Coates Exposes Intellectual Bankruptcy of MSM, Obama Admin. Defenders
The testimony of Christopher Coates before the United States Civil Rights Commission exposed a pervasive hostility to equal enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, as well as racialist policies at the Justice Department. He also exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the defenders of the dismissal of the New Black Panther case.
The testimony was covered by CNN and the Los Angeles Times, and was on the front page, above the fold, in the Washington Post. Yet ABC, NBC, and CBS devoted no coverage to his testimony.
But while the networks were willfully ignorant, some internet media abandoned any pretense of reporting on the story with integrity.
Christian Science Monitor
Law professor Allan Lichtman confessed to the Christian Science Monitor what we have said all along — that many, including he, are hostile to equal enforcement of the law:
You can try to force [the Voting Rights Act] to be equal, but it’s not. … If these are the worst examples you can find, then, by God, white people in America are pretty safe.
Lichtman regularly serves as an expert in Voting Rights Act litigation. He is listed as a “consultant on voting rights to the United States Department of Justice.” Any attorney doing Lichtman’s expert deposition in the future should spend a great deal of time developing evidence on his unequal and racialist view of the Voting Rights Act.
Sorry professor, the law is race-neutral.
Main Justice
Perhaps the most intellectually bankrupt commentary on Coates came from Mary Jacoby, writing for Main Justice — a blog set up in the halcyon days of early 2009 to be the mouthpiece of the Obama DOJ. Flush with seed money, they became Eric Holder’s Pravda.
In the last month, Main Justice has lost 30 percent of its readership, and gets approximately 1/200th the page views of PJM.
Jacoby trotted out all of the intellectually bankrupt attacks. Obviously disappointed that she failed in her task at keeping the New Black Panthers story bottled up, Jacoby lamented:
The goal of conservatives who nurtured this story was always to get them validated by a non-ideological respected mainstream outlet. Now they’ve done it, thanks to a deluge of calls [to the Washington Post ombudsman.]
Really? That was the goal?
Maybe, in a world where ultimate truth doesn’t exist, would publication on the front page of the Washington Post matter. Maybe to people whose lives exist to advance their own agenda, or to be a handmaiden for a government, skewed motives lurk everywhere.
But the New Black Panther case has always been about a simpler, more important question: are we a nation that enforces the law equally?
Jacoby trots out the meaningless question of frequency: Are there “massive numbers of white voters in America who are being kept from the polls”? Of course, the words “massive numbers” never appear in the Voting Rights Act. In fact, if there is a number, it is zero — the law bans even the attempt to intimidate.
This was an intentional change in 1965, which Jacoby and the other Holder sycophants ignore. Without the change, perfectly successful acts of intimidation would not be illegal. A Klan rally at the entrance to a poll that succeeded in keeping all black voters home would be perfectly fine using Mary Jacoby’s version of statutory interpretation — unless, of course, the race of the victim matters.
Which apparently it does to Jacoby.
This is the dirty little secret we knew all along: people like Mary Jacoby, former Assistant Attorney General Loretta King, and Professor Allan Lichtman really don’t believe the protections of the law apply to whites.
We didn’t need the expose of the treachery at the DOJ to know that the double standard re white vs. black has been ONGOING for decades. This time it is just a more putrid and garish example. The Tea Party has been attacked viciously and endlessly about so called racism, and the attacks stem from the most racist organizations in this country. For almost FIFTY years we have seen this building. Anytime anyone who cannot be categorized of a certain race/ethnic group is pitted against a white American, the white person loses. Black Congressional Congress anyone? Why is this artifact allowed to exist except that it provides cover for CRIMINAL ACTIVITY? It should be abolished. There is no place in our government for any organization that separates itself based on its skin color. Thought the Civil RIghts Movements was all about ending SEGREGATION. The Black Congressional Caucus defies and flouts the rules they make up for the rest of the country. It was just a matter of time before this latest perfidy was unearthed. Now let’s see who amongst the rest of us has the courage to stand up to the race haters/baiters and tell them to go to hell. And the courage to withstand the inevitable onslaught.
Standing up is one thing..doing something about all of this is another.
Where do things go from here? Swept under another rug?
Who in power is going to stand up and do something?
Standing up is the first step which is why it is thrilling to see what is happening with Coates. Sometimes all it takes is the courage to say ENOUGH! Since we have NEVER seen that before it IS the equivalent of taking the first step.
