Harry Reid pulls out race card again, whacks himself in the head
When Dingy Harry last opened his mouth to spout off about race, he was blabbing to left-leaning journalist/authors about Obama’s “light skin” and lack of a “Negro dialect.”
Masochistic minority Democrats rallied around Reid at a dog-and-pony rally, though at least one person spoke truth to power. Flashback:
“If he had any real black friends, they would tell him, ‘Hey, Harry, don’t say that kind of sh*t.’
Harry didn’t listen. His latest racially/ethnically divisive gaffe? Attacking Hispanic conservatives for straying off the liberal reservation. Via John McCormack at the Weekly Standard. Watch Reid sneer: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.”
Yes, God forbid a Hispanic small businesswoman with children exercise her free will to join the party that supports lower taxes, honors life, and respects the rule of law.
Reid’s odious comments remind me of Republican of Hispanic descent Rachel Campos Duffy’s excellent piece I cited last summer on the Left’s contempt for minority conservatives:
For conservative minorities, especially conservative minority women, Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination and the warnings from the left not to “bully” her are a reminder of the double standard with which we live out our social and political lives. The recognition that there are two separate rulebooks for minorities: one for liberals and one for conservatives. In the liberal rulebook, whites must be sensitive and considerate of a minority’s life story and the unique obstacles he or she faced and/or overcame. In the conservative rulebook, well, there really is no rulebook because there are no rules. It’s always open season on conservative minorities.
Where were the cries for respect and sensitivity to compelling personal stories when Clarence Thomas or Miguel Estrada were being skewered? Where were all of the glowing stories, Oprah appearances, and magazine covers for the always elegant, eloquent (did I mention fit?) ,Condoleezza Rice, America’s first female Black Secretary of State?
Last year, at the height of Palin bashing, Asian-American conservative Michelle Malkin said: “liberals have a tendency to infantilize, sexualize, demonize and dehumanize conservative women. It’s astounding how intolerant liberals are of jokes about liberal women, and yet they’ll say, or at least tolerate the most bawdy, degrading and patronizing things about conservative women.”
When conservative Linda Chavez accepted an invitation to speak at ASU, the race-based crowd turned out in full force. They protested, heckled, and held up signs that said “Ni Linda es la Chavez”. The demeaning signs and jeers Chavez graciously endured that evening at ASU was a warning for the young, conservative minority women in attendance – a harbinger of the double standard we would have to endure if we continued to speak up for what we believe. Fifteen years later, I refuse to be silenced by those who demand that my race should determine my views or political affiliation. I may be brown on the outside, but on the inside, I’m all American.
Take your ethnic plantation owner mentality, Harry, and shove it.
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I have said it before, and I will say it again.
Sharon Angle will win by 10+ points!
Gee, you think maybe it is because traditionally hispanics are very pro family, anti-abortion, hard working, do not want to see their churches destroyed by the fallacy of gay marriage, people? Democrats are so racist, I don’t understand why people do not see it. It has to be like when you lose your keys, most of the time they are right out in the open, but it takes forever to see them.
Now all we need is him insulting gay conservatives and we’ll have a trifecta.
Reid wins – no problem. He is not a Repub. If he were, the LSM would be all over him and he would lose. As it stands, the Dems get a free pass and a resume boost to boot.
If Sharron Angle doesn’t have this clip in commercials tomorrow saying, “Harry Reid doesn’t know how you could be a Republican? Won’t you join me in showing Harry what a REAL diverse party looks like?”, then she’s not trying hard enough.
It’s funny to watch a guy like Harry Reid talk about race as though he’s going to ‘help’ so many of them. As though he knows what they are struggling with.
He’s just so sure that he’s the Hispanic Community’s savior even though he hasn’t done anything to help them.
He gave everyone health insurance. I’m sorry, but I don’t know of a single hispanic who cared about that. I’ve spoken to plenty who were happy to go to the ER before and will continue to be happy to go to the ER after he spends all this money anyway.
then he gave them financial regulatory reform. Oooh how exciting for enrique! How fortunate for the Hispanic community that the banks are regulated and taxed more heavily. ARRIBA!
And I’m sure that the Hispanics also care deeply about global warming to the point that they want to pay double in gas prices for their trucks and lawn mowers. YEE HAW! It’s a good thing Harry Reid has been supportive of the Hispanic needs. After all, he’s the one IN CHARGE of the legislation that gets brought up and voted on.
