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July 2, 2008
The Predictable Return of the National Black Republican Association
Via Sam Stein, we learn that the National Black Republican Association has made another of its election year forays onto the political scene with yet another series of ads spouting all sorts of nonsense.
They first made a name for themselves back in 2006 when they ran a few ads, with one claiming that Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican and another stating that “Democrats have bamboozled blacks” and “want to keep us poor while voting only Democrat.” And now that the 2008 election if upon the nation, the NBRA has re-emerged with a new series of ads – one calling the Democratic Party racist, the other calling Barack Obama an elitist (Stein has the video):
1. Racist Democrats and Obama
Narrator: The Democratic Party is a racist party.
Bill and Hillary Clinton played the race card against Barack Obama.
Hillary supporter Paul Begala said the Democratic Party can't win with just "eggheads and African-Americans."
Democrat Gov. Ed Rendell said a large block of white Democrats in Pennsylvania would not vote for Obama because he is black.
Hillary said her supporters are white Democrats who will not vote for a black man.
The Democrats claim all the racist Democrats became Republicans.
That's not true.
Racist Democrats declared they would vote for a "yellow dog" before a Republican because the Republican Party was the party for blacks.
Bull Conner, Lester Maddox, and George Wallace died Democrats. Former Klansman Robert Byrd is still a Democrat in Congress.
Today racist Democrats will not vote for Obama, a black man.
Learn the truth.
Visit our website at http://www.NBRA.info
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2. Arrogant Obama
Narrator: Dr. King said judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
Barack Obama sounds good, but character is judged by action when no one is looking.
Obama voted no on the minimum wage bill.
Obama said no to school choice scholarships for poor black children trapped in failing schools.
Obama voted yes for a bill to kill babies born alive in a botched abortion.
Bitter is what Obama called blacks and whites who love God.
Racist is what Obama called his white grandmother who raised him and made sacrifices so Obama could get a good education and become a millionaire.
Obama's friends are terrorist Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright who said innocent Americans deserved to die on September 11th.
Obama is an arrogant elitist who turned his back on poor blacks and his own country.
Learn the truth.
Visit our website at http://www.NBRA.info
These ads raise the questions of what the NBRA actually does other than running controversial ads every couple of years and just how much of an impact the organization has within the conservative movement? Judging by their appearance at last year’s CPAC conference, the answer to both is not very much.
This is the main hall where most of the speakers and panels were hosted:
This is the tiny room at the end of a well-hidden hallway where the NBRA assured a few dozen listeners that the organization was slowly becoming a force to be reckoned with because last year their website received over one thousand visitors:
Posted by Kyle at 4:03 PM | Permalink
June 24, 2008
Left “Deserves To Be Hated”
Don Feder, angry that Scott McClellan has called for an end to the “venom and hatred” in Washington, responds with this rant: “But the left deserves to be hated; it merits our derision and scorn…Two possibilities arise. Liberals are unbelievably stupid -- so dumb that they need help tying their shoes and not walking into walls -- or they're malicious malcontents consumed by envy and animated by a lust for power -- in a word, evil. You don't compromise with evil, negotiate with it, sign truces with it, or look for a middle way. You expose it and oppose it.”
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June 3, 2008
Just a Small Town Girl, Livin' in a Lonely District
After three whole weeks in DC, Cassy Loseke, an intern at the conservative National Journalism Center, has discovered she’s not in Nebraska anymore. While riding “On a Crowded Train of Isolation,” she apparently has also figured out what ails the nation’s capital: “It was almost as if these people were looking for answers to life problems by reading a newspaper or listening to blaring iPods. Perhaps they were looking for something bigger and better than themselves and searching for it through their careers… That's why the men and women never make eye contact on the train, refuse to practice patience and always seem in a hurry to get to their next destination…. The people of DC are not what I thought they'd be. They definitely don't know how to maintain great personal relationships. Yes, they excel at professional relationships, but make up for it by lacking in their private lives… Maybe I won't find my husband here - I'm OK with that.”
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June 2, 2008
Obama Demonstrates "Fundamental Lack of Integrity"
Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition provides two possible explanations for Barack Obama’s “resignation” from Trinity United, both of which accuse Obama of base political maneuvering: "Only one of the two following options may be true; for the past twenty years Senator Obama was a member of a church fellowship that was the foundation of his spiritual and moral reasoning -- or -- he sat in the pew of Trinity United Church simply for the political gain such relationships could bring….If his church membership was truly spiritual -- then this action shows a fundamental lack of integrity. Obama's resignation of membership in Trinity United Church demonstrates that he will trade even on his faith for political advantage."
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May 21, 2008
Nobody Pays Attention to the Right
Various right-wing groups held a press conference and protest earlier this week and nobody cared, so now Morality in Media is complaining about bias: "But when prominent pro-decency and pro-family organizations that expected great things from President Bush in the war against obscenity gather together at the National Press Club to protest the failure of the Justice Department to vigorously enforce federal obscenity laws, followed by a demonstration at the Department, the secular media ignore these events. How can this be??"
