In 2007, U.S. Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA), didn’t have any problem when fellow Representative Pete Stark called President Bush a liar. Specifically, Stark said, “But the President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress.”
No cries of outrage from Johnson. No reactionary and inflammatory statements. Just silence.
Flash forward two years and what is his reaction to Representative Joe Wilson’s accurate statement that President Obama was lying during a recent address to a joint session of Congress? Calm and deliberate thought from an allegedly wise man? Nope.
If I was a betting man, I would say it instigated more racist sentiment, a feeling that it’s OK, you don’t have to bury it now. You can bring it out and talk about it full. I guess we’ll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside intimidating people. That’s the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked and congressman Wilson represents at least the face of it.
Stark calls Bush a liar: no problem. Wilson calls Obama a liar: it simply MUST be racism! 10-4, good buddy.
The clear conclusion we are left with is that U.S. Representative Hank Johnson IS ALSO A RACIST because he has opposed the policies of President George Bush, who I am told is a white man. That Johnson’s overt racism from the moment he first arrived in Washington is still tolerated is indicative of a deep rooted problem in his district where, using his logic, roving bands of racist black people are going to swarm all over town unless someone stands up to both him and those that agree with him.
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Every time I bet someone that Pete Randall can’t possibly build a bigger strawman, I lose. When will I ever learn.
The liberal media weighs in.
http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/09/15/hank-johnson-should-apologize-or-at-least-retract/?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker
It is amusing when anybody in congress uses either the word “lie” or the word “truth”. It is not like they know the difference.
“Every time I bet someone that Pete Randall can’t possibly build a bigger strawman, I lose. When will I ever learn?”
Probably about the same time you pull your head out of your arse, so I’m not holding my breath.
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before.
Someone posts details of a clearly half-baked, off-the-reservation, straight up McKinney-worthy, racist rant. However, it’s a racist rant offered by a minority, not a white dude.
Grift complains, throwing out race card, etc. “I’m so enlighted and you all are a bunch of rubes.” “Johnson was clearly speaking in hypotheticals.” “They really would turn the fire hoses on Atlantans . . .”
Everyone rolls their eyes at Grift and keeps walking.
Let it go, dude.
Actually I agree with what Tucker says. What Johnson said was stupid and I’m surprised because unlike what racial fantasyland Pete says, Johnson hasn’t acted this way previously.
As far as your oh so accurate view of what I think about McKinney? All I can say is…..HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
http://griftdrift.blogspot.com/search/label/Cynthia%20McKinney
Tucker played the race card not too long ago.
I’m sure you think she did. I’m just saying can we stop pretending the “liberals” at the AJC always toe the Democratic/Leftist/Socialist/Communist/Obamaist line? Unlike a certain other AJC columnist I’m rather fond of.
http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/08/08/stay-classy-cynthia-tucker/
Like you, I know several reporters at the AJC.
I’m not putting a blanket statement about the paper. I’m saying Cynthia Tucker is a hypocrite.
I think you and I are pretty consistent on criticizing across the board.
I wish everyone followed the Morgan Freeman philosophy on race. It’s what I try to do.
I wish everyone followed the Morgan Freeman philosophy on race. It’s what I try to do.
AGREED 100%!
ps. There needs to be a “Morgan Freeman Race Philosophy” wiki… anyone with some free time?
I’m still sitting here scratching my head and thinking “It’s good to play the President.”
Perhaps a wiki would help.
Johnson brings up race. Who is the real racist? You decide.
Wilson was out of line to call the President a liar in the middle of his speech to a joint session of congress. He should have waiting until it was over, found five cameras or more and said on the steps of the capital.
I agree!
We can tell who the racist is by who hangs on the longest, feigning outrage (in this one case), manufacturing facts and trying to milk the situation for his political advantage. Rep. Johnson, you are the self identified winner.
I’d like to point out Rep. Johnson never called himself a winner.
Hard to be “the self identified winner” if, you know, you never identify yourself as the winner.
If your gonna pull the race card, you couldn’t choose a less sympathetic “victim” then Joe Wilson. Wilson was a bigtime flagger in SC. Remember this wasn’t the state flag in SC; this issue was over the Confederate battle flag. He was one of only 7 GOP state senators voting to keep the Confederate battle flag flying over the capitol. He said the black woman who was the daughter of Strom Thurmond (an avowed racist if there ever was one) was smearing the senator. And Wilson once belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans an extremist group advocating secession. Where does Wilson stand with this group now?