Maybe if they are lucky, they’ll get a big ole gay marriage fight just for the Hispanic community because he cares so much.
I for one, look forward when this country is full of Americans. We don’t need subsets of Americans. We all have amazing opportunities and we really don’t need the government for much. Most Americans know that. Hispanics, Caucasians, African Americans, Asians, Arabs, Indians might not.
We are America. We make decisions on our own.
speaking of Medicaid and the ER. Bloomberg reported today that ER use was increasing among Medicaid patients.
They expanded Medicaid under Obamacare by saying it would reduce ER visits. Does the Hispanic community care?
I have run into “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican”. If I think they are honest I try to explain it-if I think I have run into a smart mouth I just say “I don’t need your permission”.
But James Cagney and George M. Cohan said it better in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Dingy Harry should spend a week re-watching old movies-something along the lines of John Wayne
The assumption is that people have racial interests that trump everything else. Liberals of course see nothing wrong with that, as long as the people in question aren’t white. By their double standards ye shall know them.
So many times when I hear or see Reid the character that comes to mind is ‘Senator Geary of Nevada’ in The Godfather Part II.
Sucka Free by 2013!!!!
I thought he was already whacked in the head…
To be honest, the good senator doesn’t know how anyone of any heritage could be a Republican, so he wouldn’t consider this a racist remark. In his mind, all Republicans belong at the back of the bus — when they’re not being dragged behind it.
or under it….
Reid sticks his head out of his shell just long enough to snap in all directions before pulling it back in and having a doze.
And I have said it before, and I will say it again: Enjoy your last few months in office Dingy Harry.
The Lame-Stream-Media won’t question his remark, and won’t parse it, like they do with “Sarah Palin rolls her eyes.” The Dems have no moral backbone, and I think I can say that without a shred of doubt in my mind.
The Demons are drunk with the power they have acquired. I hope they have a doozy of a hangover come November 2010 & 2012.
Well it is like this Harry, your Hispanic base is the illegal voter, the ones you guys register hundreds at a time at one address. The ones who don’t understand English. The ones who believe in Family, man, woman, children, don’t want any part of sleazy Harry.
Let’s see…my father is first generation Mexican-American (family immigrated legally). I have been a Republican for 34 years. Now if Reid can find a way to insult diabled veterans, he will score the trifecta with me.
As bad as his remarks are, I am offended much more by the lack of a firestorm from the MSM.
Make that disabled…
note to self…get off the decaf and back to the real stuff
Dobby the house elve is a racist!
How could any honest, decent, intelligent person be a Democrat?
(Maybe Mickey Kaus has the answer. I’m sure Reid doesn’t.)
Harry Reid is just following the traditions of the Democrat party, from slavery, to the Democrats KKK terror group, to Jim Crow to segregation and now just racism for all.
that’s what I like to see–some career leftist telling people how they should live their own lives and keep their own viewpoints and what car to drive.
talk to the backside, Reid.
It’s clear by dingy Harry’s attitude toward the people of this nation, regardless of ethnicity or race, that he has distain for the common folk. According to him the masses are foul smelling sheep with no brains. I hope to see him gone in just a short while.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/rubio-reids-comment-hispanics-outrageous-ridiculous
Good come back from Rubio..
You think HARRY is crazy??? Me, I cannot see how anyone AFRICAN-AMERICAN could possibly still be a DEMOCRAT!!!
AZCaveman: In “McLintlock” John Wayne delivers a classic line (followed by classic John Wayne follow-up) that should be delivered to Harry. After uttering the final words (see below) he turns and decks the “Pilgrim” he was addressing.
Reid is a typical progressive. Full of his RIGHT to lead these poor stupid savages into the glory of mother communism. One hundred and fifty years ago these same (_*_)s were traveling from new england to kansas to settle the slavery question. Then they were traveling the country settling the suffragette issue, then the alcohol problem, then they really got going in the 1920′s with tax the rich and give to the poor. Same mindset as the British missionaries who went to Africa to help those heathens find religion, only todays religion is gubmint for these folks.
In the past, I have had some people tell me I don’t make enough money to be a republican. My answer is generally, “I wasn’t aware I had to have a six figure bank account to have a particular set of morals and convictions.”
