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		<title>There’s No Such Thing As Free Absolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>It was just  last week that the National Black Republican Association <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/they-can-do">unilaterally absolved</a> White Americans of their sins and guilt.&#160;  But now it looks like they didn&#8217;t just do it out of the kindness of  their hearts and are now expecting something in return, namely that Barack  Obama issue an official proclamation apologizing for the <a href="http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-OBAMA-CanYouSpareAPROCLAMATION&#038;tp_preview=true">Democratic  Party's 150-year history of racism</a>. And  just to make it easier, the NBRA is put together its own draft version for him  to use: </p>
<blockquote>
  <p>We, black American citizens of the United States  and the National Black Republican Association, declare and assert:</p>
  <p>WHEREAS, the healing of wounds begins with an apology, and  the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and  racist practices against black Americans during the past 150 years, nor held  accountable for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices are  having on us today,</p>
  <p>[Dozens of purported examples of Democrats being racist over  the last 150 years] </p>
  <p>WHEREAS, the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to  intimidate black Americans into voting for Democrats is consistent with the  Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and  kukluxery -&#160; a perversion of moral sentiment  among leaders of the Democratic Party; and the Democratic Party's racist legacy  bode ill until this generation of black Americans,</p>
  <p>NOW, THEREFORE, for the documented atrocities and  accumulated wrongs inflicted upon black Americans, we submit this petition to  the head of the Democratic Party, Barack Hussein Obama, for a formal  proclamation of apology for the Democratic Party's 150-year history of racism.</p>
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<p>For good  measure, the NBRA also worked in its own <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/nbra-explains-%E2%80%9Csouthern-strategy%E2%80%9D">unique  explanation</a> of the Republican Party&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Southern Strategy,&#8221; which  it also cites as further proof that the Democrats are racist: </p>
<p>
  <blockquote>WHEREAS, Democrats expressed little, if any, concern when  the racially segregated South voted solidly for Democrats; yet unfairly deride  Republicans because of the thirty-year odyssey of the South switching to the  Republican Party that began in the 1970's with President Richard Nixon's  &#34;Southern Strategy,&#34; which was an effort on the part of Nixon to get  fair-minded people in the South to stop voting for Democrats who did not share  their values, and who were discriminating against blacks.</blockquote>
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<p>Of course,  as we&#8217;ve pointed out before both <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060720.html" _fcksavedurl="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/07/20060720.html">President  Bush</a> and former <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html" _fcksavedurl="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html">RNC  chair Ken Mehlman</a> have apologized for the party&#8217;s use of the Southern Strategy  &#8230; but apparently it is the Democrats who should be apologizing for not  commending Richard Nixon for finally getting voters in the South to stop  discriminating against blacks. </p>]]></description>
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		<title>Responding to Media Matters item , Quinn defended comparison of welfare recipients to slaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>On the November 7 broadcast of <em>The War Room</em>, co-host Jim Quinn addressed comments he made on the previous day's broadcast -- <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200811060012?f=h_latest">documented</a> by <em>Media
Matters for America</em> -- comparing "slave[s] in the old
South" to welfare recipients today, the "difference" being that "[t]he
slave had to work for" the benefits Quinn said they received.</p>

<p>Quinn said of his November 6 comments, "Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that you can be
forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my point." He later added:</p>
<blockquote>

<p>QUINN: [W]hen you think about it, the slave had more personal nobility than the welfare recipient, because he or she had no say in their station
in life. The welfare recipient actually volunteers for it. It is the liberal plantation.</p>

<p>Folks, you can get people to behave the way you want them to behave, but -- two ways: one is by oppression and the other is by pandering to them. And Democrats in the
South, and throughout history, learned eventually that oppression didn't work, so pandering seems to be working quite well right now, and it
will probably continue to work well into the future under this administration. </p>
</blockquote>

