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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She proves once again that the liberals idea of diversity is skin deep. They don’t tolerate anything remotely close to diversity of opinion.
yogi41 on July 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Excellent Job, Mr. Alford!! I wish you had more time to talk.
Better watch your back now.
Please keep up the great work, we have to stop these ninnies, they are going to destroy what’s left of the economy, then our infrastructure, then…..
mjd6852 on July 16, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Palin/Alford 2012…!!!!
DL13 on July 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Way to go Alford!!!
Irenaeus on July 16, 2009 at 1:25 PM
LMAO. Few people on this earth need a serious bitch-slapping like this nasty little JAP does. She thinks he’s stupid because he’s black, and she needs to help him understand that “the other blacks are onboard with my enviro-silliness”.
Having said that, did no one else luxuriate in the delicious irony of a guy from the “Black Chamber of Commerce” scolding Boxer for “being racial” in her condescension to him about “other black groups”?
It was bizarro-world.
Jaibones on July 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM
My God these leftist elitists are a bunch of knuckle-dragging bigots. How can anyone watch that and not see the white sheet falling down around Barbara Boxer’s shoulders? What a despicable racist she is. It’s horrifying. It really is. She sees not one ounce of individual humanity among back people. They aren’t human beings to her; they are just “the NAACP” and a whole bunch of votes. She is an awful, evil, blatant, unapologetic racist. Like I said in another post here today, someday (I hope), blacks in this country are going to say they’ve had enough with the democrat party’s minstrel show at election time. My God, just look how they treat someone who doesn’t play along, slap his knee, and clap at all the right moments. Pure evil.
Rational Thought on July 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM
The 5:40 mark says it all:
Your veteran status has nothing to do with this conversation, but race is everything…as long as you stay on the plantation.
I said it before, and I’ll say it again. Boxer puts the root-word sound in country!
Laura in Maryland on July 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Married to a veteran…SO WHAT!
When did you serve Ma’am? Or were you too short so now you take it our on Generals who don’t kiss your ring?
RobCon on July 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Surprise, surprise. Liberals are racists. Blow me over with a feather.
txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM
It’s all about the political agenda. Note the introduction of the PEW report on “green” jobs and not any of the reports showing a net job loss from destroying the oil and coal industries in deference to “green” energy.
genso on July 16, 2009 at 1:27 PM
I understand full well how everyone has this impression. For the most part, it is true. But we also, believe it or not, have some pretty solid conservatives out here. Tom McClintock, John Campbell, Darrel Issa to name a few.
To paraphrase Mark Steyn, most blue states are really red states with a few big, urban areas that vote blue. San Diego County, Orange County, Inland Empire, Central California and the far northern part of the state are all pretty conservative areas. We are, unfortunately, outnumbered by the idiots in L.A. and the Bay Area.
JohnInCA on July 16, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Exactly. Individualism is going to be classified a hate-crime soon enough. And I’m not joking, unfortunately.
progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 1:28 PM
She proves a limo racist is no better than any other, they’re worse, because not only are they racist they’re an arrogant racist.
Boxer wants her not documented sources of opinion to overpower documented fact, because she says so.
Speakup on July 16, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Leo Terel said that?
You’re right, something strange is going on.
Knucklehead on July 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM
At least she didn’t ask if he knew all the other black people, though she might have when she first came to California. Do you know Joe Smith? He’s black too
originalpechanga on July 16, 2009 at 1:29 PM
This country is going to explode. No doubt about it.
progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Wonderful to see Boxer get ripped, beyond that, nothing but sadness at overt racial condescension and bigotry.
ICBM on July 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM
M’am…you were PWNED!
SouthernGent on July 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Pelozi got competition.
the_nile on July 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM
She likes “diverse” opinions just so long as they fall in line with her own.
What an arrogant whore.
jennifernaz on July 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM
intentional on his part, I’d bet big money
funky chicken on July 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM
awesome
Green Muse on July 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Other thing I found interesting is that as the chair of the comittee she ADMITED that she was there to BUILD SUPPORT for her position, NOT to get information.