I am going to hazard a guess that there is a real similar answer for the people the dishonorable Mr Reid is speaking about here. Morals, convictions, personal honor; These things are not dependent on having a certain skin color or a magic number in a bank account or a sheepskin hanging on the wall. Personal convictions are what lead people to lean towards one political side or the other, not skin color or income.
Oh, and looking at the philosophical platform of the party the dishonorable Mr Reid belongs to, he may as well have said;
I don’t know how anyone with a living brain cell could be liberal, Hairy.
Racism is the modus operandi of the Democratic Party. Treat minority races like children, make them feel like victims and call them names if they do not comply. Reid is indeed getting desperate to say openly what the Dems have been saying privately all these years. Time for minorities to shed itself of the yoke of tyrannical members of the “ruling class” who are arrogant and contemptuous of them all.
I dont know how anybody of any heritage could be a democrat.
I just loved how Marco Rubio let dingy have it on his comments. It was great to see Marco is ahead of crist in the Rasmussen poll today. Marco needs to go to DC, dingy needs to leave DC come the Nov. vote.
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Political elites – the poster children for institutional racism!
The rest of us have moved on to MLK’s vision of content of character.
Those with no character will continue to manipulate the ill informed with deceptive ideas, half-truths and lies.
Harry, the ship is going down and grabbing a life jacket won’t save you from the elements. We the people will not rescue you.
Dear Harry,
I hope you have made a lot of friends with the desert wildlife around your Nevada home. Thats all you will have to listen to you when you are riden out of DC on a rail.
Interesting that this was the last line of the post. As I read the post, I got this vision of Harry up in the big house angry over the fact that some of the darkies were not obeying his edicts. Those uppity Latinos daring to not think in the way they have been compelled to think.
Reid’s worldview is so twisted, evil, bigotted and disgusting, it makes one want to lose their lunch.
I wish Dr. King could come back to life and let people like Reid know what he thinks of them. That man gave up his life for the dream of a world without people like Harry Reid.
Harry you are a racist bigot. You manifest that with your own words.
The dems have always thought they owned minorities and unfortunatly for minorities they have let themselves be owned. I would call it modern-day slavery. I know there are many conservative minorities who have like values but they are missing in action like moderate muslims. You would think that for over 40 years having followed the liberal plan and being used as tools, that they would wake up and see that they have been kept on the plantation as Hillery would say. I would love to see the tide change and minorities move right and become a larger successful group. It all starts at home…get off the lib inspired wellfare and demand responsiblity from your children and much would change. But remember when Bill Cosby spoke out and said the black community had to change from within…or words to that effect…and he was slammed for it. He has not spoken up sense as far as I know. As a woman I know what it is like to be discriminated against, but I refused to be a victim and will spit in the eye of anyone who tries to make me one…like the hags of the View or NOW.
I guess Mr. Reid forgot that Sandoval(R) who is running for governor in NV who is hispanic is cleaning his son’s clock.
What a dolt.
I wonder who wayy back when, came up with the strategy to make the message:
If you are Black, you must be Democrat.
If you are Brown, you must be Democrat.
Republicans are always put in the position of playing defense. Geez….
Reid’s incredulity that any “person of color” could be anything but a donk zombie is reminiscent of the old genre of books and films that appealed to the bewilderment of southerners who just couldn’t come to grips with the reality that blacks could cope with freedom — novels and screenplays featuring former slaves wistfully recalling “De happy times befoh de wah.”
The last die-hard defenders of slavery will always be the slave masters themselves, as Reid has so elegantly demonstrated.
What does his no-name sons’ opponent have to say about this?
Once again, Harry Reid spouts typical liberal racism. If you are not lily-white, you had better think and speak and particularly vote the way democrats want you to or you’re in trouble. If you dare walk away from the liberal plantation (as Clarence Thomas said he did), liberals feel perfectly free to call you a lawn jockey or Bush’s brown sugar or a house slave or anything else that would get a conservative banned from polite society forever.
Mel Gibson’s problem is he keeps going off on the wrong people. If he said all the world’s wars are caused by Zionists or called Condoleeza Rice or Sarah Palin whores or used the N-word to describe Alan Keyes, he’d be on the cocktail party A-list.
Liberals don’t mind racism as long as it is coming from them and is aimed at minority conservatives. If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would be just as hated by the left as any other black, conservative Christian.
The democrats haven’t changed a whit since the days of slavery and segregation.
