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October 5, 2006

party of allenfoleybush and other morons

I love it when talking android morons explain their own self-serving political choices by swearing that Frederick Douglass or MLK were Republicans. From LaShawn Barber's short-bus black history blog:

MD Lt. Governor Michael Steele has asked the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) to remove a radio advertisement (heard in Baltimore) because it is "insulting to Marylanders[.]"

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The ad is factual: MLK was a Republican, Republicans spearheaded major civil rights legislation and the Democrats tried to block it, etc., but Steele says: "Although they may have had good intentions, there is no room for this kind of slash-and-burn partisan politics in the important conversation about how to best bring meaningful change to Washington, D-C, and get something done for Maryland."

I'm guessing, but he seems to think the appeal to race is unnecessary and divisive. Although I tend to agree, it doesn't hurt to get the truth out there.

LaShawn must mean the "truth"/"voices" chattering thou-shalt-nots in her head, because "out there" it is pretty established that MLK was not a Republican. And if she really believes that the fact that Douglass was a Republican provides any guidance for blacks considering the GOP in 2006, well, let's not even go there. Trying to decide whether certain kinds of hack conservatives are ignorant, incompetent or just plain idiots is an endless game of "heads: I lose; tails: you win." Totally not worth playing.

Despite numerous folks correcting LaShawn's false MLK assertion in comments, she has yet to update or correct her factually incorrect statement. Maybe Charles Murray wrote the Bell Curve using IQ data from a black Republican caucus?

Posted by ebogjonson in talking androids, on October 5, 2006 2:30 PM