Video: Witness rips Boxer for racial condescension
posted at 12:57 pm on July 16, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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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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Yes ma’am, she will be packing her bags in 2010. Of course my vote against her will only be discounted by “Ann in CA” vote for her.
Larry Elder for Senator!
jbh45 on July 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM
To my, Harry Alford should be the focus of the comments. He resisted the diversity inquisition the way it should be resisted. It was a great performance!
And sadly, it’s costly. I’ve tried playing the game as a gay person the way Alford did at my reform synagogue. And, boy, have I encountered Barbara Boxers. My friends tell me people wonder if I’m insane–literally insane–or just joking. Politically correct Jews, displaying Barbara Boxer levels of tolerance, have gotten up and left the dining table because I stated conservative ideas on certain issues. (My opposition to ratifying the UN Treaty on Women was one such incident.) They can’t seem to get their heads around a gay Jew who is conservative. To them, any conservative Jew or any conservative black person is like the evil version of a unicorn. I fear Alford will pay some price for fighting back.
thuja on July 16, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Boxer really dug herself a hole (if the public sees this) because she says she is “going to continue to add documents to the record to show the wide range of support” so it becomes clear:
Why the heck didn’t you let him have his time in front of the committee and add those documents later? Boxer, you wanted to put him back in his place.
Steele, I hope your making this an ad.
I FBed it.
journeyintothewhirlwind on July 16, 2009 at 6:12 PM
It’s hard to imagine a more racist approach than the idiot Boxer took with Mr. Alford.
That kind of racism has to be deeply ingrained.
notagool on July 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Harry Alford my hero!
Travis1 on July 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM
WOW…
Does he want to consider running for office?
I love to see balls like that. That doesn’t make me gay, does it?
connertown on July 16, 2009 at 6:22 PM
We need 1000′x more Alford’s that stand up to these morons when they are witnesses….and everywhere.
Stand up, shout back.
r keller on July 16, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Mr. Alford should have come back with: “There are a number of Jewish groups that agree with me!”
Andy in Agoura Hills on July 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM
PWNED!
madmonkphotog on July 16, 2009 at 6:28 PM
For those wondering about Alford, I found this…
http://tinyurl.com/ngcquu
connertown on July 16, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Politico just covered this story and has some of it in transcript form for those of you who haven’t been able to access the video.
Buy Danish on July 16, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Keep digging Babs! Keep digging! Boy she really stepped in it, didn’t she?
I don’t recall ever seeing a witness/panelist give it back like this fellow did. Good for him! I hope to see more of the congress’s BS thrown back in their pitiful faces in the future.
glennbo on July 16, 2009 at 6:33 PM
What a piece of work that woman is. Amazing. Brazen and shameless, patronizing b*tch.
disa on July 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM
No, you’re not gay cause these were BIG BALLS on display which are not very attractive unless they are used in verbal assaults like this one. I think you’ll be ok!
glennbo on July 16, 2009 at 6:37 PM
First Question:Why doesn’t Henry Alford have to call her Senator Boxer?
2nd question:Why does Ca allow this patronizing person in office
Last Question: Elect Henry Alford or get him National spokeman stat. He speaks with Sense.
Gracelynn on July 16, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Actually, he seems to be a good replacement for Ma’am Boxer.
He said he has a house in California and pays taxes.
enginemike on July 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Ma’am yes ma’am.
Note to Mr. Alford. Expect an audit next year. These thugs play for keeps.
RobCon on July 16, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Boxer is from Brooklyn and she’s lecturing this guy about residence. Smug and pompus. Even her supprters are getting sick of her sh/t.
RobCon on July 16, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Boxer: “of course I expect you to relinquish your personal opinions. My mind is made up, and I’m trying to get as many groups as possible to support my decision! Why can’t you be like the ______ and just go along with me?”
rwenger43 on July 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Wow.
She is everything I hate about Liberal Multicultural Elitism.
And yes ALOT of liberals think just like her.
Just proves any idiot be a Senator. Scary.