Romeo13 on July 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Finally! Stern admonishment, indignation and repudiation of these kinds of vile tactics.
Bravo, Mr. Alford…BRAVO.
KittyLowrey on July 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM
It’s amazing she kept on the racial lines of trying to explain her blatant racism.
“I’m married to a vet”… nothing to do with the claim of racism Alford made.
What a moronic, myopic, vapid dunce Boxer is.
Odie1941 on July 16, 2009 at 1:31 PM
Yep. Good catch and the most important point, really.
progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Senator Racebaiter
Got what she deserved…and deserved even more.
Incredibly condescending and very racist.
“Well, look here boy…see these other black folk?…They support it…sho nuff!…why don’t you?…What’s you problem Willis?”
Thats the gist of what she was trying to do. and Senator See You Next Tuesday got called on it as she well deserved.
BillaryMcBush on July 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
‘You’re not from California.’
I guess, for Babs, that says it all.
‘I don’t have to listen to you, then, because you’re beneath me.’
TinMan13 on July 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
What really gets me about this is she doesn’t even seem to realize what she’s done. It’s so inconceivable that she could be a racist – she’s a Democrat.
No, she’s doing the usual politician thing and totally ignoring everything that he is saying to her. If he had been a liberal black, she would have done the same thing, because he is just one of the little people who don’t know anything and thank God, don’t live next to her!
flytier on July 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
I noticed, it was funny. I thought he would have been a little more pointed in his criticism. He was clearly agitated but a little too much to make the point that Boxer needed to site another black group to delegitimize his race. Don’t want black people thinking domestic oil production is a good thing! We have to use the N AA CP to make sure black people know how they are supposed to think.
Theworldisnotenough on July 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
“I would appreciate if you would call me Senator”…it’s just that ACORN has worked so hard to get me that title..
(I borrowed this from a comment on newsbusters.org)
TN Mom on July 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM
I’d love to see this gentleman interviewed on the #1 cable show, O’Reilly or the #2, Hannity, or the #3…. Doubt he will be interviewed by MSMs Brian Williams or Couric.
Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Why do blacks let white feminists keep them on the plantation, and use Planned Parenthood to exterminate their race? Like the Nazi gas chambers only spread out over decades rather than years.
Fools.
Sapwolf on July 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Let’s not forget that the whole point of all the political findings and resolutions has been to target the young and least educated people in America to throw their political support behind fraudulent science – so rich white liberal men can launch a global financial scam targeting the poor with the least power.
Those disadvantaged groups are about to become slaves to the new environmental nazis and carbon bankers. So Boxer is just naturally using racism as she tries to herd a rogue group of serfs she sees as thinking beyond their pay grade. This guy is supposed to obey his master and fall in line behind the global plantation’s “settled brainwashing.”
econavenger on July 16, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Palin/Alford in 2012!!!!
TN Mom on July 16, 2009 at 1:36 PM
She respects his view…..
Boy would I like to be a fly on the wall to hear what was said in chambers!
enginemike on July 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM
After she throws all these black organizations at the guy to tell him to get to the back of the bus, she tells him that the fact he is a military veteran is irrelevent.
These people have control and they are never going to give it up. Stop worrying about 2010 and 2012 elections and start preparing yourselves to live very modestly and under the radar.
peacenprosperity on July 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Thanks, Ed! It was great to see Alford put Boxer in her place. It was especially gratifying to watch Boxer, who worked really hard for her “Senator” title when a white general called her “Ma’am,” be afraid to point out to Alford, the chair of the Black Chamber of commerce, that she worked hard for her “senator,” title after he repeatedly called her “Ma’am.” Soo cool. Not only did Alford see right through her transparent condescension, he called her on it. Bravo.
Of course, that the pew trust was supported by Exxon makes it pure evil.
She is “trying to build support” for brainless climate change hogwash. I’m surprised she didn’t claim that her veteran husband was also African American. I bet the MSM wouldn’t have given two minutes to research that. God bless her husband for serving our country, and for having to live with that shrew.
kscheuller on July 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM
Because she knows she can’t destroy his career if he doesn’t toe the line. That’s because she’s a petty, no talent, bully. She also knows that he would just tell her to kiss his black ass.
