The Democratic Double Standard

[Todd]

California Representative Pete Stark has proven just what kind of double standard exists in the media and the Democratic Party.

On May 22, Stark was at a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing on the correlation between marriage and welfare. He said the subject was ironic because of a "current House Republican Conference chairman whose children were all born out of wedlock."

That chairman was none other than J.C. Watts of Oklahoma. And the comment wasn't true. Although Watts' first child was born out of wedlock and adopted by an uncle, his five other children were all born to his wife, Frankie.

Two days later, an understandably angry Watts confronted Stark on the House floor, demanding to know why Stark had used his children to score political points. Watts' colleagues led him away from Stark. Onlookers say Stark was unapologetic.

Now the word is that House Democrats do not plan any disciplinary action against Stark.

I'll bet you haven't heard a single word about this until now.

Let's turn the tables for a second. Suppose a Republican had made the same remark against a black Democrat. Would you believe for one second that (1) the media wouldn't report it and (2) the Democrats wouldn't be screaming at the tops of their lungs for an apology? Of course not!

It's perfectly okay for Democrats to make derisive comments about Republicans--especially black Republicans. But it's a cardinal sin for Republicans to make any negative comment about a Democrat--especially a black Democrat.

This country's rehabilitation can't begin until Democrats sit down and shut up, and their friends in the media start reporting both sides of every story.

I'm not holding my breath.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20010611-351076.htm

 

[WriterDom]

JC isn't a true black American. Just ask Laurel. He had a third cousin twice removed born in Haiti.

 

[Todd]

JC isn't a true black American. Just ask Laurel. He had a third cousin twice removed born in Haiti.

So I guess that makes the statement free and clear, Thanks for the infor WriterDom

 

[Weevil]

Wow. It's like you don't even need dissenting opinion to have a discussion anymore.

 

[Closet Desire]

It was in...

...the news over a week ago. Watts makes himself a target by always riding a moral high horse. As I read it political parties didn't have anything to do with it. It was just bad manners all around. Then again, Oklahoma legislators are some of the worst behaved of the lot.

www.oklahoman.com

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I think the more telling double standard is Dashle's. When Bush tried to say, hey, we're headed to a recession, Dashle was all over him for trying to scare the economy into a nosedive, and now Dashle's out there screaming recession so he can scare people into giving up their tax cut!

 

[Laurel]

Wow. It's like you don't even need dissenting opinion to have a discussion anymore.

Yeah, it's not like they listen anyway. They've got the Free Republic and Rush Limbaugh to tell them what Democrats think. "Liberals want to sell your children to the Chinese! They want to elect Timothy McVeigh to the Presidency! They want to take all your money and give it to poor Blacks! They want to make everyone gay!"

I wish I could see everything in black and white. I wish I could see things in terms of "sides" with myself on the "good side" and everyone who disagrees with me as a bunch of godless, immoral liars. How wonderfully simple it must be to blame all of the nation's problems on the opposing political party, to worry not about issues and solutions but about "taking down the enemy". Ah, the curse of an open mind...

You want to talk about real issues, I'll be there. To be honest, I don't know a thing about the article posted here, and frankly I don't care who has "illegitimate" children (what an archaic and insulting term, btw) or who sleeps with who. I'm more concerned about our energy future, about social security, about education, about things that affect the future of the our great country. But until you people show the same outrage for Bush's lies about the White House trashing that you did about Clinton's blowjob lies, I can't take these silly little "he said she said" character attacks as anything but jingoistic, highly partisan drivel. Sorry.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I catch Limbaugh occassionally, but just to see if he has caught up to my position.

I dealt with your topic very succesfully, but you never replied, and now here you wave it again.

That's okay.

But every time, I'll point out that it is the same tactic!

And if you think conservatives do not want what you want, then you have been brainwashed by Salon and Carville. I will not surrender my freedoms to a bunch of pointy-headed intellectuals with unproven theories that verge into Marxism.

I love to hold conversations with my former freinds the lefties, but they still prefer to hurl slogans and rocks and molotovs before turning to flee and giggle about their impact on society.

