah, right.
One of the most laughable aspects of the controversy over Rush Limbaugh’s failed attempt to buy part of an NFL franchise is the outbreak of blog posts by right-wingers who whine that “it’s just so unfair what’s being done to Rush.” They claim it’s all a plot by the leftist, radical NFL to get Limbaugh…
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Questions I’d like to hear Sotomayor ask
When the Senate Judiciary Committee holds its hearing this week on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the ranking Republican member of the committee will be a white senator from Alabama named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Sessions, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of the Latina judge, has a very…
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Gorillas in our midst
I’m sure this will do wonders for the GOP’s outreach efforts with minority voters. Rusty DePass, described as a longtime Republican Party activist in South Carolina, stirred up a bit of a media controversy when he mused in a Facebook posting that a gorilla escaping from the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia was probably related to…
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Takes one to know one
Conservative activist Marcus Epstein has pleaded guilty to assaulting an African American woman in Georgetown nearly two years ago. In court filings, federal prosecutors alleged that Epstein “was walking down the street making offensive remarks when he encountered the complainant, Ms. [REDACTED], who is African-American. The defendant [Epstein] uttered, ‘Nigger,’ as he delivered a karate…
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Pot kettle black
Highly recommended: a column in the New York Times by Charles M. Blow that calls out the loudmouths who are screaming that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. Blow makes the point that it is quite hypocritical for people who have a history of making racially charged comments to all of a sudden discover that…