Harry Alford nukes Boxer again: “She loves black folks in their place”
posted at 5:14 pm on July 21, 2009 by Allahpundit
Not as spectacular as his confrontation with her during his Senate testimony but the sheer contempt he displays is delicious as only raw red meat can be. Even so, it’s frustrating to find him and Bill O not quite putting their finger on what Boxer was trying to do. By challenging him with the environmental viewpoint of a black liberal, she was trying to call his racial authenticity into question. Per leftist identity politics, as a minority, he’s presumptively entitled to Absolute Moral Authority unless and until a fellow minority can impeach his progressive credibility. Having been duly impeached, he can then be subjected to blackface photoshops or whatever nasty racist invective is in vogue on the left these days for those who don’t toe the line. Anyway, if you’re pressed for time, the last 90 seconds are pure gold.
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Truth to power
daesleeper on July 21, 2009 at 5:17 PM
A baby ain’t got rights until it’s been taken home
right Babs?
blatantblue on July 21, 2009 at 5:18 PM
I’d say karma has paid a debt to SENATOR Boxer. The clip was great.
Monica on July 21, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Indeed. She likes black people as long as they toe the party line. Suddenly they’re ripe for attacking and degrading when they speak their own mind or become conservatives.
amerpundit on July 21, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Should have stayed on the reservation, Alford, you are about to be hunted down by the left.
Bishop on July 21, 2009 at 5:20 PM
Alford for President
CynicalOptimist on July 21, 2009 at 5:21 PM
Hmmm….looking forward to getting home so I can watch it…
ladyingray on July 21, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Please run against her, Alford! Forget Carly Fiorina!
SouthernGent on July 21, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Truth to Power
jp on July 21, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Liberals like them poor and on the “porch” serving them tea…maybe allow a couple even in the house, yessir, even in the house.
right2bright on July 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I second that!
Dave R. on July 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM
I’ve been frustrated by this guy’s seeming inability to articulate precisely what Boxer was doing, though this comes closer than I’ve seen. He’s so angry — and I totally get why — that he sometimes loses focus in explaining why he’s so angry in such a way that your typical racist liberal will understand. Boxer was scolding him for going off the “black guy” reservation. She was basically calling him an inauthentic black guy for opposing her cap and trade legislation, cuz all the other cool black guys are in favor of it. She was trying to marginalize him as being less of a black guy than all the other black guys because he has a different point of view. She was telling him to go back to black guy school, cuz he missed the lesson on being a liberal. Barbara Boxer is a straight-up racist. She thinks blacks all look alike, and should think alike — and if they don’t they should damn well be called out on it by their white betters in the liberal community. She called him “boy” with a snotty California democrat twist — and anyone who watches that exchange knows it.
Rational Thought on July 21, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Karma ‘aint finished with Boxer, not by a long shot :)
JiangxiDad on July 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM
O’Reilly doesn’t get it … again. But at least he didn’t slow Alford down. Let’s roll, Harry.
Christian Conservative on July 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I can imagine what she says about black folks in secret.
SouthernGent on July 21, 2009 at 5:26 PM
Classic TV!
Glenn Jericho on July 21, 2009 at 5:27 PM
Hey! Stop this. Right Now!
Sen. Boxer knows the plight of coloreds in this country….she has seen “Gone With The Wind” many times…why, she’s practically an expert on being black.
BobMbx on July 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Quit nitpicking, Allah. I saw this last night, and I thought it was hilarious. I lost bladder control when O’Reilly asked him whether he believes Boxer loves black people, and Alford, dripping with contempt for Boxer, responded, “Yeah, right.”
Alford then went on to mention Boxer’s involvement in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, Condoleeza Rice’s confirmation hearings, and accusations against Ken Blackwell. Alford destroyed her. Alford isn’t a black American; he’s an American, and he just happens to be black.
BuckeyeSam on July 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Spot on. I think the whole strategy behind her quoting African American individuals was to either make him feel “guilty” for not supporting something she claims a lot of OTHER AA’s support or, as you said, to try and call his racial authenticity into question so that his viewpoint is not taken seriously (specifically in the black community).
In any event, his “cap-and-trade hustle” line was funny.
LiquidH2O on July 21, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Forget Joe the Plumber (please!). Alford needs to become one of the new faces of conservatism. The way he brought up Thomas, Blackwell, and Hill was BEEE-U-TIFUL.
Love this guy. Keep him out there Fox!!!
Sugar Land on July 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM
I watched this and was frustrated (again) that O’Reilly can’t just shut up and let people talk.
keebs on July 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM
To paraphrase someone else, in a better and more just world, Barbara Boxer couldn’t have reached any higher than owning a bra store on Flatbush Avenue.