<p>Quinn also stated in reference to his November 6 remarks: "But, you know, look, I would like to apologize for one thing. If I made you little babies think, then I apologize.
If I woke you up from your little slumber there -- shhh, back to sleep. We'll rock you to sleep, and the dear leader will make everything
OK for you, OK?"</p>

<p><em>Talkers Magazine</em> lists <em>Quinn &#38; Rose</em> on its "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.talkers.com%2Fmain%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D19%26Itemid%3D44">Heavy Hundred</a>" list, which it describes
as a list of the "100 most important radio talk show hosts in America." According to the show's website, it <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.warroom.com%2Faffiliates.php">airs</a> on 18 radio stations and XM Satellite Radio.</p>

<p>From the November 7 broadcast of Clear Channel's <em>The War Room with Quinn &#38; Rose</em>:</p>
<blockquote>

<p>QUINN: Well, apparently, the folks at <em>Media Matters</em> are once again in high dudgeon. I knew that this morning when three emails poured
in. At least they were succinct anyway: "You're an A-hole." "You're an idiot." And I forget what the other one said,
although none of them could tell me why I was wrong. Apparently, they -- yesterday when I did the Frances Rice piece on why Martin Luther King Jr. was
a Republican, I made an observation that rubbed some folks the wrong way.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>

<p>QUINN [audio clip]: This
is by Frances Rice. You can Google this in HumanEvents.com. Just Google
"Frances Rice," a black historian. Frances Rice says, "It should come
as no
surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. In that era,
almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? Well, from its
founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican
Party has championed freedom and civil rights for
blacks." Gee, you'd never know that walking through the hallways of a
school today or listening to the media. "And as one pundit so
succinctly stated, the Democratic Party is, as it always has been, the
party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation,
and now, socialism."</p>

<p>You know, I was
thinking about this. You know, if you were a slave in the old South,
what did you get as a slave? You got free room and board, you got free
money, and you got rewarded for having children
because that was just, you know, tomorrow's slave. So, you got a free
house, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having children.
Can I ask a question? How's that different from welfare? You get a free
house, you get free food, and you get rewarded
for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. There is a
difference: The slave had to work for it.
</p>

<p>AUDIO CLIP: Insensitivity. Insensitivity.</p>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>

<p>QUINN: Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude
that you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my point, and I think
you know that. But, you know, look, I would like to apologize for one thing. If I made you little babies think, then I apologize. If I woke you
up from your little slumber there -- shhh, back to sleep. We'll rock you to sleep, and the dear leader will make everything OK
for you, OK?</p>

<p>
 
You know -- but when you think about it -- when you think about it, the slave had more personal nobility than the welfare recipient, because he or she
had no say in their station in life. The welfare recipient actually volunteers for it. It is the liberal plantation.</p>

<p>
 
Folks, you can get people to behave the way you want them to behave, but -- two ways: one is by oppression and the other is by pandering to them. And Democrats in the
South, and throughout history, learned eventually that oppression didn't work, so pandering seems to be working quite well right now, and it
will probably continue to work well into the future under this administration.
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		<title>What and Absolutely Amazing Thing: 106-year-old Atlanta woman basks in Obama tribute</title>
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Nov 5, 6:05 PM EST
106-year-old Atlanta woman basks in Obama tribute
By ERRIN HAINES
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo

AP Photo/John Bazemore
ATLANTA (AP) &#8212; At age 106, Ann Nixon Cooper doesn&#8217;t usually stay awake past midnight. But on Election Night she had special reason to do so: She was waiting for Barack Obama to mention her name. Cooper, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kaus on Obama&#8217;s Race Speech, or Spare the Obamagasms Please</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We Can&#8217;t Ignore Race, So Let&#8217;s Ignore Race:  Some (tenative!) reactions to Obama&#8217;s somewhat arid talk&#8211;which a) probably advanced the discussion of racial issues, b) gave me a much better (and basically appealing) idea of where Obama is coming from, but c) didn&#8217;t particularly advance his case to be President&#8211;especially, I fear among doubting [...]]]></description>
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