Video: Witness rips Boxer for racial condescension
posted at 12:57 pm on July 16, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Red meat by the slab, folks! Barbara Boxer wound up getting reamed by Harry Alford, the chair of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, after attempting to challenge his testimony on energy policy. When Boxer started waving position papers from the NAACP and the 100 Black Men of Atlanta, Alford called it a “condescending” attack and complained about Boxer’s focus on black people rather than science:
I just love it when white politicians set themselves up as arbiters of racial authenticity, especially when they try to scold minorities for drifting off the political reservation. It belies a “soft” bigotry, if you will, when Barbara Boxer assumes all black people think the same and hold the same opinions — or even worse, that they should.
Update: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson says California has reclaimed the crown.
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Why does everyone get in an uproar if men act like men and give women compliments, just not in a rosy sensitive way.
tommer74 on April 5, 2013 at 11:05 PM
Kamala Harris probably is the best looking Attorney General California has had since Jerry Brown. Obama was merely struggling to find more substantive qualifications for her, so it’s an understandable comment.
We should go easy on Democrats. They seem to have attracted visually shocking figures such as Barney “the Blob” Frank, Henry “Nostrils” Waxman, John “Mr Ed” Kerry, Snake-eyes Carville, Her Thighness Hillary, “Stretch” Pelosi, Debbie Was-a-man Schultz and, who can forget, the harrowing visage of Rachel Maddow (I know I can’t).
We can take the stupidity, the incompetence, the deceit, the low-rent attitudes but Democrats, please address the aesthetics (it’s OK to leave the feminists for phase two, we don’t expect miracles) -
Is personal ugliness is a primary qualification for liberal party favor?
virgo on April 6, 2013 at 2:33 AM
B.O. is a lecher. What’s he going to say next “Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the hottest chick on the Supreme Court, and I like her boobies”?
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 8:48 AM
Michelle wanted to give B.O. a bunch of crap for that comment, but she knows he’ll just smack her, and tell her to STFU.
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 8:52 AM
Go to the Daily Kook, they’re really smart over there.
JackM on April 8, 2013 at 8:54 AM
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