She also reveals how deep the racism is in the Democrat party. They fully accept the notion that whites can take any political position they want, but blacks must fall in line behind the left; lest they be labelled race traitors, Uncle Toms, fools or worse. It doesn’t get more racist than that.
She was just trying to pull a stray Negro back on the Plantation.
If a racist and extortionist like Al Sharpton was there, she would be fawning all over him; even though he’s incited the murders of eight people, so far. Al is a good little colored boy who sells out his own people for scraps from the table.
RadClown on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Mr. Alford sounds like a candidate for Meltdown with Oberturd’s worst person in the world.
ICBM on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM
I hate that woman. Hated her since her first day as senator.
Sapwolf on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM
eh … maybe not O’Reilly. He’s really turned me off lately with his laziness to do some actual research on “global warming”. He actually believes what comes out of NOAA and NASA these days.
darwin on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Give Mr. Alford a gold star!
Notice that he called Boxer “Ma’am” a couple times and didn’t get bitch slapped for it?
kregg on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Finally! Someone has the guts to, at long lost, put Boxer in her place and make her stew in it!
Maybe black people in this country are finally waking up to the fact that they have been had by Democrats like Boxer.It is a slim possibility, but a possibility none the less.
pilamaye on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM
OMG!! That was great!!
Love how she had her straw man at the ready. THE OIL COMPANIES!! Surprised that she didn’t just play the trump card…Halliburton. Or completely nuclear..GEORGE BUSH!!
BigWyo on July 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM
It means she served in her own way.
I think.
In other words, instead of putting a uniform on, I think she means she put the uniform on the nightstand
Just guessing. This is a painful subject to contemplate but I think she is trying to say she, too, gave her all
entagor on July 16, 2009 at 1:39 PM
BAM! Michael Steele? I want to see Jessie Jackson and Al Shar… oh… never mind… they’re at the “Barber Shop.”
CynicalOptimist on July 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM
Unfortunately,Barie doesn’t even realize that she just got b***slapped.”Clueless” would be a compliment to her, but then again she is just a typical left-wing loon:doesn’t hear anything but her own voice.
Interestingly however,she seems to be trying to make a point about how green energy jobs have effected California so positively.Need I ask why have so many people left Ca?
If it weren’t so tragic ,the liberal’s habit of callig defeat victory would be funny.I don’t remember where I read it,but Al Gore was asked about the judge in England who found that his movie was full of lies. Gore’s response was that the judge found in his(Gore’s) favor.I think Nancy shared the brown acid with Barbie,and probably Gorebot,too.
DDT on July 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Gosh, I hope DeVore cleans her clock.
Bob's Kid on July 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Yeah, I believe so too. There seemed to be a little added emphasis on it.
Well done.
BigWyo on July 16, 2009 at 1:42 PM
BUSTED!!!!
conservador on July 16, 2009 at 1:44 PM
She may as well have just said all you people look the same to me or something.
OmahaConservative on July 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM
That’s just a euphemism for screwing the military.
Laura in Maryland on July 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM
That’s SENATOR Condescending Racist Democrat to you, black guy!
mankai on July 16, 2009 at 1:48 PM
Harry Alford to Barbara Boxer: “They call me Mr. Tibbs!”
BuckeyeSam on July 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM
I’ve already called Mr. Alford’s office to thank him for his service – both in the Army and on the Hill!
HadithHarry on July 16, 2009 at 1:49 PM
I like this guy. He was entirely unintimidated by her crap.
capitalist piglet on July 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM
karma!
ginaswo on July 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Wow, what stellar leadership from the late great state of Kalifornia, waving reports around and disrespecting a veteran is her idea of leadership?
I think Harry Alford will have a great future in a Palin administration.
izoneguy on July 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM
That was wonderful to watch. The power grab knows no bounds or protocol and she just stepped over the line and got caught. Given her age, I hope she didn’t forget her Depends this morning. He had her on the ropes and didn’t let up.
sherry on July 16, 2009 at 1:51 PM
I am seriously sending that guy a box of cigars.