I think Reid is just trying say he thinks all Hispanics are unmotivated, govt.dependent welfare moochers. Sounds like racist stereotyping to me.
Reminds me of the the time in a discussion with a liberal he told me we needed more govt. social programs “to help people that just can’t make it because they are black or a woman or whatever.” Near exact words and the fool didn’t even realize what a condescending, arrogant statement that was and probably even thought is was a sign of his compassion.
I really don’t know what is wrong with the people of Nevada. Maybe they like not having jobs? Rasmussen shows him with a slight lead over Angle and they have double-digit unemployment numbers.
I’m hoping this will have some effect and help Angle out.
that is typical of race baiters, all talk and no walk…J.Jackson, Al Sharpton and and how many seats do the dems hold in the house and senate? They are all racist other wise we would never hear about ethnic back grounds. Democrapic Diversity equal ethnic/race dividing.
By the way Reid has turned his back on his religion. Mormons teach honesty and truthfulness as true virtues, that let’s Harry out.
He makes a very good point, but how bout a round of applause for white men like Harry and me who are Democrats even when it is so far against our interests. We could just join the Joe Wurtzelbachers of the world and worry about paying taxes, minorities and owls taking our jobs, women getting appointed to the Supreme Court (wtf) but instead we stick it out for the little guy. Because we’re just such good people. Sean Hannity may be a great American, but liberal white males are as close to God as you get in this world. You’re welcome.
Red State Skeptic said:
Little Guys like Queen MO? Little guys like Charley Wangle? Timothy ‘Franz’ Geithner, maybe George Soros? Maybe the whole list of JournoLists? Just to name a few of the little guys you are squaking about.
soooo, you don’t worry about it ’cause you don’t pay any?
So Joseph Smith wasn’t full of sh*t about those gold tablets that he wouldn’t let anyone else see? And why couldn’t he reproduce the original “translation” of the plates when Martin Harris’s wife threw out the manuscript? Hmmmmm, you can say a lot of things about Mormonism, but honesty might not be one of them.
This being H. Reid’s son who doesn’t use his last name in campaign ads. Sounds like Voldemort in Harry Potter, he who must not be named.
I can’t make heads or tails out of what you’re trying to say.
All I know is that the only racist language I’ve had tossed my way has been from Liberals.
Almost to the man, every liberal I’ve ever conversed with has uttered some kind of racially biased statement, particularly the lawyers (sad to say) at one time or another. One lawyer told me that she witnessed discrimination and hostility toward students who happened to be black on a regular basis while in law school and, well, it was just the way it was. Harry let the mask slip again, and I hope everyone is watching and waiting to vote against him in November.
I always ask why would a conservative be equated with any kind of racial bigotry? What portion of the ‘conservative’ viewpoint makes the left think that a conservative is a natural racist?
I’m Hispanic. I live in Texas, but I called Reid’s Nevada office and used some very choice language.
I don’t apologize for it.
How typical of a liberal to equate spineless men with God. God will not be mocked.
A religious bigot I see.
Correction
we stick it
out forto the little guy.Saw that too. It actually would make a good example for the TV show “Lie to me” . It actually show contempts – towards Hispanics.
I know what was intended by that statement, but can one be black on an intermittent basis?
When you start “sticking it out” for the little guy with your own money instead of demanding the government do it with other peoples money, you may have a point. Until then, you’re full of fecal matter.
Got it, MadShark – your comment made me laugh….didn’t catch that until after I hit the submit button.
what? still no answer to my #61?
Was RSS inhaling the airplane glue too much today or what? I’m with MajorO. WFH?
Oh, I see. RedStateskeptic thinks that because some Mormons were racist in the 19th Century, that means Harry Reid is allowed to be racist today.
Hey Reid…check out old white guy Minnick (dem) vs. young Hispanic Raul Labrador (rep) here in Idaho and then go suck it.
One of the truer things you’ve written, except you need to widen your scope a little. It’s against the interests of any human being to vote Democrat (unless of course they’re tied into a preferred special interest, such as unions or Goldman-Sachs).
Devil to Harry: Looks pretty bad Harry. I think your a goner in November. But I’ll tell you what ole boy— Pledge to me the souls of your Wife, children and grandchildren for eternity, and I’ll make sure you get re-elected in November.
Harry to Devil: That’s it?? Done.