I totally agree!! The courage of the people that have come forward is to be applauded!!
Now the next step…where does it go from here?
This whole Black Panther thingy is and has never been more than a Right Wing Special (a big, steaming pile of grossly exaggerated BS with sides of maliciousness and loonyness.)
I couldn’t imagine a clearer violation of voting rights law than 2 guys in military garb, one holding a billy club, intimidating voters at a voting station.
This is the kind of thing you’d see in a lawless territory where extrajudicial thugs enforce how things are going to be, like the Hamas guys at voting places in Gaza intimidating voters into casting the “correct” vote.
The only difference being that the Hamas guys were holding AK-47′s and Shabazz and friends (“We’re the new Enforcers, America. Get used to it.”) haven’t (yet) graduated past billy clubs.
Your sort of thinking BC (“thinking” used very loosely) is contributing to the American decline.
Hey BitChie, why not go and sign up with the local Black Panther chapter? Show your solidarity “thingy” bro’. Get to know those who you defend. Then come out and let a “Right Wing Special” know just where you are at.
Remember, next time someone approaches you with a club and rips your hairdo and outfit, and obstructs your ability to be BitChie, just pass it off as “a big, steaming pile of grossly exaggerated BS with sides of maliciousness and loonyness.”
Don’t call the DOJ. They might not like you.
Tes sir and one of these nice harmless New Black Panther’s also stated how much he hated whites and that they were going to have to kill some Crackers and their Cracker babies.
Because to you, of course, naked racial discrimination as a matter of DOJ policy is just peachy-keen. And you don’t mind perjury, at least not if it’s Dems who are committing it.
What a tired old broken record you’ve become! Are we supposed to believe that if it were two robed Klansmen, one brandishing an axe handle, saying things to black voters like “You are gonna be ruled by the white man, darky” that you would call it “no big deal?”
Sorry, but you guys are nuts if you think that this “case” (if you can call it that) compares remotely to all the real voter intimidation and disenfranchisement committed by Republicans in recent years as a matter of normal business.
It’s actually very likely that the Black Panthers were there in the first place because of past Republican shenanigans.
And have I mentioned lately that Coates is likely just being bitter as well as being a tool?
Sorry bc, but I have no doubt that any site that you will link to, is rubbish.
Well, if anyone would recognize and understand “bitter”, it would certainly be you.
Steve wrote: Sorry bc, but I have no doubt that any site that you will link to, is rubbish.
And you would be no doubt sadly mistaken, as are all modern conservatives who allow themselves to be suckered over and over again by the modern Republican party and their right wing toady enablers. I double dawg dare you to find any fault with my links here or elsewhere.
Just remember that it’s generally much harder to be right than wrong, but it’s usually well worth the effort.
You know, this BC character is like a dog in a museum – it wanders in, piddles on the floor, and barks at things it has no hope of ever understanding. Best thing to do is to whack it with a rolled-up newspaper (preferably the NYT) and tell it, “Bad dog! BAD, BAD dog!”
yeah, ‘proof” is just being bitter
You should join that black panther “thingy” and get to know the bros you defend. what they and the doj did was wrong, period. they should be chastised and put in jail. I don’t believe in discrimination, the doj, backed by obama adm, obviously does. a right wing “thingy” accusation is bull.
our government is too big and there does not appear to be a check and balance of any sort.
“It’s actually very likely that the Black Panthers were there in the first place because of past Republican shenanigans.”
Nah, they were there looking for “crackers, or better yet “cracker babies” they could kill.
“You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!”–King Samir Shabazz, NBPP leader…and DemoKKKrat Party “poll watcher”
But, don’t worry about it guys, just because racist Democrats have murdered thousands of people in the past in order to rig elections, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to do it again.
BC, as I’ve told you before, anyone who’s successfully completed 3rd grade knows that “they did it too!” is not a valid defense.
However, you continue to use it.
I guess that demonstrates your level of maturity.
Now go back to the kiddie table and play Go Fish, and don’t put jello in your sister’s hair.
OK BC….you should know that Coates, a card carrying liberal as well as a former trial lawyer for the ACLU, has impeccable credentials within the libtard world. His statement is that the law is blind. Race doesn’t matter if what you’re doing is illegal. BTW…show one instance of voter fraud or intimidation by republicans,,,can’t do it huh?