Wilson is such an incredible hypocrite. He and his sons and their families get free lifetime government health insurance as a result of their military service. It is called TRICARE and is among the best coverage available according to consumer surveys. Wilson thinks it is a great government run program, and has said so.
“As a 31-year Army Guard and Reserve veteran, I know the importance of TRICARE,” he said in a press release. “The number of individuals who choose to enroll in TRICARE continues to rise because TRICARE is a low cost, comprehensive health plan that is portable and available in some form world-wide.” He went on to call TRICARE “world class health care,” concluding on a personal note. “I am grateful to have four sons now serving in the military, and I know that their families appreciate the availability of TRICARE,” he said.
When Democrats led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, the chump Wilson refused to vote for it even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan─and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so.
To rally behind this man, is just pathetic.
Excuse me. Who pulled the race card…not me. Rep Johnson pulled it. I did not find Wilson’s comments racist in any way and still don’t. Johnson is a fool for pulling the race card and is telling us a great deal more about his own heart than he has about Rep. Wilson’s.
Nothing I said was rallying behind or in front of Joe Wilson. My comments were directed at Rep Johnson. That said, I don’t blame you for trying to change the subject. All of this false outrage is hypocritical and foolish.
Johnson has learned that he can milk these situations for a long time. I think this one will backfire. The “racist” epithet has come out of the pocket one time too many.
I was referring to the front page poster, not bryce.
Well, Hank Johnson can’t be defended here. It’s a bit of an extrapolation to assume Wilson is a racist and that his comments must have been rooted in racism.
However, the Pete Stark comparison is not exactly congruous either, since Pete Stark did not interrupt the president during a speech to offer his unsolicited commentary.
But never mind it all…this is all distracting attention from real issues. People like Wilson and Johnson should be ignored alike. I want reliable healthcare, and I don’t really care about the politics of it.
Now Carter has made a fool of himself, again, by joining the Wilson “you’re a racist” pile-on. Jimmy feels that it somehow morally lifts him above other by calling folks racist. The problem is that while the national media views Jimmy as infallible, I know my Georgia history too well to let him get away with calling anybody a racist.
Read this piece http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748313/posts , by Dick Yarbough, about the campaign Jimmy ran against former Governor Carl Sanders, known as the South’s first progressive Governor, and you’ll see what an astounding hypocrite Jimmy has become. People involved in that campaign tell me that Senator Carter, in the rural parts of the state, was basically billing himself as a disciple of George Wallace.
Of course being a being a bigoted, Wallace-following, southern Governor was not such a good idea for a Presidential campaign, so that white washing began shortly after beating Carl Sanders.
If you watch the Obama political operatives; they’re a little uneasy with the “help” that Dowd, Johnson and Carter have been providing them. In the end, whether it’s Dowd making things up, Carter crying racism or Johnson playing the KKK card, the Left probably believes Wilson is a racist and the Right gets really riled up. His political team isn’t worried about those groups. It’s the all-important swing voter; the miners in OH and the factory workers in PA that win Presidential elections.
I expect the average swing voter will have a low tolerance for endless cries of racism. Just look at how well the Gates episode went for a point of reference
There are two sides to that sword. The more the Pres. stays out of the fray the more statesman he appears. He just keeps chugging along talking about his agenda and the pundits and operatives fight it out. The strategy works even better when the other teams quarterback is not even on the field.
The other team’s quarterback is in the locker room chatting about aliens with the radiator.
All of this over two words, “You lie!” There is absolutely nothing in those two words that even remotely invites a charge of racism. But that doesn’t stop the race whores from all over from taking advantage of the situation and getting all of the enabling they need from a fawning media, determined at all costs, to make sure we roll headlong down the road to socialism.
WE have been ‘on the roll’ for quite some time, really since FDR.
In the recent issue of New Yorker, their ‘take’ on health industry finance reform outlines why ’socialism’ is not such a bad thing. But then what would one expect from the New Yorker?
Interesting read, puts the idea of health industry reform into its’ proper perspective. By its’ very nature, any government involvement in decisions regarding the health of its’ citizenry is a basic form of social engineering. That said, the private sector is not trustworthy.
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