JiangxiDad on July 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM
“Ooohhh, Missa Alford, yo sho’ nuff shudna don’ said that….umumm, gonna be sending you out to the back 40 in no time at all…ain’t never gonna see the inside of the house no mo…the Good Massah sho don’ like being told she’s one o’ dem bigots….uh uh…jes’ askin’ for trouble, Missa Alford.”
The whispered comments of those on the Left who view Alford as more of a threat to their status than Boxer’s showing all of us that not-so-subtle racism of the Left.
So, Reverends Jackson and Sharpton…where’s the outrage?
Where’s the outrage from the Left?
Surely our President has skin in the game…no outrage from The One yet?
coldwarrior on July 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM
LOL. It aint called the o’reilly show for nothing.
JiangxiDad on July 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM
I watched this and was frustrated (again) that O’Reilly can’t just shut up and let people talk.
keebs on July 21, 2009 at 5:29 PM
LOL. It aint called the o’reilly show for nothing
Hannity is worse…
ladyingray on July 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM
Again, he reveals his hand. There are things he refuses to see, because he has no defenses against them. Hmmm.
JiangxiDad on July 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM
There ain’t nobody as racist as a liberal scorned by the lesser tribes…
Harry Schell on July 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM
http://www.cafepress.com/beatcanvas.394216561
beatcanvas on July 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM
There’s little that makes me as happy as watching someone put a liberal in their place.
Alford was SPOT ON in what he said. Boxer is so immersed in identity and racial politics that she can’t even help herself.
powerpro on July 21, 2009 at 5:34 PM
PM
He’d be better than what we have now; that’s for dang sure!
CynicalOptimist on July 21, 2009 at 5:34 PM
This will come to nothing.
Ward Connerly has been laboring in the vineyards for 30 years and there probably aren’t more than a dozen blacks in the whole country who think he isn’t an Uncle Tom.
Boxer is bullet-proof at the California ballot box.
The only solace we can take is that she’s gonna be a real ghoulish spectacle when she gets to be Teddy K’s age.
guntotinglibertarian on July 21, 2009 at 5:35 PM
I think O’Reilly did a good job last night – even commented to the wife how he didn’t make the accusations – but let Alford tell the tale and his feelings were pretty evident.
Had O’Reilly trumped up the accusation himself – it wouldn’t have “cred”, being O’Reilly is a white guy.
I am pretty confident Alford made his point, several times during the give and take, but sometimes the questioner just needs to ask questions and let the answerer answer.
I have many conservative black friends who feel they have no platform at all or voice to the masses – perhaps this is the defining moment.
Odie1941 on July 21, 2009 at 5:36 PM
Infinitely worse.
LiquidH2O on July 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Mr. Alford had better know his place. Otherwise he will suffer a high tech lynching similar to Clarence Thomas went through. Prepare to have your reputation smeared and have your businesses audited by the IRS and have your personal life put under a microscope.
That is unless you get on back to the plantation where all the good black folk be.
Kuffar on July 21, 2009 at 5:37 PM
LOL.. Ma’am Boxer shorts :) I love it.
Wolftech on July 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Alford’s sin was that he was too obtuse to realize that the NAACP is the officially-sanctioned mouthpiece for negroes.
Just like the KKK represents all of us white folks.
guntotinglibertarian on July 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM
I love how she tried to save her *ss by claiming she loves veterans! I’m married to a veteran! What an idiot!
JAM on July 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM
LOL, great idea, you should market them
msmveritas on July 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
She later apologized and offered to by him dinner at Kentucky Fried Chicken…
right2bright on July 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
She loves black people the same way she loves all other people: If you agree with her you are a wonderful, compassionate person. If you disagree you are a hatemongering racist. If you are a person of color and you disagree with liberal persons of color, you are just confused and wrong.
PastorJon on July 21, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Is BIll O’Reilly a Rino?
Cause for the past 6 months he has been going out of his way to account for why the this democrat or that one is not really an a$$hole but just is anti republican values.
More Barney Frank interview 1 bill
Less barney frank interview 2.
Come on you woosie…stand up for your views.
BillaryMcBush on July 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Don’t you mean white meat?
TexasAg03 on July 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I don’t think you’re correct. He came to that hearing as a professional who happened to be black and he thought he would be questioned based on his credentials. For Boxer to quote some other black guys in response was to say to him: “You’re a black guy who just happens to be a professional. But the most important thing is that you’re a black guy. Now here’s some other black guys who disagree with you ..” and then she quotes the NAACP, who have no special qualifications to cite on this issue, as somehow balancing his viewpoint.
That’s what was condescending. It wasn’t that he wasn’t toeing the party line (though he wasn’t) it was that he was trying to make a point w/out reference to his blackness.
