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"Yang, AthD h.c" |
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04 Aug 2004 08:08:16 PM |
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Why Do NeoCons Hate FDNY So Much? |
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/4/14132/53557
As Chris Bowers points out over at MyDD, the Bush/Cheney "blog" has
linked approvingly to a NRO article bashing firefighters.
"Generally speaking, the likelihood that a firefighter will vote for
John Kerry is inversely proportional to the number of fires he has
actually fought. Witness all those T-shirted "Fire Fighters for Kerry"
you saw at the convention. A little soft around the middle some of
them were, weren't they? Do you think some of them could haul a hose
pack up 50 flights of stairs? I'm not betting on it. I'm guessing the
only fires many of them have seen lately were at IAFF barbecues."
While the IAFF endorsed Gore in 2000, firefighters haven't been
lockstep behind Democrats as some other unions. In fact, the Florida
firefighters' union endorsed Bush in 2000, and Jeb during his last two
gubernatorial bids. (They've changed their minds.)
But regardless, as Rove tries to politicize 9-11, which includes a
healthy dose of praise for police, firefighters, and other first
responders, do Republicans really want to provide firefighters with
extra motivation to kick their asses out of office?
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -913 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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| User: "Michael Marxist Moore" |
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| Title: Bill Cosby Has Harsh Words for Liberal Black Liberal Community |
05 Aug 2004 06:55:43 AM |
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Bill Cosby Has Harsh Words for Liberal Black Liberal Community
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&u=/ap/20040701/ap_en_tv/cosby_comments_4&printer=1
Cosby Has Harsh Words for Black Community
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO - Bill Cosby (news) went off on another tirade against the
black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that black
children are running around not knowing how to read or write and
“going nowhere.”
He also had harsh words for struggling black men, telling them: “Stop
beating up your women because you can’t find a job.”
Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for
their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil
rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, saying his
detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community’s “dirty
laundry.”
“Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at
2:30 every day, it’s cursing and calling each other n------ as they’re
walking up and down the street,” Cosby said during an appearance at
the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund’s annual
conference.
“They think they’re hip,” the entertainer said. “They can’t read; they
can’t write. They’re laughing and giggling, and they’re going
nowhere.”
In his remarks in May at a commemoration of the anniversary of the
Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Cosby denounced
some blacks’ grammar and said those who commit crimes and wind up
behind bars “are not political prisoners.”
“I can’t even talk the way these people talk, ‘Why you ain’t,’ ‘Where
you is’ ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk,” Cosby
said then. “And then I heard the father talk ... Everybody knows it’s
important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a
doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.”
Cosby elaborated Thursday on his previous comments in a talk
interrupted several times by applause. He castigated some blacks,
saying that they cannot simply blame whites for problems such as teen
pregnancy and high school dropout rates.
“For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around,”
he said. “Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the
white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their
seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.”
Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched
blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed
parents.
“When you put on a record and that record is yelling ‘n----- this and
n----- that’ and you’ve got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting
in the back seat of the car, those children hear that,” he said.
He also condemned black men who missed out on opportunities and are
now angry about their lives.
“You’ve got to stop beating up your women because you can’t find a
job, because you didn’t want to get an education and now you’re
(earning) minimum wage,” Cosby said. “You should have thought more of
yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity.”
Cosby appeared Thursday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web
sites), founder and president of the education fund, who defended the
entertainer’s statements.
“Bill is saying let’s fight the right fight, let’s level the playing
field,” Jackson said. “Drunk people can’t do that. Illiterate people
can’t do that.”
Cosby also said many young people are failing to honor the sacrifices
made by those who struggled and died during the civil rights movement.
“Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till,” he
said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in
Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. “And
you’re going to tell me you’re going to drop out of school? You’re
going to tell me you’re going to steal from a store?”
Cosby also said he wasn’t concerned that some whites took his comments
and turned them “against our people.”
“Let them talk,” he said.
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