I don’t mind intelligent liberal commentary, but BC, where’s the beef? In your three links:
1. various news stories about the completely legal Bush-era firings of DOJ attorneys for NOT enforcing voting laws – the exact thing Coates is complaining about.
2. A story about the purging of voter rolls just prior to election, a completely legal and proper thing that both Dems and Reps have engaged in. I seem to remember a story about Obama going thru votes to eliminate just enough to get his state senate seat? ‘Bout the same. (And I think that “shenanigan” is why Jesse Jackson wants to, er, de-man him?)
3. A story about Coates leaving the DOJ VR section, told completely from the point of view of the DOJ employees he is – yes – now complaining about.
WHERE IS THE REPUBLICAN SHENANIGAN? I want shenanigans! You promised shenanigans!
Crap, I guess for my shenanigan fix I have to go back and watch the Democrats. Again.
I looked at the linked article. I perused the sources. Every single one of them was some far-left, Dem Party shill attacking Bush’s administration. This is just another self-referential machine attack piece.
It’s not like the Righties do not criticize their own. Surely they could use some Righty source to prevent the perception of it being biased.
BC thinks this execrable piece is really worth citing? Sad, really.
“Sorry, but you guys are nuts if you think that this “case” (if you can call it that) compares remotely to all the real voter intimidation and disenfranchisement committed by Republicans in recent years as a matter of normal business.”
Funny, but I can’t seem to find anything in the law that says a certain number of minority perpetrated voter intimidation instances have to occur before the law is applicable.
“It’s actually very likely that the Black Panthers were there in the first place because of past Republican shenanigans.”
Ah yes, vigilante justice! We don’t need no stinkin justice system! We’ll just handle it all ourselves.
“And have I mentioned lately that Coates is likely just being bitter as well as being a tool?”
Coates, as well as Adams, has handled himself with the utmost integrity and honesty. You could learn a little from him in that regard.
Typical BC Orwellian nonsense. It would be humorous if not so sad.
His links are manure. In his twisted mind, efforts to stop leftists from committing voter fraud and corrupting elections is bad, but thugs threatening and intimidating voters outside of poling stations is OK.
No one’s listening to your BS yin yang progressive treatment of ethics outside your mutual masturbatory circle of friends anymore, BC. Not the far smarter country as a whole, and certainly not the far smarter readers here on PJM. America is moving to cast the progressives back onto the dunghill for another 40 years, and the readers here consider you a dolt.
You’re becoming more irrelevant by the day. I’ve been saying for a couple of months that your US rep, Frank, was ‘probably – not inevitably – going to be reelected but rendered powerless in committee. I have to admit that I am surprised myself at the rapidity of the rejection of your jacka$$sery. I’ve changed that ‘probably’ to ‘possibly’.
If you can’t see the sea change that puts even Frank in jeopardy, you’re going to end up just another muttering, unwashed fool, wandering up and down Mass Ave.
If you aren’t already.
BC you may consider your liberty and rights a pile of $hit, but I hold my liberty sacred. Men better than you have died to protect our right to vote, and to let these black panther scum try to DENY that right to ANYONE is cowardly and insane.
The irony served up by BC and those like it is delicious: should they ever get what they’re truly asking for, they are unlikely to survive it. But don’t take my word for it – just ask Yuri Bezhmenov. Or read Solzhenitsyn.
You can’t possibly be serious. If you defend the lawlessness of one group while denouncing the same of another, then you are no better than the group you denounce. Let me know if I need to put that more simply for you.
Yes, he is serious.
First, what else does he have? When you’ve eagerly spent 8 years or so lapping up the most imbecilic nonsense the unhinged left can put out without ever once applying the smallest dose of common sense, that becomes your reality. So that is what you cite.
Second, BC operates from about a 12 year old middle school level of logic. And a low performing 12 year old at that. Do not expect either critical thinking nor moral/ethical clarity.
No matter what the unhinged screeds the progressive sheep put out there, there is no comparable election fraud by conservatives. There is no respect for the Constitution on the progressive side and deep respect for the Constitution on the conservative side. BC is incapable of understanding the distinction.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
Our president seems to say, “Let me be perfectly clear. My administration cares little for the content of one’s character, and a great deal more about the color of one’s skin.”
Christian, the journolistas are not ignoring this story, they are burying it.
The former infers that they are not attuned to its importance and give it no weight.
The latter details the conspiratorial scheme to actively undermine the information stream,deprive our countrymen of vital facts, and to present a distorted, fun house mirror image of our society.