The Ugly American on July 16, 2009 at 1:52 PM
She is fookin dumber than Pelosi – How is that possible?
That was the epitome of liberal elitist racism!
CLASSIC!
iam7545 on July 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Does Boxer talk to everyone like they’re a child or is it just Black people?
29Victor on July 16, 2009 at 1:53 PM
These groups identified and threw their lot in with Obama. But Obama is not working out as these groups thought. They identified with Obama because of his skin color not his policies, in fact they had no idea what his policies would look like. Now they have had a chance to see those policies in action, all leftist, corrupt, and in cahoots with Wall Street. Apart from ACORN and the Unions(which is ideological not ethnic) I think he’s been unable to pay them off fast enough.
Have you seen the unemployment numbers for Blacks and Hispanics? They are off the chart. Obama is failing on a number of fronts and I think these groups sense that when the tide turns it will turn not only against Obama but against them too.
Have you noticed how shrill the committed leftists are recently? They have complete control over all aspects of government and they are more shrill today than ever. The divisiveness is palpable. That may be playing into it.
Something is happening. What it is I don’t know but its not good for Obama and his leftists. Or the country.
elduende on July 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM
I enjoyed it as well. I liked that he called her mam multiple times. Boxer’s construct, including earlier comments, seems to be: white conservative=evil, black conservative=delerious, not cleaver enough to have his own views.
burt on July 16, 2009 at 1:57 PM
I counted 3 “Ma’am”s from Mr. Alford and no “Senator”s, yet she never corrects him. I wonder why.
29Victor on July 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM
That was delicious. I shall wash it down with a cool glass of Al Franken’s ignorance.
But I’ll skip dessert, because I know that some stupid Republican will end up making me want to do a facepalm over this.
Matticus Finch on July 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM
I don’t think he ever got through to her brain (small target) about her racism. My Lord, he is an individual with a point of view backed by data. She practically said “Now you go along with this cause Uncle Tom said it’s ok.”
Herb on July 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Boxer is another nasty old fcuking c**t, just like Hanoi Jane. CA seems to produce a lot of ‘em.
OmahaConservative on July 16, 2009 at 1:59 PM
I could hear the trembling in her voice…He had her and she knew it. MAM!
d1carter on July 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Pat, I’d like to buy a
vowelclue.The Race Card on July 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM
he just called her mam and she didn’t complain!!!
Rich on July 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM
And it was a Maam that got the general in trouble. I think she didn’t bring it up because part of it is that she hates the military and revels in the fact that, as Senator, they have to show a b*tch like her respect she isn’t due. In short, it wasn’t about titles so much as the humiliation of a senior military officer. Plays well back home.
highhopes on July 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Indeed, he did. Every once in a while, he does something very uncharacteristic. A couple of years ago, the usual suspects were calling a local judge racist and he went to bat for her on the radio and in the newspaper.
And I will never forget the weekend before the 2000 election, when he said that he was with his family and he mentioned that the election was close and Bush might win. He said that his relatives began yelling at him and attacking him personally. He asked why attack the messenger and why not look at things the way they are, i.e., that Bush might win. Then people started calling him up and screaming at him for saying it. It was hilarious.
Blake on July 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM
She may have been married to a veteran, but was she ever an Army wife?
What point was she trying to make? She obviously missed it with Mr. Alford.
ted c on July 16, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Boxer: You black people need to be victims and complainers, so that you always vote for us to bail you out.
Alford: I’m from the Black Chamber of Commerce, and we like to make money the old-fashioned way, by earning it. Anything wrong with that?
This is so typical of Democrat condescension toward black people. But they may get a rude surprise from the next generation. I tutor high school math and science students part time, but usually the demand slacks off in summer. Except for a black woman who pays me to tutor her daughter in algebra over the summer, to prepare her for a private high school next fall. I wonder what SHE would tell Senator Boxer…
Steve Z on July 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM
Because they know that their ideas are so antithetical to American values that they need some sort of distractions as they try and work their treasonous magic. They vacillate between shrill screaming that their ideas are the best and surreptitious passage of 1000 page bills that no one is allowed to examine before the vote. They think that if they can just get their idiotic laws enacted as facts on the ground, then America will just be resigned to a future of tribalistic servitude without any opposition.