Pelosi and quite a few others though are just like Boxer.
Folks email this Boxer video around to all your friends.
Boxer would probably be a the typical liberal Supreme Court Justice since she is into all this “diversity” crap.
And liberals are not ashamed of this either! Thats the amazing thing!
winged on July 16, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Notice how Boxer is talking while Alford was finishing up. Total contempt and disrepect from the
SenatorMadam.RobCon on July 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I was SO happy to see this on Special Report tonite! Ed is so right about the soft bigotry and “straying from the political reservation”. What a chump b*tch she is!
anniekc on July 16, 2009 at 7:48 PM
As much as I hate that idoit Boxer, the opposing fella’s organization begins with the word black. His organization’s very existence is proof of his racism but only he gets to play the card. White guilt – ain’t it grand?
whiskeytango on July 16, 2009 at 7:51 PM
This would have been amazing if it was just some random expert who happened to be black. But he wasn’t. He was head of the Black Chamber of Commerce, and organization that is based around the kind of racial identification you all are ralling against (and rightfully).
toetotoetotoe on July 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM
I hope you folks in California are sooooo very proud to have this tool as one of your senators. IDIOT!
jdsmith0021 on July 16, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Boxer is as she is. A typical lib politician. Who’s really at fault? 95% of the Black vote has been bought by the dems. Why should any African American expect to be treated with respect by the one’s who bought em? If Alford is one of the 5% that have broken the chain of liberal vote buying than I commend him and welcome him to the light. If he’s not, then I hope this helped to open his eyes.
MichiganMatt on July 16, 2009 at 8:02 PM
The conflict going on in Boxer’s pinhead:
DId he just call me Ma’am?
I can’t correct him because it would look racist, wouldn’t it?
Oh, no, he did it again.
I worked so hard for this title.
Ach, again with the Ma’am!
What should I do? What should I do? He’s not acting like a black person. I’m so confused.
Where’s that NAACP paper? That’ll show him how black people are supposed to think. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Did he just call me offensive?
Did he just say colored?
…well, at least he stopped calling me Ma’am.
PoodleSkirt on July 16, 2009 at 8:06 PM
‘ Would you please refer to me as Racist, It’s just I’ve worked so hard to earn that title’ -Sen. Boxer (D)
TN Mom on July 16, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Wow, Babs rips into a General for calling her ma’am ONCE, yet gives this guy 6 minutes worth of the same without even caring.
UncleOlaf on July 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM
indeed
whiskeytango on July 16, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Barbara Boxer is way over the line, and off the charts with that black gentleman. Yes, the democrats are in need of a complete house cleaning. 2010, it will time for Madame Boxer to get her butt booted out of Washington too.
byteshredder on July 16, 2009 at 8:19 PM
Mr.Alford should be congratulated for getting and pushing the point that it’s NOT racial, it’s SCIENCE.
I think you can be anything, and if you’re conservative, you will pay a price.
Jeff from WI on July 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Boxer took it on the chin and good. Perhaps she should consider changing her name. Mr.Alford got to say ma`am with impunity and Boxer took it and liked it.This woman is simply insufferable–an equal opportunity illiberal. A true nasty piece of work indeed. But sadly typical of Obama and his illiberal ilk the last. Anger is highly underrated these days and Alford gave boxer–I mean: Boxer–a dose. Burn baby burn disco inferno. St.Anger says, “Don`t tread on me!” The whole motley crew of dems should just keep it up.Sanctimonious prevaricators the whole lot of them. My sincere hope is that they all go down with their illiberal ship. Any illiberal survivors should get the Salamis and/or Lepanto treatment. Figuratively speaking, of course. Probably. Maybe. Maybe not. Probably not. No. Make what you will of it. Sorry for prevaricating!
What does Sotomayor say just before The One gives an audience?
She says, “His Imminence will arrive eminently.”
Pull the string and the Biden goes: Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.
I`m just warming up folks.
So it is time to stop.
For now.