They bury it by intentional omission, they bury it with slander, smears and cheap slurs. They bury it by distortion of facts, twisted logic and unhinged demagoguery.
The saddest conclusion in a long list of disheartening ones, is that this was completely predictable.
Had a corollary incident or set of incidents taken place where Republican, conservative, white, etc. careerists at the DOJ had intentionally discriminated against anyone in a systemic corruption of the spirit and intent of our Civil Rights, Voting, or equal protection laws, the journolistas would have run a daily, breathless, and deep investigatory string of reports.
Instead, we get the dismissive “obligatory” (“look, we’re OBJECTIVE)from WaPo and CNN, nothing from the spineless rest and unhinged attack from the frothing curs on the fringes of … the master fringe.
This, to what should be our complete and utter dismay…is, well…what they do.
#4 cfbleachers. Yes the Journalistas are burying this story. They joined up to bury stuff. And yet… what if every waking thought, action, reaction of the DOJ revolves around defending itself from this single issue? What if defending it’s indefensible position causes institutional paranoia within the DOJ? Meanwhile, outside the DOJ life goes on and multicultural civil rights continue to be violated. It seems to me that some electoral fraud or intimidation, say in the November election, or some other violation of civil rights might force the DOJ to apply the law in a race neutral way. That is, it would have to attack itself and its own paranoid obsession.
If placed in such a position wouldn’t the institutional and personal stress cause the DOJ to implode?
I think a box has been built around the DOJ by Adams, Coates et al. The constraints of this box skew the probabilities towards DOJ meltdown.
#4 cfbleachers. Yes the Journalistas are burying this story. They joined up to bury stuff. And yet… what if every waking thought, action, reaction of the DOJ revolves around defending itself from this single issue? What if defending its indefensible position causes institutional paranoia within the DOJ? Meanwhile, outside the DOJ life goes on and multicultural civil rights continue to be violated. It seems to me that some electoral fraud or intimidation, say in the November election, or some other violation of civil rights might force the DOJ to apply the law in a race neutral way. That is, it would have to attack itself and its own paranoid obsession.
If placed in such a position wouldn’t the institutional and personal stress cause the DOJ to implode?
I think a box has been built around the DOJ by Adams, Coates et al. The constraints of this box skew the probabilities towards DOJ meltdown.
We must be in an echo chamber. Say it ain’t so!
Are we really surprised by the lack of attention the MSM has brought to this issue? I mean seriously. When Coates was testifying on the other side of the hill the Dems brought in Steve Corbert to testify to deflect what was happening in the hearing. That, however, made all the news outlets.
It makes me sad to see such a great country be taken over by marxist/lennonist’s. The problem is, this has been coming since the 40′s and we’ve just let it happen…now we’re finally waking up. Is it too late?
In contrast to the Coates testimony, ABC, CBS and NBC all apparently thought Colbert’s testimony was newsworthy. NBC in fact made Colbert’s appearance the LEAD STORY on its nightly news program!
my point exactly…really Corbert newsworthy? The only thing newsworthy about that little escapade was that he was even ALLOWED to testify before congress…really? Don’t we prosecute people who actively lie before Congress. If I were Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens I would be crying foul!
and my apologies…Colbert not Corbert…
If the electoral process has been corrupted, then the elected are illegitimate, and the revolution needs a first shot to be fired and heard, again, around the world. There is no Republic with these fascists in charge of America. Time to roll.
Of course it has; of course they are.
I’m just across the river and I’m loading 30 rd magazines….. just in case. It has a calming effect, looking at each round, thinking where it might be directed to fly. The Marines that shoot at my range tell me to only put 28 rds in each mag. I respect their knowledge cause it’s been learned in the crucible of war. I’ll be ready soon. Na, I’m always ready.
This is the dirty little secret we knew all along: people like Mary Jacoby, former Assistant Attorney General Loretta King, and Professor Allan Lichtman really don’t believe the protections of the law apply to whites.
Astonishing stuff, this place to which postmodernism and its handmaiden, moral relativism, have brought so many minds in this country.
One of the most (in)famous early signs of pernicious decline for the rule of law was when a sitting US President was caught lying under oath and his ideological enablers wrote it off as no big deal.
…in Solzhenitsyn’s world, truth and falsehood were obsolete
“The heart of the matter is not personal guilt, but social danger. One can imprison an innocent person if he is socially dangerous. And one can release a guilty man if he is socially friendly.”
