Odd Man Out
Comments (0) By now you’ve heard about Michele Bachmann (R, MN) and the bombastic political stunt she pulled in an interview with Hardball’s Chris Matthews on Friday. (The fallout was even more impressive.)
Not to be outdone, radio conservative blowhard and former prescription narcotic addict Rush Limbaugh shot his venom at General Colin Powell today for announcing his endorsement of Barrack Obama, principally targeting him for his up-front declaration that his decision had nothing to do with race.
Powell’s severance of loyalty to the GOP couldn’t possibly have anything to do with their turncoat handling of his career at the UN, wherein they systematically destroyed him in full view of the world’s political fishbowl, and after which he gracefully resigned.
If straying from the herd and giving personal support to their nemesis is to be reduced to an issue of simple racial politics, then the party itself is out of touch with reality to a deeper degree than previously feared. This is the same party whose secret weapon for this election was a feisty pistol-whip from the hard north to rouse the religious base and swing the feminist vote.
Having failed that, we are now in the midst of a libelous media blitzkrieg to keep America in the mentality of white flight: If they can’t infiltrate our government, they can’t change our country.
History has already witnessed the character assassination of Paul Robeson. Having nervously observed the downscaling of Powell, this flagging of Obama is not unexpected and yet still unnerving in its implications.
If the tactics employed in 1950 were any indication of our nation’s willingness toward silent complicity, today’s culture of racial profiling and anti-homosexual hate crimes is indeed worrisome.
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