Kerfuffles

What to do when blacks go bad, and join up with the Republicans? Hurl scurrilous “Uncle Tom” and “Sambo” epithets and pelt ‘em with Oreos! It’s the Democrat way. (Dem’s Black Sambo)

… Maryland’s top Democrats — including the two leading candidates for governor next year — declined to repudiate comments by black Democratic leaders who said racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele are fair because he is a black conservative Republican.

Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley, both white and running for governor, ducked direct questions about the propriety of the black leaders’ remarks …

At the center of the debate is the News Blog — a liberal Web log run by Steve Gilliard, a black New Yorker — which removed this week a doctored photo of Mr. Steele that depicted him as a black-faced minstrel and referred to him as “Simple Sambo.”

The Maryland Democratic Party has denounced the depiction and has denied any connection to the Web log. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which had two operatives resign in September after they admitted they obtained a copy of Mr. Steele’s credit report, yesterday afternoon killed a link from its Web site to the News Blog site. (The Washington Times)

Even though the Democrats are claiming no connection with Gilliard’s racist Web log, even the Virginia Democrat running for governor, Tim Kaine, had paid for advertisement there and did not withdraw his ads until he saw that they were running alongside a “Gollywog” caricature of Maryland’s Lt. Governor Steele.

Dem’s Black Sambo and Tim Kaine Meets Black Sambo are Kerfuffles posts from yesterday.

UPDATE: Due to the following I have edited the comments above: Mr. Joseph P. Trippi of the Mfume Campaign has pointed out a correction made by the Washington Times:

Correction November 4, 2005 Due to an editing error, The Washington Times yesterday incorrectly reported the comments by a spokesman for Maryland senatorial candidate Kweisi Mfume regarding racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele. Mfume spokesman Joseph R. Trippi said it was wrong to pelt Mr. Steele with Oreo cookies or to call him an “Uncle Tom.”

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The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity: A Diplomat’s Memoir

One of the obvious highlights of his career, according to the short biography on the back cover flap, was the “Ron Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling” that he received in October 2003. Yet by early 2004, when Wilson was everywhere promoting his book about “truth“, almost everything he wrote in the book was proven to be wrong or outright lies by the 9/11 Commission.

The book’s main premise, Wilson’s absurd contention that someone in the Bush Administration ‘outed‘ his wife, has been proven wrong by the expensive special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald. However, there was a crime committed which Fitzgerald was not charged by the CIA to investigate. That crime was nepotism; the supposedly “outed” CIA operative Valerie Plame, successfully sought an appointment for her spouse as head of the delegation to Niger. In fact, whoever did reveal Ms. Plame to newsman Robert Novak, that person should be eligible for whistleblower protection for having exposed the nepotism and spoils system at the CIA. Joe Wilson should never have been appointed for the mission to Niger in the first place, as he had NO experience in investigations nor in uranium.