PackerBronco on July 21, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Hannity and O’Reilly should be polite and not talk over people like the crew from the View.
Wade on July 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM
How much longer would it have been before Babs also broke out da’ Hip-Hop references, had Mr. Alford Not interrupted her, I Wonder?
You must be a Jay Z fan Too! Right?
Kick Ass and Take Names, Mr. Alford!
Teddy on July 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM
“I’ve got a great fan club now.”
Count me in!
Harpoon on July 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
she is a class A Leftist Elite who really needs a dose of reality. I really think the Left are stepping on their own feet with this power intoxication they percieve. Fun to watch…
screwauger on July 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
BB Date of Birth: 11 November 1940.
TK Date of Birth: February 22, 1932.
She only has an eight year wait.
OmahaConservative on July 21, 2009 at 5:53 PM
And what was with this “Rice was just a conservative”…apparently O’Reilly never saw the insidious black parodies that the left through at her.
right2bright on July 21, 2009 at 5:54 PM
“She loves Black people in their place.”
FTW!
29Victor on July 21, 2009 at 5:54 PM
“She loves Black
peoplefolk in their place.”fixed. Wouldn’t want to misquote my new hero.
29Victor on July 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM
More of Mr. Alford!!! Where is he from? He should run for office, definitely.
ErinF on July 21, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Give her hell, Harry!
Keep them nukes coming!
pilamaye on July 21, 2009 at 5:59 PM
What a classy guy.
Terrye on July 21, 2009 at 6:02 PM
GO HARRY!!!!
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:02 PM
O’Reilly doesn’t think Boxer brought race into it deliberately? What an idiot. I tell you, sometimes the man’s right on, but sometimes it’s like he has blinders on.
thebadoutlaw on July 21, 2009 at 6:03 PM
Made me laugh. She’s already living up to your billing.
JiangxiDad on July 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM
In the Boxer world, indeed the entire world of the statists, there are basically two types of Americans of African descent: those allowed in the house (“House N’s” — Sharpton, Jackson, NAACP leaders, etc.) and those who are not (“Field N’s” — Clarence Thomas, Condi, Thomas Sowell, etc.). And a few allowed on the porch, like Colin Powell.
Thanks, Mr. Alford, for coming out of the field and breaking down their damn door, and standing up for all whom they would relegate to the cotton and the corn.
TXUS on July 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Doesn’t Alford know what happens to blacks who disagree with dimocrats? I think he is a leader regardless of race and for him to be undermined by the MSM media because of independent thinking shows how open the left is to debate. If Obama was one tenth the person Alford is, we would be in so much better shape. Another black leader breaking the chains of slavery that the dims have kept secure under the guise of looking out for their “best interests”.
volsense on July 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Notice how she attempts to speak the “black” lingo with him: “The NAACP guy would be proud to be here.”
She’s James Brown now? Moron.
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:09 PM
The Boxer Rebellion.
thomasaur on July 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Go Alford go! Another biatch slapping!
Allah – the point I felt was missed is that the discussion Alford presented was the impact of the Bill on Black business and employment. His position gives him this unique perspective.
Using the NAACP in this discussion is inappropriate.
The best part of this entire incident is how Boxer just kept digging a deeper hole rather than apologize. I am sure she has a great relationship with be African American Maid and feels she is beyond reproach.
You may also have noticed that Alford called her Ma’am several times at the hearing and Boxer seemed unruffled.
Looks like Alford will be the new Joe the Plumber! /sarc
iam7545 on July 21, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Hard not to like this guy. Unafraid, straight talker.
rogersnowden on July 21, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Wow, no nice363 or The Race Card yet. They must be replacing the toner cartidges in their fax machines.
daesleeper on July 21, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Boxer has the same looks as andrea Mitchell. Road kill dogface.
Ghoul aid on July 21, 2009 at 6:18 PM
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Heh, nice.
I know he’s not a fan favorite with many of the commenters here, but did the good doctor have anything to say about this last night? I’d say he was probably having a blast.
Readymade on July 21, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Though most seem to have missed it, Alford pointed out the liberals use of the white supremicists method of dealing with dissent. He talked about how if a black preacher railed against discrimination they would just get another one to speak in favor of it. So what is Boxer? Just another liberal who is a modern day plantation owner trying to keep the darkies in line.
shmendrick on July 21, 2009 at 6:21 PM
What’s wrong with TRC? He may be abrasive at times but he’s mostly to the right.
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:21 PM
I don’t even watch him anymore….miss his nightly bitch-slapping of Colmes.
