New York Times dowdy spinster Maureen Dowd is doing what radical left wingers do best when faced with dissent: Race bait.
And she’s lying through her teeth when she does it.
Here is what Dowd says about those who disagree with President Obama’s policies:
But [Representative Joe] Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.
Apparently the New York Times is so broke that it can’t afford to pay Dowd’s Internet connection bill.
Using the highly sophisticated and complex Google search formulation, “Democrat calls Bush a liar,” I found in less than ten minutes countless instances where Congressional Democrats called George W. Bush a liar on the House or Senate floor.
So not only is it a lie that Democrats never called Bush a liar, the reverse is probably true: Bush was called a liar more frequently than any other President in American history.
Here’s just a sampling of what I found:
Harry Reid (D-NV)
“President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country.”
Here’s what Reid said when Tim Russert challenged him on the civility of this comment:
[P]eople may not like what I said, but I said it, and I don’t back off one bit.
At least Joe Wilson apologized for calling Obama a liar.
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
The president is a liar. Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the Big Lie, is not only a liar, he is a thief.
Right, Ms. Dowd, Democrats never called Bush a liar.
Barbara Lee (D- CA)
Ms. Lee said on the house floor that Bush lied about WMD. This was a prepared and carefully calculated speech, not an impassioned, impromptu comment like the one Joe Wilson made.
According to Dowd’s pretzel logic, Lee too must be a racist.
And if some Democrats didn’t call Mr. Bush a liar it’s only because they were too busy calling him much worse.
Pete Stark (D-CA)
You don’t have money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.
The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up. In Iraq, in the United States and in Congress.
I very easily found where Stark twice called Bush a liar on the House floor.
Jayson Blair would have done a better and more honest job of research.
Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Most of the people I represent think that’s (impeachment) a horrible idea. I’m a Democrat, and I can’t stand this president…. This is a representative government and I represent the people and they don’t want to impeach this clown.
Apparently calling the President a clown is “patriotic dissent” when he’s George Bush and racism when he’s Barack Obama.
Even Stevie Wonder could see that calling conservative opponents of the President “racists” is a liberal tactic designed to marginalize or completely stifle dissent. It always was and always will be.
Dowdocrisy
Dowd’s assertions are not only lies, they are evidence of rank hypocrisy.
For eight years she lambasted the Bush administration for labeling criticism of its policies “unpatriotic,” yet here she is calling criticism of President Obama’s policies “racist.”
What’s the difference?
Apparently in Dowd World dissent is patriotic only when it’s in opposition to a Republican President.
If that ain’t the pot calling the kettle African American, I don’t know what is.
Obama opponents would vote for black candidates Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Alan Keyes, Richard Steele, J.C. Watts or Bobby Jindal over a white Democrat
What’s particularly irrational about the slanderous accusations levied by Dowd and her liberal friends (who see just about everything in terms of race) is that Joe Wilson and the tea partiers they call racists would support a Colin Powell or a Condoleezza Rice candidacy in a heartbeat and they currently support the policy proposals of the uber-conservative Alan Keyes.
Black folks, all.
That is unless you agree with the revered liberal icon and arbiter-of-all-things-negro, Harry Belafonte, that any black person who is a Republican is not really black:
“There’s an old saying,” Belafonte began. “In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master… exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.
“Colin Powell is committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.”
“Daylight come and me wanna go home,” indeed!
The Left needs racial discord
Democrats have successfully used the tactic of race-baiting to frighten Americans for so long that they are petrified at the prospect of losing it.
The Democratic party needs racial discord the way a doctor needs illness. Without it the party ceases to exist.
By way of analogy, consider what would happen to the National Organization of Women if it admitted that men and women were completely and irrevocably equal. The very declaration would be suicide.
Democrats must perpetuate the lie of Republican racism at all costs and that is why when a black person commits the unpardonable sin of Republicanism, the left accuses him or her of being either an Uncle Tom or a Field Negro. The vile implication is that the only reason Republicans accept these black folks into the party is because they are willing to do the racist white man’s bidding.
The truth is the left fears black Republicans so much that they consider them guilty of capital offenses.
Do you remember this line from that paragon of left-wingedry, ABC’s Juliette Malveaux:
I hope that [Clarence Thomas's] wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.
That, my friends, is compassionate and tolerant liberalism.
6 responses so far ↓
1 HappyTaxDude // Sep 15, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Well stated. The left is an abomination to the truth on anything, it seems. Here’s a link to an article that speaks of the media malpractice: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws. Very inciteful.
2 Peter // Sep 15, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I was angry at Joe Wilson when he said what he said, but now that I see the Democrats trying to exploit it for political gain I am 100% on his side and thinking about contributing to his relection campaign.
By the way, if I’m not mistaken, during the speech the President called Republicans liars.
3 Tax Associate // Sep 17, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Without getting into the merits of Wilsongate, you seem to be committing the same kind of factual inaccuracies that you are against. Dowd, and anyone else in their right mind, knows that Democrats called Bush a liar in the legislative chambers, on the floors. She said “no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq.” Notice the key word “at.” No democratic congressman ever “shouted ‘liar’ at Bush.”
You are just setting up a strawman, and then tearing it down. Both sides do it, and it prevents us from talking about the real issues. Then again, our society seems to place winning over integrity, so what would you expect. If you have any then you would delete this entire post.
4 Peter // Sep 17, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Tax Associate,
Dowd and the Democrats draw the indecency line just above the outrageous things they said about George Bush.
How convenient it is that that it was not indecent to call George Bush a liar (and a war criminal and a murderer and a torturer) on the house floor but it is indecent to call Barack Obama a liar on the house floor during a speech.
Nice try, but that dog won’t hunt.
It is quite obvious that for Dowd the important distinction between the Wilson case and, say, the Barbara Lee case, is that Wilson is a Republican and Lee is a Democrat.
Dowd and the Democrats said much, much worse about President Bush. They are simply hypocrites.
And, as they say, “paybacks are hell.”
By the way, I won’t delete the post because everything in it is accurate.
5 Ryan // Sep 22, 2009 at 10:21 pm
She was saying that no member of congress ever heckled Bush, calling him a liar despite his rather lengthy record of loudly proclaiming the non-factual. To imply that Ms. Dowd was trying to say no Democrat ever called Bush a liar in any context is disingenuous.
6 Peter // Sep 23, 2009 at 3:26 am
Ryan,
Dowd is clearly saying that Democrats treated Bush with more respect than Joe Wilson treated Obama.
That is a lie and she knows it’s a lie.
Then she compounds the lie by saying that the reason Joe Wilson and Republicans in general disagree with Obama is because they hate black people.
Another vile, race-baiting lie.
Dowd conveniently draws the line so that the uncivil, rude and disrespectful things Democrats said about George Bush do not cross it. To wit:
Do you really think Dowd believes Joe Wilson’s emotional outburst during Obama’s speech is more disrespectful than calculatedly calling the President a war criminal, a torturer, a liar and moron on the House floor?
Dowd wasn’t outraged by that and, therefore, she is a hypocrite.
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