A Tennessee mayor has apologized for saying on this Facebook page that the president intentionally pre-empted the Charlie Brown Christmas Special with his Afghanistan speech. In what looks like it amounted to a very bad and badly delivered joke, the mayor also accused him of being a Muslim based on his interference with the family Christmas special.
Good for him. He’s a public official who made a tasteless joke, and has owned up to it. On the other hand, Majority Leader Harry Reid called his Republican colleagues supporters of slavery on the floor of the Senate this week:
Well, he certainly didn’t let history get in the way of his race-baiting, as the Party of Lincoln is the Republican Party, and the party of Civil Rights Act filibustering is the Democratic Party. Republicans lambasted him for the ridiculous rhetoric, but Harry dug in yesterday:
So, Harry Reid joins the ranks of such liberal lights as Van Jones, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright, who really resent being smeared by dastardly conservatives who insist on repeating the words they say on tape and paper, verbatim. His retort is the logical equivalent of “I know you are, but what am I?” Exactly what is he trying to say? It is a well-known, characteristic strategy of slavery-lovers to “distort” the comments of their accusers. My critics are, therefore, slavery-lovers? Q.E.D, Senator. Q.E.D. I guess we shouldn’t expect too much from the man who brought us, during his emotional anti-Nelson amendment speech, this gem: “Divisive issues need not divide us.” But a simple apology for going overboard would be nice. Harry Reid: “An inspiration to dour, foolish men everywhere.”