Welcome to Eric Holder’s Gulag.
Nobody discussed the bombshell that instructions were given that racially equal enforcement of the law was not allowed.
The rats must be expunged from the ship of state known as Washington DC or America is finished.
BC: Going against my own better judgement.
Definition of a moron: 1. white person who defends black criminality, 2. white person who defends black racism, 3. white person who thinks they are defending black american’s honor from the safety of him mother’s den, 4. white person who thinks he is doing good will for blacks by supporting and favoring programs that are prejudicial against white Americans; see related at #5, 5. white person who will not voluntarily give up his job for a black person but would ask that other white Americans not get hired so that a black person can, 6. white person who does not live in black urban ghettos but acts like and thinks he is black, 7. white person who “has many black friends”, 8. white person who thinks they are sick by making nonsensical snarky remarks in the vain effort to defend black racialism.
There are two separate stories, here. The intentional mishandling by the corrupt urban media. Then there is the underlying story of how OUR Department of Justice has a systemic and malignant disease.
What are the signs and symptoms of the disease?
1)Lichtman
2)Jacoby
3)King
4)Schmaler
Lichtman says that whites get “enough” equal protection, and “enough” justice from the department, because “if that’s all you have to complain about, buster…quit your whining”.
Let me tell you why that is not only legally inept, morally bankrupt…but logically unhinged.
The pervasive attitude that there is no “damage” to a voting “system” that allows the gerryrigging of voter rolls so that the dead, the imaginary, the invisible and the criminally ineligible can tee up voting fraud, manipulations for redistricting or any other nefarious PRO DEMOCRAT trickery…is a sepsis in our body politic.
Moreover, someone who is cheap with his honor is no “expert”, he is a paid whore if he believes that he can pick and choose which facts, which laws, and which evidence he can unilaterally discard on his way to a predetermined conclusion. REAL experts take the facts, law and evidence as they stand, and come to an honest conclusion…letting the chips fall where they may. Anyone who has ever tried a case knows the difference between a true expert and the “testifying whore”. The former cares about his reputation. The latter cares about turning his next court trick.
2) Jacoby: “Let’s not forget that the Civil Rights Division exists because of racial discrimination against blacks.”
And, I suppose…let’s not forget that the COUNTRY exists because of the Italians. How far back should we go and what should we do with this strained logic? Is there an all time “immunity” against criminal acts by a race or ethnicity because of some historical “free card”?
This is inane. Blacks should be freely available to produce wonderful people and complete jerks…just like the rest of us. And all the good people ought to be on the same side, when a jerk acts like a jerk…we ALL seek justice, fairness, equal treatment.
The insistence that justice be meted out by personal fiat, that the SAME act gets different treatment based upon anything but the law, facts and evidence…is a slippery slope for CITIZENS to traverse, but it is a travesty and breach of fiduciary obligation for the GOVERNMENT to embrace. In fact, it is DE FACTO evidence of a policy, practice, or pattern of intentional discriminatory conduct…and it is actionable on its face.
3) King: Speaking of jerks, when the incompetent meet the imperious…bad things befall the innocent. The mere question of whether one would be race neutral is so offensive, she had to put an immediate stop to it. Forget the Ike Brown hatefest and the uniformed, billy club…”civilian army” junta display in Philadelphia…the 8 STATES that thumbed their noses at the voting registration process is an INTENTIONAL disregard for the rights of an entire class of voters. Fernandes and King, if the evidence continues to point in this same direction, are intentionally running interference for (and against) a class of citizens and for unfair political advantage.
This is not merely prosecutorial misconduct, it is an attempt to gerryrig elections in favor of a class of persons and for a single party. That’s banana republic stuff, not related to freedom, liberty or American principles.
4)Schmaler: Bush did this, the Commission did that…is wholly irrelevant. Fair is fair, right is right, wrong is wrong. Pro Democratic Party, unhinged leftist and anti-white equality in the Justice Department is inexcusable and these policies, practices and patterns should cease and desist immediately.
The letter, spirit and intent of the laws are designed and written to protect ALL Americans. It cannot be any other way. And anyone who feels otherwise, does not belong in any department that has justice in its name.
It’s precisely the implications you submit, that force the premature burial of the story.
I like your question “Is there an all time “immunity” against criminal acts by a race or ethnicity because of some historical “free card”?”