This is going to be very bloody, because once the left has let the mask slip, it is clear that they must be dealt with, not just thrown out of office. The left are hoping that the burning cities will distract people from their culpability and how they knowingly forced this nation to the brink, but they are wrong. They are all singing their own arrest warrants …. and that’s if they are lucky. Many will not be satisfied with simple arrest of these traitors. They are a standing threat.
progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Ma’am you’re racist!
Caper29 on July 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM
You can have any opinion you want, as long as it’s black
B. Boxer/ H. Ford
TheSitRep on July 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Funny how she uses the married-to-a-veteran to try to get her military group affiliation street cred, yet when she’s debating a general she demands to be called “Senator.”
One would think that she’d proudly proclaim she was married to a veteran to the general…and then allow him to treat her with whatever manner of respect he deemed appropriate–ma’am, Senator or whatever.
ted c on July 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Any more question why California is in the crapper?
Wade on July 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM
omg I love that place… :]
bluelightbrigade on July 16, 2009 at 2:07 PM
I was wondering if she was going to cite people who ate cornbread and chitlin’s as being in support of the bill.
JP1986UM on July 16, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Boxer is what she is. If you want to “blame” anyone, blame the people of the state who vote for her time and again. If they don’t have any more sense than that, Screw em. That includes several of my immediate family. Bunch of ignorant liberal farks.
SKYFOX on July 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM
you probably shouldn’t use the term “off the Rez”… especially when doing a post on racial condescension.
/sarc off
Kaptain Amerika on July 16, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Oh, yeah. Ziegler is talking about how Boxer lied about and attacked Condaleeza Rice and Janice Rogers Brown. She really is a racist.
Blake on July 16, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Some industrious blogger should look up all the documented instances of Boxer’s racism and post it.
Blake on July 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM
She is married to a veteran but that isn’t relevant to the discussion? She gets that but not the point Mr. Alford was making? Great job Mr. Alford. There are a lot of us out here that would have loved to have bought you a drink after that.
Sue on July 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM
PoP the great barometer will be the 2010 midterms. Thats our chance to not only capture congress but also lame duck Obama for his final two years. The left has discredited itself, lets see if they can perpetrate enough fraud to keep Congress, if they can, well then we’ve moved out of democracy at that point…
I don’t know who said it yesterday but someone also said that if Obama’s crap and tax and his Healthcare are stopped now he will also be lamed. Lame duck before his 1st year is up…I like the sound of that.
elduende on July 16, 2009 at 2:13 PM
dittoes to that. Great job, sir.
ted c on July 16, 2009 at 2:14 PM
I’m surprised she didn’t insist that he call her
senatormassuh.UltimateBob on July 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
“Hi Mr. Alford, thank you for coming to our esteemed committee meeting today. As you may or may not know, but will soon find out, I have invited you here to share testimony as a black man. After showing a few common courtesies, I will proceed to try to dismiss your testimony as contrary to what a good black man should believe. In other words, Mr. Alford, you will be shown to be out of line and will be directed to the back of the bus. That is of course unless you have a sudden epiphany and realize the error of your ways. Meanwhile I will distort facts, attribute support where no support has been shown, and otherwise show you what an arrogant prick I can be.
Now, let’s proceed with your testimony today…”
gatorboy on July 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
The flood of cheap illegal labor has hurt black Americans most of all. This cap and tax/green jobs bamboozle will also hit black Americans hard.
But, black leaders being in the pockets of the donks, refuse to speak up. It’s about time somebody did.
Blake on July 16, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Diverse opinions? No, she’s entering opinions of lefty donks. Hardly diverse.
Blake on July 16, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Boxer got pwned. Teehee.
Geronimo on July 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Exactly! They intuitively know that they are standing closest to the fan and when the crap hits they are the first to get a face full.
elduende on July 16, 2009 at 2:19 PM
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