Del Dolemonte on July 21, 2009 at 6:21 PM
He’s definitely got guts to go against the “establishment”
CynicalOptimist on July 21, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Didn’t miss it. Just took for granted that most knew this.
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Alford got off the Democrat Plantation.He sees Boxer for what she is. Race to her is a crutch and she’ll grab NAACP or any other liberal black group or “minister” to shut him up.
Jeff from WI on July 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Thanks, Allahpundit, for your analysis of the leftist identity political dynamics here. Well done.
Loxodonta on July 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Maybe I don’t get his/her brand of snark 100% of the time, but it sure seems like their world is seen through the same prism of class and race that the left uses.
daesleeper on July 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM
Exactly. Alford also showed something else. When it comes to business, it doesn’t matter black or white the principles are the same.
Jeff from WI on July 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM
As far as I know TRC is a guy and only one person.
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Harry ROCKS!
ATTICA ATTICA
400lb Gorilla on July 21, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Harry Alford is a gem. I wish he was heard more often.
Loxodonta on July 21, 2009 at 6:30 PM
About Boxer’s senate seat: there’s a rumor going around that former KABC talk show host Larry Elder is going to challenge her for it next if Carly Fiorina doesn’t.
If the Sage from South Central runs, my 2010 calendar is penciled in.
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Slow clap for the grammer teacher.
daesleeper on July 21, 2009 at 6:31 PM
next=next year
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Bill O really doesn’t get it.
Verbal Abuse on July 21, 2009 at 6:32 PM
It wasn’t a grammar correction.
baldilocks on July 21, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Where can I apply for membership in the Alford Fan Club?
Paraphrase conversation of exchange (excerpt)
A: I know when you came to California.
B: *No you don`t!
A: It was after 1962 . . . .
B: You know you are right. It was 1965.
**I would expect better from a Senator,ma`am! Or Ma`am, Senator or . . . . whatever. In fact, I would expect more from Nelson on the Simpsons. At least his gotcha is pretty accurate and funny, too. I smell a spoiled brat and it ain`t the sausage on the grill . . . .that one is fresh. Pure pork and no porkulus for me.
Sherman1864 on July 21, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Wrong. She was just pointing out that the head of the Black American Chamber of Commerce doesnt speak for all black businessmen.
I think Boxer could have done things a bit better, but this is mostly about Alford trying to stretch into a 16th minute of fame.
orange on July 21, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Please, I’m begging you. Get rid of this Senate monstrosity.
Loxodonta on July 21, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Is it too late to trade Mr. Alford for Mr. Obama?
At least one has a track record of success and having a spine….
jcrue on July 21, 2009 at 6:36 PM
I think Boxer could have done things a bit better, too:
I resign.
— Former Senator Barbara Boxer
Loxodonta on July 21, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Give ‘em hell Harry & don’t let up.
bloviator on July 21, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Larry Elder to run for Boxer’s Senate seat??
Where do I send my check?
coldwarrior on July 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM
I’ve noticed the same thing. His pandering is getting increasingly worse it seems.
Ozprey on July 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM
That’s just it. It doesn’t matter who proposes to speak for some or all black businessmen. Mr. Alford was speaking for his organization concerning Cap and Trade. Why were other specifically black organizations brought into the argument? Why couldn’t Boxer defend her own positions instead of resorting to what some other organizations believe about Cap and Trade?
jimmy2shoes on July 21, 2009 at 6:53 PM
O’Reilly’s a tool, and all too frequently fails to see a situation as it really is. Anytime a black conservative is trashed by the left you can bet your bottom dollar it’s a racial thing–not an ideological difference of opinion. Plain and simple. I don’t think O’Reilly’s quite as sharp as he likes to think.
Gang-of-One on July 21, 2009 at 6:56 PM
As a youngin, I was told by a few posters that TRC was a troll. But slowly, I noticed I most often agreed with what TRC was posting. So, I tried playing with TRC. Nope. No playing. Just The Race Card. Too bad. I think I’d like to meet the person behind the card.
Loxodonta on July 21, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Harry Alford gets the JTP anal exam in 5..4..3..
spmat on July 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM
Readymade on July 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM
I question the timing of the blockquote button.
Readymade on July 21, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Nailed it Allah! I was also frustrated O’Reilly didn’t understand the underlying contempt by Boxer because Mr. Alford strayed off the progressive plantation. I cringed when O’Reilly said he didn’t think Boxer meant anything racial. O’Reilly is so naive.
alwaysright43 on July 21, 2009 at 7:22 PM
I guess I would have liked him to say something like: “I respect the NAACP as a civil rights organization, but what in tarnation do they know about global warming, energy production or the costs to business of restricting the latter because a belief in the former?”
holdfast on July 21, 2009 at 7:26 PM
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