The card seems to be used liberally across the planet.
The MSM can try to bury the story, but the facts will not have changed in a few months when the Repubs will be in a better position to advance the inquiry. Also, I find it hard to believe that the DoJ apparatchiks involved are shameless (not to mention fearless) enough to stick around and see what else comes out.
There can be no doubt that the powers that be are fully aware of how devastating this will be when it becomes common knowledge. They’ve dishonored the Civil Rights Division, which used to be their epitome of Government in righteous service to the people. They just couldn’t resist trashing it with their retrograde racial vengeance crusade. All of the people involved are a disgrace, particularly King and Fernandes.
Keep up the good fight, Mr. Adams, you’ve been invaluable thus far.
BC – Do you REALLY believe Mr. Adams, Mr. Coates is only to do with one case – ‘The Black Panther thingy’ you speak of?
You’re stupid, guy. Frighteningly stupid.
Ahhh….but he’s really good at Superiority and Namecalling. In the world where he lives, those are considered Very Shiny Compensations for Stupid and Frighteningly Stupid.
Mr. Adams, is there a way to contact Mr. Coates at the DOJ to say ‘Thanks’ for his testimony/bravery?
the only public record I found available was a phone number for Mr. Coates’ division whereas I’d left a voice mail. Whether he’d receive the message(s) is nil-none.
Good idea..however, he’d also get emails like BC’s pissin backwards on an honorable man.
It is not surprising that a press corps that was indoctrinated into neo-Marxist dogma in their addle-brained elitist schools, who saw as their heroes such totalitarianists as Che Guevara and Castro, now will act as PRAVDA and stifle news when it does not fit into their “narrative” aka. their socialistic dogma and agenda. Thank God for the Internet, and outlets such as PJM.
Like I said in several posts late last week, this story was going absolutely nowhere. Not that it DESERVES to be ignored, only that my observation is (was?) that it would.
The statement “If these are the worst examples you can find, then, by God, white people in America are pretty safe” pretty much sums it up.
This attitude is carved in stone with the media, its a non-story because they believe this is a minor event in a universe of larger issues.
The equivilant of some obvious jaywalkers being conciously ignored while the limited resources are focused on rape, murder, and robbery.
Just mentioning it gets a “sheesh, WTF?” response from them.
- Really? That was the goal?
Of COURSE it was. You just have to see this whole episode from behind the eyes of the morally adolescent left.
Remember, when one is trapped in the leftist worldview – where the end not only justifies the means, but is the only yardstick by which the means are assessed – the only real mistake one can make is to lose control of the facts (thus the apropos reference to Pravda). This is because society-at-large has a funny way of using its own criteria, and deciding for itself what’s reasonable… or constitutional.
Once the facts get out, and the public has a chance to objectively assess them, the jig is up.
This is the very essence of The Left Wing Media’s reason for existence: to bottle up the facts so that the means – however suspect, hypocritical, irrational or downright dishonest – may progress toward the desired end. And to the leftist, in whose mind all morality is relative, achievement of that end is the only valid metric.
The title of the column should be:
“The building of a regime”
PS Roll it back in November !
The Wall Street Journal, weekend edition, and Monday, September 27, carried not one word about the testimony of Christopher Coates before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Is this part of the coverup by the mass media?
Shabazz, the lead New Black Panther in the Philadelphia case, is reported to have gone to the White House
“Shabazz, the lead New Black Panther in the Philadelphia case, is reported to have gone to the White House” This should scare us all
Some people are more equal than others. QED.
Thank you, Mr. Adams.
Talk about the way the LSM ignore the news they don’t see fit to print, there was a great Mallard Fillmore cartoon a few days ago. It shows Mallard dialing the NYT, and getting the following voice instructions (I do this from memory, so it is inexact):
Press 1 for the department of ignoring the news we don’t want to print
Press 2 for the department of fabricating the new we do want to print
Voter intimidation is one tactic ,how about voter fraud ? How many readers here saw the story a few days ago where a polling watchdog group in Houston Texas discovered a sampling of 25,000 registered voters from a Democrat/ SEIU sponssored organization showed over 23,000 were un qualified registrations.
This was in a city whose majority of Democrats are the base for Democrat Bill White ,nominee for Governor. He was the mayor of Houston ,which he claims in his campaign commercials but never discloses which political party he represents. He wouldn’t even meet Obama at a campaign stop in Austin. Houston officials were about to launch an investigation when all of the evidence burned up in a storage warehouse fire . Bill white is as dirty as Chicagos Mayor Daley.