Sherman1864 on July 16, 2009 at 8:30 PM
“Senator…I mean ma’m…why do you keeping acting like the arshole you are?
Cleveland Steamer on July 16, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, tramp. The only term that was missing is “Biatch” I couldn’t have displayed that kind of self control. Somebody get the helmet, “Time for you to go back to your happy place Barbara, the rubber room.” I’d much rather have Mr. Alford in office than the current idiot, 10 to 1 he’s conservative, he seems to be a self made man.
Sam_I_Am on July 16, 2009 at 9:10 PM
Good job Mr. Alford. You called her out, and did not take it sitting down.
Truth to power.
Saltysam on July 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM
As a wise latino with rich life experiences I am thrilled to see someone stand up to Sen.Skank. Everytime I turn around someone assumes that I voted for Barry and support his policies. Will why not they ask. Because goddammit I don’t want Texas to become Northern Mexico. It really frosts my ass when my fellow mexican americans fall for all the hand outs like blind sheep. When are you people in California going to stand up and say the hell with you Boxer…Remember the frigging Alamo!!!
bigtexmex on July 16, 2009 at 9:28 PM
did you hear her differentiate between the “black community” and “my community” just disgusting
Willie on July 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Amen brother, America wasn’t founded on deadbeats waiting on a handout, regardless of ethnicity. Get off your dead ass and get to work!
Sam_I_Am on July 16, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Willie on July 16, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Good point, but that is what they do.
Saltysam on July 16, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I was waiting for a Hymie Town reference.
marklmail on July 16, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Braindead kept referring to how proud he should be and how proud the NAACP would be to have him testify in front of some Senate committee. As a native Californian he should have spoken out about how embarrassed he was that she represented California.
agmartin on July 16, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Cognitive dissonance helps normal people discover truths.
Unfortunately, in California, the only reaction is:
Whoa! Dude! What a head rush!
Saltysam on July 16, 2009 at 10:16 PM
…I stand and shout from the “amen corner”…AMEN!
By way of full disclosure, I’ve had relatives living in California since 1849, and a native myself, the son of a native. I’m an “exile” from the bankrupt “golden” state not because of carpetbagging hags like Barb Levy Boxer, but because the state’s full of carpetbagging, braind dead morons who seem content to send her back to the Senate again and again. That, Gray Davis, Arnold S., and the current round of “IOU-financing” convince me that it is no longer home.
As to Sen. Boxer, out of respect for delicacy, I will restrain myself from using my usual term for referring to her, which is between “cube” and “curt” in the dictionary, and rhymes with “stunt”. She appears to be in session not to hear from experts like Mr. Alford, but to be heard…and woe betide you if your opinion varies a jot or a tittle from hers….she run her mouth all over you….
…added to which, the fact of her sharing a bed (if, indeed, she does) with a veteran (presumably her husband), does not give her license to declare that Mr. Alford’s service is irrelevant to the discussion.
Mr. Alford, apparently a stand-up chap, was indeed straying off of the reservation, daring to disagree with Ms. Boxer’s comfortable fantasy-as-truth. His point about his being a veteran — military service being something a Marxist like Ms. Boxer think childish at best and hateful at worst — was that he was being belittled, and she had no business belittling a man of his stature. In doing so, she was belittling his organization, as well as him.
…but what does that matter to a woman, a Senator, armed as she was with a sheaf of papers to flap about, a sheaf holding the promise of more comforting fictions from genuine black people…the NAACP…the 100 Black Men of Atlanta (I’ve been to Atlanta…there’re many more than a 100 black men there)…quoting the Pew Communist Trust is typical…and pointing out the boilerplate about how the evil oil companies financed the studies he quoted, blah-blah-blah…why, armed with opinions from well-behaved negroes and a study from a bunch of chablis socialists like herself, Sen. Boxer can be excused for being a bit condescending…after all, she holds the deed on the Moral High Ground as she sees it….
Mr. Alford was trying valiantly to get Sen. Boxer to actually engage him in conversation, and she did everything but pat him on the head and dispatch him to fetch her a julip…I hope that this gets wider reportage…but, alas, we all know how that goes….
