Max Blumenthal is a wholly inconsequential individual whose sole claim to fame is being Sid Blumenthal’s boy. Like his dad, Max has gone into the business of inept Democrat hackery.
I’d generally not worry about something someone riding daddy’s coattails has done except this is a great lesson in the extent to which leftists will go to play the race card.
In this episode, the leftists, led by boy Blumenthal, are claiming Sarah Palin wrote her book, Going Rogue, with a diehard, unapologetic racist. Blumenthal paints Lynn Vincent, the lady who helped Palin with her book, racist through her association with Robert Stacey McCain. Blumenthal goes through extraordinary lengths to misreport, misconstrue, and mischaracterize McCain’s views on race to paint him a racist so Blumenthal can then jump over to Vincent to tar and feather her with McCain’s views Blumenthal made up out of thin air. (You follow all that? It’s hard to keep up with boy Blumenthal’s sleights of hand)
There’s just one problem beyond all the other problems with Sid’s kid’s made up crapola . As Ben Smith at the Politico notes, Lynn Vincent is anything but a racist.
The pastor of the San Diego megachurch Vincent attends (with Carrie Prejean, natch) is black. She’s also spent most of the last few years on a pair of inspirational books about, basically, racial reconciliation in the friendship between a rich white art dealer and a homeless black drifter, the first of them a Times bestseller. More broadly, she hails from a (large) stream of Evangelicalism that puts racial reconciliation very high on the agenda.
Try again.
Lie's good as the truth, Moe, if you can get somebody to believe it.
Achance Monday, November 16th at 11:02PM EST (link)And it really is a stupid gambit because Black-White race issues aren’t an issue in Alaska if for no other reason than there aren’t enough Blacks to make an issue. And they can’t hang White-Indian racism on her because her husband has a CDIB.
In Vino Veritas
Thank You
bigdny Monday, November 16th at 11:08PM EST (link)Erick, one of my liberal friends forwarded a version of this to me a couple of months ago. It is only the latest attempt to visciously smear Palin so as to discredit her, and it is something that we have to know about in order to debunk.
But....but....Ben Smith is a nassssty right-winger!!!!
Dan McLaughlin Monday, November 16th at 11:10PM EST (link)Heh.
BTW, should somebody tell Art the difference between Moe and Erick? I’m not sure who should be flattered or offended here.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” - Winston Churchill
hahaha
Erick Erickson Monday, November 16th at 11:13PM EST (link)I am flattered to have reached that level of snark.
Who will stand on either hand and keep this bridge with me?
That's what happens when I watch MNF and type.
Achance Monday, November 16th at 11:16PM EST (link)Game’s boring so I went back here and was listening with one ear and not paying attention.
Anyway, a lie is still as good as the truth if you can get somebody to believe it.
Now I’m going out for awhile to see if it is clear enough to see any of the Leonid meteor showe;r should be starting soon.
In Vino Veritas
Here's the thing about real racism - it's not all that subtle
Next93 Monday, November 16th at 11:12PM EST (link)When are people going to figure out that there’s no such thing as “secret racism”?
I’ve seen real racists in operation, and here’s the thing I’ve noticed - they’re not all that subtle about it. If the only way you can paint someone as a racist is by claiming that someone they work with once worked with someone who you suspect of being a racist, then you’re probably digging too deep.
If you want to talk about *subtle* racism, maybe you should be looking for the people who beleive that minorities aren’t smart enough to succede on a level playing field, and need special protections and priveledges. Those are the only people hearing and responding to the alleged “dog whistles” that they seem to find in any comment or ad that’s not from a Democrat.
Constitutional limits on the powers of the federal government:
It’s not just the law, it’s a good idea!
Sid Blumenthal stinks up the Daily Beast
tankertodd Monday, November 16th at 11:31PM EST (link)If you have the stomach for it, go back and read his other pieces he’s written. Egregiously bad, most all of them. Usually I don’t remember the authors of garbage but his were bad enough that I remember the name. Ironically having the German word for “flower” in your name doesn’t make what you do smell good.
If you’re gonna be an Alinsky-style hack at least be a GOOD one.
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race - Chief Justice Roberts
the spittle-flecked raving lunatic apple doesn't fall far from the tree
E Pluribus Unum Monday, November 16th at 11:31PM EST (link)Of all the late-filled, screaming lunatics in the world, Sid Blumenthal is up there near the top of the list. And Boy Max seems to be working hard to prove that mutations in the DNA get carried into the next generation.
Carthago delenda est
There's an obvious reason he tries to call RS McCain a racist
Finrod Tuesday, November 17th at 12:35AM EST (link)Remember the 21st century definition of racist: someone who wins an argument with a liberal. RS McCain doesn’t just win arguments with liberals, he blasts them off the field of play.
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Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
I'm trying to decide what to wear for the occasion
katesmith Tuesday, November 17th at 12:36AM EST (link)Of Governor Palin’s appearance live in studio with Rush Tuesday in the second hour. I have to check and see if my ditto cam membership is still good.
The lefties are really frightened of Palin
RedBeard Tuesday, November 17th at 7:52AM EST (link)The lefties sure are telegraphing their punches. If, as they all proclaimed during the campaign, Sarah Palin is a non-entity, an unserious contender, a person unworthy of serious consideration, then they wouldn’t be paying the slightest attention to her now.
I may not want her as our president, but I sure hope she continues to poke the lefties in the eye. It’s great sport, watching and listening to them squirm and wail.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
Couldn't agree more
joejharvey Tuesday, November 17th at 9:18AM EST (link)Her ability to make liberals squirm in their arrogant self-righteous disgust is awesome.
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Blumenthal is a Hack
joejharvey Tuesday, November 17th at 9:15AM EST (link)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqeqRf9czAY
Joe Scarborough takes him to task at minute 4:30. After the interview Joe twittered regarding the interview, “It was unfortunate to say the least”
Max Blumenthal makes Keith Olbermann look sane. Everything this guy says can be summed up very easily. Liberals are great and conservatives are Obama haters who are just crazy Christian radicals who don’t like big government because they are racist and don’t want to help poor people.
This guy is the stereotypical little liberal hack. I’d love to see Ann Coulter argue with him. It would be like a fox chasing a little rat down and demolishing it.
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