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To: i-node who wrote (582118)	8/23/2010 12:22:13 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578927

You all are so wrong.....you, the Kraut, O'Reilly, hypocrite Newt et al. This crap you all are pulling over this issue is going to come back and bite you in the ass. In ten years, the American right has learned nothing. You didn't mention Harry Reid. Harry Reid too. The fact is this isn't a Republican issue. A substantial majority is opposed to the mosque, including Ds and Rs. In fact, its an American conservative issue. And your position has peaked.....its downhill from here. Trust.

To: i-node who wrote (582118)	8/23/2010 12:23:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578927

The GOP's Long, Hot, Racist Summer by Kirsten Powers First came a harsh new immigration law and calls of white racism; then we turned up the heat with an “n-word” flap and the ground zero mosque hysteria. Kirsten Powers on a season of grievance jihads. Welcome to the summer of hate. These dog days have brought a veritable festival of racial demagoguery, from a phony “New Black Panther” controversy to Arizona’s draconian illegal-immigrant crackdown to the most recent “ground zero mosque” hysteria. Leave it to GOP darling Sarah Palin to turn up the heat with a bizarre defense of the hateful Dr. Laura’s “n-word” rant. What would make a police officer suspicious that a person was undocumented? If you guessed “brown skin” or “Mexican accent,” you are on the right track. In a rambling Facebook post, the former Alaska governor asked incredulously: “Does anyone seriously believe that Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a racist?” Why, yes, Sarah. Yes, we do. This incident is instructive, because it bears the hallmark of many GOP blunders in the area of race. Palin truly cannot understand why anyone would think that Dr. Laura is racist, or why Palin’s defense of her is disgusting. In Palin’s world, apparently this kind of behavior is acceptable, which tells us quite a bit, actually. In Palin’s world, Dr. Laura is a victim. It’s the same world in which a single incident in a single voting precinct in Philadelphia in 2008 has become a rallying cry among conservatives who see black racism against white people lurking behind every bush. The obsession is focused on two members of the “New Black Panther Party” who stood outside a majority black voting precinct and got into an argument with some white Republican “poll watchers” whom they called “crackers.” One NBP member was holding a billy club. The “New Black Panther Party,” which has no relation to the original, denounced the two men. Conservatives complain that if they had been Ku Klux Klan members, liberals would be screaming. Here is a little history lesson: When the KKK showed up at a polling station in the South, black people would have rejoiced if the worst thing that happened to them was name-calling. The KKK came for one reason: to torture and kill blacks, which they did by the thousands. Because the Department of Justice this summer only got a narrow injunction against the man holding the billy club, Newt Gingrich told Sean Hannity that Eric Holder should “resign over the racism inherent in the Black Panther case.” It is worth noting that you hardly ever hear Gingrich or any high-profile Republican complaining about racism in America unless they are accusing a black or brown person of doing something racist to a white person. They don’t get upset when talk-radio host Michael Savage, who reaches 8 million listeners a week, says things like this: “The scourge of illegal immigrants… are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America. The Statue of Liberty is crying, she’s been raped and disheveled. Raped and disheveled by illegal aliens!” It really makes you wonder where anyone got the idea that some of the supporters of Arizona’s illegal-immigration law were racist. • Midterm Madness: 10 Hot Races to Watch • Tunku Varadarajan: John McCain's Embarrassing Last ActConservatives argued vehemently that because the law stated that racial profiling was illegal, no racial profiling would result from a law that compelled police officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws. What would make a police officer suspicious that a person was undocumented? If you guessed “brown skin” or “Mexican accent,” you are on the right track. Speaking of brown skin, the summer of hate wouldn’t be complete without a little Muslim-bashing. Unless you live under a rock, you know that Newt and Sarah have unleashed one of their grievance jihads against the builders of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan. Conservatives have accused the builders of being “radicals” who they say are free to build the “mosque,” which according to Dick Morris is a “terrorist command center,” anywhere but their desired location. Read more: thedailybeast.com