[img]1|left|Ari Noonan||no_popup[/img]Before the magnificent King Day ceremonies began on Sunday afternoon, David Weisman, a pillar of the Culver City Democratic Club, was wondering why left-wing talk radio has been an historic oxymoron.
To be succinct, the reason is: No message, just emotion that often is made up.
Libs’ attitude: If you oppose me, you are not merely wrong. You are evil.
Democrat politics has reposed upon an anti-reason three-legged stool since the FDR era mercifully passed:
“I am angry. You are a racist. We need to confiscate more of your earned money for (a) our dear colleagues who would rather not work and (b) so we can spend all day on frilly, overlapping programs.”
Not to mention President Obama’s bitter class warfare campaign to vilify all who have more than he does.
Democrat/liberal/left wing/progressive thinking abhors reasoning with rivals. Instead, they scream a brief, threadbare list of accusations, which is why their act never has played successfully on radio where the only choice is to listen.
If Mr. Weisman and I had been more patient, we would have seen those defensive, insecure, routinely fictionalized postures rolled out in the panel discussion that shortly followed.
After14 months in what has been blissfully quiescent retirement for her relieved former constituents, ex-U.S. Rep. Diane Watson (D-Culver City) roared back with both fists and her often undisciplined mouth afire.
She fashioned a career out of sloppily flinging racist charges. Commenting on the interracial marriage of U.C. regent Ward Connerly: “He’s married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn’t want to be black.”
These hateful words were spewed out of the typically angry, unfiltered psyche of a woman who reached for a laugh Sunday by cracking that she has Scottish and Irish ancestors. Ha.
Do You Remember? I Do.
Rare was the day when Ms. Watson did not call President Bush and Vice President Cheney criminals who should be prosecuted for their conduct of the Iraqi war, and sometimes for just getting up in the morning. Like an owl at midnight on a fence top, Ms. Watson howled during Hurricane Katrina that Mr. Bush deliberately was stranding black people on rooftops in New Orleans.
Officious as ever on Sunday, she reared back and swung hard: “Oh, yes, we have an African American President,” Ms. Watson said. “But he is under tremendous attack. I don’t have to tell any of you. Just flip on your TV and see how they are attacking him. It is unusual for a sitting President to be described the way he is being described,” said one of the Democrats’ major attack dogs against the Bush administration.
Then she delivered her soup du jour punchline: “That tells you the seeds of racism still exist today.”
Put Down the Matches
Yes, m’am, and you are generously nurturing the seeds with your hatred and your astonishing lack of memory, history and acuity.
Dr. Anthony Samad, writer-academic, picked up the next baseball bat:
“We are witnessing the next racial movement in America. The Tea Party is the next racial movement. The Tea Party are Southern conservatives. From Day One, the day that Barack Obama took office, they constructed an ideology that said ‘We are opposed to Big Government.’ Then you have the ‘Speaker of the Senate’ who said, ‘Well, our No. 1 objective is to insure that Barack Obama is a one-term President. What type of mindset is that?”
Glad you asked, Dr. Samad.
You may remember that during the eight years of the Bush administration, you and your fellow racist accusers publicly prayed weekly for for Mr. Bush to continue to be the most terrific Prez of your lifetime.
Perhaps I misremember.
Oh, you wanted him to be a one-term President? That’s right. But that was different because…?
The student activist Daniel Wayne Lee, an enthusiastic devotee of and participant in the Occupy Wall Street movement, proudly revealed that he was among the arrestees of Occupy L.A. on the lawn of City Hall on Nov. 30. “I feel like, if we live in a country where you can be arrested for protesting or for expressing your opinions, we have not achieved Dr. King’s dream,” he said, ignoring several pertinent details.
One of the favorite new battering sticks of liberals is to rise as one to protest new voter ID laws — this from minions of the party that elected Mr. Obama by registering such veteran Democrat voters last election as Mickey Mouse, Humpty Dumpty, Donald Duck and every illegal who would accept a dollar for signing his name.
“Last year, a number of voter ID laws were introduced in states across the country,” Mr. Lee said. “It would not be a stretch to call it a poll tax. That was one of the major accomplishments of the civil rights movement. I feel, like, if we are back there, then we have gone nowhere even though we have made a lot of great progress.”
There is, and always will be, enough racism in this country without left-wing arsonists irresponsibly running through our communities hokeying up the truth. Shame on you.