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May 16, 2008
Hundreds Turn Back on Schlafly
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Several hundred graduates and faculty at the Washington University commencement stood with their backs to the stage this morning, in quiet protest as Phyllis Schlafly received an honorary degree."
Posted by Kyle at 2:33 PM | Permalink
Hutcherson Blasts "Evan-jellyfish"
Right-wing pastor Ken Hutcherson attacks cowardly white Evangelicals: "'Right now a lot of white Evangelicals are just 'Evan-jellyfish' with no spiritual vertebrae,' he says. Hutcherson is particularly critical of the many liberal and some mainstream leaders who signed on to the recently released document 'An Evangelical Manifesto.' He accuses the signers of 'trying to hijack evangelicalism because of their moral standards and because of their cultural background.'"
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May 14, 2008
Viguerie Demands Wholesale Republican Resignations
Richard Viguerie is not happy about the current state of the GOP: "The Republican Party must have new leadership, or conservatives will continue to withhold support, and the Party will crash in flames in November ... Accordingly, Republican Party leaders must resign. Leaders in the White House, the Congress, and the Republican National Committee and its affiliates, along with most Republican leaders at the state level, have failed – or outright betrayed – the conservative voters who put them in their positions. The result is that the Republican Party's brand has become a negative to an extent greater than in the Watergate era, perhaps even worse than in the days of Herbert Hoover."
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May 7, 2008
Schlafly Reiterates View That Married Women Cannot Be Raped By Husbands
Last year, Phyllis Schlafly spoke on the campus of Bates College where , among other things, she “belittled the feminist movement as ‘teaching women to be victims,’ decried intellectual men as ‘liberal slobs’ and argued that feminism "is incompatible with marriage and motherhood." She then went on to top herself by claiming that a married woman cannot be sexually assaulted by her husband, saying:
"By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape.”
Needless to say, those views caused a bit of controversy … controversy that has now reemerged at Washington University in St. Louis when school officials decided to honor Schlafly with an honorary doctorate:
Washington University's decision to bestow an honorary degree on conservative political activist and author Phyllis Schlafly has stirred outrage among some students and faculty.
Opponents of Schlafly's honorary doctorate formed a group on the social-networking website Facebook and had 1,023 members as of Monday evening.
Apparently the students don’t think that Washington University should be honoring an immigrant-hating, UN-detesting, evolution-fighting, court-stripping, conspiracy-theorist anti-feminist hypocrite who blames the Virginia Tech massacre on the English Department – go figure.
But the university isn’t backing down … and neither is Schlafly, who granted an interview to a Washington University student newspaper where she complained that the protesting students have “too much extra time” on their hands and reiterated her view that wives cannot be raped by their husbands:
Could you clarify some of the statements that you made in Maine last year about martial rape?
I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. That doesn't mean the husband can beat you up, we have plenty of laws against assault and battery. If there is any violence or mistreatment that can be dealt with by criminal prosecution, by divorce or in various ways. When it gets down to calling it rape though, it isn't rape, it's a he said-she said where it's just too easy to lie about it.
Was the way in which your statement was portrayed correct?
Yes. Feminists, if they get tired of a husband or if they want to fight over child custody, they can make an accusation of marital rape and they want that to be there, available to them.
So you see this as more of a tool used by people to get out of marriages than as legitimate-
Yes, I certainly do.
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April 22, 2008
Dusting Off the Dirty Playbook
It looks like the man responsible for 1988’s infamous Willie Horton ad is back and has his sights set on Barack Obama:
Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters.
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Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perpetrator of a crime belonged to a gang. The links between Obama's vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident's are indirect and tenuous, as is the further connection the ad draws between the issue of Obama's position on the death penalty and the issue of international terrorism.
Time reports that the ads will be funded by a PAC called the National Campaign Fund “which had $14,027 in the bank at the end of March,” which probably explains why Brown is focused on creating the “most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever” and hoping to gin up free media coverage to make up for the ad’s lack of funding, much like Mike Huckabee did, or at least tried to do, with his campaign ads (it is worth noting that Ari Berman of the "The Nation" reports that Brown's efforts are being "run by Bruce Hawkins, a former field organizer for Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson who recently worked for Mike Huckabee in Iowa.")
And speaking of free advertising, it looks like a pastor in South Carolina is trying make a name for himself by suggesting that Obama might secretly be Muslim:
Pastor Roger Byrd of Jonesville Church of God put the sign up which reads "Obama Osama humm are they brothers?"
Pastor Byrd says the sign is not meant to be racial or political but rather to make people think. "His name is so close to Osama, I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn't recognize Christ," Pastor Byrd said.
Of course the ad is not political and was merely designed to make people think … that Obama is a Muslim and possible a terrorist.
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