More On Reid The Weed
To see my two previous postings on Harry The School Marm Reid’s comment controversy, please click here and here.
-Well, well, well…I’m happy to see that this is a controversy that refuses to go away. The MSM is helping to keep it alive, which is a bit surprising, unless, perhaps, maybe, they figure helping to obtain the unlikable Weed’s head is a way for them to restore their bona fides as legitimate news organizations. It won’t work, but, hey, its fun to watch.
-Retired Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, a Republican running for the Congress from Florida-22, has weighed-in with his thoughts [If you don't know who he is, check out the About page at his campaign site.*]. From his posting over at Eric Dondero’s Libertarian Republican site:
Senator Harry Reid’s comments are disgusting, despicable, and unacceptable. They are representative of how intellectual elite liberals do indeed speak of black Americans in their closed private spaces. Next week I have been invited to NYC to address the Hudson Institute, a conservative organization, conference on “Reclaiming American Liberty”. That invite came to me because I took advantage of the opportunities this great Republic offered. I followed the guidance of my parents and set my standards above all others around me. I speak well and have impeccable communicative skills because my Father and Mother prioritized that quality.
I shiver to think what my future could have been if I listened to the insidious rhetoric of charlatans such as Harry Reid, and the ambassadors of affirmative action who reside in the Congressional Black Caucus.
Sure, the “stuck on stupid” blacks are going to address me in derogatory names, but I possess something which they lack; Honor, Integrity, and Character….
This is the kind of man we need in the Congress…hell, in any kind of office.
-Stacy McCain’s comments on what Mr. West wrote are spot-on:
I’m very grateful for Lt. Col. West’s expression of a basic truth: Liberalism’s stance toward blacks — as toward women, Hispanics, gays, “workers” and other token victim-group members of the Democratic coalition — is one of patronizing condescension, telling these people that they are incapable of pursuing success as individuals, but are in permanent need of government assistance as groups.
Necessary to that worldview is the belief that there is a conspiratorial oppressor (e.g., “Corporate America,” the Religious Right, the patriarchy, etc.) against whom liberals will lead the crusade to secure the natural condition of equality that the oppressors allegedly prevent.
It simply isn’t so. This perverse Us-Against-Them attitude, based on a false mythology of perpetual victimhood and oppression, is a fiction that falls to pieces the minute you begin to examine it in any critical fact-based manner. Are the problems of black Americans (or gays, or women, etc.) in the 21st century really all the fault of demonized oppressors? Or is the liberal victimhood ideology just a sort of conspiracy theory, akin to the blame-the-Jews propaganda of anti-Semites?
The race hucksters, like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, et. al., all know that the white Leftists are condescending and are patronizing them, but, being grifters and parasites, they let the Caucasian Lefties prattle on as they keep putting one over on them [The Man] and accumulating more power and riches for themselves and their minions. Meanwhile, the people they supposedly represent and who believe in them are the ones who suffer [Please don;t misunderstand me: I believe in Free Will, so I do believe that these people share the responsiblity for their sad conditions].
-GatorDoug doesn’t think that Harry Weed is a raaaaacist:
I would say, that Harry Reid is many things. A sorry excuse for a senator. A pathetic little weasel of a man. A lying, bottom-feeding whiner. A power hungry Marxist who has no respect for our Constitution or our founding principles. An elitist who loathes the ideals of liberty and self-determination. But a racist? Naw.
I’d have to agree with Doug on the content of the man’s character.
-Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft reports on this interesting related fact:
The African-Americans for Harry Reid Facebook Page lists 5 fans… 4 are white.
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*You may have heard of him when this story broke [taken from the Wikipedia file on him, which is surprisingly fair and balanced]:
While serving in Taji, Iraq on August 20, 2003 as commander of the 2d Battalion 20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division, Lieutenant Colonel West was in charge of but not present at an interrogation of an Iraqi police officer who was suspected of having information about planned attacks on American forces. According to the Iraqi police officer, Yehiya Kadoori Hamoodi claimed that during the interrogation soldiers under West’s supervision assaulted him attempting to get him to talk. Some say West fired a pistol near the policeman’s head, producing an immediate flood of information that purportedly led to the arrest of two insurgents and cessation of attacks on West’s 4th Infantry Division battalion.
West, who at the time was just short of having 20 years of service, was charged with violating articles 128 (assault) and 134 (general article) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and was in danger of receiving an 11 year prison sentence, dismissal, and losing his retirement benefits. West was processed through an Article 32 hearing in November 2003, where he admitted wrongdoing, was fined $5,000 over two months for misconduct and assault. He then submitted his resignation, and was allowed to retire with full benefits in the summer of 2004.
At a hearing, West was asked by his defense attorney if he would do it again. “If it’s about the lives of my men and their safety, I’d go through hell with a gasoline can,” he said.
After West’s resignation was brought to public attention the next Fall, he received over two thousand letters and e-mails from the American public offering him moral support. In addition, a letter was drafted to the Secretary of the Army, its signatories being ninety-five members of Congress in West’s support. Even a prominent critic of the Abu Graib affair, Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia, wrote a letter to his constituents in support of West’s honorable intentions during the controversial incident.
Moron Reid the Weed…
Yep. Has a ring to it.
Eric Dondero is a jerk. He lies to suit his range-of-the-moment political plans. For instance: he suggested that libertarians vote for Giuliani, out of spite for his former boss, Ron Paul, in January of 2008 (just prior to Paul losing too many delegates to win on “Super Tuesday”). He told all manner of lies to support Giuliani’s fabricated “pro-freedom” record, and downplayed Giuliani’s attacks on gun rights, freedom of speech, due process, and jury trials for property siezure victims.
Interestingly, Dondero told me (in a car ride back from Houston in 2004, before I knew what he was really like) that he believes blacks to be less intelligent than whites. He is a racist. He is a personal advocate of social darwinism. His views on “racial fitness” are detailed and bizarre. He admires Hitler “for his political ability, but not his politics”.
Since he has no compunction against lying, you’d need to ask him about his views in person, when he is at ease (probably after a few beers or after smoking a doobie with his friend Scott Kohlhaas). Dondero is smart enough to realize his continually-changing “pragmatist” views are abhorrent to libertarians, so he doesn’t often say what he actually believes.
Dondero views the internet as his social engineering playground. He includes just enough verifiable truth in every obvious lie to delude the gullible –which is his goal.
Dondero is a toxic personality. I avoid interacting with him. His goals are those of an agent provacateur, mindlessly and slavishly devoted to the mainslime Republican Party.
There is, however, one political issue that Dondero cares about: military spending. He is in favor of it. If it benefits the US. Military in any way, he supports it. He favors wars (part of his belief in “weeding out the weak” and “social darwinism”). Dondero = warmonger idiot son of the Republican Party.