Where to start? With the hot news of the moment, I guess. The AP’s Jay Root published an “October surprise” memo purporting to be from a whistle-blower that was released by the Bill White campaign. Wayne Slater from the Dallas Morning News picks it up and claims that the unnamed whistle-blower confirmed its authenticity (why didn’t he name the guy like the 2nd AP piece did?). White’s followers go tweet, tweet. And for what? A last minute campaign allegation? Good lord, these people are pathetic, trying to hang on to a gasping for air, dying dinosaur called old media. Rick Perry wouldn’t interview with us so we could pretend we are important! We’ll show you! Sigh. Here is what Gov. Perry had to say about this latest attack:
“That has been fully investigated by an outside group and by the TRS and it was forwarded on to the appropriate audit committee and there is no ‘there’ there,” the Republican said. “This is the White campaign in the throes of the last days of a campaign trying to throw things at the wall that are not going to stick with no basis in fact.”
And he’s right.
Hmm, where to next. How about…statewide political bloggers losing their collective minds. First, the Burnt Orange Report’s Karl-Thomas Musselman whines about Gov. Perry’s natural advantage (i.e., Bill White is going to lose) a full week BEFORE early voting started! And then today, BOR puts out a despicable hit piece on an East Texas candidate trying to make it look like the guy is his own drug cartel responsible for the death of his own brother! My goodness, how low will these people go? I’m guessing that we will see because there are still two weeks left for them to sink to even lower levels.
Next let’s head over to one of the “Top Houston political bloggers”, as named by Neil Aquino, and see what John Coby at Bay Area Houston is up to. Warning, not work safe. He’s been on a vulgarity rant ever since I called him out but that isn’t new. Now he wants to incite violence.
So if a teabagger is harassing you at the polls, kick em in the what nots, then call the police. Intimidating at a voting location is a serious violation of federal law and can result in a year in jail and a $500 fine. Let’s bag another teabagger!
John, on the off chance that you are serious about moving from being a keyboard warrior to um, you know, something more, I’ll be at the Freeman Library polling location most days. Just sayin’. I suspect that keyboard warrioring is about all that John is capable of though.
Last, let’s head over to Houston’s Channel 2’s Mary Benton’s On the Beat blog. You remember Mary, right? I disturbed her by using the term “black” to identify one of the three thugs that were harassing me when Michael Steele came through on his failed bus tour. Well now it seems that ol’ Mary is upset (disturbed?) that Apostle Claver has dared to put up a billboard declaring that G.O.P. is the “new black”. Poor Claver, I doubt he can handle the intellect of such an esteemed big-time media political blogger! Check out what she says:
I realize that the GOP has done limited outreach to African-American voters, and there are some who believe the party’s message of limited spending, anti-abortion and smaller government.
Ha, limited outreach? “some” who believe? Darlin’ (can I say that?), you have no idea. Claver, Kevin Jackson, Natalie Arceneaux, and hundreds of others have been busting their tails trying to get African Americans to realize that you and your ilk hold them in a modern form of slavery. That’s right, I said it.
She goes on to say:
But in this year of the angry Tea Party, talk of taking “back our country” and Rush Limbaugh calling President Obama a jack###, most African-Americans I know are offended and turned off by the GOP.
Well blow me down! I dare say that most everyone little Mary knows is ‘offended’ and ‘turned off’ by the GOP. Well, Mary, I’d suggest you enlarge your circle of acquaintances! And darlin’ (there I go again), why do you label a whole group of people that you know nothing about as ‘angry’? Besides, Rush called President Obama’s white half a jackass, not his black half, so why would a black person be offended by that?
blogHOUSTON’s Kevin Whited also noticed her, um, whatever it was, saying this:
I’m sure she didn’t know anyone who voted for Nixon, either! *laugh* Seriously, this is a representive of the Texas political media? Wow.
Here, Mary, let me show you something:
One might think the resurgence of black Republicans, coming as it does at a time when a black Democrat is president, would rate more than a feature story or two in the national media. But that would conflict with the liberal meme that Republicans are racist.
Accusations of racism against Republicans are a staple of Democratic politics because Democrats need to keep blacks on the plantation to remain viable nationally. “Young people and minorities are all the president has left,” the National Journal headlined its story on a poll released Wednesday.
But you know what, Mary? We’re not going to let you get away with that meme any longer. We’re going to call you out and show people what you are doing. Maybe we’ll even get the attention of the people that pay to put you on the air, Mary. Who knows?
And I wasn’t “taunting” you, Mary, when I tweeted that you were taking up the mantle of Quanell X. You see, Mary, you are doing EXACTLY what little Quanny did last year when Claver put up a similar billboard. You’re just a day late and a dollar short because little Quanny was able to pressure the billboard company to remove it. Is that your goal? And, btw, if your intent was to tell people that I’m a racist, you’re a failure – get to know me before making that charge.
I also thought it was funny that the first comment to little Mary’s outrage at Claver’s billboard was from PDiddie. You remember him, don’t you? He’s the guy so full of angry white guilt that he’s begging people to kick him back into his mama in hopes he’ll come out as a “person of color”. Kinda explains adopting the “PDiddie” moniker, no? Well after seeing little Mary’s rant, he ran right over to his keyboard and declared that “Mary Benton speaks for me“. Do tell.
Two more weeks, folks. Two more weeks.
You know what the best thing you can do is? Go vote. Take your family, take your neighbors. Crush these people.
UPDATE: Evan at PerryvsWorld asks:
KPRC, a Houston TV station, has a reporter on the air that writes “almost everyone I know is offended and turned off by Democrats . . . but believe me I’m not partisan.”
Should that reporter continue covering politics?