And I'm having a happy day!

 

[Laurel]

I catch Limbaugh occassionally, but just to see if he has caught up to my position.

I dealt with your topic very succesfully, but you never replied, and now here you wave it again.

No you didn't. I asked a question and you responded by posting like 3 Newsmax articles in a row - none of which addressed my question. How that was successful, I'm unsure.

I will not surrender my freedoms to a bunch of pointy-headed intellectuals with unproven theories that verge into Marxism.

Name-calling. Very nice.

I love to hold conversations with my former freinds the lefties, but they still prefer to hurl slogans and rocks and molotovs before turning to flee and giggle about their impact on society.

LOL! How very open-minded of you. Out of curiosity, has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, there are intelligent people on both sides? Or do you truly believe that all "lefties" are liars, the way you've stated in the past? I think it's sad that you're so caught up in name-calling and stereotyping that you're unable to think things through critically. Oh well. Until you have something substantive to say, until you can do something besides hurl insults, I'll have to go discuss issues with Oliver Clozoff or PC or one of the other conservatives who actually think before they open their mouths. Good day, and good bye.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Okay patiently, one more time without the distractions of outside sources other than to say,

Drudge, Ruddy, et al got wind of the damages and reported it. The the national news media, still spoiling for a fight confronted Bush with it and he tried to evade and tried to move on, tried to be gracious. A few weeks ago a democratic operative decided to revisit the issue at which point you said our president was a criminal for not reporting the damage. That is anothe Democratic double-standard and I did not have to call anybody a name. Clinton, on the other hand, was found to be a criminal.


And the same people who excoriated Clarence Thomas over an unfounded allegation of a pubic hair on a coke can gave Bill Clinton a complete pass on rape charges, personal business and all, yet now they are on a witch hunt to destro Bush via his daughters or any other method possible.

Another Democratic Leftist Tactic.

No, it ain't beanbag honey!











DO YOU KNOW WHY LARRY FLINT IS TRYING TO BRIBE PEOPLE WITH 20 MILL FOR NUDE PICS OF THE BUSH GIRLS AND NOT CHELSEA? (a democratic double-standard)



ANSWER: His allies would do it for far less money!

 

[Andra_Jenny]

After the name calling you have engaged in? But I predicted that too. And when I need help and people on this board were threatening to tracjk me down ala DCL, you let me down by leaving all my stuff, including contacts. When people began contacting me to use my stories I said well, fuck this, I'll be your personal Diogenes then for awhile. Yes there are intellgent people on the left. They are the ones that think they will be in control of this huge monolithic beast they call the government.

But you forget the out and out ruthlessness and intelligence of a Napolean, a Hitler, a Stalin, a Clinton.

Yeah, it's the smart ones that scare me the most!

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I will also submit that I said many things of substance and that some people tend to paternize me because I state things simply and forcefully. Unlike the Leftists, I admit I do not know the truth, but I damn sure know a lie, and if you run from my argument then I have won, and I will start on someone else. So stand up and take it!

 

[WriterDom]

Yeah, it's not like they listen anyway. They've got the Free Republic and Rush Limbaugh to tell them what Democrats think. "Liberals want to sell your children to the Chinese!

Give us a break. We know liberals only want to sell secrets to the Chinese. But they are doing research on finding the "conservative gene." And when President Sharpton takes office in 2004, the EPA will install anti-arsenic controls in the water system that will actually be a targeted RU-486 type drug that will kill any fetus with the gene. Clever little devils these liberals.

 

[crystalhunting]

The usual Fanatic Republican tactics....sheesh!!


1.Call those that disagree with you Marxist and Communist.

2.Submit right-wing articles as proof of wrongdoing,no facts mind you...just drivel.

3.Demonize your opponets.

4.Say that intellectuals are part of the problems.

5.Equate your enemy with barbaric dictators.

I thought that McCarthy was dead and buried...I guess not.

CH

 

[Never]

Illegitimate and proud of it!
Oh, forget the white washing: A bastard and proud of it!

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Forgive me for adding nothing to the thread.