The Racist Right

Max Blumenthal has a piece up at The Huffington Post trumpeting the racism of the American Right.

He yammers on and on.

Oooooooooh. The racist Right. Where have I heard that before?

I find his stance so hypocritical.

Highlighting the racism of the Right is an open invitation to highlight the glaring racism of the Left.

Just a few examples:

--USA Today doctors a photo of Condoleezza Rice.

--Condoleezza Rice is belittled on a math final at Bellevue Community College.

--Michael Steele is labeled an Uncle Tom and pelted with oreos.

--Former Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee spews anti-Semitic remarks on the radio.

--Clarence Thomas is deemed "a black man who deserves an asterisk" by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

--Trey Ellis plays shrink in a racist attack on Claude Allen.

--MoveOn.org hosts anti-Semitic remarks about Joe Lieberman.

--Chris Matthews repeatedly employs ethnic stereotypes to refer to Joe Lieberman.

And then we have the most recent example: WUSA reporter Peggy Fox probing George Allen about his Jewish roots in a debate between him and Jim Webb.

It was a blatant attempt to turn Red State Virginia voters against Allen.

That's particularly troubling because of the assumptions that Fox makes.

1. She assumes that being of Jewish heritage is a negative.

2. She assumes that Virginians are racists and will be swayed by their deep-seated anti-Semitism, not wanting to vote for Allen because of his Jewish background.

Here is the transcript of their exchange.

The way Fox grilled Allen was disgraceful.

What does Allen's pedigree have to do with this election?

Are the people of Virginia electing someone to represent them in the Senate or are they passing judgment on someone's background and endorsing a religion?

Allen is a Christian, a Presbyterian. So what?

How is that relevant?

And what does his mother or grandfather have to do with this election?

If Allen's mother were a wiccan, what difference would that make?

She isn't the candidate.

The fact is a thinly-veiled bigotry routinely runs through the Left's commentary.

They fail to condemn anti-Semites like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan.

They fail to condemn Howard Dean, Joe Biden, Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton, etc., for their racial and ethnic slurs. Catholic-bashing is a favorite pastime for them.

Nevertheless, the Left puts on a holier-than-thou attitude and paints the Right as racist.

Fox claimed that her question to Allen was about honesty, "Honesty, that's all."

Let's be honest.

Elements of racism permeate the Left. That is the ugly truth.