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Why do black liberals hate America?

by Gary Boatwright, Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 01:58:49 AM EST

This is getting ridiculous. This article in the L.A. times starts off fine GOP Sees a Future in Black Churches: Social issues are binding the party with a group once firmly in the Democratic camp.

Black conservatives who supported President Bush in 2004 and gained new prominence within the Republican Party are launching a loosely knit movement that they hope will transform the role African Americans play in national politics.

So far so good, pretty routine political story.

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Republicans are following a plan loosely patterned after the "Contract With America".

Before the meeting, one prominent minister plans to unveil a "Black Contract With America on Moral Values," a call for Bible-based action by government and churches to promote conservative priorities. It is patterned loosely on the "Contract With America" that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich used 10 years ago to inaugurate an era of GOP dominance in Congress.

Then the story takes an interesting twist:

A separate group with ties to Gingrich will announce a similar "Mayflower Compact for Black America" later this month in Washington, which includes plans to organize in key states ahead of the 2006 and 2008 elections. And at the end of the month, the Heritage Foundation will cosponsor a gathering of black conservatives in Washington designed to counter dominance of the "America-hating black liberal leadership" and to focus African American voters on moral issues.

WTF? The Congressional Black Caucus has noticed:

The effort has proved so successful already that Democrats who make up the Congressional Black Caucus are quietly expressing alarm -- and planning countermeasures.

"I am frightened by what is happening," said Rep. Major R. Owens, an 11-term Democratic congressman from New York who has been conferring with colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. "Our party is in grave danger. This Republican movement is going to expand exponentially unless we do something."

And the rest of us should be alarmed as well, to say the least. This is part of a trend that is becoming established practice for conservatives. At what point does the farce become a parody? More important, what can we do to help the process along? I first noticed this pattern when conservatives started accusing anybody who criticized Bush's foreign policy of being anti-semitic.

I re-posted three examples this afternoon in one of the Gonzalez diaries over at dkos. In one example from the Weekly Standard, Joel Mowbray accuses Gen. Zinni of being anti-semitic. In another David Brooks complains of "full mooners" creating an "era of distortion". In the third from the WSJ Opinon Journal, somebody named Julia Goren says among other things:
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Others have gotten in trouble for pointing this out, but let's give up the charade. When a member of the enlightened classes, or Pat Buchanan, makes reference to a "neocon," what he's saying is "yid." That's right, "neoconservative," particularly in its shortened form, when employed by a nonconservative (or by Buchananites) and therefore meant derogatorily, is the modern, albeit more specific, word for "kike" that the left can say--and it has been doing so liberally (no pun intended) ever since American conservatism became yet something else that Jews have managed to benefit from--the conquered, final frontier of that famous Jewish manipulation.
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So let's go over the rules: Just because we call ourselves "neocons," it doesn't mean you can

That's what I call turning race/ethnic baiting into an art. We all know other examples. Bush haters. Democrats hate the military. Liberals hate America.Ashcroft Haters. Michael Moore hates America. George Soros hates America. Anne Coulter's traitor list. Hannity and Limbaugh have been claiming that Democrats hate conservative minorities. Rice and Armstrong Williams and Gonzalez are excused from all moral failures because they are minorities. Bob Somerby has commented on David Brooks' editorial and I recall Josh Marshall commenting on it as well. We saw it today when Hatch made thinly veiled threats of a backlash from the Hispanic community.

I did a quick google search and found this example from Front Page in 2002, aptly titled America Haters. That was one out of 322,000 hits. A google search of the Mayflower Compact and black Americans turned up this link to Gary McLeod Should black Americans come back to the GOP? from South Carolina. A lot of work went into that page. Fortunately he lost to Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn in 2002 and 2004. Apparently the work that went into McLeod's web page wasn't wasted.

Any ideas how we counter this ideological McCarthyism? The Heritage Foundation doesn't have any links to "Mayflower Compact". Either they aren't particularly proud of their work, or they aren't advertising it yet. Do you think Faux News will ask Newt Gingrich about the Mayflower Compact? hmmmm.

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I thought that was on the comics page. (none / 0)

I glance at such articles and pay them no mind. Every election I hear the whispers about blacks leaving for the GOP or pissed about "being taken for granted" by the democrats, etc. What happens every election? Blacks overwhelmingly vote dem every time anywhere from 80 to 90%. And that's not going to change as long as blacks identify the GOP with gun toting NRA rednecks, white supremacists, and "the man". In fact, I'll go so far as say this won't change until the day the GOP fields a black presidential nominee. And even then, blacks will still think he must be a sellout uncle tom.

Must have been a slow news day.

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by Vote Hillary 2008 on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 02:12:02 AM EST

Re: I thought that was on the comics page. (none / 0)

It's not that a large number of blacks will leave the party, but that blacks are being called America haters. But only if they're liberal blacks.

Bush and the conservatives are taking Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin mainstream. Everybody who opposes Bush on any policy either hates America or is racist. Our fearless leader is immune from criticism.