Puritan1648 on July 16, 2009 at 10:31 PM
…keep your powder dry, my brother…these times too will pass….
…Texas will always be Texas, if I’ve got anything to say about it…me, and a lot of rough and ready Tejanos, as well.
…it hasn’t been about black and white for a generation…brown and white, neither…today, the color wheel has moved on….
…today, it’s a question of whether you’re true blue, or whether you’re red. There’re a lot of brown and black and white folks out there as blue as can be…and, why not, with all we stand to lose….
Puritan1648 on July 16, 2009 at 10:36 PM
God, can’t the black people see what liberal racism is doing to them? This wonderful man calls it like it is and so should the entire black community! She is so condesending and servile to this man and he responds the way we all felt when we saw it.
inspectorudy on July 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM
I’m sure it’s been said, but:
Alford for President!
J.E. Dyer on July 16, 2009 at 11:01 PM
….now go make me a sandwich…..
bitch.
1921 C DRUM on July 16, 2009 at 11:06 PM
….now go make me a sandwich…
bitch.
1921 C DRUM on July 16, 2009 at 11:07 PM
If your vote against her is discounted by some liberal, then my vote against her will count! I’ve already written her several times using “Ma’am” LIBERALLY in EVERY ONE of my emails, and told her that I intend to financially support and vote for ANY conservative that challenges her!
Think she gets the message yet?
Vntnrse on July 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM
He should have called her senator.
Kissmygrits on July 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM
This guy is awesome.
Boxer is an arrogant little witch. Why can’t we elect decent people to office instead of people like Boxer?
therightwinger on July 16, 2009 at 11:48 PM
One shouldn’t have any problem with such a group any more than one has with a political/social organization that focuses on other ethnic groups in America as long as persons from other ethnic groups can join and there is no guilt being handed out.
A few years back some not-so-bright individuals had a problem with an informal blog alliance to which I belong–the Conservative Brotherhood–and which is composed mostly of black conservative bloggers. Allegedly we were a) saying that our race made our writing better and/or b) shutting ourselves off into some sort of “ghetto”–even though many of us belong to other informal blogging groups and one of our members was white. Our critics were operating from their own stereotypes about black people rather than the context surrounding what it really means to be conservatives who are black or our own words. It was depressing.
baldilocks on July 16, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Amen.
baldilocks on July 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
If I read this right she was telling him that he needs to get in line with other black groups cuz ya can’t have your own opinion.
Lock step, one mind. She was just short of patting him on the head.
DSchoen on July 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM
One shouldn’t have any problem with such a group any more
He wasn’t there as a “ethnic group”
He was there as a Rep. of an “energy group“. Apparently Boxer couldn’t see that.
DSchoen on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM
So everything that starts with the word “black” in reference to race is meant to evoke white guilt? Sounds like your problem, not his.
baldilocks on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM
I know; that’s my point.
baldilocks on July 17, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Who do these “public servants” think they are?!
I pray that Mr. Alford’s refusal to be condescended to will become the norm for witnesses testifying before congress. If they manipulate you, hit back! I’m sick and tired of seeing people like Boxer or Waxman acting like
1)they know it all and
2)the real people they call on the carpet are just the little folks who need to become obsequious.
Christian Conservative on July 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM
TERM LIMITS!
Christian Conservative on July 17, 2009 at 1:03 AM
I have a problem with this part:
Don’t black leaders, pundits, blacks featured in the media, voting patterns, etc. tend to suggest a group think mentality among many, if not most, blacks in America?
Didn’t Clarence Thomas say that he thought blacks were stuck on the plantation of the democratic party (maybe it was someone else), and doesn’t that feed into the idea that most blacks think the same way?
Heck, the OJ verdict and the results of that seemed to suggest, at least on a superficial level, that most blacks had the same general mindset.