“Intellectual bankruptcy”????
More like intellectual negligence.
To be bankrupt, they would have had to be intelligent to start. They shun intelligence; Embrace ignorance; Promote ignorance; Glorify ignorance.
You can argue one way or the other. I don’t care if the guy blocking my polling place is black or white or republican or democrat or what-ever. The result isn’t going to be pretty; however, its going to be effective. I will vote or die trying.
I’m behind you with that one. Heh, should whites start marching arm-in-arm to the polls now? Sad, that such an absurdity seems almost a sensible response.
I thought Steven Colbert (I say CoalBert, elitist NPR types say CoalBear) was the only story of note in Congress these days? According to the lamestream he is, ain’t he? Argh!
Now, now…. Remember the famous American movie star of the 30s, 40s and 50s, Claudette Colbert (pro. Coalbear)? Well, her family name, of course, was French, and the French (even the NON-elite French) pronounce it with a silent “t” on the end. I think she may originally have been from Quebec, but I’ve long forgotten that minutiae. Anyway, don’t be intimidated by CORRECT French pronunciation – it just drives us nuts, of course, ’cause it’s often not pronounced as it’s spelled!
Below is a copy of a letter I have written to the Wall Street Journal:
Editor, Wall Street Journal
Dear Sir:
Your editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal about the elections in Venezuela, with Hugo Chavez’ chicanery, is commendable. But why have you been completely silent about the situation of elections in the United States, described by Christopher Coates’ testimony before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on Friday, September 24? He described the situation in the Voting Rights section of the Department of Justice, where he was the head? He testified not only about the dropping of the charges against the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia, who had threatened voters at the polls, and other cases of not enforcing voting rights in conformity with the Constitution, i.e., in cases of blacks attacking whites, but also about not enforcing the law to remove ineligible voters in eight states.
Let us know if they respond, or how they respond please? TIA!
How timely!! just cleaning out papers and files when I come across: “The One-Sided Sword: Selective Prosecution In Federal Courts”, Rutgers-Camden Law Journal, Volume 6, Summer, 1974, Number 1 – by Mark Lemle Amsterdam, Staff Attorney for Center for Constitutional Rights. NY, NY.
Back then it was prosecution of Nixon’s “Enemies List”.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
One of the delusions of leftists is – put in its simplest form – that even if their programs, policies and actions destroy the very society and nation which they’re trying to rule, that doesn’t matter, because whatever they do or advocate doing is “morally right”. *sigh* Once enough white Americans become convinced that having black Americans holding political office means that the black Americans in office will discriminate against white Americans – for whatever reason and to whatever extent – then the nation begins to break apart. “Legitimacy” is the belief – note that: utterly subjective opinion, a feeling – that the government at all its many levels and departments is treating us all fairly and when it is discovered that it is not doing so, that the folks who have deviated from that fair treatment standard can be punished or at least removed from office and the wrong made right. Legitimacy is rather like having a reputation for chastity: once enough people believe you’re a whore, you have lost your virginity, even if you’re still virgin. It isn’t about truth or fact, it’s about belief.
Anyone who has tried in the last 18 months to say anything negative about the “Anointed One” on either Newsvine or anything involved with NBC, already knows that first: your comments don’t show up and second: your registration disappears after a few weeks. I know dozens of friends who had the same thing happen. Gee, who knew that Pravda America had arrived. Don’t worry though, the “Anointed One” makes his chess move’s and us babbling humans need to realize that the unbelieving conspiracy “heathen” understate the issues when they say that Obama is a radical. Tonight Facebook and MySpace groups spread across the Internet like digital fire. YouTube videos featuring celebrities ricocheted across the globe and into college students’ in-boxes with devastating regularity. All the while, the Obama mega-money-raising engine whirred on at high speed, until the result became inevitable: an unthinking mass of young voters will march forward tomorrow to bow to Comedy and the “Anointed One.”
This is a disgrace. And the disregard shown by large parts of the MSM is worse than a disgrace.
It’s up to us bloggers to take the initiative, if we haven’t done so already, and I intend to get our local expat blog, Ross’s Right angle, to focus on the story again. Though even the local English-language media here in Indonesia is bright pinko… which keeps RRA busy!