An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
The Muse Asks A Question
Can the Left Be Racist, Ridiculous and Repugnant, Too? Or Just the GOP?
Yesterday, NewsComa broke a story about a GOP staffer who Forwarded an email containing a picture which she found racist and offensive. She broke the story at 10AM and, according to the timeline posted over at Silence Isn’t Golden, with a little help from the Lefty blogosphere, “in the span of about six to six and a half hours, everyone knows just how much racism exists within the TNGOP.” Big press from the Left on Right wing racism!
At the exact same time that story was breaking, in what can only be seen as a historic case of irony, a Democratic staffer was Forwarding an email that was even worse.
Titled “Smiles for Monday”, this email made fun of Racism:
Child Abuse:
The Elderly and Aging:
and the Mentally Handicapped.
There’s more, of course, with vulgar language (including a couple of **F** bombs), quasi-nudity, and the Left’s omnipresent fascination with the Nazis.
What remains to be seen is whether the Left in Tennessee, and nationally, is willing to take a stand against Racism in Principle or show themselves merely interested in exploiting Racism by Party. Will Lefty bloggers condemn this Democrat and call for his firing? Will the Media cover this on the news like they did the story of the GOP staffer? Will the Left police their own? Will this be written up and front paged at Daily Kos, Wonkette, and Think Progress? And what will the TNDP do? Will Chip Forrester lead the way and not merely call for the firing of this staffer but fire first and comment later?
I’d like to think that there would be an identical response from the Left to the event. But I’m a realist. I have no doubt that there are some on the Left with integrity and character who will come out against this Democrat just as they did against the Republican. But I hold little hope that anything approaching the howling multitudes on the Left calling for the head of a GOP employee will bother to clean up their own stable and remove the beam from their own eye. I guess the next six and a half hours will show us just how much Racism exists in the TNDP, won’t it?
Blue Collar Muse
Well, my dear friend, I think we already know the answer to your question! The double standard that is so blatantly obvious on the left will once again, rear it’s ugly head, and this sort or nonsense will be buried…..AGAIN!
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Nope! Nothin’ to see here – move along.
That the double standard is so blatently obvious is a very, very sad statement. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we are on the slippery slope that keeps going downhill faster and faster.
Still up for that island?
Just let me get my bag packed, and I’m there!
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