TheBlueSite on July 17, 2009 at 2:08 AM
baldilocks on July 16, 2009 at 11:59 PM
I think people automatically assume a victim mentality when a group pops up and it’s centered around race. What other reason is there to be be so preoccupied with race and racial makeup? I think groups like these are, inherently, divisive, and until we become Americans and not african americans and hispanic americans, etc. – we’re in trouble.
You can hardly concentrate on the content of ones character when that person specifically wants to divide themselves by skin tone.
TheBlueSite on July 17, 2009 at 2:18 AM
By the way, this is what Alford recently wrote on the NBCC website:
Ah yes, the ills of racism…suffered everyday by black Americans. Black Americans who are, no doubt held back from being on equal ground as other (especially white) Americans. Black Americans who just can’t get ahead and make it because they’re victims of the ills of racism. Black Americans who can only get a measley 70 million Americans to vote for them and give them 53% compared to the white man’s 47%. Give me a break. The festering ills of racism? In 2009 America. Forgive me if I call BS on these idiotic claims and those who make them.
TheBlueSite on July 17, 2009 at 2:26 AM
I hate to say it but I was laughing so hard over this that I forgot just how serious it really is…
Miss Molly on July 17, 2009 at 2:40 AM
What a freakin’ tool! Now she’s okay with being addressed as ma’am? Just a few days ago that title wasn’t good enough coming from an active duty U.S. Army Brig. General. Go crawl under a rock Boxhead!
galvestonian on July 17, 2009 at 4:32 AM
No, he didn’t say that. But had Boxer let him finish a sentence (did he actually get to finish a sentence during the whole exchange?), we presume that was what he was going to say.
Hope on July 17, 2009 at 4:55 AM
He said he had property and paid taxes in California. Way to go! That was great! Alford tells it like it is.
Ed Laskie on July 17, 2009 at 5:34 AM
He almost referred to her as that Bitch at the end before he caught himself.
Ed Laskie on July 17, 2009 at 5:35 AM
It was a veiled threat, although in Boxer’s mind it was simply business as usual.
I predict a media blackout, that would be the fascist’s best option in this case.
Saltysam on July 17, 2009 at 8:34 AM
Boxer is generally an idiot, but Alford is the bigger a$$hole here.
First, he claims his position is the position of all black people, which is ludicrous.
Then she brings up a couple of items that prove his position is not the sole position of the black community, and he flips out.
Then he says she’s being “racial”, when his job is to be exactly that.
So fu*king ridiculous.
Dave Rywall on July 17, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Boxer has now gotten to the place that she doesn’t seem to understand that there is a time to talk and there is a time to have yourself a nice piping hot cup of SHUT THE HELL UP, and in this case, she allowed her running mouth to get her painted into a corner and made herself out to be a complete and utter fool. If anything, it has now gotten to the place where every single time she opens her big fat loud mouth, she ends up sticking both feet in it.
It is stuff like this and her insulting an Army General a few weeks back that is making her more a liability to her own party than being an asset, and it just may come back to haunt her the next time she is up for re-election.
The Democrats are already proving with Leon Panetta that they have no problem turning on one of their own, and Boxer may wind up being next in their crosshairs.
pilamaye on July 17, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Eh. I don’t favor groups of Americans that balkanize themselves into racial and ethnic special interests, generally. The black, Asian and Hispanic chambers and professional groups are racial separatists, declaring that there is some sort of difference between a white journalist or shoe store owner and a Hispanic one, which I find ridiculous.
That said, I respect Alford’s goal of better developing black entrepreneurship, as I think most would, and I see the failure of blacks to engage in business ownership as symptomatic of some larger failure in that community, and hope that progess there continues.
The junior Senator from California, however, is on the opposite pole from me, clearly declaring that Alford is off the reservation because he doesn’t claim to believe what she claims – fraudulently – that the NAACP believes, which makes her, by my math, a racist little bitch who should be slapped, hard.
Jaibones on July 17, 2009 at 8:48 AM
As usual, Dave, your take is half-witted. She brought Alford there to continue her Chosen Minority Kabuki Theatre propaganda, and he sort of knocked over the tea set.