This is also part of creating their own reality. They are creating America in Rush Limbaugh's image.

by Gary Boatwright on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 03:46:09 AM EST
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I don't believe that at all. That reality/faith based community shit just shows how delussionary these people are. Gravity will always make apples fall from trees, there will always be 24 hours in a day -- regardless of what Bush and the neocons say or do, nothing will change reality. Their perception of reality may change, but reality itself doesn't change.

Ann Coulter is not mainstream and she'll never be. She's a circus act, and vile-mouthed cunt who's entire marketability is based on her considerable talent to enflame and create controversy. There are a couple far left similar acts out there but none quite as good at what they do as her. She's entertainment for the right, but will she ever be involved in shaping policy? No way.

And none of this is mainstream when America's political spectrum can be split down a hair. 57 million Americans voted for Kerry. That sure is a hell of a lot of anti-Bush folks, hardly indicative of solidarity behind this president. Bush isn't immune any more than Clinton was immune -- recall the constant conservative bitching about "slick willy" who gets away with everything and still is liked by most Americans.

Creating reality...come on now, let's not give the GOP way, way, way more credit than they deserve. They aren't gods. And as for Rush, no matter how popular he is in radio, he'll always be limited to only conservative listeners, the only people who can tolerate him, so there goes half the market. And there goes America in his own image, because that would require no liberals at all. That'll be the day apples stop falling from trees.

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by Vote Hillary 2008 on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 05:00:56 AM EST
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Democrats have to start fighting back. I remember when I completely turned O'Reilly and Faux News off a few months ago, he was on a tirade against Jesse Jackson. I couldn't figure out why he was spending so much time trying to demonize one black liberal. It's part of a campaign that has years of planning behind it.

O'Reilly was also demonizing George Soros. A month later Dennis Hastert goes on Faux News and claims Soros gets his money from running a drug cartel. ??? Media Matters picked it up, but the rest of the RWCM allowed the speaker of the House to commit slander on national television without missing a beat.

They have developed the politics of hate to a fine art. Weren't you amazed at how uniform and broad the right wing attack on Michael Moore was? This is a coordinated attack by the right wing noise machine that goes back at least a decade. Why do Americans trust the GOP more then Dems on national security? Because of all the GOPer foreign policy success? No,because Dems hate the military. Remember the big talk radio stink over U.N blue helmets? Each piece seems ridiculous, but added together it is effective.

This diary is a sample of what we can expect from the S.S. PR campaign in the next few weeks. Lies, deceit, manipulation and Dems hate America. I expect Dems will win the war. When we move on to the next battle, Dems will start hating America on that issue as well.

One reason for my strong support for Dean was my belief he could start fighting back against the slander of Dems and liberals that the party has been silent on. Oh, that's just Rush, nobody pays any attention to him. Constant repitition of a common theme seeps into the political consciousness. In today's paper, John Thune attacks Dems as being "in lockstep with trial lawyers." Sound familiar? Dems love evil lawyers and hate America. Oh well, it's only Sen. Thune in the L.A. Times.

by Gary Boatwright on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 09:28:32 AM EST
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Damn man, I'm not even a democrat and I think you need a morale boost!

I can't believe Jesse was on The Factor again. When will he ever learn? He's their whipping boy for all that they hate about the democratic party and it's like Jesse voluntarily offers himself to be lynched every time. Democrats need to condemn Fox News for what it is: the right wing's propaganda machine and boycott any and all appearances on the network. Treat it like a tabloid and refuse to give it any respect. Fox News has the illusion of credibility because its given to them.

As for Soros, yeah I saw that garbage they pulled during last year's campaigning. Slate covered it pretty well. I'm not worried about this one though because that smear attempt fell flat and fizzled out pretty quick. Soros is famous as one of the world's most generous philanthropists, having invested billions across the world to prop up fledging democracies. Not only would it take far more than a cheap GOP smear attempt to erase that legacy, even your average American recognizes the irony of the republicans bitching about huge campaign contributions!

And as for Moore, he can handle himself. The guy's brilliant in my eyes and people love his films. The right froths at the mouth at the mention of MM because he's so damn good at tearing them a new asshole, and making millions doing it. I even know Bush voters who are friends of mine who like his films, despite the politics. How they still voted Bush, I have no idea...

Lastly about the common sentiment that dems are weak on national defense. That's basically a result of the ghost of Vietnam. Prior to that, the dems lead every major successful war we had and were the interventionist hawks of the US politics. Vietnam was so damaging to the American psyche and the dems reaped the blame. All they remember is the dems got us into a war we lost and the republicans got us out. All the wartime political capital was spent. But - I have a good feeling that the republicans are spending theirs in Iraq.

But I don't see it nearly as gloomy as you do. 2004 was a unique situation as the first post 9/11 election and the Bush administration did a fine job scaring the public. With a public that feels under seige it's not that surprising to see a wartime president get re-elected. Rational or not, people were scared and they just want to feel safe, and there's always that resistance to change horses. I am heartened that so many Americans came out for Kerry in the end -- to be honest, it's surprising Bush didn't win by a larger margin.

In any case, I think 2008 will go blue.

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by Vote Hillary 2008 on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 10:02:12 AM EST
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Here's a link to a similar diary (none / 0)

over at dkos Republicans hate you.

by Gary Boatwright on Wed Feb 02, 2005 at 09:57:52 AM EST

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