Bringing A Video To A Street Fight

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Madame's Nightshirt

Mrs. Peperium

 

Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness. 

- Mary Frances Berry, Professor of American Social Thought and History, U.Penn.

In an incredibly cynical and political move, the NAACP at it's annual convention passed a resolution condemning the Tea Party movement.  Thankfully, Andrew Brietbart has cried foul.  

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The NAACP will not release the actual text of its resolution condemning "racist elements" within the Tea Party movement until October, when the organization's board gives it final approval, a spokesman for the group has told me. [...]

In a blog post on the passage of the resolution on its own website, the NAACP writes:

The proposed resolution had generated controversy on conservative blogs, where in some cases the language has been misconstrued to imply that the NAACP was condemning the entire Tea Party movement itself as racist.

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Some of the language of the proposed resolution :

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Tea Party members have used "racial epithets," have verbally abused black members of Congress and threatened them, and protestors have engaged in "explicitly racist behavior" and "displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically," according to the proposed resolution.

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No evidence of Tea Party "explicitly racist behavior" has been found despite Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. holding two videophones walking through the tea partiers the day health care went down and Andrew Breitbart offering a $100,000.00 reward for video proof.  The reward remains unclaimed.  This is all about the effective tactic  of slandering of fellow Americans in order to motivate black voters to get out this November:

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The head of the nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization, fearing a loss of momentum since the 2008 election, plans to use the group's annual convention to get people "off the couch" and re-energized to fight back against a tea party movement that opposes much of President Barack Obama's agenda.

The NAACP convention, set to start Saturday, also will focus on education and the mounting jobs losses that have disproportionately affected minorities. Headliners will include First Lady Michelle Obama and the Revs. Jesse L. Jackson and Al Sharpton.

"We have to close the enthusiasm gap and remind people that the majority that existed two years ago still exists today," said Ben Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in a phone interview.

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 Andrew Breitbart and Ben Jealous had a face-off last week on the telly in which Andrew shouted:

“Let me say something a tad newsworthy to the president of the NAACP. You can go to hell. ... I have tapes…tape of racism and it’s an NAACP dinner. You want to play with fire? I have evidence of racism and it’s coming from the NAACP."

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Yesterday Andrew Breitbart made good on his shouts by releasing his tape:

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Later, in the afternoon the USDA released this:

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The Agriculture Department announced Monday, shortly after FoxNews.com published its initial report on the video, that Sherrod had resigned.

"There is zero tolerance for discrimination at USDA, and I strongly condemn any act of discrimination against any person," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a written statement. "We have been working hard through the past 18 months to reverse the checkered civil rights history at the department and take the issue of fairness and equality very seriously.

Hmmn....discrimination the USDA says...

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Main Entry: dis·crim·i·na·tion

Function: noun

Date: 1648

1 a : the act of discriminating.

b: the process by which two stimuli differing in some aspect are responded to differently

2 : the quality or power of finely distinguishing

3 a : the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually b : prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment <racial discrimination>

Andrew Breitbart was right about the NAACP.  More than that his "tape" drew blood*.  But, Andrew originally said "tapes", didn't he?  Did he misspeak? Maybe not. Last night Andrew Breitbart tweeted:

Hey @ericboehlert & the mostly male Caucasian @mmfa 'senior fellows': Get some rest. Tomorrow's gonna be long day & first of many in a row.

Game On.

* The fired employee of the USDA is crying foul...

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Comments

[George Pal]

Homo bellatorius sighting on the Right!

[John]

In light of recent developments, perhaps an update to this post is required, wherein you recant every idiotic word that you have written and apologize for being such a flaming asshole.