Alford never claimed that “his position is the position of all black people”, but was speaking as the head of a specific group, in this case, the members of an association, albeit a “black” association. You just sort of made that up, which is just one of the reasons we love to laugh at you, Drywall.
Jaibones on July 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM
What a line of crap.
They called him to testify, and they expected that the usual veiled threats would shut him up.
Your spin is soooo transparent and it would be delicious to watch it play the media, though we all know that the fascists will simply use plan “B” and black out the story. It’s their best option, since their first option, the politics of personal destruction, has a high risk of backfiring.
Rywall swings…and a MISS! LOL!
(Careful, you might lose your job with this one.)
Saltysam on July 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Let’s hope for lots more entertainment of this type…
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RalphyBoy on July 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM
That was also the most offensive part to me, like his opinion is of so little worth that she can’t be bothered to spend one second listening to it. Science or fact mean nothing to these people. Their minds are made up and they just plan to steamroller on through.
Rywall, her point in bringing up the opinions, not scientific evidence, of other black organizations was a deliberate shot at Alford’s race. He is right to say, “So what?” If I were testifying about an energy issue and Boxer brought up a position paper from NOW, as a woman, I would also say, “So what?” The NAACP has no more expertise on or relevance to the energy issue than NOW. Her reference was pure politics and posturing.
inmypajamas on July 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Harry Alford for GOP Chairman!!!!!
what? oh, sorry…. already have an African American guy there.Now the minorities will come RUNNING to the party since eighty-nine percent of rank-and-file Republicans are non-Hispanic whites, leaving just 5% who are Hispanic (of any race), 2% who are black, and 4% of other races.
And the base just gets smaller.
Palin/Liz Cheney 2012!
greataunty on July 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM
This is as hilarious as when Mitt Romney started saying “bling Bling” and “who let the dogs out” to a group of black children.
V-rod on July 17, 2009 at 10:51 AM
It is time to vote Barbara Boxer out of office!
Republican California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore is already actively campaiging against Boxer.
http://www.chuckdevore.com/index.asp
Please let everybody you know about Chuck DeVore’s campaign to defeat Barbara Boxer and support Chuck’s campaign in any way you can!
The best leverage we have against Barbara Boxer is to actively support her opponent so that she will be voted out of office!
wren on July 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM
The Democrats were playing racial politics? Who would have thunk that….;-)
Planet Boulder on July 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM
“I am going to respond now, and I want everyone to listen including the Black dude that keeps interrupting me about focusing on race!!”
Hening on July 17, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Jaibones on July 17, 2009 at 8:55 AM
Saltysam on July 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM
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Thanks for your super intelligent thoughts.
Dave Rywall on July 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM
“Palin/Liz Cheney 2012!”
Indeed!
That would cause so many heads to explode that walking about might be icky.
enginemike on July 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Hmmm, maybe I could support a bailout for California, if California would promise not to keep electing and re-electing dimwits like Boxer, Pelosi, Feinstein, Waxman, Bono, etc . . . etc.
Bob in VA on July 17, 2009 at 12:34 PM
greataunty on July 17, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Sorry, but it’s not about having a token black in a position of power in the party. We’ve got tons of black men with talent in the GOP. It ain’t about race. Intelligent people with conservative values will congregate.
What is inspiring here is how he spoke truth to power. Inspiration is what is lacking, not “color”. We need more of it, and Alford has it.
connertown on July 17, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Check this out, Mr. Alford’s rebuttal;
http://www.breitbart.tv/it-was-vile-jim-crow-exclusive-interview-with-black-business-leader-insulted-by-sen-boxer/
Jason58 on July 17, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Right on the heels of her disgustingly false admonition of General Walsh who probably worked twice as hard for his position while retaining infinitely more honor than her. It seems like The Almighty paid back her pride rather quickly in this case.
cjk on July 17, 2009 at 1:46 PM
In the interview Mr. Alford states that the General e-mailed him telling him to ‘go get em’ LOL.
cjk on July 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM
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